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Post by milkman's baby on Nov 18, 2010 13:27:01 GMT -5
Over the years, I've really learned to detest the leaders and proponents of academia. While I'm not necessarily all about vocational-strictly education, I'm tired of these so-called "educational experts" who think they know what every student needs. They raise our tuition and make us take these liberal arts gen ed requirements (a yoga class to fulfill my requirements, really?) and make it impossible for students to graduate in 4 years. Then after 4 years they try to convince us we need another 10 years of graduate school to get a good job. And it's partially the employers to blame too. I would have considered becoming a school teacher if it weren't for the absurd requirements. Why should an ELEMENTARY school teacher of mathemetics or physical education have a Master's degree? Our society has come to rely too much on education credentials. The economy sucks, the job sector sucks, and right now the education is not paying off. My professors are trying to convince me to come back after I graduate to get a Master's and I really wanted to tell them to go screw themselves. It's just another way to take my money all the while trying to convince me I will someday get a great job when I never will. I hate being a student and right now is one of the worst times to be a graduating student.
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Post by milkman's baby on Nov 15, 2010 23:46:58 GMT -5
There was one time I was at the hospital after getting into an accident (I was 14 at the time) and the woman at the front desk was very rude to my father when he was giving her my information (health care card etc) she kept saying "can't she take care of her own card?" "does your girlfriend not speak English?" etc....I was 14 darn it lady!! lol Once my father told her "she's 14 and she's my daughter!" she was suddenly extremely helpful and polite. Oh god. Although in fairness to that lady, it may not have been race-based. You may have just looked older than your age. I've had white friends who've been mistaken for their fathers' gf/wife before. Still annoying though.
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Post by milkman's baby on Nov 12, 2010 19:14:27 GMT -5
^ I too, have problems determining face shape. I have concluded that I am in between a heart-shaped face and an oval face or maybe a potato would work too on my "puffier days" when I feel fat. Actually, both parents have chiseled faces and mine still has some baby fat (haha, yeah). Maybe when I get older my face will look more chiseled as it is still kinda fleshy now, but people say its a good thing as I will age very well! I find that shoulder length hair makes me look sexy and long hair works too, just highly maintenance. I have never tried any style above the shoulder. I love headbands! Gossip Girl totally got me all excited cause we all know that Blair is the headband legend. No, I like headbands too. I just look horrible in them. I'm jealous of people that look good in them, but no matter what size or how I try to wear it, it doesn't not flatter my face shape AT ALL. My face is semi-flat and it just does not go right with headbands. Yeah, I can't pull off the short hair either. I went to an expensive salon once where the stylists knew what they were doing. She told me with my face shape I need to keep my hair long, but no matter what I should never get it cut directly where my chin ends, because that apparently makes the face look fatter. But because I still smoke my face is getting thinner. So once I get emphysema we can all see how slim my face looks then.
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Post by milkman's baby on Nov 12, 2010 18:38:42 GMT -5
EA girls, how did you learn to do makeup that fits your EA look? I only recently learned the right use of eye makeup for me, since I could never follow the makeup tips for Nordic girls that I see in Scandinavian magazines... I don't wear much makeup but I think what works for me is to just focus on the features you have and what works best for those features just not focus on the whole face at once. I find asian woman that use tape or have the double eyelid surgery to me makes their eyes look smaller and puffy all the time. The eyelids always look puffy and swollen even years after the surgery. Women, in all countries of all races, have totally abused the original concept of cosmetics. Cosmetics were originally created for the purposes of enhancing what you already have. Instead, women pile and cake on and create all these weird clown techniques that change who they are. Might as well get plastic surgery. Like I said before, I wonder what some of these girls' boyfriends would say if they saw them without makeup. What would you say if you were dating a guy with a perfect six pack of abs, only to find one day that he's been airbrushing that crap on the entire time? To toyo - yes, I have the same problem. I mentioned here before how these eye makup tutorials are all either for completely Asian eyes or completely double lidded non-Asian eyes. I have weird eyes that are really in between. My makeup looks weird no matter what. The biggest problem I have, though, is finding a haircut and more important a hair STYLE to flatter my bizarre shape face. My Asian parent has the widest, flattest Asian face and my white parent has the typical narrow, slender Caucasian face. So my face is a weird combination. You'd think it would be attractive, but it's not. And sometimes, wearing foundation makes it even worse because it flattens out and exaggerates certain features. I don't know how to describe it. Basically, my face gets bigger as it goes down. lol I guess you could call my face shape a tear drop shape. lmao And it doesn't help that I have a double chin (I like to call it off as baby fat, okay?). I almost look exactly like that iCarly girl except my face is rounder and puffy at the cheeks. One thing I've learned is to avoid headbands of any kind at all cost. Anyway, I'm getting too girly with this convo. Let's get back to making fun of those Chinese girls...
