Memoirs Of A Geisha-American

5 Things the U.S. Can Learn from China

2009-11-15T16:44:00.000-08:00

By Bill Powell / Shanghai
Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009

China's schools are adding more creative and practical topics to their notoriously rigid curriculum.

China is experimenting with eco-friendly technologies, from electric cars to urban wind turbines like this one in southeastern Shanghai.

Masons at work in front of the China Pavilion at the future site of Expo 2010 in Shanghai.

Most Chinese seniors live with and are cared for by their relatives.

On the evening of Nov. 15, President Barack Obama, the youthful leader of one of the world's youngest countries, begins his first visit to China, among the world's most ancient societies. Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, have much to discuss. Nukes in Iran and North Korea. China's surging military spending. Trade imbalances. Climate change.

But the visit comes at an awkward moment for the U.S. China, despite its 5,000-year burden of history, has emerged as a dynamo of optimism, experimentation and growth. It has defied the global economic slump, and the sense that it's the world's ascendant power has never been stronger. The U.S., by contrast, seems suddenly older and frailer. America's national mood is still in a funk, its economy foundering, its red-vs.-blue politics as rancorous as ever. The U.S. may be one of the world's oldest capitalist countries and China one of the youngest, but you couldn't blame Obama if he leaned over to Hu at some point and asked, "What are you guys doing right?"

Could the world's lone but weary superpower actually learn something from China? It's a politically incorrect question, of course. China is an authoritarian nation; its ruling Communist Party deals ruthlessly with any challenge to its hegemony. It remains, relatively speaking, a poor, developing country with huge problems to confront, massive corruption and environmental degradation being Nos. 1 and 1a. Still, this is a moment of humility for the U.S., and China is doing some important things right. If the U.S. were to ask the Chinese what it could learn from their example, it might gain some insight into what it's doing right and wrong. Here are five lessons from China's success story:

1. Be Ambitious
One day this summer, Sean Maloney, an executive vice president at Intel, was bouncing from one appointment to another in northeastern China, speeding along in a van traversing newly built highways. He gazed out at one of the world's biggest construction projects: a network of high-speed train lines — covering 10,000 miles (16,000 km) nationwide — that China is building. As far as the eye could see, there sat vast concrete support struts, one after another, exactly 246 ft. (75 m) apart. Each was full of steel cables and weighed about 800 tons. "We used to build stuff too," Maloney mused, unprompted. "But now it's NIMBY [not in my backyard] every time you try to do something. Here," he joked, "it's more like IMBY. There's stuff happening here, everywhere and always."

It's not just NIMBYism that constrains the U.S. these days, of course. America is close to tapped out financially, with budget deficits this year and next exceeding $1 trillion and forecast to remain above $500 billion through 2019. But sometimes the country seems tapped out in terms of vision and investment for the future.

Some economists believe that given its stage of development, China spends too much on expensive items like high-speed rail lines. But step back from the individual infrastructure projects and the debates about whether a given investment is necessary, and what's palpable in China is the sense of forward motion, of energy. No foreigner — at least not one I've met in five years of living here — even bothers denying it. And the Chinese take it for granted. When a brand-new six-lane highway opened in suburban Shanghai in October, Zhong Li Ping, who shuttles migrant workers to the city and back to their hometowns, said, "I don't know what took them so long." In truth, it took about two years — roughly the time it would take to get the environmental and other regulatory permits for a new highway in the U.S. If, that is, you could get them at all.

There's no direct translation into Chinese of the phrase can-do spirit. But yong wang zhi qian probably suffices. Literally, it means "march forward courageously." China has — and has had for years now — a can-do spirit that's unmistakable. Americans know the phrase well. They invented it. It used to define them.

Critics of the authoritarian Chinese government would say it's a system more accurately called "can do — or else." And they have a point. No one in the U.S. would argue that it should adopt China's dictatorial style of government. America doesn't need to displace tens of thousands of people in order to build a massive dam, as China did in Hubei province from 1994 to 2006. (The value of checks and balances is, in fact, among the many things China could learn from the U.S.) But you don't have to be a card-carrying communist to wonder how effectively the U.S. develops and executes ambitious projects. Ask James McGregor. He's a former chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China and now a business consultant who divides his time between the two countries. "One key thing we can learn from China is setting goals, making plans and focusing on moving the country ahead as a nation," he says. "These guys have taken the old five-year plans and stood them on their head. Instead of deciding which factory gets which raw materials, which products are made, how they are priced and where they are sold, their planning now consists of 'How do we build a world-class silicon-chip industry in five years? How do we become a global player in car-manufacturing?'"

Some of this is the natural arc of a huge, fast-growing country in the process of modernization. The U.S. in the late 19th century was nothing if not what Intel's Maloney would call an IMBY country. America was ambitious. There's no secret formula to help the nation get back its zeal for what it used to enthusiastically and sincerely call progress. But even though the U.S. is a mature, developed country, many economists believe it has shortchanged infrastructure investment for decades. It possibly did so again in this year's stimulus package. Just $144 billion of the $787 billion stimulus bill Congress passed earlier this year went to direct infrastructure spending. According to IHS Global Insight, an economic-consulting firm, U.S. spending on transportation infrastructure will actually decline overall in 2009 when state budgets are factored in — this at a time when the American Society of Civil Engineers contends that the U.S. should invest $1.6 trillion to upgrade its aging infrastructure over the next five years.

When the economic crisis hit China late last year, by contrast, almost half of the emergency spending Beijing approved — $585 billion spread over two years — was directed at projects that accelerated China's massive infrastructure build-out. "That money went into the real economy very quickly," says economist Albert Keidel of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

But it's not just emergency spending on bridges, roads and high-speed rail networks that's helping growth in China. Patrick Tam, general partner at Tsing Capital, a venture-capital firm in Beijing, says the government is aggressively helping seed the development of new green-tech industries. An example: 13 of China's biggest cities will have all-electric bus fleets within five years. "China is eventually going to dominate the industry for electric vehicles," Tam says, "in part because the central government has both the vision and the financial wherewithal to make that happen." Tam, a graduate of MIT and the University of California, Berkeley, says he does deals in Beijing rather than Silicon Valley these days "because I believe this is where these new industries will really take shape. China's got the energy, the drive and the market to do it." Isn't that the sort of thing venture capitalists used to say about the U.S.?

2. Education Matters
On a recent Saturday afternoon, at a nice restaurant in central Shanghai, Liu Zhi-he sat fidgeting at the table, knowing that it was about time for him to leave. All around him sat relatives from an extended family that had gathered for a momentous occasion: the 90th birthday of Liu's great-grandmother Ling Shu Zhen, the still spry and elegant matriarch of a sprawling clan. But Liu had to leave because it was time for him to go to school. This Saturday, as he does every Saturday, Liu was attending two special classes. He takes a math tutorial, and he studies English.

Liu is 7 years old.

