﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>kyungjunyo's Xanga</title><link>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/</link><description>Latest Xanga weblog from kyungjunyo</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>60</ttl><image><title>The Weblog Community</title><url>http://s.xanga.com/images/xangalogobutton.gif</url><link>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/</link></image><item><title>Virginia Tech</title><link>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/653190594/virginia-tech/</link><guid>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/653190594/virginia-tech/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:05:12 GMT</pubDate><description>I'm a few days late, but I'm reminded of the massacre that took place at Virginia Tech about a year ago, after which members of the Korean community called upon us to &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/19/wkorea119.xml" target="_new"&gt;fast in repentance&lt;/a&gt; for Cho's crimes.&amp;nbsp; What they should have said was, get over it, you killed millions in the Korean War, and we're supposed to be ashamed over this?&amp;nbsp; This goes back to what I said before about cowardice.&amp;nbsp; Contrast us to blacks, who would never imagine taking any group responsibility for the various interracial rapes, robberies, and homicides that their brothers and sisters commit on a day-to-day basis.&amp;nbsp; If South Korea and the Korean American community were run by real men, they wouldn't have shed a tear over this incident.&lt;br&gt;</description><comments>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/653190594/virginia-tech/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>This is the worst class of Presidential candidates in history</title><link>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/632434410/this-is-the-worst-class-of-presidential-candidates-in-history/</link><guid>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/632434410/this-is-the-worst-class-of-presidential-candidates-in-history/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:32:29 GMT</pubDate><description>Huckabee -- supports illegal immigrants, fat, has even fatter children&lt;br&gt;Thompson -- got Asian wife?&amp;nbsp; You'll like &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/fashion/08JERI.html?_r=1&amp;amp;oref=slogin" target="_new"&gt;this guy&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;br&gt;Romney -- Mormon&lt;br&gt;Guiliani -- known adulterer&lt;br&gt;Tancredo -- He &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Cc8t3Zd5E" target="_new"&gt;dun believe&lt;/a&gt; in ev'lution&lt;br&gt;McCain -- fat, ugly, pro-war, says he has great respect for the Vietnamese people and then uses racial slurs against them&lt;br&gt;Obama - mulatto drug dealer&lt;br&gt;Clinton - feminist, lesbian&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; These scum are presidential material?&amp;nbsp; I'd rather have Bush for another term than any of these.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ron Paul won't be able to implement all he believes in, but he's worth a try.&amp;nbsp; He is the only viable candidate, in any case.&amp;nbsp; If the American public really wants an adulterer, a crackhead, a creationist, or a lesbian to be their leader, then the present generation is simply beyond hope.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;  </description><comments>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/632434410/this-is-the-worst-class-of-presidential-candidates-in-history/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>Can we get any more pitiful?</title><link>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/630249918/can-we-get-any-more-pitiful/</link><guid>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/630249918/can-we-get-any-more-pitiful/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:15:12 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;a target="_new" href="http://timescorrespondents.typepad.com/charles_bremner/2007/11/sarkos-would-de.html"&gt;http://timescorrespondents.typepad.com/charles_bremner/2007/11/sarkos-would-de.html&lt;/a&gt;</description><comments>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/630249918/can-we-get-any-more-pitiful/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>Asiance Magazine</title><link>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/627849720/asiance-magazine/</link><guid>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/627849720/asiance-magazine/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 05:57:34 GMT</pubDate><description>About the only interesting part of this online &lt;a href="http://asiancemagazine.com/" target="_new"&gt;mag&lt;/a&gt; is when the writers talk about fucking white men in the Sex &amp;amp; Dating section.&amp;nbsp; </description><comments>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/627849720/asiance-magazine/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>The cowardice of the average Asian male</title><link>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/627846738/the-cowardice-of-the-average-asian-male/</link><guid>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/627846738/the-cowardice-of-the-average-asian-male/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 05:21:54 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;span style="font-family: Courier;"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;Every Asian female flaw has a counterpart in Asian males.&amp;nbsp; The Asian female's need to seek out white males and the Asian male's failure to end the problem come from the same underlying weakness.&amp;nbsp; I like &lt;a href="http://asianweek.com/2000_02_03/feature_asianmale.html" target="_new"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; old feature from Asian Week, especially these two quotes:&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Times New Roman;" size="3"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;“Asian males are not portrayed as masculine, whereas Asian females are stereotyped as submissive, exotic." &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;“In the first round, there were a lot of Asian males. White males would