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Post by milkman's baby on Nov 2, 2010 21:35:00 GMT -5
lol What are these women gonna say when their boyfriends come over and see them in the morning without makeup or after they get outta the shower? It's like false advertising.
lol Perhaps I'm a hypocrite, though. I used to have terrible acne on my face with severe scarring in high school. I still have some scarring but it's faded and less noticeable as time goes by. Anyway, in high school I would literally CAKE foundation on my face to cover up every single blemish. It was very obvious I had foundation on, but I thought it was better than showing a scarred face. Probably made my acne worse but I insisted on not letting anyone see my blemishes. Then I realized one day, that if it were to rain outside, my makeup would probably start sliding off my face. And then everyone would see...and probably scream. Since then, I toned down the foundation to where you still know I have scars on my face but it's not the FIRST thing you'd see from a distance. Some days I won't wear any at all.
Other than that, I don't think I've done anything odd to drastically change my appearance.
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Post by milkman's baby on Oct 27, 2010 19:30:33 GMT -5
Wow, I am angry enough when people assume my white father adopted me. I can only imagine how I'd react if they assumed I was his wife (well who knows, maybe someone has and I never knew it). I'll admit though, when I'm with both my parents in public, I sometimes wonder what people are thinking about my parents. I wonder if they're thinking the whole poor Asian woman marries rich white American thing. My mom's actually older than my father and she has graying hair, so I guess my dad sorta escaped the old pervy white guy stereotype.
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Post by milkman's baby on Oct 18, 2010 16:03:17 GMT -5
It's rare to be given an Asian first name in America as a Eurasian. I think everyone would just confuse the kid for actually being from that country and would see them as a foreigner. Just to give you an idea of how whitewashed I am, I'll admit most of the Asian names I hear aren't that pleasant sounding to me. There's occasionally a melodic Japanese name but the majority of Chinese or Korean names sound a little funny to the American ear, even it's not sexual innuendo (i.e. Wang, Suk-Mi, etc.). I'm sure the South Koreans and Chinese can give us a list of laughs brought on by Anglo names.
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Post by milkman's baby on Oct 6, 2010 21:42:25 GMT -5
I get angry when I put an effort into a post replying to someone and they don't reply back.
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Post by milkman's baby on Oct 6, 2010 21:36:41 GMT -5
Isn't it great to know if all else fails, the porn industry will take us. The joys of being Eurasian.
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Post by milkman's baby on Oct 3, 2010 19:40:33 GMT -5
Considering Filipinos and Asians are still a small minority in the USA (despite being the second largest of the Asian groups), no it is not an under-representation. Rather, these Koreans and Japanese are an overrepresentation. Which is exactly why they are often made public enemy no.1 in the eyes of affirmative action proponents. I'd almost call them the new Jews except it's hardly new bc this has been the situation for quite some time now. I'm starting to think the paradigm is shifting now to south and west Asians like Indians, Pakistanis, etc. East Asians are starting to be accepted as an old group here in the states.