A lot of foreigners — and, indeed, a fair number of Chinese — believe that the obsession (and that's the right word) with education in China is overdone. The system stresses rote memorization. It drives kids crazy - aren't 7-year-olds supposed to have fun on Saturday afternoons? - and doesn't necessarily prepare them, economically speaking, for the job market or, emotionally speaking, for adulthood. Add to that the fact that the system, while incredibly competitive, has become corrupt.

All true — and all, for the most part, beside the point. After decades of investment in an educational system that reaches the remotest peasant villages, the literacy rate in China is now over 90%. (The U.S.'s is 86%.) And in urban China, in particular, students don't just learn to read. They learn math. They learn science. As William McCahill, a former deputy chief of mission in the U.S. embassy in Beijing, says, "Fundamentally, they are getting the basics right, particularly in math and science. We need to do the same. Their kids are often ahead of ours."

What the Chinese can teach are verities, home truths that have started to make a comeback in the U.S. but that could still use a push. The Chinese understand that there is no substitute for putting in the hours and doing the work. And more than anything else, the kids in China do lots of work. In the U.S., according to a 2007 survey by the Department of Education, 37% of 10th-graders in 2002 spent more than 10 hours on homework each week. That's not bad; in fact, it's much better than it used to be (in 1980 a mere 7% of kids did that much work at home each week). But Chinese students, according to a 2006 report by the Asia Society, spend twice as many hours doing homework as do their U.S. peers.

Part of the reason is family involvement. Consider Liu, the 7-year-old who had to leave the birthday party to go to Saturday school. Both his parents work, so when he goes home each day, his grandparents are there to greet him and put him through his after-school paces. His mother says simply, "This is normal. All his classmates work like this after school."

Yes, big corporate employers in China will tell you the best students coming out of U.S. universities are just as bright as and, generally speaking, far more creative than their counterparts from China's élite universities. But the big hump in the bell curve — the majority of the school-age population — matters a lot for the economic health of countries. Simply put, the more smart, well-educated people there are — of the sort that hard work creates — the more economies (and companies) benefit. Remember what venture capitalist Tam said about China and the electric-vehicle industry. A single, relatively new company working on developing an electric-car battery — BYD Co. — employs an astounding 10,000 engineers.

China, critics will point out, doesn't produce (at least not yet) many Nobel Prize winners. But don't think the basic educational competence of the workforce isn't a key factor in its having become the manufacturing workshop of the world. It isn't just about cheap labor; it's about smart labor. "Whether it's line workers or engineers, we're finding the candlepower of our employees here as good as or better than anywhere in the world," says Nick Reilly, a top executive at General Motors in Shanghai. "It all starts with the emphasis families put on the importance of education. That puts pressure on the government to deliver a decent system."

And the Chinese government responds to that pressure in some intriguing ways. It insists that primary-school teachers in math and science have degrees in those subjects. (Less than half of eighth-grade math teachers in the U.S. majored in math.) There is a "master teacher" program nationwide that provides mentoring for younger teachers. Zhang Dianzhou, a professor emeritus of mathematics at East China Normal University in Shanghai who co-chaired a committee charged with redesigning high school mathematics programs across the country, says recent changes have begun to reflect more of a "real-world emphasis." Computer-science courses, for example, have been integrated into the math curriculum for high school students. And China is placing even more importance on teaching young students English and other foreign languages. If you think China's willingness to constantly fine-tune its educational system is not going to have much of an impact 20 years from now, there's a 7-year-old boy in Shanghai who'd be happy to discuss the issue with you. In English.

3. Look After the Elderly
it's hard to imagine two societies that deal with their elderly as differently as the U.S. and China. And I can vouch for that firsthand. My wife Junling is a Shanghai native, and last month for the first time we visited my father at a nursing home in the U.S. She was shaken by the experience and later told me, "You know, in China, it's a great shame to put a parent into a nursing home." In China the social contract has been straightforward for centuries: parents raise children; then the children care for the parents as they reach their dotage. When, for example, real estate developer Jiang Xiao Li and his wife recently bought a new, larger apartment in Shanghai, they did so in part because they know that in a few years, his parents will move in with them. Jiang's parents will help take care of Jiang's daughter, and as they age, Jiang and his wife will help take care of them. As China slowly develops a better-funded and more reliable social-security system for retirees — which it has begun — the economic necessity of generations living together will diminish a bit. But no one believes that as China gets richer, the cultural norm will shift too significantly.

To a degree, of course, three generations living under one roof has long happened in the U.S., but in the 20th century, America became a particularly mobile and rootless society. It is hard to care for one's parents when they live three time zones away.

Home care for the elderly will most likely make a comeback in the U.S. out of sheer economic necessity, however. The number of elderly Americans will soar from 38.6 million in 2007 to 71.5 million in 2030. But, says Arnold Eppel, who recently retired as head of the department of aging in Baltimore County, Maryland, "There won't be enough spots for them" in the country's overwhelmed nursing-home system. Appreciating the magnitude of the coming crisis, the U.S. government has begun to respond. Two new initiatives — Nursing Home Diversion and Money Follows the Person — expand subsidies for home elder care, and the Veterans Health Administration has just put in effect its own similar initiative. "The whole trend will be into home care, because nursing homes are too expensive," Eppel says, noting that nursing-home care in the U.S. costs about $85,000 annually per resident.

In China, senior-care costs are, for the most part, borne by families. For millions of poor Chinese, that's a burden as well as a responsibility, and it unquestionably skews both spending and saving patterns in ways that China needs to change (see Save More, below). For middle-class and rich Chinese, those costs are a more manageable responsibility but one that nonetheless ripples through their economic decision-making. Still, there are benefits that balance the financial hardship: grandparents tutor young children while Mom and Dad work; they acculturate the youngest generation to the values of family and nation; they provide a sense of cultural continuity that helps bind a society. China needs to make obvious changes to its elder-care system as it becomes a wealthier society, but as millions of U.S. families make the brutal decision about whether to send aging parents into nursing homes, a bigger dose of the Chinese ethos may well be returning to America.

4. Save More
You've now heard it so many times, you can probably repeat it in your sleep. President Obama will no doubt make the point publicly when he gets to Beijing: the Chinese need to spend more; they need to consume more; they need — believe it or not — to become more like Americans, for the sake of the global economy.

And it's all true. But the other side of that equation is that the U.S. needs to save more. For the moment, American households actually are doing so. After the personal-savings rate dipped to zero in 2005, the shock of the economic crisis last year prompted people to snap shut their wallets. Now that it's pouring, in other words, American households have decided to save for a rainy day. The savings rate is currently about 4% and has gone as high as 6% this year.

In China, the household-savings rate exceeds 20%. It is partly for straightforward policy reasons. As we've seen, wage earners are expected to care for not only their children but also their aging parents. And there is, to date, only the flimsiest of publicly funded health care and pension systems, which increases incentives for individuals to save while they are working. But China, like many other East Asian countries, is a society that has esteemed personal financial prudence for centuries. There is no chance that will change anytime soon, even if the government creates a better social safety net and successfully encourages greater consumer spending.