prefer hiring and working with Asian females over Asian males.”&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Courier;"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;100% right, but it misses the crux of the problem!&amp;nbsp; Expecting white media and business to change is expecting a dog not to eat its feces.&amp;nbsp; It's simply fundamental for a powerful group of males to seek out the most attractive females from weaker groups, and to facilitate it by excluding their males from positions of power.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;We have to take the initiative by ignoring popular media and by starting businesses bigger than the local Chinese fast food joint.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;Now, about Asians in Asia.&amp;nbsp; If there isn't a single man among the billions who will step up and deal with these people the way they need to be dealt with, then it may be best to just write the place off entirely.&amp;nbsp; As anyone who's been there will tell you, the major cities are already teeming with interracial relationships.&amp;nbsp; Asia will always be our stronghold, just because there are so many of us there, but the sheer nastiness of what's happening there will keep me away for the rest of my life.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><comments>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/627846738/the-cowardice-of-the-average-asian-male/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>The fairy tale of Eurasian beauty</title><link>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/579347312/the-fairy-tale-of-eurasian-beauty/</link><guid>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/579347312/the-fairy-tale-of-eurasian-beauty/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:11:38 GMT</pubDate><description>Why are Eurasian women less attractive?&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;(1) Eurasian women have less attractive faces than Asian women&lt;br&gt;(2) Eurasian women have less attractive bodies, and less sex appeal, than either Asian or European women (though the Asian and European women's figures are attractive for very different reasons)&lt;br&gt;(3) Eurasian women are less youthful and feminine than Asian women&lt;br&gt;(4) There is no characteristic in  which they exceed all others, even exoticism (Asian-black mixes are much more unusual and exotic, in my view).&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Let's illustrate with Kristin Kreuk and Maggie Q, both of whom are often touted as prime examples of Eurasian beauty.&amp;nbsp; Of course, neither of them are unattractive in an absolute sense (Maggie Q is close), but they can serve to illustrate at least the first of the above points.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Maggie Q, Eurasian:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://photo.xanga.com/kyungjunyo/e7f3a113645707/photo.html"&gt;&lt;img title="mq7" style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px; width: 196px; height: 260px;" src="http://xe7.xanga.com/f3ad2aead1230113645707/z81173270.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://photo.xanga.com/kyungjunyo/fb9c3113645647/photo.html"&gt;&lt;img title="mq4" style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px; width: 313px; height: 258px;" src="http://xfb.xanga.com/9c38032108700113645647/z14531873.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://photo.xanga.com/kyungjunyo/233ec113645646/photo.html"&gt;&lt;img title="mq3" style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px; width: 186px; height: 276px;" src="http://x23.xanga.com/3ecd56e0d7033113645646/z81173219.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;An oddly-shaped, dull-looking face.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Kristin Kreuk, Eurasian:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://photo.xanga.com/kyungjunyo/dcca6113648450/photo.html"&gt;&lt;img title="kk4" style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px; width: 376px; height: 282px;" src="http://xdc.xanga.com/ca6815e744020113648450/z16318480.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://photo.xanga.com/kyungjunyo/1c04a113648497/photo.html"&gt;&lt;img title="kk6" style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px; width: 194px; height: 187px;" src="http://x1c.xanga.com/04ac750242534113648497/z71898725.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Creepily simian-like.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Now, a few Asian women who aren't even big stars, but who are far, far more beautiful than what's shown above. