Many folks are posting that 2018 was one of the worst years ever. But as the Buddhist saying goes, “Wisdom is like rainwater. It gathers in low places.”
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) December 31, 2018
I will look back on 2018 as the moment we began to take back our country. We rejected Trumpism and our values were reaffirmed.
George Takei On 2018...
Monday, December 31, 2018Well...2018 Was All About Being Okay With Some Things...12 Years?
Monday, December 31, 2018
I kind of knew I wouldn't make 300 posts this year - but - I am making a small run and that's good enough for me (^_^).
You do what you can in and for your communities - and yourself.
Next year I'll bring more words...hopefully xD.
At the same time if my thought was that I should have had at least 1 per day on average - or close +/- 30/40 - if I average it all up in total - it's still there.
Now that I think about it too - damn - this blog has spanned 12 years.
I never actually did think about that when I started it - where I would take it, how long would it last, and what would it mean to me, no matter what else I was doing.
Hmmm....2019...I think you'll be a good year for everyone.
From Senator Mazie Hirono Before The New Year
Monday, December 31, 2018Obviously nothing is too low or cruel for you.
— Senator Mazie Hirono (@maziehirono) December 30, 2018
A collective New Year’s wish: For the sake of our country, you can stop now. https://t.co/HEPGeutli2
Representative Judy Chu On #Tornillo
Monday, December 31, 2018The child prison camp at #Tornillo is a national tragedy. It must be shut down today. I'm proud that @SenJeffMerkley & I have introduced legislation to do just that. Children should be with loved ones, not treated as inmates https://t.co/dWiDkYjgL3
— Judy Chu (@RepJudyChu) December 20, 2018
Retro MISIA - 逢いたくていま 23rd Single + 2018 What The Karaoke
Monday, December 31, 2018
And then hear the slaying of the karaoke version.
WTK indeed.
And yes - I feel like there are some wet sandbags there but let them be wet sandbags and let the rejoicing begin.
Retro Hyuna. Lip & Hip (AKA Game Recognize Game Mode)
Monday, December 31, 2018
Not everything's a hit.
But not everything will be.
And you still have to recognize artistry and a POV.
Someone who takes chances.
Honestly There's Just Too Much. But I Can't Help It
Monday, December 31, 2018
This was one of my favorite medleys this year...I can't not post on it.
It's not his fault there's just soooo much.
2018 In Review: Because It Just Must Be. Classic Karaoke Songs Medley ft. Jessica Sanchez, Ylona Garcia, & AJ Rafael
Monday, December 31, 2018
It's just a time to listen.
I'm Still Feeling Christmassy: Ultimate LIVE Christmas Medley with Tori Kelly | AJ Rafael
Monday, December 31, 2018Historical: Rock Springs Massacre
Monday, December 31, 2018
The Rock Springs massacre, also known as the Rock Springs Riot, occurred on September 2, 1885, in the present-day United States city of Rock Springs in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. The riot, and resulting massacre of immigrant Chinese miners by white immigrant miners, was the result of racial prejudice toward the Chinese miners, who were perceived to be taking jobs from the white miners. The Union Pacific Coal Department found it economically beneficial to give preference in hiring to Chinese miners, who were willing to work for lower wages than their white counterparts, angering the white miners. When the rioting ended, at least 28 Chinese miners were dead and 15 were injured. Rioters burned 78 Chinese homes, resulting in approximately US$150,000 in property damage[1][2][3] ($4.09 million in present-day terms[4]).
Tension between whites and Chinese immigrants in the late 19th century American West was particularly high, especially in the decade preceding the violence. The massacre in Rock Springs was one among several instances of violence culminating from years of anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States. The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act suspended Chinese immigration for ten years, but not before thousands of immigrants came to the American West. Most Chinese immigrants to Wyoming Territory took jobs with the railroad at first, but many ended up employed in coal mines owned by the Union Pacific Railroad. As Chinese immigration increased, so did anti-Chinese sentiment on the part of whites. The Knights of Labor, one of the foremost voices against Chinese immigrant labor, formed a chapter in Rock Springs in 1883, and most rioters were members of that organization. However, no direct connection was ever established linking the riot to the national Knights of Labor organization.[1]
In the immediate aftermath of the riot, federal troops were deployed in Rock Springs. They escorted the surviving Chinese miners, most of whom had fled to Evanston, Wyoming, back to Rock Springs a week after the riot. Reaction came swiftly from the era's publications. In Rock Springs, the local newspaper endorsed the outcome of the riot, while in other Wyoming newspapers, support for the riot was limited to sympathy for the causes of the white miners.[2] The massacre in Rock Springs touched off a wave of anti-Chinese violence, especially in the Puget Sound area of Washington Territory.