Why does the U.S. need to learn a little frugality? Because healthy savings rates, including government and business savings, are one of the surest indicators of a country's long-term financial health. High savings lead, over time, to increased investment, which in turn generates productivity gains, innovation and job growth. In short, savings are the seed corn of a good economic harvest.

The U.S. government thus needs to get in on the act as well. By running perennial deficits, it is dis-saving, even as households save more. Peter Orszag, Obama's Budget Director, recently called the U.S. budget deficits unsustainable — this year's is $1.4 trillion — and he's right. To date, the U.S. has seemed unable to have what Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has called an "adult conversation" about the consequences of spending so much more than is taken in. That needs to change. And though Hu Jintao and the rest of the Chinese leadership aren't inclined to lecture visiting Presidents, he might gently hint that Beijing is getting a little nervous about the value of the dollar — which has fallen 15% since March, in large part because of increasing fears that America's debt load is becoming unmanageable.

That's what happens when you're the world's biggest creditor: you get to drop hints like that, which would be enough by themselves to create international economic havoc if they were ever leaked. (Every time any official in Beijing muses publicly about seeking an alternative to the U.S. dollar for the $2.1 trillion China holds in reserve, currency traders have a heart attack.) If Americans became a bit more like the Chinese — if they saved more and spent less, consistently over time — they wouldn't have to worry about all that.

5. Look over the Horizon
The energy that so many outsiders feel when they are in China and that President Obama may see when he is there comes not just from the frenetic activity that is visible everywhere. It comes also from a sense that it's harnessed to something bigger. The government isn't frantically building all this infrastructure just to create make-work jobs. And kids aren't studying themselves sleepless because it's a lot of fun. A few years ago, I interviewed Zhang Xin, a young man from a deeply poor agricultural province in central China. His parents were wheat farmers and lived in a tiny one-room house next to the fields. He had graduated from Tsinghua University — China's MIT — and gotten a job as a software engineer at Huawei, the Cisco of China. His success, Zhang told me one day, had changed his family forever. None of his descendants would "ever work in the wheat fields again. Not my children. Not their children. That life is over." (And neither would his parents. They moved to prosperous Shenzhen, just north of Hong Kong, soon after he started his new job.)

Multiply that young man's story by millions, and you get a sense of what a forward-looking country this once very backward society has become. A smart American who lived in China for years and who wants to avoid being identified publicly (perhaps because he'd be labeled a "panda hugger," the timeworn epithet tossed at anyone who has anything good to say about China) puts it this way: "China is striving to become what it has not yet become. It is upwardly mobile, consciously, avowedly and — as its track record continues to strengthen — proudly so."

Proudly so, because as Zhang understood, hard work today means a much better life decades from now for those who will inherit what he helped create. And if that sounds familiar to Americans — marooned, for the moment, in the deepest recession in 26 years — it should.

Work hard, work smart, live strong. Don't enable weakness and reward failure. Let people simply get what they deserve. Quit whining and get your job done. And quit playa-hatin' on China. Got that, Amer-I-can'ts???

Skin & Bone!

2009-05-11T20:31:00.000-07:00

So, it's only natural to assume that penis size is proportional to body size. Often, feet, nose or height are used as measuring sticks for...well, the meatstick.

(Ok, I've obviously been reading too much MAXIM here.) :)

But while this tacit assumption might seem "logical" at face value - it is often sooo not the case with Asia men, in particular...

Here are but a few examples of this. For illustrative purposes, this is a small assortment with many of your downright scrawny, manorexic Asian men! But if you click on each (NSFW!) pic, you will notice where all that hot meat went!!!

Surprised, anyone? :)

Anyhow, I'm really not obsessed with big, hard, lusciousssly smooth Asian cocks...really...

Asian Cack Appreciation Week!
Big Bananarama!
Asian Vs Caucasian Penis

Errr ok...well maybe just a wittle. ;)

Thanks to BAC for pixxx!

Asian Cack Appreciation Week!

2009-03-10T18:14:00.000-07:00

In honor of Asian Cack Appreciation week...and in continuation of my ongoing "series" here...

*drumroll* =P~~~~ *drool*

Here are some very plump, juicy (NSFW) eggrolls for all ma hungry sistahs out there! Bottoms UP, girls! Time to celebrate!

Is Hoang Vietnamese for HUNG?
Doogystyle. NOW!
I christen that Aiya!
Can I play?
Can I worship that for you?
Could you stare deeply into my eyes like that as you stick that thing deeply into me?
Domo arigato, Mr. Moto!
Hey cutie, I see you!
Now, that's what I call a joystick!
Uh, you could split me with that banana!
I found Nessie!
May I have a seat, Mr. Lee?
Strike a pose, Jeffrey!
Go Jeffrey, go Jeffrey!
Yea, I might need some KY for that!
Wow, where'd that come from?

PS - More submissions always welcome, fellas! So, don't be shy.. Show 'em what you got! ;)

My New Hero! =)

2009-03-01T11:27:00.000-08:00

Frank Yang, has anyone told you that you are my HERROOOO???!!

You sexxxay...

Gifted

Virtuoso

Diesel

MOFO!!!

...can I have your baybies?

PWEEEAASSEEEE!!! :D

Azn Bois In My Head <3

2009-01-12T19:10:00.000-08:00

All

Day

...

All

Night

24/7

365

Long

!!!

The Problem With Dating White Girl Rejects...

2008-08-02T22:02:00.000-07:00

I only date white guys. Is that wrong?

Well hun, if you want to avoid your following problems...then, YES!

His penis is so small the condom came off me during sex!

What do u when u go home with a guy and he can't get it up?

Remember sistas, the primary reason why some White guys specialize in Asian women is because frankly, they suck in bed (too small, ED, creepy weirdos, etc.) and can't satisfy White women. So, they seek us out because they believe we are easier targets with lower standards. Same reason why some guys are pedos or drive huge-ass Hummers. Trust me, I learned this the hard way!

There's *ahem* a REASON why White girls REJECTED them! And I can guarantee you, these guys were ALL painfully rejected, at some point. Probably laughed out of bed a few good times... So, do you really want THEIR irregular leftovers??? SERIOUSLY now GIRLS, STAY AWAY FROM these WHITE RICE HOUNDS, they are the WORST GUYS IN BED EVAHHH!!!!!

SORRY BOYS...but we're ON TO YOU and your secret's OUT now! Now leave us alone!

Luv & Kisses!
Rebecca

Are East Asians Just Too Smart?

2008-04-17T12:35:00.001-07:00

Why did Chinese-American Jian Li, a Middle Class student who got a perfect 2400 on his SAT...still get rejected by Harvard, Princeton, UPenn, Stanford & MIT?

"I so good at math and science ... I the super smart Asian. Princeton the super dumb college, not accept me ... My dad from Kung Pao province. I united 500 years of Rice Wars ... I love Yale. Lots of bulldogs here for me to eat." - racist joke mocking Jian Li published in Daily Princeton

Is Admissions Bar Higher for Asians At Elite Schools?

based on their outstanding grades and test scores, Asian-Americans increasingly say their enrollment should be much higher -- a contention backed by a growing body of evidence.

