Confession: Asian chicks are hot
Posted by Anupa in Contests, Music, Race on 12. Jan, 2011 | 1 Comment
There’s this chick named Caitlin who sits on the other side of the cube from me at work, so I totally hope I wouldn’t weird her out with this revelatory post title (she is Asian as well). But it’s not what you think and this post is way less sexual than the title implies (sorry [...]
Yale professor sets Chinese parenting back a decade
Posted by Simon in media, Race on 09. Jan, 2011 | 2 Comments
Apparently Macleans doesn’t have a monopoly on Asiancentric racially insensitive writings. Check out this op-ed piece from today’s Wall Street Journal written by Yale professor Amy Chua titled “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior”. Unsurprisingly, the article (which espouses and celebrates the stereotypically strict parenting strategies that led to TOO MANY ASIANS IN UNIVERSITY) rationally defends [...]
Ask a Filipino person
Posted by Jef in Race on 23. Dec, 2010 | 8 Comments
We here at the Ashcan are a multi-ethnic motley crew. Think of us as the Captain Planet of blogs, with disparate elements from far-reaching corners of the world coming together to form a heroic, mullet topped defender of environmental justice. We’ve been taking advantage of our non-mandated diversity to ask each other stupid questions about [...]
Ask an Indian person
Posted by Anupa in Curiosities, Race on 15. Dec, 2010 | 3 Comments
Fact one: we here at the Ashcan are a multi-ethnic motley crew. Think of us as the Captain Planet of blogs, with disparate elements from far-reaching corners of the world coming together to form a heroic, mullet-topped defender of environmental justice (AND BLOGGING). Fact two: Chances are you know a brown person but may be [...]
Ask a Chinese person
Posted by Simon in Curiosities, Race on 08. Dec, 2010 | 12 Comments
Fact one: we here at the Ashcan are a multi-ethnic motley crew. Think of us as the Captain Planet of blogs, with disparate elements from far-reaching corners of the world coming together to form a heroic, mullet topped defender of environmental justice. Fact two: I am bad at analogies. But the part about us being [...]