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2018 In Review: William Yu
Monday, December 31, 2018
Of course, Asian August didn’t come out of nowhere. Asians and Asian Americans across the country and globe have been working tirelessly for years to ensure greater representation on screen. One such individual is William Yu, the Korean-American digital strategist and mastermind behind the internet phenomena known as #StarringJohnCho and #SeeAsAmStar.
Yu followed his viral campaign up this past May with #SeeAsAmStar, a collection of video clips that use controversial Deepfake technology to feature Asian-American actors John Cho, Constance Wu (star of Crazy Rich Asians), Arden Cho and Steven Yeun in popular Hollywood movies, from Captain America to Hunger Games, to deconstruct the definition of a Hollywood movie star and once again show that Asian Americans can play these roles.
FOLLOW-->.
B419 Ketchup #18: Julie J. Park, And "Test prep is a rite of passage for many Asian-Americans"
Monday, December 31, 2018As a researcher who specializes in the study of Asian-Americans and higher education, I see three factors that help explain this trend around test scores.
1. Many Asian-American students are socialized into test prep
As I document in my book, "Race on Campus," many Asian-American students get frequent messages from an early age about the importance of doing well on tests. Test prep businesses may post an "honor roll" that features local youth and their elite college destinations. Relatives may stress that good test scores matter.
These messages are powerful, as explained in the book "The Asian American Achievement Paradox." They set up high expectations for Asian-American students. Test prep becomes a way of meeting those expectations.
In many ways, these messages reflect the influence of East Asia, where college admission is decided on a single high-stakes test – such as China's gaokao or South Korea's suneung – and where intense test prep is a regular feature of teenage life. For that reason, many Asian immigrant parents see the SAT or ACT as the equivalent of Asia's admissions tests. As a result, many conclude that test prep is a worthy investment.
https://phys.org/news/2018-11-prep-rite-passage-asian-americans.html
B419 Ketchup #17: The Atlantic + 'Stereotypes of “worker bees” and “dragon ladies” are holding Asian Americans back in STEM careers'
Monday, December 31, 2018Everyone knows it.
Well - some of us xD.
Asian Americans also face bias stemming from assumptions not just about how they do act, but about how they should act. At work, white men generally have more leeway in their behavior: They can shout and scream when they’re angry; they can brag when they’ve accomplished something. For women and people of color, a narrower range of behavior is often accepted. Just as white women are, Asian Americans of all genders who behave in dominant ways tend to be disliked, according to a study by Jennifer Berdahl and Ji-A Min. As The Atlantic’s Olga Khazan writes:
The most notorious double standard is that women can’t break into important jobs unless they advocate for themselves and command respect. But they’re also reviled unless they act like chipper and self-deprecating team players, forever passing the credit along to others. Laurie Rudman, a social psychologist at Rutgers University, said the “poster woman” for this predicament is Hillary Clinton, who, according to surveys, was more popular when in office than when she was vying for office.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/asian-americans-science-math-bias/551903/
B419 Ketchup #16: Be Educated. Courses In ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES + UNIVERSITY of WISCONSIN–MADISON
Monday, December 31, 2018http://guide.wisc.edu/courses/asian_am/
ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES (ASIAN AM)
ASIAN AM 101 — INTRODUCTION TO ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
3 credits.
Introduction to the historical, sociological, anthropological, political, and cultural study of Americans of Asian ancestry. Enroll Info: None
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ASIAN AM/AFROAMER/AMER IND/CHICLA/FOLKLORE 102 — INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE US ETHNIC AND AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES
3 credits.
Introduction to comparative ethnic studies, examining race, ethnicity, and indigeneity within the United States. Includes perspectives from African American, American Indian, Asian American, and Chican@ and Latin@ studies. Enroll Info: None
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ASIAN AM/DANCE 121 — ASIAN AMERICAN MOVEMENT
3 credits.