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Kim Kyu Ree:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://photo.xanga.com/kyungjunyo/c5a0d116073334/photo.html"&gt;&lt;img title="nfw1" style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px;" src="http://xc5.xanga.com/a0d8346439578116073334/z83150231.jpg" height="400"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Song Yun-ah:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://photo.xanga.com/kyungjunyo/7d874116073879/photo.html"&gt;&lt;img title="nfw1" style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px;" src="http://x7d.xanga.com/874f475278c32116073879/z64154238.jpg" height="210"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Brenda Song:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://photo.xanga.com/kyungjunyo/9cbb789833803/photo.html"&gt;&lt;img title="bs1" style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px;" src="http://x9c.xanga.com/bb70371b3423389833803/z10144536.jpg" height="357"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Yui Shinada:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://photo.xanga.com/kyungjunyo/cec02116073839/photo.html"&gt;&lt;img title="nfw2" style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px;" src="http://xce.xanga.com/c02d415716633116073839/z83150624.jpg" height="400"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Ha Ji-won:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://photo.xanga.com/kyungjunyo/a91d1116074603/photo.html"&gt;&lt;img title="nfw3" style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px;" src="http://xa9.xanga.com/1d183664c2518116074603/z83151202.jpg" height="224"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Choi Jin-shil (38, and still much better-looking than the Eurasian "beauties" shown above):&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://photo.xanga.com/kyungjunyo/42239118153725/photo.html"&gt;&lt;img title="SYA018" style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px;" src="http://x42.xanga.com/239d416b26233118153725/z84856206.jpg" height="400"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Asian males would do well to understand the broader context of this discussion, rather than to simply run about glorifying their women.&amp;nbsp; Below-replacement fertility rates and sky-high interracial marriage rates mean fewer and fewer beautiful Asian women, and fewer Asian people in general, in future generations.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt; </description><comments>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/579347312/the-fairy-tale-of-eurasian-beauty/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>What does the Virginia Tech shooting mean for the Asian community?</title><link>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/584573775/what-does-the-virginia-tech-shooting-mean-for-the-asian-community/</link><guid>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/584573775/what-does-the-virginia-tech-shooting-mean-for-the-asian-community/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:16:23 GMT</pubDate><description>We already know the negative effects on our community -- shame, damaged reputation, and probable backlash.&amp;nbsp; But could any good come of it?&amp;nbsp; Will it reduce immigration to the United States?&amp;nbsp; Will it reduce race-mixing?&amp;nbsp; Will it somehow "enhance" the image of Asian males, by making them appear more masculine?&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I think the answer to all three questions is no.&amp;nbsp; First, immigration to the US from Asia is a long-term trend produced by powerful incentives, and any decline in immigration from South Korea or other Asian nations is likely to be transient.&amp;nbsp; Second, this incident will &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;increase&lt;/span&gt; race-mixing, not reduce it.&amp;nbsp; Asian males and Asian females have already been separated to an enormous degree, and this incident will only widen that gap, so that many Asian females will now be hesitant to form any relationship with an Asian male, and many Asian females already in relationships with Asian males will have a considerable amount of shame -- in some cases enough to create tensions that lead to breakdown of the relationship.&amp;nbsp; Third, this incident will damage the image of Asian males, not enhance it.&amp;nbsp; What really draws women to "dangerous" men is not the violent crimes they may or may not commit, but their underlying masculinity and aggressiveness.&amp;nbsp; Many women do view the carnage of say, the LA riots, as "heroic," but nobody finds anything attractive about events such as &lt;a href="http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=5930690" target="_new"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, and neither will they find anything attractive about the shootings at Virginia Tech.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As to the actual events at VT, it looks like there's all sorts of nastiness at play here.&amp;nbsp; This is mere speculation, but I'm guessing that the black male who was killed in the first shooting was either the boyfriend or the new boyfriend of the girl who was killed here, and that the girl (who was white) was either the former girlfriend or the obsession of the shooter.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This entire incident reminds me of what I've said repeatedly, which is that violence is NOT a rational option for a minority group with no power locally or globally.&amp;nbsp; Of course, the shooter didn't have a good reason for doing what he did anyway, but the incident still illustrates what happens when you mess with the big guns and the big media.</description><comments>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/584573775/what-does-the-virginia-tech-shooting-mean-for-the-asian-community/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>Yahoo! article: "But if Jews don't marry other Jews, then there won't be any Jews left."