Posts by Rob
Rob is 24 and lives in New York City. He enjoys adventuring, discovering more about himself and the world around him, and connecting with other people.
Raising Your Kid: Problems with the “Raymond Zheng” Approach to Education
Recently John posted about Raymond Zheng, a precocious 14 year old college freshman. Although I know nothing about Raymond beyond the video that John sent out, I’d like to use him as a starting point to explore a topic that I find fascinating: education philosophy, or in plainer terms, how to raise your kid. Now, I should start by disclosing that I do not have any children of my own, as I’m 24 and spend [...] Continue »
What Yao Ming Not Dunking Tells Us About Asian Culture
As a diehard hoops fan, I was extremely excited when Yao Ming first entered the NBA. Not only did it mark the emergence of a new and potentially great basketball talent, it also thrust an Asian male into the media spotlight and broke barriers in a sport that Asians have not traditionally been good at (yes, I know that Wang Zhizhi got there first, but his play wasn’t really something you could brag about). And [...] Continue »
Asians Can Be Just As Racist Too!
There seems to be a lot of discussion within the Asian American community about acts of racism against Asians, but very little about Asians acting racist themselves. It occurs frequently and seems to me to be a real problem. For example: the other day I was at a dinner party with a group of Asians, most of whom were in their 40s and 50s. At some point my friend’s parents began discussing her boyfriend with [...] Continue »
“Why am I the Coolest Asian You Know?”
This weekend I went to Hoboken for their St. Patrick’s Day Parade. St. Patrick’s Day in Hoboken is basically an excuse for everyone to get very drunk and celebrate in public; its telling that when someone asked my Irish Catholic friends and I who St. Patrick was, none of us had any idea, so I answered, “I think him and Jesus were best friends or something.” It was a lot of fun. As my friends [...] Continue »
On Stereotypes, Assimilation and a Manhattan Bar called Park
Recently I met some friends at a bar called Park, located in downtown Manhattan. Park is one of these trendy, well decorated bar/lounges that have sprung up all across NYC and cater mostly to a young professional/hipster crowd. Like other such places, Park contains its share of unusual artistic flourishes (a bamboo grove sits in the center of the space), overpriced drinks, and attractive people. It would be an utterly generic bar but for one [...] Continue »
Asians Playing Non-Asian Roles: The National Asian American Theater Company
Recently my friend took me to a performance by the National Asian American Theater Company. The group puts on shows that are “not for or about Asian Americans, but realized with an all Asian American cast”. We went to see Leah’s Train, which is about three generations of Russian Jewish women dealing with intergenerational family issues. Needless to say, there were no other 24 year old males in the audience. Because this isn’t a review, [...] Continue »
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