tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post6580711674831814702..comments2024-03-26T03:31:06.199-04:00Comments on Ask a Korean!: Asian America after the Atlanta ShootingT.K. (Ask a Korean!)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07663422474464557214noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-37988195773165045892021-05-12T06:33:32.690-04:002021-05-12T06:33:32.690-04:00America has been above 80% white for its entire hi...America has been above 80% white for its entire history up until recently, so yea, it has, matter of factly, always been white, and was around 90% white from 1910 all the way to the 1960s. I don't know why you're posting shit like ''Average number of children born in antebellum America'' as if this mattered when we have direct data on historical racial demographics in the United States, you can check those for yourself<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_racial_and_ethnic_demographics_of_the_United_States#:~:text=Whites%20(including%20Non%2DHispanic%20Whites,before%20the%20late%20twentieth%20century.<br /><br />In all likelyhood you're probably too stupid to do any significant research so you come up with excuses like being too tired to do proper research. Also I don't know why you're listing Irish immigrants? You're probably one of those absolute r*tards who believe the Irish were not considered white, a myth dear to midwit leftoids but which has no basis in historical reality.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00735766535996933595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-73771434361554408012021-05-08T08:54:34.537-04:002021-05-08T08:54:34.537-04:00Are you facing any kind of difficulty in life and ...Are you facing any kind of difficulty in life and want the help of a spell caster, are you facing divorce and want a reconciliation Dr.OKOLO is the right and genuine man for the job, he is really good at what he does because he also helped me to recover my husband after separation contact him on WhatsApp: +2347031895935 OR email drokolosolutioncenter@gmail.com I would advise you to contact DR OKOLO because he is the right man to help you get your problem solved.You can reach him for the following spell work: love spell,divorce spell,Forgiveness Spell Attractiveness Spell, marriage spell, death spell, lottery spell,herbal medicine for any kind of health problemHarrison Rebbeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04361449812594366739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-91302978583595131312021-04-28T15:56:25.936-04:002021-04-28T15:56:25.936-04:00Almost not a day goes by that I don't wish tha...Almost not a day goes by that I don't wish that I had a Korean mom or when I don't give thanks for my "sisters" that I met in the ROK. Sometimes I drink bone-broth and I feel them in my heart... It's too bad that "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" gained such cultural cachet while Korean mothering has flown under the radar, though perhaps it's better that way. Nurturing young people is not all about psychotic ambition.<br /><br />I continue to love your website, AAK. This free information is worth a lot more than some commercial writings on Korea and Korean culture and is less polemical than even some academicians who want to flaunt their erudition. You may recall I wrote you some years ago about the hagwon industry and you gave fantastic replies.<br /><br />Your article also reminds me of my Korean-American friend whose mother worked in a sweatshop in LA while her husband was in dental school. Later on their three children became a golf-playing wine-savoring dentist, a Stanford corporate IP lawyer, and a UCLA medical doctor.<br /><br />Take careAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-13920196231546467532021-04-18T04:50:06.953-04:002021-04-18T04:50:06.953-04:00You white supremacist chuds always sing the same s...You white supremacist chuds always sing the same song. It's a white country, it's a white country. Sorry buttercup, this has never been a "white" country. <br /><br />Population of the United States in 1850: 23,191,876<br />White population as a percentage of the total: 84.3%<br />Black population as a percentage of the total: 15.7%2<br />Number of free Blacks in America in 1850: 434,495<br />Number of slaves: 3,204,313<br />Male population as a percentage of the total in 1850: 51.02%<br />Male population as a percentage of the white total: 51.28%<br />Male population as a percentage of the Black total: 49.78%<br />Year in which races other than Black and white were first listed in the U.S. census: 1860<br />Birth Rate<br /><br />Average number of children born in antebellum America: 6-7<br />Average number of children born in America today: about 2<br />Decline in American birthrate from 1800 to 1850: 23%3<br />Immigration<br /><br />Number of German Jews who immigrated to America during the 19th century: 250,000 (additionally, several hundred thousand Germans, most of them Protestant, arrived in the 1850s after the failed revolutions of 1830 and 1848)9<br />Number of Chinese in America by 1860: 35,000 (most of them in the West and thousands of them at work building the rapidly spreading railroad network)10<br />Number of Irish immigrants who came to America annually from 1847–1855: Over 100,000<br />Number of Irish immigrants who came in 1851: 221,000 Irish population as a percentage of the total foreign-born population in 1853: 43%<br />Society<br /><br /><br />Rank of Catholicism among denominations in the United States in 1860: 1st<br /><br />I didn't feel like doing a lot of looking just to refute another neo-natzi 8chan basement dweller. Jeez. You people are everywhere. oldgalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14300942268456541949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-56763622366041986572021-04-13T06:34:06.119-04:002021-04-13T06:34:06.119-04:00My