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: 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: 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: 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.

By: Sophia

Sophia — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:53:55 +0000

Hmm. Well I have never met such a man but perhaps that is b/c I come from CA where we have lots of Asian-Ams? But to portray that as quite common and an insider Asian thing, as they do on the show… perhaps that gives out the wrong message, or maybe it opens doors for Asian Am men and women to date non-Asian Am men/women who see the show…

By: Bertie

Bertie — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:28:42 +0000

Sophia, that’s sarcasm right? I know a few Asian American men who don’t date Asian American women.

By: Sophia

Sophia — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:00:53 +0000

hmm. I think Robert has got something there! perhaps the Asian man who only dates non-Asian is a myth and the Asian-Am men should write in to the white men who wrote that episode? perhaps we can encourage them to have some Asian-Am writers if they don’t already?

By: jozjozjoz

jozjozjoz — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:42:21 +0000

A little late on this, but *ROWR* for Jack Yang. I nominate him for our Top 8 Sexiest Asian Men list this year!

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:20:53 +0000

I also find it extremely odd that they chose to make the Asian man in the situation as the one that doesn’t date Asian. I have honestly never heard of this coming out of any Asian man’s mouth but have many Asian women who hold this mentality.