</title><link>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/583998505/yahoo-article-but-if-jews-dont-marry-other-jews-then-there-wont-be-any-jews-left/</link><guid>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/583998505/yahoo-article-but-if-jews-dont-marry-other-jews-then-there-wont-be-any-jews-left/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2007 04:07:11 GMT</pubDate><description>Shmuley Boteach &lt;a href="http://personals.yahoo.com/us/static/relationships_jewish-catholic-beliefnet" target="_new"&gt;advises&lt;/a&gt; Jewish man with Catholic woman to marry Jewish woman instead.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Quotes from Shmuley, with what an Asian female version of Shmuley might say in brackets:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 40px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Simply stated, there is no easy way to introduce your mother to your
non-Jewish girlfriend, because doing so will confirm to your mother her
failure in instilling within you a desire to make Jewish choices in
life, to build a Jewish home, and to raise Jewish children."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[Simply stated, there is no easy way to introduce your father to your non-Asian boyfriend, because doing so will confirm to your father his failure in instilling within you a desire to make Asian choices in life, to build an Asian home, and to raise Asian children].&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"But if Jews don't marry other Jews, then there won't be any Jews left."&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;[But if Asians don't marry other Asians, then there won't be any Asians left].&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"I often ask Jewish men to think of the many Jewish women who need Jewish husbands."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[I often ask Asian women to think of the many Asian men who need Asian wives].&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"With so few Jewish men available to Jewish women anyway -- Jewish men
marry outside the faith at twice the rate of Jewish women -- every time
a Jewish man dates or marries a non-Jewish woman, it leaves another
Jewish woman who will never find a Jewish husband."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[With so few Asian women available to Asian men anyway -- Asian women marry outside their race at three times the rate of Asian men -- every time an Asian woman dates or marries a non-Asian man, it leaves another Asian man who will never find an Asian wife].&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"So you may ask, to paraphrase the Beatles, "all those lonely (Jewish)
people, where do they all come?" Well, a lot of them come from the
paucity of Jewish spouses left because of high incidents of
intermarriage."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;[So you may ask, to paraphrase the Beatles, "all those lonely (Asian) people, where do they all come?"&amp;nbsp; Well, a lot of them come from the pacity of Asian spouses left because of high incidents of intermarriage].&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Four comments: &lt;br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;There are no Asian female Shmuleys.&amp;nbsp; The gender disparities for Jewish males/females, black males/females, and Asian females/males are all similar, but while many Jewish and black males steadfastly oppose intermarriage, there are few if any Asian females who oppose it in principle, even if they do not partake of it themselves.&amp;nbsp; The difference is that for Jews and blacks, the males have the advantage.&amp;nbsp; There will always be independent-thinking, egotistical males who recognize the importance of their communities and who are willing to fight for them.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Shmuley Boteach is a radio and TV host, and author.&amp;nbsp; Can anyone think of an Asian-American politician, novelist, journalist, professor, entertainer, sports star, etc, who has &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ever&lt;/span&gt; espoused views similar to these?&amp;nbsp; Forget about the women; can we even find an Asian &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;man&lt;/span&gt; who will stand up for his people?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;What would happen if an Asian man or woman actually did defend the Asian community?&amp;nbsp; Shmuley is linked from the Yahoo! home page, and has his own television and radio shows.&amp;nbsp; The Wikipedia &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmuley_Boteach" target="_new"&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; on Shmuley makes no mention of his views on intermarriage.&amp;nbsp; With his intolerant, hateful views, shouldn't Shmuley have been ostracized long ago?&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Race is much deeper and more important than religion.&amp;nbsp; Of course, being Jewish is &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;not&lt;/span&gt; just about adopting the Jewish religion, as Shmuley suggests in his article.&amp;nbsp; Jews are an ethnicity, at least.&amp;nbsp; But my point is that if it is acceptable to defend the preservation of a religion, it should certainly be acceptable to defend the preservation of a race.&amp;nbsp; With race comes shared culture, shared language, shared history, shared ancestral origin, shared physical features and personality traits -- everything, basically.&amp;nbsp; Wide variation does exist within races -- and that's a good thing -- but variation between races is significant as well (in some categories more than others), and every race is absolutely unique and distinct, and worthy of survival.