Whether elite colleges give Asian-American students a fair shake is becoming a big concern in college-admissions offices. Federal civil-rights officials are investigating charges by a top Chinese-American student that he was rejected by Princeton University last spring because of his race and national origin.

research indicating colleges give less weight to high test scores of Asian-American applicants -- may push schools to boost Asian enrollment

His complaint seeks to suspend federal financial assistance to Princeton until the university "discontinues discrimination against Asian-Americans in all forms by eliminating race preferences, legacy preferences, and athlete preferences."

Mr. Li, who emigrated to the U.S. from China as a 4-year-old and graduated from a public high school in Livingston, N.J., said he hopes his action will set a precedent for other Asian-American students. He wants to "send a message to the admissions committee to be more cognizant of possible bias, and that the way they're conducting admissions is not really equitable," he said.

In 1990, a federal investigation concluded that Harvard University admitted Asian-American applicants at a lower rate than white students despite the Asians' slightly stronger test scores and grades. Federal investigators also found that Harvard admissions staff had stereotyped Asian-American candidates as quiet, shy and oriented toward math and science. The government didn't bring charges because it concluded it was Harvard's preferences for athletes and alumni children -- few of whom were Asian -- that accounted for the admissions gap.

In 1989, as the federal government was investigating alleged Asian-American quotas at UC's Berkeley campus, Berkeley's chancellor apologized for a drop in Asian enrollment. The next year, federal investigators found that the mathematics department at UCLA had discriminated against Asian-American graduate school applicants. In 1992, Berkeley's law school agreed under federal pressure to drop a policy that limited Asian enrollment by comparing Asian applicants against each other rather than the entire applicant pool.

Asian-American enrollment at Berkeley has increased since California voters banned affirmative action in college admissions. Berkeley accepted 4,122 Asian-American applicants for this fall's freshman class -- nearly 42% of the total admitted. That is up from 2,925 in 1997, or 34.6%, the last year before the ban took effect. Similarly, Asian-American undergraduate enrollment at the University of Washington rose to 25.4% in 2004 from 22.1% in 1998, when voters in that state prohibited affirmative action in college admissions.

The University of Michigan may be poised for a similar leap in Asian-American enrollment, now that voters in that state have banned affirmative action. The Center for Equal Opportunity study found that, among applicants with a 1240 SAT score and 3.2 grade point average in 2005, the university admitted 10% of Asian-Americans, 14% of whites, 88% of Hispanics and 92% of blacks. Asian applicants to the university's medical school also faced a higher admissions bar than any other group.

Mr. Reider, a former Stanford admissions official, said Stanford staffers were dismayed 20 years ago when an internal study showed they were less likely to admit Asian applicants than comparable whites. As a result, he said, Stanford strived to eliminate unconscious bias and repeated the study every year until Asians no longer faced a disadvantage.

Last month, Mr. Reider participated in a panel discussion at a college-admissions conference. It was titled, "Too Asian?" and explored whether colleges treat Asian applicants differently.

he is hearing more complaints "from Asian-American parents about how their children have excellent grades and scores but are being rejected by the most selective colleges. It appears to be an open secret."

Mr. Li, who said he was in the top 1% of his high-school class and took five advanced placement courses in his senior year, left blank the questions on college applications about his ethnicity and place of birth. "It seemed very irrelevant to me, if not offensive," he said. Mr. Li, who has permanent resident status in the U.S., did note that his citizenship, first language and language spoken at home were Chinese.

Along with Yale, he won admission to the California Institute of Technology, Rutgers University and the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. He said four schools -- Princeton, Harvard, Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania -- placed him on their waiting lists before rejecting him. "I was very close to being accepted at these schools," he said. "I was thinking, had my ethnicity been different, it would have put me over the top. Even if race had just a marginal effect, it may have disadvantaged me."

He ultimately focused his complaint against Princeton after reading a 2004 study by three Princeton researchers concluding that an Asian-American applicant needed to score 50 points higher on the SAT than other applicants to have the same change of admission to an elite university.

"As an Asian-American and a native of China, my chances of admission were drastically reduced," Mr. Li claims in his complaint.

Just at the moment when Harvard, Yale, and Princeton have presidents named Rudenstine, Levin, and Shapiro, those institutions are widely suspected of having informal ceilings on Asian admissions, of the kind that were imposed on Jews two generations ago.

Big Bananarama!

2007-12-20T16:47:00.000-08:00

Ok, a most gracious commenter has just contributed 3 more exhibits to the Big Bananarama here.

Note...ALL NSFW!
- Daymmm...you'd need a cargo plane to fit this snake in!
- Mmm, my last Chinese ex was about this size (minus all the muscles) :)
- Woa, watch where you stick that thang!

Well, if you gotta big yella banana too - send it in! Look honestly, I never meant to be a "cack curator" - but obviously Americans are far more interested in penises than politics! Well, ask and ye shall receive! :)

=P
Toodles!
Rebecca

Dear Yi,

2007-10-31T17:42:00.000-07:00

Dear Yi,

Please

slam dunk me

You 7' stud!

Love and tickles,
Rebecca

2007-10-27T11:36:00.000-07:00

And now for a few more hotties of the month:

Dustin Nguyen & Johnny Nguyen star in the new indy release, The Rebel.

Good god, is this guy even human? Umm, excuse moi while I go mop up the puddle under my chair... :(

And POP QUIZ...

What's:

Only 5'7" tall
Babyfaced
Smooth-skinned
Asian
Cute as a button
And at 10"...1/4" bigger than (hairy, fat, disgusting) Ron Jeremy?

Brandon Lee! (Exhibit V)

Now if only he was straight...and a few inches less painful. :(

Smooches!
Rebecca

GO SCOTTY, GO!

2007-10-27T11:16:00.000-07:00

GO SCOTT...GO SCOOOTT!!

FAT HIGH SCHOOL BULLY = PWNED by new Asian kid on the block about 3" shorter and 30 lbs less! :)

They Came From Toyshan...

2007-10-05T06:13:00.001-07:00

Who were the Chinese-Americans?

Exactly?

it is estimated that over 75% of all overseas Chinese in North America until the mid- to late-20th century claimed origin in Taishan, the city is also known as the "Home of Overseas Chinese."

Taishanese speak the Taishan dialect, a dialect of Cantonese. Before the 1970s, Taishanese was the predominant Chinese language spoken throughout North America's Chinatowns. It is the de facto language of Taishan.

Taishan, a farming town with a population of 1 million today, has seen 1.3 million emigrate over the years, according to local records. The exodus began 150 years ago, when desperate farmers walked days from the hamlets near the port city of Guangzhou, got on boats and sailed off for another chance.

Many headed for meiguo, the "Beautiful Country," especially jinsan (in Cantonese, gumsan) or "Gold Mountain" -- in other words, America and San Francisco. Chinese American historian Him Mark Lai, using 1988 data, placed the number of Taishanese in the United States at around 430,000, or about 70 percent of Chinese Americans in the United States in the 1980s. That number is estimated at half a million today.

