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A Wapanese?

…e ever did something this nice for me before. Therefore, it’s not an Asian quality, or Western quality. It’s simply guys like to be treated nicely. My experience in America tells me that it’s a one sided affair when the culture tells us that guys must continually buy crap for the girl and get nothing in return. I also take issue with this statement; “I feel uncomfortable about men who are attracted to a woman just because she is Asian.” Where does…

My love-hate relationship with Japan

…to help me navigate the food stalls and yet flat out rejected answering my questions about the different types of rice and what to do with them. But other than that she was just a complete pleasure to be around. A true lady. The parents were half workaholics and half alcoholics. Running a fairly classy izakaya-restaurant in Tokyo helped them lead a life of sleeping odd hours and keeping it going with alcohol. I remember one night when they came ho…

Growing Up – An Impression of Adults by an Adult

…of “becoming an adult” and all of life’s answers were simply not going to come.  I started to see how “adults” really act and it completely shattered my reverence for them based solely on the fact that they were an adult. I find it very hard to explain to others that this was a very big revelation for me.  You see, I have the ability to remember how I thought about things at the time of being a child.  This is to say I can compare how I thought t…

The crisis in Thailand, from the perspective of a foreigner

…ok like it will get any better. Reports of gunfire and sporadic fights are coming in every hour, my colleagues who are allowed outside (only war-weary veterans) are coming back with pictures of parts of Bangkok covered in thick black smoke from burning tires, soldiers shooting protesters and protesters throwing molotov cocktails and slingshots to soldiers. Regardless of which colour shirt you are and whose side you’re on, this surely has to be a v…

More Power to Women

…t, by limiting the focus to how female images appear in media they all too easily come to lack depth in their coverage. From reading their posts I am quite confident that, if they chose to, they could delve deeper into the real world dynamics that lie underneath the mere descriptions of Muslim women in media and popular culture. In fact, I think that they could provide unique and valuable insight to the subject. But because of this focus on appear…