<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"
	xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
	>
<channel>
	<title>Comments on: Being Bi-racial in Beijing</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.8asians.com/2008/05/16/being-bi-racial-in-beijing/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.8asians.com/2008/05/16/being-bi-racial-in-beijing/</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:43:09 -0800</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6</generator>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
		<item>
		<title>By: ed</title>
		<link>http://www.8asians.com/2008/05/16/being-bi-racial-in-beijing/comment-page-2/#comment-123725</link>
		<dc:creator>ed</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 20:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.8asians.com/?p=1147#comment-123725</guid>
		<description>*correction 

But don’t blame it it all on asian&#039;s who do have this idea of ‘white is right’, they are merely reflecting the erroneous beliefs in mainstream society, that is constructed on social racism.

They just need a little more self esteem and education.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>*correction </p>
<p>But don’t blame it it all on asian&#8217;s who do have this idea of ‘white is right’, they are merely reflecting the erroneous beliefs in mainstream society, that is constructed on social racism.</p>
<p>They just need a little more self esteem and education.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: ed</title>
		<link>http://www.8asians.com/2008/05/16/being-bi-racial-in-beijing/comment-page-2/#comment-123722</link>
		<dc:creator>ed</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 20:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.8asians.com/?p=1147#comment-123722</guid>
		<description>I find this idea s &#039;mix kids being more beautiful&#039; carries an extreme prejudiced undertone.

We are talking about humans here and in that respect, ourselves and our parents who are asian too,

People need to be reminded that we are not cross breeding animals trying to get that mix nor are we making cocktail drinks. 

Therefore some people should be committing that error when they are looking upon children.

Children are beautiful because they are innocent and youthful. NOT because they are of mixed race.

I know many people see beautiful half models in the media but let&#039;s not be blind to the fact that they were hand picked. There is no guarantee that a person who has kids with a white person will bear  beautiful kids judged on &#039;mix race appearance&#039;. See the ignorance in that?

For that reason I think these are superficial ideas, It saddens me when asians can&#039;t see any self worth or value in their ethnicity and follow popular mainstream views that &#039;half is hot&#039;. 

But don&#039;t blame asian do have this idea of &#039;white is right&#039;, they are merely reflecting the erroneous beliefs of mainstream society that is constructed by social racism, they just a little more self esteem and education.

Some you might think I am overly critical but I&#039;ve heard these ideas many times before and I could only think of this as just another byproduct of social inequality and colonial assimilation.

Wherever this idea came from, it&#039;s definitely not something tthat originated from asian&#039;s themselves.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I find this idea s &#8216;mix kids being more beautiful&#8217; carries an extreme prejudiced undertone.</p>
<p>We are talking about humans here and in that respect, ourselves and our parents who are asian too,</p>
<p>People need to be reminded that we are not cross breeding animals trying to get that mix nor are we making cocktail drinks. </p>
<p>Therefore some people should be committing that error when they are looking upon children.</p>
<p>Children are beautiful because they are innocent and youthful. NOT because they are of mixed race.</p>
<p>I know many people see beautiful half models in the media but let&#8217;s not be blind to the fact that they were hand picked. There is no guarantee that a person who has kids with a white person will bear  beautiful kids judged on &#8216;mix race appearance&#8217;. See the ignorance in that?</p>
<p>For that reason I think these are superficial ideas, It saddens me when asians can&#8217;t see any self worth or value in their ethnicity and follow popular mainstream views that &#8216;half is hot&#8217;. </p>
<p>But don&#8217;t blame asian do have this idea of &#8216;white is right&#8217;, they are merely reflecting the erroneous beliefs of mainstream society that is constructed by social racism, they just a little more self esteem and education.</p>
<p>Some you might think I am overly critical but I&#8217;ve heard these ideas many times before and I could only think of this as just another byproduct of social inequality and colonial assimilation.</p>
<p>Wherever this idea came from, it&#8217;s definitely not something tthat originated from asian&#8217;s themselves.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: PostSecret for Asian Americans &#124; big WOWO</title>
		<link>http://www.8asians.com/2008/05/16/being-bi-racial-in-beijing/comment-page-2/#comment-123659</link>
		<dc:creator>PostSecret for Asian Americans &#124; big WOWO</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 03:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.8asians.com/?p=1147#comment-123659</guid>
		<description>[...] partner because of the supposed racial superiority of mixed genes been celebrated before by both Asian American bloggers and by famous Asian American authors.  Woohoo, you think your children are better than everyone [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] partner because of the supposed racial superiority of mixed genes been celebrated before by both Asian American bloggers and by famous Asian American authors.  Woohoo, you think your children are better than everyone [...]</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Raj</title>
		<link>http://www.8asians.com/2008/05/16/being-bi-racial-in-beijing/comment-page-2/#comment-105363</link>
		<dc:creator>Raj</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.8asians.com/?p=1147#comment-105363</guid>
		<description>Too much BS back and forth!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Too much BS back and forth!</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Makulita</title>
		<link>http://www.8asians.com/2008/05/16/being-bi-racial-in-beijing/comment-page-1/#comment-73761</link>
		<dc:creator>Makulita</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.8asians.com/?p=1147#comment-73761</guid>
		<description>Concerning Asian American politics, don&#039;t go discounting The Internets as a completely useless medium.  2 out of those 5 examples you gave are internet-based or known &lt;i&gt;because&lt;/i&gt; of the internet. Fallout specializes in &lt;i&gt;blogs&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;podcasts&lt;/i&gt;.  Would we know WongFu productions if their videos weren&#039;t virally spread through YouTube?
Organizing workshops to discuss the issues and current state of Asian American politics takes up time and money and isn&#039;t readily accessible for every activist in the country.  Doing that shit on the internet is (mostly) free and damn near instantaneous and accessible for everyone with an internet connection versus the 800 bucks for a plane ticket.

