Leading Bi-Cultural Lives | Asian American Poll

LEADING BI-CULTURAL LIVES
(Updated Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008, 05:24:28 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 akash, ur name means "sky" but thats in gujrati, so space could be related to it.
Ac dropout, all the extra "souls" you speak about arent really "extra" you go through 840 thousand (or how many species of animals plants whatever) lives of everythin that isnt human, till you actually can be a human, so it seems like there are a lot of good people on this earth, thats wut it really is.
NdNGurl! Wednesday, July 24, 2002 at 13:39:47 (PDT)

Rare Stuff

Please define Asian. Please define Immigrant. Please define Western.

Asian common sense. Is that very different from non-Asian common sense? I thought common sense was common sense, and not ethnically-driven.

"...Your culture becomes a mix of culture and subculture."

What is this subculture that you are refering to?

MLK Tuesday, July 23, 2002 at 23:01:13 (PDT)

Akash

"...transfer of info that is neither momentum nor energy"

If it's not energy and it's not momentum, then what is it?

And just as Einstein overrode Newton, I get the feeling the explanation to all of this is going to come in the form of another scientist's discovery of a law that is above Einstein's. Now that we have a space station that we can utilize anytime we want to, perhaps much of the experiments that require the void of space to be carried out can explain some of these mysteries. I really think quantum mechanics is a radical cool way of looking at things on a plane that requires more creative thinking and less rigidity in thought process.

Your name is Sanskrit? Are you from India?

MLK Tuesday, July 23, 2002 at 21:37:04 (PDT)

AC Dropout

OK ok! You win. I lose. I really don't want to get that deep into this Buddhism and Physics discussion anyway. I don't even know how it started or why I was even digging into it. But there really is a cool theory regarding quantum physics and consciousness. If you should ever want to get into it, one day in the far far future, maybe we will rehash this. Or maybe not...

And I wasn't trying to lecture you. There really is no way to get this kind of information out any way other than factually and very hard-core. And you've been talking to me for awhile now. You should know me well enough to be able to tell that I am not normally hard-core. I look and act pretty airheaded most of the times (even though I'm not), and I am happy with everyone thinking that I am a blonde bimbo. That way, nobody knows exactly how much I understand things. It's a very useful skill to have.

And you hit the nail on the head. I am a nerd in disguise. Surprised? You really wouldn't be able to tell by looking at me from the outside or even by talking to me for weeks or even months. I hide it pretty well because I know what the ramifications are for exposing something like this. People are much more comfortable with me being a silly twit who only knows how to paint toe nails and walk in strappy heels well. They don't know how to act around me once they find out I'm not so empty-headed. You've actually stumbled upon something that I've known for ages. Sexual discrimination at school (and work). If you have children (or ever plan to), this is something you should well be aware of. In school, boys are allowed to show their curiosity about the world. Questions regarding egg-head subjects are treated with respect and answered. But for girls, this is not the case. For an ugly girl, it's at least understandable that she may want to understand, and could possibly grasp the concepts if explained very slowly. For pretty girls...that's laughable! I've been teased more times than not about this (that's why I'm not a mathematician or a scientist!) and as a child, I've been shamed into hiding my interests. As an adult, I've found that I get farther in life if I don't seem as if I know more than the men around me. :)

Go figure!
MLK Tuesday, July 23, 2002 at 21:25:36 (PDT)

A far better explanation of EPR paradox and Bell's Theorem and its implications in an easy to understand language can be found in the the acclaimed book "The Dancing Wu-Li Masters" by Gary Zukav. This book is a must read for all especially MLK who are intrigued by such questions. EPR paardox raises some very fundamental questions on the nature of reality itself. Some other sites that give you a reasonably good explanation of EPR paradox are

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Quantum/bells_inequality.html

Apart from reading the aforementioned book, I will strongly reccommend reading the theory of implicate order by David Bohm. Let me quote a para from the following site

http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/science/prat-boh.htm

In Bohm's view, all the separate objects, entities, structures, and events in the visible or explicate world around us are relatively autonomous, stable, and temporary "subtotalities" derived from a deeper, implicate order of unbroken wholeness. Bohm gives the analogy of a flowing stream:

On this stream, one may see an ever-changing pattern of vortices, ripples, waves, splashes, etc., which evidently have no independent existence as such. Rather, they are abstracted from the flowing movement, arising and vanishing in the total process of the flow. Such transitory subsistence as may be possessed by these abstracted forms implies only a relative independence or autonomy of behaviour, rather than absolutely independent existence as ultimate substances.

(David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, Boston, 1980, p. 48.)
We must learn to view everything as part of "Undivided Wholeness in Flowing Movement." (Ibid., p. 11.)

PS I am just an engineering graduate student and not a physicist. So I do not have rigorous mathematical training in quantum mechanics although I have little familiarity with some of the qualitative features of the wave equation.
Akash Tuesday, July 23, 2002 at 15:43:18 (PDT)

"God is Dead" - Nietzhe
"Nietzche is Dead" - God
AC Dropout
- now who would have the last laugh? God or Nietzche? A mortal human being cannot presume too much. It is way too arrogant for a man to deny the existance of a Supreme Being. Dangerous also, in case there truly is the afterlife which I believe and the punishment/reward of the wicked/virtuous. A Nihilist is what Nietzche truly was although he believed in the will to power and that paradigm itself is ultimately sad for the end of one's life is the end of that individual's reality forever. Basically nihilism encourages us to go and do 'whatever feels good' in life without giving thought to consequences of good/evil - it denies virtue/sin by so-called going beyond it. People who believe this are escaping the Truth that there is good and evil just as there is black/white, hot/cold, up/down, although shades of grey and relativity exist. Look, besides the opium religious feeling provides in some of life's bitter phases - there must be more truth to our lives than just living to eat, drink, sing, fuck, and die. AC Dropout I remember you used to be Christian as a youth from an earlier post. Don't tell [Cut off due to server error.]

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