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</description><comments>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/583998505/yahoo-article-but-if-jews-dont-marry-other-jews-then-there-wont-be-any-jews-left/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>Searches that brought people to this website</title><link>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/583645962/searches-that-brought-people-to-this-website/</link><guid>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/583645962/searches-that-brought-people-to-this-website/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:33:42 GMT</pubDate><description>Here's a sampling from the past few days: &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;bbbj &amp;amp; Cleveland&lt;br&gt;sun spa warren (3 times)&lt;br&gt;table shower ts&lt;br&gt;asian massage in warren, oh&lt;br&gt;asian massage parlor west&lt;br&gt;Sun Massage Parlor, Warre&lt;br&gt;youngstown massage parlors&lt;br&gt;bbbj and pr&lt;br&gt;"sun spa" warren oh&lt;br&gt;"table shower" massage experience&lt;br&gt;massage parlor she started rubbing my cock&lt;br&gt;"tokyo spa" warren ohio&lt;br&gt;prostate massage wv&lt;br&gt;</description><comments>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/583645962/searches-that-brought-people-to-this-website/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>The scale of sophistication and attractiveness</title><link>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/582987657/the-scale-of-sophistication-and-attractiveness/</link><guid>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/582987657/the-scale-of-sophistication-and-attractiveness/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:21:06 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"&gt;I stumbled across an
outstanding &lt;a href="http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/issue4/karen.html" target="_new"&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with a 29-year-old "professional woman"
in Japan,
on the subject of Japanese women's yearning for white men.&amp;nbsp; The
interviewer cautions that, "her words should not be taken as
representative of all Japanese women who study abroad or who date foreign
men," but what she says is in fact very representative, in my view.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
First, she bluntly depicts the way of the world:&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if !vml]--&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://photo.xanga.com/kyungjunyo/bea24116695700/photo.html"&gt;&lt;img title="scale2" style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px;" src="http://xbe.xanga.com/a24d412b53433116695700/z83667049.jpg" height="370"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;Isn't it fascinating that what this woman said in 1993 almost exactly correlates with what "Andrew Milner" said in 2007 on the &lt;a href="http://timesonline.typepad.com/times_tokyo_weblog/2007/02/ill_keep_this_b.html" target="_new"&gt;Asia Exile&lt;/a&gt; blog?&amp;nbsp; Is it paranoid to believe that they might be right?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"&gt;Take
a look at the blue and red horizontal lines on the right side of the
diagram.&amp;nbsp; The blue line is the "average" Japanese woman today.&amp;nbsp; The red
line is the average Japanese woman tomorrow, after all the
sophisticated, attractive, talented Japanese women marry noble,
dignified Western &lt;a href="http://www.xanga.com/kyungjunyo/537933572/this-is-how-bad-it-is.html" target="_new"&gt;gentlemen&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"&gt;Let's
make another observation.&amp;nbsp; The gray box in the bottom-left corner
represents what Japanese men are bringing into Japan.&amp;nbsp; The gray box in
the upper-right corner represents what noble, dignified Western
gentlemen are &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;removing&lt;/span&gt; from Japan, and bringing into their home countries.&amp;nbsp; See &lt;a href="http://www.stippy.com/japan-culture/leaving-japan/#comments" target="_new"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;
blog entry.&amp;nbsp; By and large, it's not a matter of Westerners assimialting
into Japanese society, it's Westerners entering Japanese society,
taking what they want, and then returning to their own societies.&amp;nbsp; Good
blood leaves Japan, bad blood enters Japan.&amp;nbsp; Same phenomenon in South
Korea. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"&gt;
On the role that status and power play in Japanese women's &lt;i&gt;akogare&lt;/i&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul type="disc"&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;"But then there's one
     more thing. The reason that intelligent women have &lt;i&gt;akogare&lt;/i&gt; for
     white men is that they know, well, to be perfectly honest, that
     Euro-American society is much more mature in terms of human relations that
     Japan. And they want to get inside that mature society. If you can find a
     white husband, you can get into that society so easily. They have a desire
     to climb up in society, to rise up in the world (&lt;i&gt;josho shiko&lt;/i&gt;). They
     have a 'Success Dream' [English]. You know, the 'American Dream!' And of
     course, as a country, in terms of lifestyle, America
     has so many things that Japan
     lacks. Culture ... well, Europe has culture, but America
     has power. And it's easy to live in. So assuming you want a green card,
     marriage is the easiest way, right? It's somehow attractive (&lt;i&gt;miryokuteki&lt;/i&gt;).