Now, Taishan (Toysan) is a city in Guangdong (Canton):

Tin Din Ng: Back then, Chinatown, because most of the... the history goes like this, in the beginning, most of the people in New York’s Chinatown had been from Taishan, there were lots of people from Taishan, and a lot of decisions were made by those from Taishan, all the way until they created the Lian-cheng Gong-suo. In Chinatown, Wen-ye was mainly used by the people from Taishan. This situation continued all the way until the eighties before it started to change, because in the 80s, China became more open, and after it became more open, lots of new immigrants came.

Tin Din Ng: In the beginning when I was at Hong Kong, because I had some siblings and some relatives, all of them in America. My entire family had already left mainland China then, they had all left mainland China.

Florence Ng: Left where in China?

Tin Din Ng: Taishan. Taishan in Canton. I’m of Taishan descent. After 1957, our entire family left Taishan. The old folks, several of the old folks, some somewhat younger ones and my sister, everyone came to America and Canada.

Tin Din Ng: It happened like this, the CCBA has already had 120 years of, 120 years of history. In the beginning, in the very beginning, the people from the Taishan Ning-yang Organization went and acted as the chairman of the CCBA. Because one hundred years ago, the Chinese in New York, 99% of them were from Taishan, Taishan people, so those who acted as the chairmen of the CCBA, and those that took responsibility for things at the CCBA were all people from Taishan. Each year, the chairmen came from the Taishan people. Later on, before 1990, there was a period of ten or twenty years when there were a different four, they weren’t from Taishan, I think Enping, Kaiping, and they weren’t Taishan, there were even those from other provinces, and when they came, there wasn’t any reason why the CCBA was just for Taishan people

As you can see...the reality is that up until the 80s..."Chinese-Americans" were really essentially "Taishan-Americans." Just one tiny, ethnic sub-group from one city in all of China.

But this tiny sub-population is just what most of the "Chinese" stereotypes in this country were based upon! For better and worse, the "Chinese" became known as small, weak, meek, asexual, unmanly, but hard-working "carpet-baggers" who worked primarily for money & food in life. Well, they had been farmers - who basically fit the same bill in China. Similar to how most illegal Mexican immigrants are from the poorest underclass of Mexico. But, first impressions are lasting impressions. And so this hyperbolized Orientalist stereotype has steadily lingered over the last century-and-a-half here!

Which is unfortunately a rather skewed, reductionist portrayal of Chinese as a whole!

Now JUST IMAGINE...had Bruce Lee, Yao Ming & Yi Jianlian been the first ones over. How might we all be viewed differently today???

Note: This post is not to offend Taishanese...but to highlight the overwhelming lack of diverse representation of Chinese in this country and resultant narrow stereotyping. Not to mention simply educate people on the origins of Chinese-Americans and Chinese-American stereotypes in "Meiguo."

Ok White Guys, Be Glad You're Not Asian...

2007-06-06T17:53:00.000-07:00

Because SIZE DOES MATTER and being TOO BIG CAN BE more of a curse than a blessing. So consider yourselves lucky you don't have to worry about being cursed with this problem!

Long schlong silvers afraid to let it all hang out
December 18, 2001

For all those guys out there who cringe every time they hear the old children's rhyme "Wee Willie Winky," take heart. It seems that life can also be pretty tough for all them Long Dong Silvers, according to Shukan Taishu (12/31). "Everyone says it's much better to be big than small, but thanks to my whopper I've been dumped by women I love and still can't get married. I think it'd be much better to be hung like an acorn instead of being hung like a horse," says a lumber importer we'll call Akira Kobayashi.

At his peak, Kobayashi unsheathes a mighty 22 centimeters (8.75") with a thickness even bigger than "making a ring with your thumb and middle finger."

But instead of boasting about his behemoth, Kobayashi says it's his bane.

"I first learned of its danger when I was 21. I fell for a slightly older woman. But after two unsuccessful attempts at sex because she said I hurt her too much, she called me and ended the relationship. It would have been better if she said I was no good in bed, or something like that, but it was purely a matter of size," the lumberman says of his wood. "I can't do it with any woman I like. I've never been proud of the fact that it's so huge."

Shukan Taishu notes that despite the average Japanese man's old fellar being a humble 12 to 13 centimeters, men like Kobayashi with magnificent members are hardly rare. A 1995 survey of 100 men by Okamoto, Japan's largest condom maker, found that 6 percent boasted the scepter part of their family jewels measured at least 20 centimeters (7.9"). An identical percentage could lay claim to a diameter of at least 5 centimeters (2") -- findings that prompted Okamoto to produce large-sized condoms.

"Regular and large sizes are both the same 18 centimeter length, but there's a bit more room on the sides in the larger model," a company spokesman says. "Rubber in condoms can stretch up to eight times its original size, so that should be good enough for just about any guy."

As Kobayashi has shown though, being well hung doesn't make for a well-balanced sex life for members of either sex.

"I know of a woman who was rushed from a love hotel to a hospital because she was suffering massive abdominal pains and her private parts wouldn't stop bleeding," a gynecologist tells Shukan Taishu. "Her partner's privates were too large and he ruptured her womb. If you're too late, death can result from these cases, so it's nothing to laugh about."

Sex workers agree, saying those with a sizeable schlong often bring tears to their eyes.

"About half a year ago this guy came in and he was just startling. He whipped his pants down and I was shocked," a brothel babe we'll call Mami says. "I mean, it was as wide as my fist and so long it reached up over his belly button. It was as though he had an extra arm between his legs."

Mami notes that despite her most valiant efforts, the client was so gigantic she could only finish him off with some quick handiwork. He brushed off her apologies, saying that the only person he'd ever been able to consummate a relationship with was a 48-year-old Dutch prostitute working from a window in the Netherlands. Mami adds that, despite reputations, lengthy lads can often be short on confidence.

"I've had guys come into the playroom and act really sheepishly. They'll tell me they're a bit big and ask if it's all right," she tells Shukan Taishu. "I suppose they've got a big of a complex about it."

Japanese porn industry's answer to John Holmes, Magnum Hokuto (9"), whose name means Big Dipper, says there're times when he'd rather have had a Junior Burger instead of a Big Mac.

"Sure, in the industry big is better, but it can also be sad. I can't have a private session with an inexperienced woman. Even a woman who's had kids still screams out in pain," Magnum tells Shukan Taishu. "It can be bad for business, too. I was once supposed to perform with an actress known for playing women with a pure heart. As soon as she saw me, she refused to perform, saying that if she took me in she'd never be able to get another pure-hearted role again."

Magnum adds that problems with his sword extend further than simply finding a scabbard.

"I can't wear anything tight, like jeans or Speedos," he says. "I was walking along a beach one day in tight jeans when I came across this lovely young woman wearing a camisole. I immediately popped to attention, but it sprung up near my navel. All the girls around me shrieked and ran away."

Magnum concludes, saying that aside from being an embarrassment, a well-proportioned pecker can be a potential pain in the ass.

"I went to the pool in my bathers one day and this gay guy sidled up to me," Magnum tells Shukan Taishu. "I just couldn't get rid of him."