So jaewhan, think D or lopes has the time to start making feel-good mini-movies, or shucking out brand t-shirts? What about press kits? We need to start affecting the REAL WORLD, y&#039;know.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Concerning Asian American politics, don&#8217;t go discounting The Internets as a completely useless medium.  2 out of those 5 examples you gave are internet-based or known <i>because</i> of the internet. Fallout specializes in <i>blogs</i> and <i>podcasts</i>.  Would we know WongFu productions if their videos weren&#8217;t virally spread through YouTube?<br />
Organizing workshops to discuss the issues and current state of Asian American politics takes up time and money and isn&#8217;t readily accessible for every activist in the country.  Doing that shit on the internet is (mostly) free and damn near instantaneous and accessible for everyone with an internet connection versus the 800 bucks for a plane ticket.</p>
<p>So jaewhan, think D or lopes has the time to start making feel-good mini-movies, or shucking out brand t-shirts? What about press kits? We need to start affecting the REAL WORLD, y&#8217;know.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: jaehwan</title>
		<link>http://www.8asians.com/2008/05/16/being-bi-racial-in-beijing/comment-page-1/#comment-72814</link>
		<dc:creator>jaehwan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.8asians.com/?p=1147#comment-72814</guid>
		<description>The Fighting 44&#039;s is helping to bring Frank Chin, the Father of Asian American Literature, to Portland.  We will be educating people about Frank&#039;s life, and Frank will speak to children about the importance of cultural myth.  You can check out Frank&#039;s own website:

http://chintalks.blogspot.com/2008/05/hello-portland-part-1-of-2.html

If there&#039;s anything else you think we should be doing, let me know.  We may be talented debators, but we&#039;re also open to suggestions.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Fighting 44&#8217;s is helping to bring Frank Chin, the Father of Asian American Literature, to Portland.  We will be educating people about Frank&#8217;s life, and Frank will speak to children about the importance of cultural myth.  You can check out Frank&#8217;s own website:</p>
<p><a href="http://chintalks.blogspot.com/2008/05/hello-portland-part-1-of-2.html" rel="nofollow">http://chintalks.blogspot.com/2008/05/hello-portland-part-1-of-2.html</a></p>
<p>If there&#8217;s anything else you think we should be doing, let me know.  We may be talented debators, but we&#8217;re also open to suggestions.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Confuse-Us</title>
		<link>http://www.8asians.com/2008/05/16/being-bi-racial-in-beijing/comment-page-1/#comment-72734</link>
		<dc:creator>Confuse-Us</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.8asians.com/?p=1147#comment-72734</guid>
		<description>^ Surely you&#039;re not suggesting that the 44&#039;s are pompous and self-important!!??</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>^ Surely you&#8217;re not suggesting that the 44&#8217;s are pompous and self-important!!??</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Anthony</title>
		<link>http://www.8asians.com/2008/05/16/being-bi-racial-in-beijing/comment-page-1/#comment-72730</link>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.8asians.com/?p=1147#comment-72730</guid>
		<description>Anthony&#039;s two Cents; the lady in the article DOES have internalized racism against here own &quot;race&quot;(of chinese people). But even more important is the fetishsizing of white people by many (not all)Asians in Asia, they think whites are a superior human species so they treat them accordingly- its a cultural thing. They should be proud of themselves and not seek out whites or half whites to take pictures with. Just because they are half white doesnt mean they are famous, or important.

