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ASIAN FEMALE/ CAUCASIAN MALE RELATIONSHIPS
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Well Maxdacat
Toronto is near chicago and New York but i'm not sure about Minnesota. If you go to Toronto though, you'll have so much fun! The night life is excellent and the food is great! Many asian peoople! It is very diverse there in nationalities, it's great! Every race fits in because every race is there so nobody feels left out!
Kim Chee Girl
You are so right about the terms like oriental and black. Asian and African American and Caucasian are all politically correct words.
Dim Sum Girl
Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 22:18:23 (PDT)
Hey Young ABC,
I had a relationship with a 31 year old Chinese women for Guanxi, China. She had many great qualities. But she was divored and a month into the rlationship she told me she had a child. But the one thing that made her somewhat unappealing was her disrespect for Asian men and her admiration for any white male no matter their age, look or economic status. We hade a purely sexual relationship I must say their was no love but I believe that Asian culture has set many of these trends in place by accident! For example there is a book by John Lie called Multiethnic Japan ISBN 0-674-00299-7 whic explains that the Japanese "consider white foreigner (gaijin or hakujin) in post war Japan almost inevitably referred to white North Americans and Europeans as having a superior "upperclass culture to their own. He even documents that the Japanese considered changing their native lauguage to FRENCH! This book was written by a Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Campaign and co-author of Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angles Riots (Harvard). So my theory is that Asian women date white men to be upper class. When the Japanese industrialized and then Korea which used many of the Japanese ideal with in a Confucianist context for buisness, education and social mores the rest of Asian has followed! I feel Asian male have to assert themselve and when the hearts and the mined of their women back! That's my 2 cents!
Mr.Holley deandre@holley
Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 16:15:51 (PDT)
Canada and the US have different cultural views on ethnicity, tolerance and attitude. Canada is also like a buffer between the UK and the US culture wise, so it has some similarities to both yet is also unique.
As a result of this, people of African Ancestry are okay with the term "Black" while in the US the term "African American" is considered the most respectful and its use is a point of pride.
"Oriental" is most common in the UK and as a result is common in Canada. Many Asian people who immigrate to Canada have come from Hong Kong and are used to Britishisms, so it doesn't bother them. Here in the US, the term "Oriental" has a different subtext--that of physical objects (rugs, vases, silk, etc.) and that of non-Asian men seeking a sex-kitten, lotus-blossum, submissive little yum-yum of "_____-ese" origin. Due to this negative perception (objectification/fetishization) the terms Asian American, Chinese-American, etc. are preferred out of respect and as a point of pride.
Furthermore, Canada has always embraced cultural diversity, considering itself a "salad bowl" where each culture becomes part of the whole yet still maintains its unique properties. In the US, the model is more of the "melting pot" where things get all mixed together, assimilated and absorbed so that they lose their distinction in favor of the more general notion of being "American."
If you watch Canadian TV and movies in the 70s and 80s for example, the casts were more diverse in color, ethnicity and culture. Look at all thre DeGrassi Series and what you see is kids of South Asian, East Asian, Caucasian, Middle Eastern, African and other ancestries all going to school and dealing with real world pressures.
Compare it to Beverly Hills 90210--a show that was based upon DeGrassi, but Aaron Spelling decided to glam and WHITEN it up in order to make it appeal to the more "mainstream American" (read WHITE). The only non-White principals on the show were Janet (Played by Hapa Lindsay Price) and Jesse (Played by Mark Espinoza). Kinda makes you wonder, doesn't it?
Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that this is an Asian American site and it's cool to hear Canadian input. However, what Asians in Canada need to understand is that some of the issues they face there are VERY DIFFERENT than Asian Americans face here in the US due to cultural differences. Maybe once Elaine Chao or Condaleeza Rice become Vice President when Dick Cheney has another heart attack, things will change...
Andrew Xiaoliang Campbell
Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 11:08:05 (PDT)
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