Jesus Christ.
I seriously must be going though my teenage girl phase in life right now. Or, as my friend Patty calls it, my My So Called Life stage.
Anyway, yeah, I’m finding myself recently obsessed with mainstream visual kei bands, mainly Miyavi and Sid, whose music I don’t even particular care for. My reasoning? I’m an “Asian-washed” kid who lives and works in the white-washed suburbia delicately known as The O.C.
The only Asian people I see are the attractive Korean-American girls with their white, muscle-clad, “Dolf Lungren-ish” type boyfriends. (Nothing particularly wrong with that, but why must they look so bored when they’re out with them?)
. . . and notice how I didn’t even mention the black people I see. (It’s because I don’t, save for an extremely attractive one that I see in the bathroom mirror every morning.)
Or maybe I’m just sad that my drinking buddy Alex is going back to his native home in Japan. (Why can’t making friends in your 20s be just as easy as it was when we were 6 years old?)
Regardless, my way of coping with these hardships are by downloading pictures and watching comments on Youtube of my favorite Visual Kei bands.
Funny Anecdote: Alex and I spent all last Saturday looking around Little Tokyo for the latest ARENA37℃ magazine that features photo spreads of both 雅-miyavi- and ガゼット (The GazettE). Our reason for why we couldn’t find it: Because nobody knows what the “K” in Visual Kei means, unless they actually know what you’re talking about.
My current obssesion comes in the form of 4 guys whose names are Aki, Yuuya, Mao, and Shinji. I can always relate to Aki’s quiet removed-ness, while Yuuya is just plain hilarious. Back in their earlier, more Visual Kei days, I guess they had a few hardcore seeds to sow before going towards a more jazzy-pop direction. Too bad.
The PV is deliriously Japanese, even though the song sounds better live. (Like almost all of Sid’s songs.)
吉開学１７歳（無職) – Live Performance by シド (Youtube Video)
Yoshikai Gaku 17 Sai（PV) – by シド (Youtube Video)
Germany’s next generation of machos shows a rather spine-chilling face in their criticism of Tokio Hotel – and that 30 years after David Bowie shook up people’s notions of manliness in pop stars. But allergic reactions come not only from obtuse youth who label everything that differs from the norm with the word “fag”. Comedy programmes on RTL announce a parody film about the vain child Bill with the derisive words “the metrosexual star.”
“As if” Eroticism by Elke Buhr
Filed under: Social Philosophy
Seems like quite a stir Mr. Ang has caused with his recent editorials. Actually, the only reason why he is now being dragged through the media gauntlet is because of his latest op-ed piece “Why I Hate Blacks.” As a black person, I actually found the satirical tongue-n-cheek jibes quite interesting, but more importantly, they illustrate how probably many people today actually feel.
To cry foul and pretend like Mr. Ang is the only person who feels this way (I personally don’t believe he does) only shows how Americans are still incapable of living in the “real” world. We like to pretend that our society is this rose-colored place of equal opportunity and love, but the experience of any ethnic minority would tell you otherwise.
Does my dismissive reaction to these articles paint me as a racist?
Probably.
Why I Hate Blacks
Kenneth Eng, Feb 23, 2007Here is a list of reasons why we should discriminate against blacks, starting from the most obvious down to the least obvious:
• Blacks hate us. Every Asian who has ever come across them knows that they take almost every opportunity to hurl racist remarks at us.
In my experience, I would say about 90 percent of blacks I have met, regardless of age or environment, poke fun at the very sight of an Asian. Furthermore, their activity in the media proves their hatred: Rush Hour, Exit Wounds, Hot 97, etc.
• Contrary to media depictions, I would argue that blacks are weak-willed. They are the only race that has been enslaved for 300 years. It’s unbelievable that it took them that long to fight back. On the other hand, we slaughtered the Russians in the Japanese-Russo War.
• Blacks are easy to coerce. This is proven by the fact that so many of them, including Reverend Al Sharpton, tend to be Christians. Yet, at the same time, they spend much of their time whining about how much they hate “the whites that oppressed them.” Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Christianity the religion that the whites forced upon them?
• Blacks don’t get it. I know it’s a blunt and crass comment, but it’s true. When I was in high school, I recall a class debate in which one half of the class was chosen to defend black slavery and the other half was chosen to defend liberation.
Disturbingly, blacks on the prior side viciously defended slavery as well as Christianity. They say if you don’t study history, you’re condemned to repeat it.
In high school, I only remember one black student ever attending any of my honors and AP courses. And that student was caught cheating.
It is rather troubling that they are treated as heroes, but then again, whites will do anything to defend them.
Proof That Whites Inherently Hate Us
Kenneth Eng, Nov 24, 2006White people hate us and will always hate us. Here is a simple list of evidence, going from the most obvious down to the least obvious:
How many American films feature Asian heroes who are not stereotyped?
