Leading Bi-Cultural Lives | Asian American Poll

LEADING BI-CULTURAL LIVES
(Updated Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008, 05:24:30 PM to reflect the 100 most recent valid responses.)

Is it possible to embrace both American and Asian cultures and find social acceptance with both Americanized and non-Americanized groups of friends?
Yes | 77%
No | 23%

Which of the following factors is most important in facilitating a successful bi-cultural life?
Familitarity with both cultures | 32%
Family upbringing | 28%
Fluency in both languages | 16%
Security in one's identity | 24%

Which of the following factors most discourages bi-cultural lives for U.S.-raised Asian Americans?
Inability to speak Asian languages | 28%
Outmarriage to non-Asians | 14%
Fear of seeming too Asian | 30%
Concern for kids' image with peers | 28%

Which segment of the Asian American population currently has the greatest positive impact on American society?
American-Born | 56%
Foreign-born, American-educated | 44%

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to curious girl

Hi! I wasn't sure if I left you behind on the other Romance and Dating board.
I was born a Catholic, raised a Buddhist, and ended up being a wierd mixture of the two. One learns about Buddhism in several ways, depending on how high up the food chain you've gotten. For the poor hungry mass, yes, it's true that you go to the temple, chant, and pray daily. For the ones with more education (meaning you can actually read the Buddhist texts and understand them yourself without having to go to the temple and have it explained to you by someone who may, or may not, understand the texts themselves) you can just stay home and study the texts, try to understand the various levels of truths within them. For the truly gifted, those who have already a good grasp of what's going on, they're usually the ones out there, trying to explain all this to the poor hungry mass, or doing some highly invisible, totally unrecognized good deeds in an effort to fulfil their Junior year of 'helping others' so that they can graduate into the more advanced stage of 'helping themselves'.

The main key to your sophomore year is that you hurt yourself by allowing people and your surroundings to cause you pain and suffering. That's why Buddhist monks and nuns disown their families and become reclusive. They are separating themselves from the pleasures and pains of daily life to concentrate on their meditation. There's more to this. You also hurt yourself by not allowing yourself to feel that joy of doing for others and by not being moderate in all things.

Sometimes, I feel kind of strange talking about this stuff because it's not exactly the kinds of things a woman like me would even be exposed to, much less interested in. I hate to go indepth about this because it reveals to the world exactly how strange I am in my mind and how much my research and studying in these subjects have changed my brainwaves and patterns of thinking. I have found that I no longer think inside a box, and so my ideas are not well-contained, and spread out in messy globs all over the place. You must excuse the mental mess that I leave around here.

MLK Saturday, July 13, 2002 at 17:19:06 (PDT)

to Rare Stuff

"...Men feel more intense and complex feelings which cannot be expressed through crying"

Hey, are you calling me shallow? If women don't feel intense emotions, I don't know who can. I feel plenty of emotions! I'm a freakin' roller coaster sometimes, especially certain days of the month.

"...non-white mates and I are victims of the daily racism that occurs"

??? Do you live in a commune or a group home?

"...I have no clear identity"

Of course you do. You're an Asian Man. Point blank, end of story. Your surroundings may affect your actions in some sense, so that you may flexibly adapt to the environment that you are in to co-exist peacefully with others, but never can it touch the inner identity of the Asian Male (unless his character is so weak that he can no longer distinguish his identity from that of other non-Asians around him...in which case, he's what GoldSea would call as 'whitewashed').

We are living in the US. It does not matter if you feel as if you're Han or Manchu or Cantonese. It only matters if you feel as if you're Asian American.

MLK Saturday, July 13, 2002 at 17:01:08 (PDT)

MLK,

"Beyond Good and Evil" is considered to be the summary of all his thought.

If your just interested it the uberman concept. "Thus Spoke Zarathrustra" may be better. Because it is writen in a fable format.

Well all humans can't attain this. Nietzshe was a strict antisocial. It is only meant for one individual. That's one of the reasons Nazis got it all wrong.
The uberman is not there to uplift humanity. It is there to dominate it.

Here is an example of the will to power. At one time the world was really flat. Everyone behaved as the world was flat. Our math our architecture was all developed around the premise the world was flat. Then one day a uber-individual challenged the world belief, and said the world was round. He willed the world to believe the world was round. Thus, the world became round in an instant.
We as individual do not have empirical proof the world is round or flat. We organized our homes our room as though the world is flat. However, someone has willed us to believe the world is round. It is the reason that there is day and night. It is the reason long bridges must account for curvature.

Will is not absolute truth as they say. But with will you can sway the masses and create a subjective truth.

Nietzshe had some pretty false belief of women, jew, asian, and time travel. Also it was before the time of critical philosophy. In other words there is a lot of garbage to go through.

KMT Kuomingtang. They are just a faction of Chinese gov't that lost to communist and established themselves in Taiwan. Unless you're interested in recent Chinese history, it might be boring.
AC Dropout Friday, July 12, 2002 at 10:51:50 (PDT)

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