Asian Culture Discussion Thread

[wballz]

How do you guys think China's rapid development economically and culturally will affect us? Japan has a lot of influence internationally in the arts and fashion. Korea has been really huge over the last decade internationally, and I feel like China is starting to finally develop pop culture aspects of their country which is severely lacking currently (at least from the outside looking in).

Popular culture development affecting over a billion Asian people will prob have a huge residual impact.

Interesting articles I read

Recent Article on China closing the gap on Hollywood as the world's biggest theatrical market.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/n...rges-39-percent-first-two-months-2018-1089754

China set to open world's largest movie studio in 2018
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/hollywood-on-the-yellow-sea/413185/

Economy wise, the upper class chinese nationals who have been buying crazy real estate around the pacific rim (E.g. Major cities in western canada/us , major cities in Australia , New Zealand, Philippines) are definitely affecting the locals.

I know for myself, I have to pay 600k for a nice 1 bedroom condo. Not sure how I can buy housing with land for my future family without overpayinh further.

 

[whatscomplex]

What part of the states? Can only say from my personal experience LA Ktown or OC hair salons stylists are usually up to trends but you'd want to find the one that recently came from Korea or something.

I'm in the DMV. There's a big Korean pop in VA but it's mostly old people who don't look like they would know how.

Economy wise, the upper class chinese nationals who have been buying crazy real estate around the pacific rim (E.g. Major cities in western canada/us , major cities in Australia , New Zealand, Philippines) are definitely affecting the locals.

I know for myself, I have to pay 600k for a nice 1 bedroom condo. Not sure how I can buy housing with land for my future family without overpayinh further.

That's true. I heard even lower-class Chinese people are coming up on money since there's so much development going on that they're making bank off selling their land.

 

[equality]

I grew up in New Zealand and they've destroyed the housing market in Auckland.

Top 10 in house prices in the world, but it really shouldn't be considering the job market and opportunities etc

 

[W)taps]

https://www.yang2020.com/

Andrew yang will be the first asian-american to run for president in 2020 as a democrat

“I’m not running for President to be the first Asian-American man to do so. I’m running because I believe that I have something fundamental to contribute. I’m a father, my children will grow up here, and my country is spiraling into an abyss. I’m in a position where I may be able to help arrest our decline as a society. If I didn’t step up, I’d be failing my country and my own values.

But now that I’m here, I want to show what we’re capable of. That we have much more to offer. We can be more than the trusted accountant or doctor or lawyer. I want to show that we are as smart, imaginative, courageous, charismatic, and patriotic as any American of any background. We see things that others do not. We can be builders, risk-takers, visionaries, and leaders. If we give it our all and are willing to fight for it — we can even be President.“

 

[wuchi01]

Curious what others here think about this topic. Might be worth a thread visit. Especially the younger dudes going into or just graduated.
Thanks.

https://niketalk.com/threads/suit-a...admissions-could-be-tried-this-summer.670451/

 

[whatscomplex]

Curious what others here think about this topic. Might be worth a thread visit. Especially the younger dudes going into or just graduated.
Thanks.

https://niketalk.com/threads/suit-a...admissions-could-be-tried-this-summer.670451/

Previous quotes on this topic below. Disappointed in the Asian American group working with white conservatives who are looking out for their own agenda. We need to resolve this issue, but we need to look out for ourselves while considering other disenfranchised groups in the process. Latching onto this suit is allowing ourselves to be used for someone else’s agenda. I read the article quickly on my phone so mb if I misread, but that seems to be what’s going on here. This suit is exactly what I was talking about in the first quote below.

Asian American exceptionalism has been subverted as negative traits or weaponized by racists in this country. Capping Asian Americans, especially when we aren’t even close to the majority of the university, is ridiculous.

Not in the mood to participate in a thread by that clown tho. Dude’s an idiot with an anti-Asian American agenda from the posts I’ve seen.

I'm down for Affirmative Action cause we do need to have some positive regulations to attempt to balance out the negative ones. I think it needs to be investigated and revised, but definitely not thrown away. I think including socioeconomic status as a bigger factor might be something at least worth considering.

I tend to see Asian Americans express resentment more often towards African Americans when it comes to this issue because they see a bigger gap in that comparison. And they think, "oh, we're both minorities, how come we have to have such a higher score than them?" And I think this is probably the area where I still see the model minority construct still being in effect. White people will argue against Affirmative Action through the lens of an Asian-American: "Look at how Affirmative Action hurts Asian Americans. It's not fair." They'll group Asians and Whites and say things like, "why do Asian and White people have to have better scores than Black and Latinos?"

Here's my main issue with it. Why the f do we have to have better scores than white people? Where is the line of reasoning in that? They are still more than double the population of Asian Americans in most of these Ivy Leagues. They haven't faced roadblocks from racism cause they were the ones doing it. How do you explain that?

Also, keep in mind, unless they're differentiating and getting specific in the college admission process, people from certain parts of Asia don't do as well as East Asians academically for a variety of reasons.