two cents from a Singaporean: You mentioned tha...My two cents from a Singaporean: You mentioned that the shooter was a "weirdo Evangelical who was convinced that he was striking out against his self-diagnosed sex addiction". Let me translate that for you: he was a borderline Nazi masquerading as a conservative Christian. "The idea that people can be addicted to sex implies that people’s sex drives and erotic interests can be grouped into “normal” and “not normal,”,..., which could leave those with alternative sexual identities vulnerable to discrimination." This was written in a Time Magazine article on the subject. "Sex addiction" is almost never truly about sex. It's about power, control, and conformity to a very narrowly-defined "normal" that restricts living, breathing people into acting out highly stereotyped, highly restrictive and highly oppressive roles. These people will strike out at anyone who deviates from their "normal". With that, I'd say it'd be accurate to consider this yet another fault line between "conservatives" and "liberals". The "conservatives" want a society where everyone is "in their place" playing strictly-defined roles, with no room for deviation, let alone role swaps, whereas the "liberals" want to see everyone free to be true to themselves. Knowing this, of course the shooter would target Asian sex workers! They're about as far from these people's sense of "normal" as you can get. 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Contact him now for any help via TEXT OR WHATSAPP MESSENGER with: +1 740-573-9483 and Email on: Lordzakuza7@gmail.comDiamond Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04992362994578795624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-49596840342968743562021-03-30T16:35:51.407-04:002021-03-30T16:35:51.407-04:00Lol, no.Lol, no.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00735766535996933595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-33752257723414173942021-03-30T08:38:15.109-04:002021-03-30T08:38:15.109-04:00Being white and male in the United States means no...Being white and male in the United States means not really understanding the meaning of "power". NONEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00312011183953017842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-58942168176104338402021-03-30T00:20:19.304-04:002021-03-30T00:20:19.304-04:00At any rate, the whole way these questions are fra...At any rate, the whole way these questions are framed is profoundly dishonest. Dominant racial groups being seen as the natural is not some specific western peculiarity born out of centuries of colonialism and imperialism or whatever your favorite historical narrative is, it's a rather universal thing. Ethnic Japanese are the natural in Japan, ethnic Han Chinese are the natural in China, and you can ask the author - if he's even mildly honest he'll agree -, Ethnic Koreans are seen as the natural in South Korea also. The only thing exceptional about whites in this regard is that only them have to suffer these attempts, by people of other races, but also by leftist whites, to delegitimize their claims of having more legitimate discretionary authority over western languages, cultures, traditions and institutions than non-whites. If a white man develops some kind of interest for a traditional Korean cultural practice, and decides to carve out a place for himself in the sphere related to that activity, it's understood by all that he's tacitly allowed to do this because Koreans, who have a monopoly over their own cultural practices, allow him to do so, and that if they suddenly decided that it is actually not ok for him to do what he's doing anymore, him continuing would amount to cultural appropriation. In a sense, he's borrowing something under their consent. In modern day western countries, this relationship akin to the one between guest and host is totally reversed ; we are told non-whites should be the legitimate owners of the western canon, for instance, and that the only moral course of action is that they should be allowed to subvert it for their own gains, to make up for their alleged oppressions, and that good whites are those who aggressively prevent the others from interfering in what ultimately amounts to the robbery of their intellectual and cultural possessions. Claims of being seen as 'perpetual outsiders' from asian americans are especially disingenuous because more than half of asian-americans are foreign born ; how can you possibly expect to be seen as natural as those who have ancestors dating back 100, 200 years in the past?<br /><br />Yes, friend, you don't have the luxury of pretending to be anything else than what you are, and neither do I; as I've implied earlier, racial identities are not negotiable or malleable, they are fixed, rigid, frozen things. Whites don't get to pretend to be seen as natural in South Korea either (and no, that random ads in the Subway or whatever have white people in them and that South Korean tv shows randomly invite Hollywood celebrities doesn't mean that whites are seen as natural in South Korean society, these things are just a consequence of America's incredible cultural soft power).<br /><br />At any rate, another asian elderly woman was attacked by a black man. So much for white supremacy. Cheers.<br /><br />https://nypost.com/2021/03/29/asian-woman-seriously-injured-in-suspected-midtown-hate-crime/ Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00735766535996933595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-15765810074793394882021-03-30T00:19:46.343-04:002021-03-30T00:19:46.343-04:00Wrote a long comment ; don't know if it's ...Wrote a long comment ; don't know if it's too long to be posted or if it's being deleted. I'll segment it into multiple replies.