Awww, poor big Asian fellas! =P

Ancient Chinese Inventions!

2007-05-14T18:57:00.000-07:00

A lot of modern Westerners believe Asians can only imitate, and not innovate.

Well, the exact opposite is actually true. Fact is, whatever the West did, the Chinese typically did first much earlier. And most often Western inventions were in fact derived from Chinese precedents. This includes everything from catsup to esoteric secrets just being transmitted to the West today.

We just weren't credited by European historians. Call it the "Columbus Syndrome."

Anyhow, the overall list is far too comprehensive to list here, but here's a great little 6-part video series on some of the more well-known technology:

Ancient Chinese Inventions Part 1
Ancient Chinese Inventions Part 2
Ancient Chinese Inventions Part 3
Ancient Chinese Inventions Part 4
Ancient Chinese Inventions Part 5
Ancient Chinese Inventions Part 6

Sit back and enjoy, folks!

<3
Rebecca

"Rabbit Food"

2007-03-04T10:15:00.000-08:00

Ok, enough psycho-babbling for now... This post is strictly for my ladies! Turn your brains off and your rabbits ON! Enjoy, girls!!!

Yan "Kevin" Kuan (严宽) - 5'11", 28

Ichiro Suzuki - 5'9", 33

Ji "Rock" Huanbo - 6'2", 26

Aaron Kwok - 5'8", 42

Collin Chou - 5'11", 40

Godfrey Gao - 6'5", 23

Oh Ji-ho - 6'0", 31

Yul Kwon - 32

Louis Koo Tin-Lok - 5'11", 37

Daniel Wu - 6'2", 33

Dylan Guo - 6'3"

Takeshi Kaneshiro - 5'10", 33

Ken Watanabe - 6'2", 48

Snowboarding...anyone?

Notice the refined masculinity, lean torsos, lickably smooth skin, cool composure and ageless vigor - well, how could you not? Such an enticing packaging custom-fit for the perfect storm! And it's that quiet storm that really gets my panties *ahem* wet... Yes, the grass really IS greener on this side, as you can see! No of-fence to everybody else. So soweeee if that ain't you, but who said life was fair? ;)

XXX
Rebecca

White Boy Anti-Heroes Vs Asian Man Heroes

2007-02-25T13:52:00.000-08:00

The West is in rapid cultural flux. The East is remote, distant and thus easily exoticized with Orientalism. This is a recipe for cultural illiteracy, misunderstanding and ignorance. So, I hope to help clear these problems up with this post.

Grab some tea...

HERO

a hero is any male or female who leaves the world of his or her everyday life to undergo a journey to a special world where challenges and fears are overcome in order to secure a reward (special knowledge, healing potion, etc.) which is then shared with other members of the hero’s community. - Joseph Campbell

For thousands of years, traditionally and cross-culturally, heroes have typically combined great power with great sacrifice for the welfare of others.

In mythology and legend, a man, often of divine ancestry, who is endowed with great courage and strength, celebrated for his bold exploits, and favored by the gods.

A person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life

ANTI-HERO

anti-heroes can be awkward, antisocial, alienated, cowardly, cruel, obnoxious, passive, pitiful, obtuse, or just ordinary. When the anti-hero is a central character in a work of fiction the work will frequently deal with the effect their flawed character has on them and those they meet along the narrative. In other words, an anti-hero is a protagonist that lives by the guidance of their own moral compass, striving to define and construe their own values as opposed to those recognized by the society in which they live.

Many modern anti-heroes possess, or even encapsulate, the postmodern rejection of traditional values symptomatic of Modernist literature in general, as well as the disillusion felt after World War II and the Nuclear Age. It has been argued that continuing popularity of the anti-hero in modern literature and popular culture may be based on the recognition that a person is fraught with human frailties, unlike the archetypes of the white-hatted cowboy and the noble warrior, and is therefore more accessible to readers and viewers. This popularity may also be symptomatic of the rejection by the avant-garde of traditional values after the counter-culture revolution of the 1960s.

Without any real responsibilities or values to guide them anymore, these Gen-XYZ "anti-heroes" typically slide down slippery slopes into downward spirals of self-absorption and hedonistic self-indulgence. Sure, they "don't care" what gender you are - because they don't really care about anything! They only care about "you"...if you happen to have what they want to make them feel good at the moment (providing an "easier ejaculation" opportunity, drugs, etc.) But ultimately, they "don't care" about anything but themselves.

Why do you think:

40% of American babies are now born to single mothers?
The American divorce rate is 50%
55% of American men (and 59% of women!) cheat?

Do these stats show people who "really care" about each other? Or are just blind opportunists who care about nothing but their own self-gratification?

And what is a world, a nation, a society, a family, a relationship without true heroes anymore?

Just ask Britney...

CULTURE CLASH

The interesting thing is how these 2 archetypes would view each other. A hero would view an anti-hero as a weak, shiftless, irresponsible, defeatist loser with no loyalties but to his own. Whereas, an anti-hero would mock a hero as an oppressive, patriarchal, do-gooder egomaniac who is foolishly noble. Point being, either could be perceved as the good/bad guy depending on your particular era and milieu. Recent comic book adaptations like The Hulk and King Kong reflect our current post-modern counter-cultural predilection for anti-heroes, though.

So, the larger issue here is really a CULTURE CLASH between heroic culture and anti-heroic counterculture. Old World "hero" values that have worked for thousands of years vs the recent post-modern 60s "anti-hero" COUNTERCULTURE - which is still highly-experimental. Although the preliminary societal results (as seen above) already appear to be mildly devastating.

Perhaps the jury's still out... But, until post-modern counterculture can be proven over thousands of years to be SUPERIOR to the traditional "Old School" that got us here today, then I think it's premature to argue which is "less sexist"/"better"/etc. If anything, these are the same "looser" values that shortly preceded the fall of Rome.

But, while we're here at least let me clear up the 4 biggest Western misconceptions about Chinese culture:

1) Footbinding was Chinese patriarchal oppression. FALSE.
No man ever forced a Chinese woman to bind her feet. It was an elite women's fashion fad that started from the imitation of Western "ballet dancers," and was eventually passed down matriarchally to lower classes after that. It was essentially the Tang Dynasty version of boob jobs or corsets.

"Tang court women followed Persian and Turkish fashions, wearing dresses with tight-fitting bodices, pleated skirts, and hats with enormous veils. And it was apparently imitation of foreign toe-dancing groups that originally led upper-class Chinese women to bind their feet. At first it was just palace dancers who bound their feet slightly, like ballet dancers, to stand on their toes." - When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433 by Louise Levathes

2) Female infantcide is epidemic in China. FALSE.
Some sex-selective abortions do occur, like anywhere. However, they have ALREADY been ILLEGAL for years now. And post-birth infantcide is rare to begin with. So, most of the slightly elevated M/F baby ratio is due to underreporting of female births and a higher prevalence of Hepatitis B (which naturally increases male births) - NOT "female infantcides."