I believe Laotians, Hmong, and Cambodians have very high poverty rates and do relatively bad in terms of educational attainment. They are probably really getting ****ed over just based on simply how we categorize people.

 

[wuchi01]

This dude always cracks me up.
Asian Struggles with the Family.

 

[slighted]

When I look back at my family history:
Escaped Vietnam > crushed by poverty in America > struggled for years > finally flourished > retired comfortably

From illegal business to legitimacy
From rags to Birkin bags
From starving to the whole fam eating good
From not having $5 to donate in church to becoming philanthropists

We didn't have much, but we always had each other. And that's all we needed.
We've come a long way, but we have a lot more to accomplish.
So damn grateful, so humbled, so proud.

 

[krazy]

One of my old co worker, this Laos man, passed away from cancer recently. I went to his viewing and met his son, looked at pictures of his journey to America. It was funny because I couldn’t picture him, his personality when I knew him, in young him if you know what I mean. He was only 67, and the oldest of 12 siblings. His pictures from Laos reminded me of my dad’s old pictures.

Then it got me thinking how the war really separated our families. I only got to meet my grandparents twice, when I visited Vietnam and when they came here once. They all passed away, my grandma on my moms side last year.

It really messes me up that we never got to be close.

My dad has a younger sister, my aunt, who lives over here. But I don’t think I’ve ever seen their family all together hanging out (as in my grandparents, who passed over 10 years ago).

I’m truly grateful for the opportunity over here, 100%. I wish I could do more for my parents

 

[equality]

As the child of immigrant parents, I still cannot fathom how my parents made it in a foreign country with no job, no knowledge of the language and no connections. I've moved countries 3 times by myself, but I've had the luxury of being able to speak English and always had a job lined up.

Parents are heroes man.

 

[shogun]

English being taught in the philippines really helps a lot. They grow up speaking it. My parents didn’t have any noticeable accents or the rest of my family either.

 

[frink85]

My grandpops and my dad and my uncle had opportunities by joining the US Navy straight outta the PI. English definitely helped. krazy your story makes me curious now about other SE Asians back then. I'm assuming a lot were refugees from Vietnam or Cambodia or wherever else.

 

[equality]

Listening to Eddie Huang really is liketherapy for me man. Relate on so many levels, also I'm Taiwanese so taht helps.

 

[Xennial]

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...ow-to-american_us_5ab11d30e4b0eb3e2b30bc07?pp

 

[Nawzlew]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-attack-it-police-say/?utm_term=.85a1182c813e

what a dumbass

 

[wuchi01]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-attack-it-police-say/?utm_term=.85a1182c813e

what a dumbass

100%.
His Parents are also famous back home.

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3393694

 

[Nawzlew]

100%.
His Parents are also famous back home.

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3393694

yeah, moms was telling me about his parents. both are actors

 

[wuchi01]

yeah, moms was telling me about his parents. both are actors

I'm prob older than you and my Parents were talking about this news when saw them today. Funny how that works across Generations.

 

[Sharpshoeter13]

English being taught in the philippines really helps a lot. They grow up speaking it. My parents didn’t have any noticeable accents or the rest of my family either.

Helped me a lot when I moved here in 7th grade. My friends thought I was from CA to because they didn't "notice" anything unusual when I spoke. I was pretty much raised and taught by Cartoon Network toons and a bunch of cable shows

What bothers me is that we identify English as the country's "second" official language yet we speak it like it's the first. Kids these days back home often speak English predominantly, and that's why it's common for us to speak in "Taglish."

My nephews have forgotten to have conversations in Tagalog since they moved here when they were little, but the "Mano po," "Po," and "Opo" go a long way.

 

[whatscomplex]

Asian population in the states

 

[equality]

https://nypost.com/2018/04/04/comic-faces-backlash-for-racially-charged-tweets/

Gonna take some time to gather my thoughts. Got me a bit heated. This type of ******** is what sets us back

 

[frink85]

She doesn’t understand that’s sterotypes =/= jokes...because she wants to be one of them

 

[wuchi01]

https://nypost.com/2018/04/04/comic-faces-backlash-for-racially-charged-tweets/

Gonna take some time to gather my thoughts. Got me a bit heated. This type of bull**** is what sets us back

At first I thought she was just not funny after reading the article. But following the links in post, she's just a pure DumbF*. The fact that she used the word so casually ticks me off bad. Anyone who tosses that word out is on my shizlist. Period.

 

[W)taps]

https://nypost.com/2018/04/04/comic-faces-backlash-for-racially-charged-tweets/

Gonna take some time to gather my thoughts. Got me a bit heated. This type of bull**** is what sets us back

Pisses me off even more knowing shes Korean. She prob was abused by her parents or some Asian. Either way, this old hag is nearing 40. Shes gone.
No one in the asian community supports her (saw an instagram post and every Asian was furious. the only one that defended her were non asians)

 

[W)taps]

this **** got me heated as well.. esp that last slide.. Asian women need to wake up. Esp the native ones. Native Asians dont understand the complexity of race like many do here in the States.