<br /><br />Being white is seen as the natural because whites are the founding racial group of the United States ; at no point before the year 2000 did whites make up less than 80% of the country, and from 1920 to 1950 whites basically made up 90% of the entire country's population. It's perfectly normal and perhaps even healthy that the dominant (in demographic terms) racial group of a given country is seen as more natural than some other racial group which has been part of the country for less time and which has has had, as a result, a lesser impact on the overall historical trajectory of the country. The term 'natural' can be normatively loaded, as in, if X is natural, X is good, and if X unnatural, X is bad - but this isn't necessary, 'natural' can also simply refer to a constant, durable-over-time statistical average that is not likely to change, as in, ''it's natural that men have a higher (successful) suicide rate than women''. If what you're asking is that whites should not be seen as the natural, in the statistical average sense, that what you're asking for is illogical, and if what you're claiming is that whites are seen as the natural in the normative sense, and that this is immoral, I'd say that you're delusional, because whites are certainly not seen in a positive light by the majority of mainstream medias and politically/culturally relevant academic institutions ; and I would even further add that, even if it was the case that whites were seen as the natural in the normative sense, this wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, to an extent.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00735766535996933595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-68878971541507866562021-03-29T19:12:15.055-04:002021-03-29T19:12:15.055-04:00Anonymous Racist,
Being white in the United State...Anonymous Racist,<br /><br />Being white in the United States means having the luxury of shouting, “Kiss me, I’m Irish!” whenever convenient because being white is seen as natural...the status quo. Being non-white means not having the luxury to hide your “otherness” under the common interrogative “What are you?”... which implies that whatever it is, it isn’t natural. <br /><br />I am astounded by the anonymous comment above, but not surprised. NONEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00312011183953017842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-51517999924135896672021-03-29T16:35:10.601-04:002021-03-29T16:35:10.601-04:00https://twitter.com/InsulaeW/status/13765164423304...https://twitter.com/InsulaeW/status/1376516442330427392?s=20Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00735766535996933595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-80615120348948249792021-03-29T15:35:34.623-04:002021-03-29T15:35:34.623-04:00More funds in education, housing and public supoor...More funds in education, housing and public supoort would not help reduce crime and violence.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00735766535996933595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-66722609492531956642021-03-29T15:21:21.901-04:002021-03-29T15:21:21.901-04:00Nice reply buddy ; any arguments?Nice reply buddy ; any arguments?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00735766535996933595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-70647999172361891952021-03-29T14:15:08.311-04:002021-03-29T14:15:08.311-04:00Great post. Thank you. Your mom made you strong.
...Great post. Thank you. Your mom made you strong. <br /><br />DTP does keep our communities safer, BTW. Each officer costs a city around $300K/year. That's just their salaries/pension/healthcare. As they move up in ranks police earn $500-$800K. Imagine that $ invested into education, housing & public support - things that actually reduce crime and violence. Police are not trained to deal with many of the situations they deal with. Social workers cost our cities much less and are trained to deal with people who are struggling. <br /><br />I know this is not what your article was about. But I am concerned when people lean on racist police who do more harm than good. Privacyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17373660052476544587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-91785593068736239372021-03-28T23:07:48.458-04:002021-03-28T23:07:48.458-04:00Funny - I was reading the "Two Globalization&...Funny - I was reading the "Two Globalization" article exactly because of the whole COVID testing issue. Glad you felt the same way as I did.T.K. (Ask a Korean!)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07663422474464557214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-59835997103023578562021-03-28T17:41:00.220-04:002021-03-28T17:41:00.220-04:00What a hilariously stupid comment ; white is not &...What a hilariously stupid comment ; white is not ''blank with nothing imprinted upon it'', East-Asians had a concept of race far before they were influenced by Volkisch movement (this is the sort of retarded conclusions you come to when you only read leftoids authors) ; you cannot ''negotiate'' your racial identity ; criterias for including or excluding people based on genetics are all but arbitrary...