3) Sons are preferred in China. TRUE.
...But only because they are seen as beasts of burden in Chinese culture. They are the ultimate providers expected to take care of their parents in their decrepit old age, their wife & kid and their wife's family as well. Parents see them as human 401Ks. Wives as walking paychecks. The country as cannon-fodder and manual labor machines. So, everybody has a vested interest in more sons being born in bondage. But as times change, girls are actually now favored in areas like Shanghai where their looks may help them excel more in business. So really, whoever can provide the highest potential benefits get favored, not necessarily just boys.

So this "son preference" is more due to self-serving traditions and only made uniquely visible in China by their socially & ecologically-responsible 1-child policy. Ok, but what about other non-Asian countries with less external motivations/"justifications"?

Dahl and Moretti offer several reasons to believe that American parents also have a strong preference...for boys over girls.

At least since 1941, men have told pollsters by more than a two-to-one margin that they would rather have a boy. Women have only a slight preference for daughters. Taking all of this evidence together, the authors conclude that parents in the United States do have a preference for boys over girls.

Hmm, so who really has the innate gender bias here?

Only reason Americans don't get any flack for this is because they have no 1-child policy to make it more obvious...and they are loathe to criticize themselves anyways. But fact is, abortions are a national pasttime in this country and girl babies would get the brunt of that if families were forced to make a single choice.

4) Chinese eat dogs. TRUE.
...But it's a rare, backwoods novelty dish that's about as popular as rattlesnake or frog legs here. The primary mammalian meat staples in China are beef, chicken, pork and mutton. Dog is only served in a few restaurants in a few areas. Probably the vast majority of Chinese have never even tasted dog, or perhaps only once out of curiosity.

IRONY & HYPOCRISY

The greatest irony here though is that the very same White men who accuse Asian men as being too "sexist," will also complain that White women are "too liberated/bitchy/self-entitled." So they then specifically target women from "Old World" cultures that they perceive as "more sexist/traditional/respectful." So, they are exploiting the very same thing that they condemn! Never underestimate the power of a White man to speak through both sides of his mouth!

And meanwhile, Asian men are forced into a similar contradiction:

Coincidentally, if the stereotype of Asian American males is that we are more "submissive, respectful and obedient" than the typical non-Asian American, wouldn't we then be less domineering and more sensitive than the average American male, and thus, a better catch? I have asked many white women who have dated Asian men about this, and the majority have told me that the men that they dated treated them with more respect and were less domineering than the "typical" American man.

Which is why personally, I think it's all a red herring false paradigm - and one that I'm past myself now. Truth be told, the Asian men I've dated tend to be over-romantic, over-doting and over-accommodating, if anything. And I guess I don't really have a problem with that. =)

Thanks to all those who helped me write this article (whether they knew it or not),
Rebecca Yu

Old White Man With Herpes "Rapes" Dumb Asian Virgin!

2007-02-03T08:56:00.000-08:00

A recent, interesting story from Craigslist (San Francisco)...sounds all too eerily familiar. I know I can certainly relate. Which shows just how common these scenarios really are. It's déjà vu all over again. The nightmare behind the lame fantasy. Another sad victim of Caucaholism...

Read and pay attention, ladies! Please don't learn the hard way like this dum-dum!

Pete Daigle, 44 years old, wonderful, wooonnderful.. creep (santa rosa)
Reply to: pers-272671369@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-02-02, 10:21PM PST

a true example of the American way. To be proud to be a coast guard retiree.

thanks for sticking your dick in me from behind. I didn't even know it was coming. I always told you I didn't want sex. Why wouldn't you listen? I only knew you for 2 days, and that's how my virginity was lost.

thank you for lieing to me about your genital herpes. it only took me 6 months for me to really get you to be tested. Wait, no, it was 6 months for you to admit you had herpes, another couple weeks for you to confess that you knew it all along and never got the test. and yes, somehow you got Dr. Goodman of Rohnert Park to lie about it to me, too. Oh, it would take 2 weeks to get the test results back. oh no, a couple more days. oh, no, the lab said a couple more days. oh wait no, it actually takes 4 weeks. What really happened was they never sent it to the lab. I don't know how you got them to do that or even why you wanted to treat me so badly. I guess it's the whole rape thing - the demonstration of white supremecy over asian girl?

As long as there are stories of happy Asian girls being used by men at least 15 years older than them, I will ALWAYS NEVER be well again. I never knew I could feel so suicidal again, but apparently it can happen. It's been a bad 5 days. The Stanford Girl who was found in YOUR CITY, great Santa Rosa, dead, in the trunk of her own car. Out of all places, YOUR CITY. and yes, I still hate you for all the things that you did and got away with. I won't even start with the Santa Rosa police. Just because I didn't report you until at least a year later, it's not considered sexual assault, but revenge?? Even though the doctor had a record of what I said less than a week after it happened. Even though my friends knew I had been crying all day after the incident? GR.

I know you don't care, but for some reason I still do. You got to feel what it was like inside a young Asian virgin. congratulations. I hope I get to rape you someday too.

Anyway, the rape crisis center recommended that I write things down to channel my anger. This note is trying to do just that.

Good night.

* it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

PostingID: 272751010

Rape, lies and STDs. Classic old White boy meets young Asian girl story. Awwwies! You lie with dogs, you get fleas...er, herpes!

If whoever wrote this story ever reads this, please holla at me girl! =(

Asian Vs Caucasian Penis

2006-12-02T10:59:00.000-08:00

It's become a tiresome cliche now to hear insecure lil' White bois continually project their penis size complex onto Asian men. But, I've had enough experience now to know that it's not true! Especially since it's becoming another cliche for White bois with small dinghies to mock Asian men and chase Asian women. No more naive suckas...so sorry! So, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I submit the following evidence for your edification (NSFW):

ASIAN COCK
Exhibit A
Exhibit B
Exhibit C
Exhibit D
Exhibit E
Exhibit F
Exhibit G
Exhibit H
Exhibit I
Exhibit J
Exhibit K
Exhibit L
Exhibit M
Exhibit N
Exhibit O
Exhibit P
Exhibit Q
Exhibit R
Exhibit S
Exhibit T
Exhibit U
Exhibit V
Exhibit W
Exhibit X (Gackt!)
Exhibit Y (Brandon Lee - 5'7", 10" Asian porn star!)

WHITE COCK
Exhibit AA (Sylvester "Italian Stallion" Stallone)
Exhibit AB (Brad "Sexiest Man Alive" Pitt)
Exhibit AC (Robbie Williams)
Exhibit AD (Ewan McGregor)
Exhibit AE (Jesse Dupree)
Exhibit AF (Jude Law)
Exhibit AG (Ozzy Osbourne)
Exhibit AH (David Bowie)
Exhibit AI (Heath Ledger)
Exhibit AJ (Tre Cool)
Exhibit AK (Sam Rockwell)
Exhibit AL (Sully Erna)
Exhibit AM (Fred Durst)
Exhibit AN (Sid Vicious)
Exhibit AO (Flea - Fantasy Vs Reality)
Exhibit AP
Exhibit AQ (Eww...includes FUPA, wrinkly stretch marks &...pimples/herpes outbreak?
Exhibit AR (EW!!! Looks like a wrinkly lump of Silly Putty! *gags on vomit*)
Exhibit AS
Exhibit AT
Exhibit AU (Ouch!)
Exhibit AV
Exhibit AW
Exhibit AX
Exhibit AY
Exhibit AZ *Chuckles*
Exhibit BA (This lil' blogger's got balls...but not literally)
Exhibit BB (WARNING: You may need a hi-res monitor for these!)
Exhibit BC (Ok, I've seen clits bigger than this, now...WTF???)

