Two very different videos to start us off today:
Canada
Little Dragon Tales: classic Chinese children’s songs with a modern twist – angry asian man
UK
British woman on tram complains about ethnic minorities
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Monthly Archives for November 2011
Jaswinder Bolina on “writing like a white guy”
Indian American poet Jaswinder Bolina wrote an excellent article for the Poetry Foundation that starts with an anecdote about his father telling him to use a pseudonym:
He knows that in America nobody should be rejected, not unabashedly and without some counterfeit of a reason, but all my father’s nearly three decades as a machinist at the hydraulics plant near the airport teach him is that economies boom and economies bust, and if your name isn’t “Bill” or “Earl” or “Frank Malone,” you don’t get promoted. You mind the machines. “Bills” and “Earls” supervise. “Frank” is the name the bosses go by, all of them hired after my dad but raised higher. So when my father suggests I use a pseudonym, he’s only steadying my two-wheeler, only buying me a popsicle from the cart at Foster Avenue Beach.
He then discusses why he did not talk about race in his first book: Continue reading
Why are there so many female Asian food bloggers?
I had an interesting conversation on Twitter yesterday with the authors of Perth food blogs Food Endeavours of the Blue Apocalypse and Foodie Cravings. I hadn’t thought about the gender dimension when I posed my question about the proliferation of Asian food blogs around the world, but on further inspection, it does seem that a lot of these bloggers are women.
Here are their thoughts on it:
@blueapocalypse because Asians are ‘generally’ more shy & the internet allows them to express themselves and share thoughts??
@foodiecravings and super savvy with the Internet/pc? Good story tellers? females tend to say alot more I find
@blueapocalypse Def more female bloggers across the board – Asians like taking photos a lot? Good point with story teller theory
@blueapocalypse Blogging like networking/part of community
So Asians are more shy, but women are good story tellers? Do Asian women use blogging as a platform for storytelling that allows them to break down this barrier of “shyness” that they experience in everyday life?
What are your thoughts on this issue?