<br /><br />Anyways the hysteria around alleged anti-asian hate is entirely fabricated and doesn't correspond with empirical reality ; in both raw number and percentage asians are the least victims of basically any sort of crime and when they are victim of something it tends to be disproportionally caused by non-whites. Something also needs to be said about the immense sense of entitlement and arrogance that some of you people have when you think voting a law to exclude you prior to you being here is somehow a violation of your human rights ; as if you had a right to enter and pillage your neighbor's house ; although such reasoning shouldn't surprise us since the only thing the lived experiences of non-whites teaches them is that gaming the system to your advantage is easy to do and the system will even help you do it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00735766535996933595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-9971606518312913002021-03-26T21:19:16.522-04:002021-03-26T21:19:16.522-04:00This dual globalism you describe was very apparent...This dual globalism you describe was very apparent in Korea recently when some local governments imposed mandatory covid testing on all foreigners in their jurisdictions. A lot of foreigners raised complaints about the discriminatory nature of this mandate, myself included actually. A number of chambers of commerce and embassies also condemned these madates.<br /><br />It struck me though that all the people and organizations doing the complaining were Western. By far the larger community affected by the mandate were migrant workers from developing countries but they were not the ones raising a stink about this. In fact the few quotes in the news I did read from migrant factory workers were actually positive about the required testing because they perceived it would help alleviate local Koreans fears that the foreigners in their neighborhood were potentially infected.<br /><br />I too think this was a hasty and discriminatory mandate and Im glad it was recognized as such and corrected. But it certainly made it obvious that Western foreigners are the only ones privileged enough to even have this as a concern, and be listened to when raising it as an issue.<br /><br />You are exactly right that we need to turn our focus to the segment of minorities that actually bears the brunt of discrimination.Paul Husseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17931919752736089314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-53756243969959990782021-03-25T23:52:59.376-04:002021-03-25T23:52:59.376-04:00Where I keep running into conflict is with a predo...Where I keep running into conflict is with a predominant vein of recent commentary.... <br /><br />While we are opposing white supremacy and racism, the modes and language of white supremacy are still deeply ingrained in the formulas promoted and applied by East Asian cultural nationalisms and often exported through the diaspora. I am not trying to engage in whattaboutism. But I hope we will all try to recognize that the problem is structural in how we perceive race and ethnicity, oneness and other. <br /><br />I don’t think it is revelatory that the construction of racial identities and ethnic nationalisms in East Asia come directly from the West as both the Japanese and Chinese nationalists embraced the racialist premise of the German Volkisch movement. These ideas entered Korea through Japanese colonization and replaced more archaic identities that were often more flexible or negotiable, including Nikans and Jurchens. Japanese, Han and Koreans were representing or viewed themselves as leading the “yellow race”, which they had conflated into something on-par with “white” and it was steeped in the biological determinism that excused casual racism against dark skinned people. Narratives of authenticity were and are deployed in defense against colonialism, imperialism and regional hegemony. Fear. <br /><br />So, when I consider the artificial criteria deployed for inclusion or exclusion based on tropes of race or genetics, it feels like a double edged sword with potentially unintended consequences and even, in part, the risk of validating a poisonous ideology. While on one hand, it repudiates the Orientalist white man who fetishizes and appropriates Asian culture and demands to control it/absorb it based on some arbitrary culturalist metric, but on the other it provides a pretext to excluding a much broader variety of very real, localized identities and masks or delegitimizes the hybridity found in Asian cultures. So I keep looking back at Sheila L. Croucher’s use of the term ’narratives of unfolding’ from The Politics of identity In a Changing World in which she asserts “ethnic identity formation and differentiation emerge from a complex process of interaction, reaction, self-identification and institutional categorization….” This formula might be more flexible and inclusive while respecting formed identities both inside and outside Korea or better address the bifurcated dialectic of cultural authenticity between the archaic notions of blood kinship and the lived experience both in Korea and abroad. <br /><br />White is blank with nothing imprinted upon it. Non-white always comes with its imprint. But this is predominantly a western centered phenomenon. When the roles are reversed in Asia, biracial and non-cultural Koreans and their liminal identities are called into question or rejected as inauthentic. Several commenters have expounded on the criteria for belonging and many of these formulations make the mistake of asserting the same essentialist or primordialist language that white America in engaged in. <br /><br />It is almost reminiscent of some feminist theory from the 1990s in which the "patriarchy" was to be destroyed and replaced by an identical twin "matriarchy", while failing to address how the injustice and imbalance of the former is replicated by the latter. This can be true for all number of liminal people both in Korea or Asians in America... straight, queer, biracial, Buddhist, Christian, Daoist trans-generational and many more. <br /><br />Points: <br /><br />No. 1: You are not half anything. Half implies lack. Identities are multiple and negotiable. You can be two wholes at the same time.<br /><br />No. 2: You can be Korean. Maybe you are just not the kind of Korean they are expecting. NONEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00312011183953017842noreply@blogger.com