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Post by milkman's baby on Oct 3, 2010 17:10:19 GMT -5
Hey there Eskimo Kid. You're all the way up there in Iceland, eh? I know how it feels to be the outcast in town because of your ethnic looks. I also grew up in mostly white neighborhoods and even though the average person out here will deny any bouts of racism I honestly think being non-white is a disadvantage out here. In some ways it's understandable. Humans are naturally apprehensive about other people and things that look unfamiliar or very different. I'm not gonna lie, there were times growing up when I really wished I was full white so I could blend in and enjoy all the benefits of it. Being half white wasn't important because everyone sees me as full Asian. ted.coe.wayne.edu/ele3600/mcintosh.htmlThis is a famous article written by a white author who lists the privileges of being a white person in America. Among one of the privileges: "I can swear, or dress in second-hand clothes or not answer letters without having people attribute these choices to the bad morals, the poverty, or the illiteracy of my race." I can't tell you how many times I specifically acted in a certain manner or held back saying certain thoughts because I was afraid to embarrass my race or embody stereotypes. This is just part of the package of being a minority anywhere, I guess. But honestly, I don't know how much there is to do about it. Unless you find a way to really convince everyone you're just like them, I guess you just have to live with it.
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Post by milkman's baby on Oct 3, 2010 16:39:06 GMT -5
Nothing wrong with community college...but it would be nice to see more filipinos on a campus that produce a high number of nobel prize winners. I'm sure there will be a surge eventually. The Filipino-American population is growing and higher population usually means an expansion into different socioeconomic groups. One last thing, I know the Ivy Leagues attract students from all over the country but isn't it true that a large amount of the student body is from the East Coast? Plain and simple, Filipinos tend to congregate on the West Coast. But so do other Asians, I know. You'd probably find way more at Stanford or Berkeley.
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Post by milkman's baby on Oct 2, 2010 11:03:33 GMT -5
I don't know about Filipino-Americans, but my impression of people in the Philippines is that people go to college and get their degrees (nurse, doctor, teacher etc.) to be able to work and earn money as soon as possible. I don't think many are that interested in studying for a longer time and achieving phd's, since work comes first (college/university in the Phils even starts as early at age 16 till age 19. So they can already start working at the age of 19). Yeah, that's how most cultures are. The Koreans and Japanese are just different. Maybe it's because they have more of a Confucian work ethic, while the Filipinos were influenced by different cultures such as Spanish. If I had to blind guess, I would say many of the successful Filipinos that do really emphasize education might have been influenced by the Chinese population? I mean, the Chinese have been in the Philippines for a long time.
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Post by milkman's baby on Oct 1, 2010 19:01:57 GMT -5
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Post by milkman's baby on Oct 1, 2010 18:57:50 GMT -5
Does your school have any Filipino students associations? Maybe you should approach the Asian student organizations and request some statistics or research on this. As for the Chinese, I would expect them in any university on either of the coasts. They are the one Asian group that has been in the USA the longest. They are the most prevalent and so that explains their presence. The Koreans and Japanese are famous (or perhaps infamous) for their hardcore education/academia driven cultures. Whether they are foreign students directly from SK or Japan or second gen Americans, I'm sure many of these students you're seeing had parents who emphasized education success. I am not saying that Filipino culture is dumb or lazy, but I think southeastern Asian cultures might not emphasize academic credentials as much or as hard core. Part of the reason why so many Koreans and Japanese come here to study is because there is overcrowding in their cities at home, providing even the very bright with cut throat competition. I don't know if the Philippines has an overcrowding issue. As for Asian studies, well yes I would expect that they would only focus on China, Japan, and Korea. I am currently in a 100-level East Asian civilization course and it focuses only on those three with a little history on Vietnam. Once again, I'm not trying to allude that Southeast Asians are inferior, but you can sorta try and compare this to Europe. In the US, we study northwestern Europe most of the time, occasionally the Mediterranean. Hardly anything on East Europe or the Balkans. The history of all of Asia is especially reliant on China, which makes China an essential part of Asian studies. And I guess Korea and Japan are next in line since they were influenced by China the most. The Philippines does indeed have important history, much of which ties to US interests, but it's difficult to study in some ways because a lot of their history deals with Spanish and possibly Polynesian history. Also - this'll sound silly - but are you just going off the faces you see on campus or have you actually seen hard figures? Maybe you're mistaking a lot of Filipinos for Hispanics or even other Asian groups? Or maybe the Filipino students are lying about their heritage.
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