     So I wonder if that isn't why?"&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;



&lt;ul type="disc"&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;"But there's another
     thing. I don't know if American women feel this way or not, but in Japan
     there is the story of &lt;i&gt;Tamanokoshi&lt;/i&gt; - the 'Cinderella story,' right?
     A rich, handsome, hard-working, upper class man takes you as his wife, and
     you become Cinderella, you rise up in the world. That's always been a
     woman's best way to raise her social standing. Maybe now it's a little
     different, but until not too long ago, that was the only way. Girls were
     supposed to be cute, quiet and obedient, and good at housekeeping and
     cooking, that's all. So almost all Japanese women have this hope that
     someday a prince (&lt;i&gt;ojisama&lt;/i&gt;) will come and take you away to live in a
     castle. And Japan has
     gradually become wealthy, and so if you get tired of it here, you look for
     a better place - naturally, Europe or America - the upper classes.
     Because the upper classes are the most conspicuous."&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;"I don't know if it
     would be useful for you, but there's a phenomenon recently in Japan for
     highly educated, successful career women to marry Japanese men much older
     than themselves. Fifteen or twenty years older. Like their father. Those
     women are increasing. It's similar to seeing a foreigner, in that you want
     to be with someone &lt;u&gt;better&lt;/u&gt; than you, someone higher up, more
     impressive than yourself. Someone who will teach you and protect you, and
     take care of you. Someone who is strong. Men of the same generation can't
     keep up with the women who have brought themselves up to a new level. So
     they go for a much older Japanese or a Westerner. If they don't, the women
     can't respect or trust them. So definitely, men are lagging behind. Women
     have progressed."&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;ul type="disc"&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;"And Western women might
     not have that sense of dependency. But Japanese women want to be kind of
     enveloped in something big and safe. They want to be protected by a big and
     strong man. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;They don't want an equal relationship, or a partnership&lt;/span&gt;, but
     rather to be held and protected by a big man. And in the past, Japanese
     men were bigger than women, but now men have shrunk. They're small, maybe
     even smaller than women. So women are dissatisfied."&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;This touches on another myth perpetuated by whites both here and in Japan: that Japanese women are seeking "modern," "enlightened" men.&amp;nbsp; In truth, most of them are attracted to status and power.&amp;nbsp; They may claim to believe in gender equality, but their behavior doesn't show it.&amp;nbsp; It's the same way for Asian women in general, in the USA.&amp;nbsp; They're looking for father figures and protectors, not equal partners.&amp;nbsp; Any equal partnerships that do exist tend to be between Asian males and Asian females, or Asian males and white females -- not that I condone the latter.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The myth makes it appear that Asian men simply have to change their attitudes, at which point the problem will fade away.&amp;nbsp; For whites to acknowledge that the real cause is the status and power gap would open the question of whether this gap is due to "historical racism and prejudice," as is asserted for other minorities, thereby putting the entire foundation of these relationships on a questionable moral basis.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"&gt;On the influence of Western
media:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Interviewer:&lt;/b&gt; My informants tell
me that when they imagine that 'prince' he's always white, not Japanese. They
say that's from the influence of American movies and TV. &lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mitsuko:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt; &lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;Right. When I was small, I don't know if this was MacArthur's [Douglas
MacArthur, Supreme Commander of the Allied Occupation of Japan] fault or not,
but all the fairy tales and children's books and stories that I read were
European and American!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 40px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Interviewer:&lt;/b&gt; When you were twenty-two
or twenty-three, did you have more &lt;i&gt;akogare&lt;/i&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mitsuko:&lt;/b&gt; It was very strong for a
period. Your husband [who is Japanese] can probably tell you too, but for a
