Leading Bi-Cultural Lives | Asian American Poll

LEADING BI-CULTURAL LIVES
(Updated Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008, 05:24:26 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%

This poll is closed to new input.
Comments posted during the past year remain available for browsing.

CONTACT US | ADVERTISING INFO

© 1996-2013 Asian Media Group Inc
No part of the contents of this site may be reproduced without prior written permission.

WHAT YOU SAY

[This page is closed to new input. --Ed.]

MLK,

In a corporate environment I cannot stress enough the concept of perception management.

I would advise you to use your brains and your sexual appeal get people to notice your performance in the company. But not to over emphasize your sexual appeal to the point that you seem inviting to everyone in the company.
AC Dropout Monday, July 29, 2002 at 09:21:05 (PDT)

curious girl,

You remember the grade school readers you get in public schools. With chapters of popular or class works in them.

Well confusianism is taught that way in asia. Little fables and stories with moral lessons based on Confusian 4 books 5 classics.

But a vast majority of the populace is not versed in these classical literature. Since a lot of it is no longer relavent.

In chinese pop culture, it is very similar to pop culture around the whole.
AC Dropout Monday, July 29, 2002 at 09:10:39 (PDT)

Akash,

I'm going to wait on the development of the superstring theory. I personally think the physics models are not all encompassing yet. To have so many models to describe the same event in time is in my opinion a like intellectual game of drawing at straws.

Wave models, particle models, probability clouds, etc.

At college I remember my first class in theoretical physics. And there was a discussion about the particle accelerator grad students used. I kept thinking in the back of my mind, if I took two cars and smashed them together. Then saw a bunch of blue jagged pieces on the floor. Is that really relevant?

Newtonian physics was just dependent on continuous events. The nature of predictability was due to everything being continuous. Taking advantage of the math that if there exist an epsilon greater than zero all things would be smooth and continuous. The joke of course being once you assume that there can assist an epsilon less than zero, calculus will fall apart, and hence Newtonina physics falls apart.
AC Dropout Monday, July 29, 2002 at 06:57:37 (PDT)

MLK,

some acquaintances of some members of my family live in the US. Since there is few Asian community in Europe (excluding Britain and Russia) and Asians might get cultural influence by money in the US I'm interested in Asian American culture and BI-CULTURAL lifestyle.Just to find hints for possible solutions of my own problems.

I still think that my clue regarding "Northern/Southern" division is very adequate.Northerners worship power/strength, Southerners worship wealth (fun is an expression of wealth), I experienced that I cannot mix these two values "power" and "wealth" to get an effective culture.I had to decide for the one which is closer to my mentality. From my point of view,it seems that Northerners (Mongolians etc as like the ancient Vikings and Northern Amerindians) would have no culture except violence,Southerners (Dravidians, Malays,Southern Chinese,Arabs) have good cuisine,comfortable lifestyle,very social tendencies.Nonetheless I like icy weather,being alone or at feud,consider soft females as an accident (that was your question from the "dating" forum).

I agree with you that males in general have tendencies into my direction. But that doesn't bridge the gap between North and South.(The way I disagree with AC Dropout.) What makes me "not Asian enough" is just a paper which I would like to s*** on.
rare stuff Monday, July 29, 2002 at 06:17:52 (PDT)

Akash

Why can't we think of it as a 'depth perspective'?

Let's just make an assumption that size is the deciding factor for each of the different levels of physics that are just as valid, but wildly different, for each plane of existence.

On the particle-molecule plane (level 1), we have quantum physics to explain the oddities of the ways the particles act. I'm just going to call it Quantumnian physics for now, since we haven't yet gotten anyone to fully explain it to the satisfaction of all.

On the human eyeball level (level 2), we have Newtonian physics, basically, a WYSIWYG kind of deal.

Moving farther out (level 3), we see large planetoid bodies and individual stars, which has another governing set of laws, Einsteinian physics.

Moving still further out (level 4), we have star clusters and galaxies that conform to yet another set of rules (to be determined by a great mind as yet unborn).

And moving even farther out (level 5), we have groups of universes (of which ours is but one small ageing unnotable universe amongst billions much brighter, better, etc.), following their own laws (God's?).

And let's suppose that the top level for us, (level 5), happens to be the bottom level, (level 1), for another sentient species, imagine that they are scratching their heads, trying to find out what would happen if they split the quark that we call our universe into their 'sub-atomic particles', what would then be the laws and governing behavior at this level of existence? hmmmmmm...
MLK Sunday, July 28, 2002 at 22:42:25 (PDT)

NEWEST COMMENTS | EARLIER COMMENTS