Comments on: Cashmere Mafia … this is … different …

By: 8Asians.com » Fallout Central @ the 2008 Asian Excellence Awards: An Asian American/Asian Canadian Blog

Thu, 01 May 2008 20:43:13 +0000

[...] (as nominees for Best Reality Star, since Yul Kwon can’t win four years in a row) as well as Lucy Liu’s two-episode boyfriend from the now canceled Cashmere Mafia and Indian-Canadian comedian Russell Peters, which led to this [...]

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:32:49 +0000

Can one rationalize that if Asian parents didn’t pressure their kids to date and marry other Asians that interracial dating would decrease? Or would it just increase because there isn’t that same pressure?

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:32:00 +0000

By: Bertie

Bertie — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:12:43 +0000

Asian parenting pressure is pretty much the same, regardless of geography.

Anyway, I thought the episode was pretty clever and spot-on. I liked the look on Lucy Liu’s face when he said he didn’t go for Chinese girls. I’ve had guys explain to me that they’ve been pressured to date Asian and they simply got sick of being pressured. I mean, if you want another example… look at John Cho’s character in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle. He purposely avoided the Asian girl who kept following him around, indicating that ending up with someone like her was expected of him. The same theme was (sort of) covered in The Namesake w/ Kal Penn’s character from what I recall.

By: Bertie

Bertie — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:12:00 +0000

Asian parenting pressure is pretty much the same, regardless of geography.

By: Sophia

Sophia — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:08:03 +0000

Yeah. but are the “Asian-Am men that don’t date Asian” you know originally from NYC or CA or originally from a “whiter” state where their high school romances/fantasies were non-Asian?

writers for the episode:Writer: Chris Alberghini, Mike Chessler
so, not so Asian, unless they married and took their white wives’ names or were adopted.

Hmm wonder how many asian am writers there are in hollywood. perhaps Will Tiao knows?

By: Sophia

Sophia — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:08:00 +0000

Yeah. but are the “Asian-Am men that don’t date Asian” you know originally from NYC or CA or originally from a “whiter” state where their high school romances/fantasies were non-Asian?

writers for the episode:Writer: Chris Alberghini, Mike Chessler
so, not so Asian, unless they married and took their white wives’ names or were adopted.

Hmm wonder how many asian am writers there are in hollywood. perhaps Will Tiao knows?

By: Bertie

Bertie — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:56:36 +0000

Well I’m in NYC where there are also lots of Asian Ams, and the show’s based in NYC.

Honestly, I thought the writer for that particular episode may have been an Asian Am guy.