Techniques of exercises and movement forms derived from several Asian cultures as taught in the United States. Studied in the context of the construction and expression of ethnic and cultural identity. Enroll Info: None
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ASIAN AM/ENGL 150 — LITERATURE & CULTURE OF ASIAN AMERICA
3 credits.
Since the 19th century, "America" has often been defined by its relationship with "Asia," through cultural influence, immigration, imperialism, and war. Traces the role of Asia and Asians in American literature and culture, from the Chinese and Japanese cultural influences that helped shape literary modernism to the rise of a distinctive culture produced by Asian immigrants to America and their descendants. Enroll Info: None
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ASIAN AM 152 — ASIAN AMERICAN LITERARY AND POPULAR CULTURE: RACE, FANTASY, FUTURES
3 credits.
Explores fantasy as a conduit of political meaning in Asian American fiction, graphic novels, anime, and art. Analyzes race as it circulates in visual mediums and literary texts. Engages issues such as stereotyping, caricature, and microaggressions; whitewashing, yellowface, and passing; race fetishism; cultural appropriation; multiracialism; kawaii or cute style; techno- orientalism and virtual Asians. Foregrounding fantasies of bodilessness, the course examines race as it is grafted onto nonhuman forms-objects, digital avatars, robots-at the borders of science and fiction. Examines how projections of the future reflect cultural anxieties about race, immigration, and Asian Americans. Enroll Info: None
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ASIAN AM/HISTORY 160 — ASIAN AMERICAN HISTORY: MOVEMENT AND DISLOCATION
3-4 credits.
Examines the impact of colonialism, war, and capitalism on the movement of Asians to the U.S. Considers how racial, gendered, class, sexual, and national formations within the U.S. structured Asian immigration to North America. Enroll Info: None
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ASIAN AM/HISTORY 161 — ASIAN AMERICAN HISTORY: SETTLEMENT AND NATIONAL BELONGING
3-4 credits.
Examines the social, cultural, and political citizenship of Asians in the U.S. with particular emphasis on diaspora, transnationality, and place. Enroll Info: None
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ASIAN AM 170 — HMONG AMERICAN EXPERIENCES IN THE UNITED STATES
3 credits.
Explores how Hmong's participation in the Secret War that the U.S. waged in Laos shaped their experiences in the U.S., heightening the importance of Hmong Americans' social, cultural, and political self-definition and in making known their contributions to the advancement of U.S. society. Enroll Info: None
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ASIAN AM/SOC 220 — ETHNIC MOVEMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES
3-4 credits.
Sociological analysis of historical and recent ethnic/racial conflict and movements in the U.S., including the relations between European Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans, with additional material on other groups and relations. Enroll Info: None
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ASIAN AM 240 — TOPICS IN ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
3 credits.
An examination of specific themes in Asian American life and culture. Topics may include comparative analyses of Asian American communities, Asian American experience and history, and the specific concerns and histories of Asian groups in the U.S., such as Korean, Hmong, South Asian, Southeast Asian, Chinese, and Japanese. Enroll Info: None
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ASIAN AM/HISTORY/LCA 246 — SOUTHEAST ASIAN REFUGEES OF THE "COLD" WAR
4 credits.
In-depth study of the peoples, conflicts, and wars in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, with emphasis on the Cold War ear (1945-1990) and on the resulting migration and resettlement of over one million Hmong, Khmer, Lao, and Vietnamese in the United States. Enroll Info: None
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ASIAN AM/ENGL 270 — A SURVEY OF ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
3 credits.
Survey of Asian American literature from 1880 to present. Enroll Info: None
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ASIAN AM/E A STDS/HISTORY 276 — CHINESE MIGRATIONS SINCE 1500
3-4 credits.
Introduces the comparative history of Chinese migrations to the U.S. and world. Examines patterns of movement; imagined communities through cultural identity, citizenship, queerness, heritage tourism, studying abroad, and transnational adoption; as well as sites of cultural production such as food, literature, architecture, and cinema. Enroll Info: Sophomore standing or consent of instructor
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ASIAN AM/COM ARTS 420 — ASIAN AMERICANS AND MEDIA
3 credits.
Examines representations of Asian American in American media using historical, analytical, and critical approaches. Issues of cultural production, identity, race, politics, and gender are linked to examinations of specific media forms. Enroll Info: COM ARTS/CHICLA 347 or So st
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ASIAN AM 440 — SPECIAL TOPICS IN THE ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM
3 credits.