ANY QUESTIONS?

Please girls, AVOID guys who brag about their dick sizes (speak loudly, carry small sticks)...especially White rice kings...unless you want a guy hung like short grain WHITE rice! As I said, "rice king" dicks are too small for White chicks...figuratively and literally...which is why they were forced to become "rice kings."

Meanwhile, Asian cocks just look smoother, harder and nicer...not like some wrinkly pink hemorrhoid! No wonder White girls won't stick with White boys anymore! So, why take their leftovers? You're far better off with quiet, confident, quality Asian men! TRUSST MEEE!!! :P

2006-09-22T12:08:00.000-07:00

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Thank you MALOY!!!

YELLOW FEVER!

2006-02-06T18:35:00.000-08:00

YELLOW FEVER

Hahaha...this little movie ^ is simply hilarious....yet so TRUE...and so SADDD. Cuz, that used to be ME - one of those pathetic little cumdump groupies looking for a White KKKnight to save me from my own self-hatred.

Truth is, the only White "meat" I could ever scrounge up was JUST like the guy in that film - shaggy-haired losers outcast from their own "kind."

But TO ME, they were GODS - as I projected my own Hollywood idealism upon them like movie screens.

Kinda weird to look back now – and wonder what the h*ll I was thinking back then! It’s like looking back at high school pix of what you thought was so “cool” back then – but now you find utterly ridiculous. Well, hindsight is 20/20 and only when you’re out of the forest…can you SEE the forest.

Well, that admittedly took me a good while, but I couldn’t help but for reality to slowly sink in with each and every dismal encounter...

I won't go into my full memoirs here yet (I may save that for a book later), but the lowlights might include that "cool alternative" guy who bragged about how he had 17 piercings on his pud! Well, after revealing his pud, the really impressive thing was how he could fit that many piercings on a unit the size of fishbait! In fact, it did resemble a tiny earthworm with about 17 hooks in it! Lmaooo.. :(

And then there was the guy who had conveniently "forgot" to tell me he had the clap...until I found out the hard way when things down there starting getting painfully nasty! In fact, I could write a whole chapter on shaggy White guys giving me gifts that keep on giving...

Anyways, one day after a particularly self-degrading and disappointing episode...I woke up and took a good look in the mirror at myself...and then my sleeping baboon on the bed. And I finally realized - like an incredible awakening - that MY OWN SELF-HATRED >>> MY LIKING OF THIS WHITE APE!

In other words, I didn't really like White men...so much as HATE MYSELF!

"Woooaa...did someone just hit the light switch in here?" I wondered? All of a sudden it hit me like OJ’s backhand - you can't find your self-esteem in another person...or another race - but only YOUR OWN DAMN SELF! Yea, quote me on that Dr. Phil! DUH!

And so THAT was the BEGINNING of my slow crawl out of my self-destructive addiction to pink wigglers...and towards my future degree in Psychology! :)

Sincerely,
Rebecca Yu

Turning Point

2006-02-06T18:22:00.000-08:00

So...I just admitted how brainwashed I was - but I blame it on our dominant social programming here. The constant media and Hollywood propaganda that made me hate my own skin. But, I'm past that now, as you can damn see! No more pinky passion for me!

I mean, really, I shoulda known better. I still vividly recall my first intimate exposure with a White man. He proudly pulled it out...and I thought to myself:

"Ew, it's PINK. PINK like the inside of a too-rare hamburger! PINK like a soft pussy! PINK like a fetus!"

Well, he wasted NO TIME in stabbing me with his little pink eraser, and I was simultaneously horrified and amused at the sight of what looked like a tiny wet shaved gerbil scampering in and out of my mousehole. I nearly erupted...in laughter. Choking back my laffs, he must have misinterpreted my grimacing as PLEASURE, lmao!

"Oooh yeah baby, take that big red American DICK!" he grunted as his face turned nearly as red as his nub. As the veins on his scrawny neck bulged, I wasn't even sure which head he was gonna cum out of!

I could hardly contain myself now...this was just too much. My eyes were welling up with tears. I was about to explode in pure laughter - hoping to fake it as an orgasm to get him out of me...

When he made a funky constipated/O-face, quivered and shot his load in record time.

Whew.

I cleaned up...while he asked me how "damn good" he was... And if it was so "different" being with a White man, and worrying if he "hurt" me with his "size."

Well, this was just going from hilarious to pathetic now...if he ONLY KNEW! Next, I was sure he was going to ask me to breastfeed him like his mama! So, I quickly lied, and told him wow, he was INCREDIBLE, to stroke his desperate White male ego and alleviate my own guilt at being completely turned off and disgusted with this loser's bedside manner. So, he gave me something to bych about on the net, I gave him something to brag about. Well, who says life is fair? And, when you deal with White men, you WILL definitely get the SHORT END of the STICK 9 times outta 10!

Well, bad experiences happen with anyone. But sadly, this was one of my better ones with "mighty Whitey." I'd rather not assume they're ALL losers, just perhaps the ones who "specialize" in Asian women?

Ladies, I know y'all can relate to this! There's a reason why lotsa White chix don't even date 'em anymore! Now I know why!

Truly,
Rebecca Yu

Konnichiwa...mothafvckas!

2006-02-06T18:10:00.000-08:00

Hello all. I am a psych major who used to be your classic self-hating Asian-AMERICAN girl with a fetish for all things vanilla ice. See, I never wanted to be the ASIAN-American girl, but the ALL-American girl. And the easiest shortcut and litmus test to that in my narrow eyes was...a trophy White boyfriend (nerdy slob or not).

Anyways, after a looong series of demeaning and fruitless encounters with White men, I finally came to the conclusion - that they were never dating ME, but the warped Hollywood hentai fantasy that they projected upon me.

And upon further research, considering the historical sexual legacy of White men in particular - often coupling with Black slaves, wartime "gooks," native heathens, mail-order brides from impoverished countries, underage children and barnyard animals - I came to the simple conclusion:

White men most prefer to mate only with creatures they feel are INFERIOR to themselves. In the pre-feminist era, that included most White women. However, since the 60s, they have been forced to omit many of them in favor of race-climbing minorities, children and occasionally 4-legged mammals.

So, where I USED to feel flattered by their crude advances and gropes, I can now only feel deeply INSULTED and enraged!

Ladies, heed my warning well and ask yourselves the same hard questions that I have - before you waste half your life chasing fool's gold. Please don’t learn the hard way like I did!

Sincerely,
Rebecca Yu