And the fighting 44s are all just full of talking debaters who dont actually do anything except talk hot air about how life is unfair-if you visit their website, youll know what i mean . Yes theres racism, yes theres racial sexism and outmarriage of asian women, but what will it accomplish by sitting around and talking on the internet?-anything? 

The posters at 44s instead of complaing so much should get up and actually DO something about it in the REAL world, like the people at fallout central, like imaginasian, like kascon, vascon, Wongfu productions,or asiatics.com 

Peace.

Anthony</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anthony&#8217;s two Cents; the lady in the article DOES have internalized racism against here own &#8220;race&#8221;(of chinese people). But even more important is the fetishsizing of white people by many (not all)Asians in Asia, they think whites are a superior human species so they treat them accordingly- its a cultural thing. They should be proud of themselves and not seek out whites or half whites to take pictures with. Just because they are half white doesnt mean they are famous, or important.</p>
<p>And the fighting 44s are all just full of talking debaters who dont actually do anything except talk hot air about how life is unfair-if you visit their website, youll know what i mean . Yes theres racism, yes theres racial sexism and outmarriage of asian women, but what will it accomplish by sitting around and talking on the internet?-anything? </p>
<p>The posters at 44s instead of complaing so much should get up and actually DO something about it in the REAL world, like the people at fallout central, like imaginasian, like kascon, vascon, Wongfu productions,or asiatics.com </p>
<p>Peace.</p>
<p>Anthony</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: ancient one</title>
		<link>http://www.8asians.com/2008/05/16/being-bi-racial-in-beijing/comment-page-1/#comment-68473</link>
		<dc:creator>ancient one</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 00:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.8asians.com/?p=1147#comment-68473</guid>
		<description>Bo rightly points out that the world is becoming &quot;multiracial&quot;.  In that context, contrast and compare the attitudes of the Chinese people to racially mixed societies like Mexico, Brazil, and the Philippines, where the people are a broad spectrum of colors.  Instead of being merely curiousities like in China, mixed race people, particularly the lighter ones, are held up as examples of beauty.  This phenomenon of &quot;colorism,&quot; prevalent also in India, really really iritates me for reasons I&#039;ll explain.   When I saw that &quot;mixed race kids are cute&quot; comment, while I don&#039;t feel there was any malice intended, it really hit home and not in a good way.  My kids are all over the map color-wise, as my daughter is darker like me while my sons could pass for being half white.  One day my daughter comes home and tells me she wishes she was half white like one of the popular girls at school.  She&#039;s also jealous that a number of girls are crazy over my light skinned son.  This is in a school that is 70% Asian American.  It&#039;s hard enough dealing with her teenager issues without having to add some left over crazy colonial attitude.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bo rightly points out that the world is becoming &#8220;multiracial&#8221;.  In that context, contrast and compare the attitudes of the Chinese people to racially mixed societies like Mexico, Brazil, and the Philippines, where the people are a broad spectrum of colors.  Instead of being merely curiousities like in China, mixed race people, particularly the lighter ones, are held up as examples of beauty.  This phenomenon of &#8220;colorism,&#8221; prevalent also in India, really really iritates me for reasons I&#8217;ll explain.   When I saw that &#8220;mixed race kids are cute&#8221; comment, while I don&#8217;t feel there was any malice intended, it really hit home and not in a good way.  My kids are all over the map color-wise, as my daughter is darker like me while my sons could pass for being half white.  One day my daughter comes home and tells me she wishes she was half white like one of the popular girls at school.  She&#8217;s also jealous that a number of girls are crazy over my light skinned son.  This is in a school that is 70% Asian American.  It&#8217;s hard enough dealing with her teenager issues without having to add some left over crazy colonial attitude.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: John</title>
		<link>http://www.8asians.com/2008/05/16/being-bi-racial-in-beijing/comment-page-1/#comment-68406</link>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 17:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.8asians.com/?p=1147#comment-68406</guid>
		<description>I was thinking about the number of people posting, not the same people posting again and again in regards to this post getting comments.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was thinking about the number of people posting, not the same people posting again and again in regards to this post getting comments.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
</channel>
</rss>