Topics vary for this course. Please see Asian American website for description for the semester you are taking the course. Topics will have some content about Asian Americans of different ethnic groups (e.g, Hmong, Southeast Asian, East Asian Americans -Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Indian, etc.). THIS COURSE DOES NOT PROVIDE ETHNIC STUDIES CREDIT. THIS COURSE MAY INCLUDE SERVICE LEARNING OR COMMUNITY BASED FIELD STUDIES ACTIVITIES. Enroll Info: None
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ASIAN AM/AFROAMER 443 — MUTUAL PERCEPTIONS OF RACIAL MINORITIES
3 credits.
Survey course on the mutual perceptions of primarily people of African and Asian ancestry. It focuses on how these groups evaluate perceive and interact with one another and others such as Native Americans, whites and Hispanics. Social psychological perspectives are highlighted as is an international overview. Enroll Info: Afro-Amer 151 or 673
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ASIAN AM/ENGL 462 — TOPIC IN ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
3 credits.
Topics will vary. All topics will emphasize the following learning outcomes: awareness of history's impact on the present, ability to recognize and question assumptions, development of critical thinking skills, awareness of relations between self and others, and effective participation in a multicultural society. Enroll Info: None
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ASIAN AM/ENGL/GEN&WS 463 — RACE AND SEXUALITY IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
3 credits.
Explores the intersection between race and sexuality in American literature with an emphasis on sex/gender difference, feminism, transgenderism, and nationalism. Focuses on the nature of literature as advocacy, with an emphasis on Asian-American issues. Enroll Info: None
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ASIAN AM/ENGL/GEN&WS 464 — ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS
3 credits.
Major texts by Asian American women writers. Enroll Info: None
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ASIAN AM/ENGL 465 — ASIAN AMERICAN POETRY
3 credits.
Throughout the history of Asian America, poetry has been a vehicle for the creation and exploration of an Asian American voice; in poetry we can see the continuing struggle over what form Asian American expression will take. Will it follow Asian or European models? Will it employ traditional forms, or experiment in search of new styles? Will it be individual or collective, introspective or political? We will explore these questions through a study of a wide range of Asian American poets from a variety of historical periods and ethnicities, including Janice Mirikitani, Lawson Fusao Inada, Li-Young Lee, John Yau, Myung Mi Kim, and Linh Dinh. Enroll Info: None
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ASIAN AM 540 — SPECIAL TOPICS
3 credits.
Themes in Asian American Studies. Topics may include activism, public policy, history, poverty, family, law, immigration, diaspora, refugeeism, gender, sexuality. Enroll Info: None
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ASIAN AM 560 — HUMANITIES TOPICS
3 credits.
Topics in the arts and humanities that illuminate the Asian American experience. Enroll Info: None
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ASIAN AM/JOURN 662 — MASS MEDIA AND MINORITIES
4 credits.
Representations of minority groups in U.S. news and entertainment mass media. Historical, social, political, economic, and other factors influencing the mass mediated depictions of minorities. Enroll Info: None
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ASIAN AM 699 — INDEPENDENT STUDY: DIRECTED READINGS IN ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
1-4 credits.
An independent studies course to allow students at an advanced level to pursue individual projects/subjects. Enroll Info: 9 cr in Asian American studies
B419 Ketchup #13: 빅 포니 Big Phony - "Ready Or Not (FYKE Remix)"'
Monday, December 31, 2018
One of my favorite tracks off the album.
2018 In Review: Always Be My Maybe (AKA Looking Forward?)
Monday, December 31, 2018
You might be thinking that this should be in a 2019 (Year) In Review post, but that would be impossible because that hasn't happened yet, and even if it weren't impossible, it still wouldn't be the right answer.
Because it was filmed in 2018...
Teased in 2018...
Without 2018 - there would be no Ali Wong and Randall Park or DDK and Keanu to look forward to in 2019.
And I'm absolutely looking forward to this.
B419 Ketchup #12: More Representative Mark Takano
Monday, December 31, 2018We can ensure that every veteran can access their benefits and get the quality care they need by:
— Mark Takano (@RepMarkTakano) September 25, 2018
✔️ Fighting against VA privatization
✔️ Holding predatory for-profit colleges accountable
✔️ Filling VA employee vacancies
✔️ Creating a VA that works for every veteran pic.twitter.com/570jqMchCJ
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