If Disney ever goes back to China for a story, I wouldn't be surprised if they did the story of Chang'e (aka "The Moon Lady"). Of course, it'll be Disneyfied a la Hunchback. And the drug abuse part might be cut.

@urbanfreya: Mulan was too "light skinned"? WTF? I have cousins who're pretty light and they're not biracial. I also went to a school with lots of foreign students from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and many were fair-skinned too.

@Zombies make the heart grow fonder: it wasn't a movie and the Egyptian roles are usually played by non-black actors.

You know what? Before I played the video, I thought the petite girl was the model. See how you can't always tell a person's height?

I wanted to read the Hillary-in-Japan article, but the link doesn't work.

That Barbie is scary. Almost as scary as these girls I saw at a hotel this past weekend. They were both severely obese...I had never seen women their age that big (they looked about 23 or 24). I found it really, really sad.

@jamar0303: I don't know. A lot of people think I'm at least partially Filipina (Chinese-Filipino mix). I'm most often asked by other people of Philippine descent.

@scootersidecar: I was in the Dominican Republic for March Break when I was in my last year of high school and when I came home, I was told that I had good news and bad news. The good news was that I was that I got my first of a series of acceptance letters to university, but the bad news, at least from my mom, was…

@shaoshao: Yeah, it's your face/body. Actually, I think telling Asian women NOT to use it, especially if one isn't Asian himself/herself is kind of racist in a colonial-paternalistic kind of way. It screams "I'm from the west and therefore I know better."

I think in 21st century Hong Kong, the light vs dark thing is more of a "I'm the Lady of the House" vs "I'm the housekeeper" philosophy. Many Hong Kongers employ women from the Philippines as housekeepers, and there's a whole lot of insulting slurs Hong Kongers use when they refer to these housekeepers. I'm guessing…

Beauty and body image issues are major in Hong Kong. My mom was once sent to the plus size department because the "XL" was too tight. My mom wears a size 8 here.

@LaComtesse: Don't know about other Asian languages, but the word for four in Chinese sounds like the word for death. Maybe it's that?? Death x 1,000,000?

Diversity courses, in my experience, do nothing but perpetuate stereotypes. You can't assume that because someone is from a certain country, or is a first generation descendant of someone from such country, that they are very "old world" trained. For example, I find it a little weird when people hand me their business…

This is ridiculous. We don't have that here. In fact, when two gay military college cadets married a few years ago, they made the news.

@topsy: He could have signed something giving his "sperm rights" away. Who knows?

The hijab is purely cultural and has nothing to do with religion or modesty, no matter what people say. I've seen tons of young women at Toronto-area malls who wear hijabs, yet are wearing tight tops, jeans and high heels.

@bluebears: Mac Guy isn't cute, he's adorkable.

Trademarks can be licensed out. She just means that the Estate of Ann Landers just won't license it out.

@lesleyquick: My spellcheck doesn't recognize octuplet either.

@opalmarie: I think Octomom thinks the octuplets could get the kind of attention that the Dionne Quintuplets got in the 1930s, smack in the middle of the Depression (and from a poor, Northern Ontario town). Anyway, Octomom is pure weirdness.