If someone makes a negative comment about a black person, all of the whites get hopping mad. Make a negative comment about the Asian race and nobody cares.
Most Asians know that everywhere we go, white/black/Hispanic people hurl racist remarks at us. I have already received about 10 racist remarks in the past three months and I have only been out of my home a handful of times.
In 1982, Vincent Chin was killed by two white people, Michael Nitz and Ronald Ebens. Both murderers went free, as the judge claimed that they were not the type of people who deserved to be in prison.
Chai Vang righteously killed six white people after they approached him with guns first. Unlike the “men” who murdered Vincent Chin, brave Mr. Vang was sentenced to life.
Asian civil rights activities receive virtually no media attention. Yet Rosa Parks was pretty much honored as a hero just because she refused to give up her seat. This is curious because Vincent Chin died to defend his race. Why hasn’t he been given an award?
It is quite naïve to think that all of this can be explained by claiming that whites are not “enlightened” or that whites lack awareness of our issues. It is even more immature to think that things will get better if only we continue to protest peacefully through lame marches and letters to the producers of (insert any American TV show here).
Animals, through evolution, are intrinsically developed to detest organisms that are different; the obvious reason being that conformity to a certain level increases the chances of a species’ survival. Since humans are part of the animal kingdom, it should be no surprise that whites have evolved to hate Asians, who have a strikingly different appearance than them.
Furthermore, we do live in an age where “political correctness” and anti-racism are in vogue. Why then, are there virtually no Asian heroes in the media? This is solid proof that we are enemies in the eyes of the Aryans. If even in an epoch where equality is an important matter they still do not treat us as equals, then what hope is there that they will ever treat us equally?
More importantly, why should we care? We vastly outnumber them. When you have a disobedient child, you do not give him gifts to make him abide to your will. You show him the cane.
Why I Hate Asians
Kenneth Eng, Jan 12, 2007It seems like an odd title for an article written by an Asian Supremacist, but there are very good reasons why I hate many of my own kind.
The first thing I hate about Asians in America is how so many of them want to suck up to whites. I have had fistfights and verbal altercations with many who discriminated against me and my people. Sadly, however, the Asians who witness or hear about these battles often hate me for being “hypocritical,” and tell me that “two wrongs don’t make a right.” Do these sycophants think it’s “cool” to mindlessly side with whites and blacks? Is it not enough that we have to fight against discrimination? Now we have to fight amongst ourselves as well?
The second thing I hate about Asians is how little pride most of them have. This may be the result of societal brainwashing, but whatever the cause, it must stop. I am repulsed when I see Asian guys speak with British accents in an attempt to sound sophisticated. British people can’t be all that sophisticated if they don’t yet understand the concept of dental hygiene. I am also sickened when I hear Asian people imitate Negro slang in an endeavor to sound “ghetto.” Am I supposed to be impressed that such a person emulates the attitude of a supposed slum resident? More importantly, whatever happened to being yourself?
The third thing I hate about Asians is how apathetic many of them are in terms of honor these days. If I saw an Asian being stereotyped in a movie theater, I would immediately stand up and shout incessantly at the screen so that none of the white audience members could enjoy the film.
When I saw a white man yelling at an old Asian woman a few months ago, I walked up to him and hollered slurs right back in his Aryan face. But most other Asians, I am disappointed to say, would rather just chuckle at their own stereotypes on screen and ignore the problems of their brethren. At the risk of sounding corny, whatever happened to the days of the samurai?
When honor meant more than life? Whatever happened to the age of Sun Tzu when we used to kick ass?
Don’t get me wrong. I love the Asian race, but every race has its inferiors.
Filed under: Social Philosophy
Associated Press – LOS ANGELES – Korean-American community leaders said they plan to launch a protest against the publisher of a popular South Korean comic book that contains anti-Semitic images.
One comic strip in the book shows a man climbing a hill and then facing a brick wall with a Star of David and “STOP” sign in front. “The final obstacle to success is always a fortress called Jews,” a translation says.
Another strip shows a newspaper, magazine, TV and radio with the description: “In a word, American public debate belongs to the Jews, and it’s no exaggeration to say that U.S. media are the voice of the Jews.”
Yohngsohk Choe, co-chairman of the Korean American Patriotic Action Movement in the USA, said, “I don’t have words to describe the outrage I feel.”
The group met Friday with Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish advocacy group. Cooper said he would travel to Seoul on March 15 to raise concerns about the book.
The book, written by South Korean university professor Lee Won-bok, is part of a series called “Distant Countries and Neighboring Countries,” which is intended to teach youngsters about other countries. The series has sold more than 10 million copies.
Eun-Ju Park, chief executive of Seoul publisher Gimm-Young, said in an e-mail that the author sent an apology to Charles Kim, national president of the Los Angeles-based Korean-American Coalition.
Park wrote that she would look into the matter “more closely and correct what needs to be corrected.”