long time, even when I was young, U.S. T.V. shows were shown on Japanese television,
like &lt;i&gt;The Lucy Show&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Father Knows Best&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Be&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;witched&lt;/i&gt; ... and
Japanese watched those and were astounded. The reason was, that at that time, a
family of five or six people had to live in one or two tiny rooms, and there
was no privacy at all, and no luxuries (&lt;i&gt;hanayakasa&lt;/i&gt;) like celebrating
Christmas with a big cake and gifts, or mom and dad going out for their
anniversary. There was love in the Japanese sense, of course, but still those
things on television came as an enormous shock to Japanese, and became the
object of &lt;i&gt;akogare&lt;/i&gt;. I think that is still with us. The idea of a family
in the U.S. is to live in a big white house with a great big yard in front,
with a spacious entry, and pictures of the family all over, and there's a big
cake or pie that Mom just baked, and lots of ice cream, and homemade jelly. And
at Christmas the family decorates the tree together...that kind of image of
abundance (&lt;i&gt;yutakasa&lt;/i&gt;). An image of big, really big love (&lt;i&gt;aijo&lt;/i&gt;). So
the feeling that you want to be inside that; that you want to be one of those
people, that &lt;i&gt;akogare&lt;/i&gt;, must be part of the feeling that you want to marry
a foreigner.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;ul type="disc"&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;"When I look at American
     women, I think they are so lucky that they and their husbands are like
     lovers, throughout their lives."&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Of course, it is false to say that the media is
entirely as fault, as it's our own naivete that led us to actually
believe these fairy tales.&amp;nbsp; These tales are idealized versions of
reality, with precious
few real-life examples.&amp;nbsp; It's similar to the way that white liberals
portray themselves
as "open-minded" and "tolerant" when comparing their
cultures to Eastern cultures.&amp;nbsp; There's more to America
than the opinions of a few affluent liberals in Los Angeles
and New York City, but you'd never know that by reading the newspapers
or turning on the television.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
The false dichotomy between Asian men and Asian women:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul type="disc"&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;"Well, I can't say which
     is better, but of course, men will naturally gravitate to the women who
     are most attractive as women. So, to compete - to be 'rivals' in the good
     sense, I think everyone has that consciousness. That means Japanese men
     won't be able to think that just because they're Japanese they can have
     all the Japanese women to themselves, but rather that if they don't make
     themselves more attractive, they'll be rejected. And white women will have
     to make an effort if they don't want to lose all the white men to Japanese
     women, so everyone will work harder and become more appealing (&lt;i&gt;suteki&lt;/i&gt;).
     Isn't that a good thing?" &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"&gt;It is pointless to
make much
out of any dichotomy between Asian men and Asian women, as the one
cannot exist
with the other.&amp;nbsp; If Japanese women reject Japanese men, Japanese women
don't exist, and vice versa.&amp;nbsp; Today, in an era where individualism is
emphasized beyond all else, this is difficult to grasp.&amp;nbsp; We're
encouraged to think solely about our own little lives,
not in terms of wider political and social realities.&amp;nbsp; Who invented and
propagated that way of thinking?&amp;nbsp; Not us.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"&gt;Here's a tidbit from another entertaining &lt;a href="http://www.davidappleyard.com/japan/jp20.htm" target="_new"&gt;article&lt;/a&gt;,
titled &lt;i&gt;Why foreign men like Japan
(It's the girls!)&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 40px;"&gt;"No! The reason they made
so many trips a year was because they were able to consort with large numbers
of beautiful young Japanese women in the &lt;i&gt;mizu shobai&lt;/i&gt; (me-zoo show-by),
or “water business”— the traditional Japanese euphemism for the night-time
entertainment trades."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;No matter what lines they try to slip past you, the vast
majority of them know exactly what they're doing in Japan/Korea/Hong Kong/etc,
and it has nothing to do with "business," or "teaching
English," or "learning a new culture."&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;</description><comments>http://kyungjunyo.xanga.com/582987657/the-scale-of-sophistication-and-attractiveness/#firstcomment</comments></item></channel></rss>