Education and being in the workforce is probably part of it as is wanting to live the Carrie Bradshaw lifestyle (at least for well-off Hong Kong women with foreign degrees). I know some women who are totally living it up, spending their money on pricey shoes, bags and clothes (there IS a stereotype about Chinese…

When a Chinese restaurant says they don't use MSG, they mean that they don't ADD additional MSG to the food. They may still use products that have MSG (e.g. soy sauce) or things that were exposed to MSG before getting to the restaurant. I have an MSG sensitivity that works a lot like caffeine does on most people...I…

The only thing I like about Gap is Banana Republic's petite line where I can get decent work-friendly pieces. Denim is ok, too. At least there, I'm not paying hideous shipping hidden shipping costs like I am with J.Crew's new Canadian prices.

Eh...just wait for the DVD.

I knew a guy who did that. The cops actually came and set him straight - told him that it was his responsibility to do some of the chores!

If they issue cease and desist orders to non-whites = getting A LOT of Asians (mostly Chinese and Korean, I think) between 12-25 to stop wearing A&F. I see more Asians in A&F here than ANY OTHER ETHNICITY.

In Toronto, Girl Guides are often seen selling cookies at malls and subway stops. Don't units/troops organize a selling schedule for the girls?

That blonde doll is creepy.

This is very sad. How are we going to teach people about healthy living? Unless, of course, we turn fast food restaurants into "healthier" fast food places that focus on salads (e.g. Freshii...I LOOOOVE their vegan wraps (and I'm not even vegan)!)

The Mad Men collection is okay, but sadly, the petite selection is lacking in the stores.

I've never noticed that. I tend to ask whomever is around. Except at MAC, where I prefer to browse on my own (sorry, MAC, but you usually give me bad advice)

I saw "Air Band" too... and whenever I hear about air bands, I think of high school when we used to have lip syncs every few months.

Yep...Tdot.

Why are you surprised? Did you think that she went to daycare? Not all parents want their kids in daycare. Or did you think that "help" these days are women from other countries (though this woman's nanny could have been from a different country as well. Though Southeast Asian help is more commonly seen here in…

Black-white relations in the early 60s South is SPECIFICALLY what the book is about, but can be interpreted in many ways. In any case, I was just a little tired of the whole black-white discussion without looking at it from a different perspective and different ethnic groups who could very well have similar (yet…

Chinese (Han Chinese, specifically) are the "majority" in Hong Kong and the upper middle and upper classes almost exclusively hire women from the Philippines as help - or at least have since the 70s or 80s (before that, wealthy families hired other Chinese). My cousins from Hong Kong were all raised by these women as…

Why do you have to be white to have that perspective? A Hong Kong Chinese woman (or man) could have the exact same view of her (his) Filipina nanny/maid who raised her/him. Heck, if you go back to the 1960s, wealthy Chinese families didn't employ foreign women from the Philippines, but other Chinese. It's not…

Just because their husbands may have been involved with perpetuating the violence doesn't mean that they saw it first hand. In any case, how is 31 year old woman from Canada supposed to know US history inside out, as if we had full first hand experience?

Could it be that it looks at it, in a way, from the white perspective? Could it be that the whole point of just glossing over the violent issues of the era be saying that it didn't really "apply" to the white families that the black women worked for? In any case, I don't think this is just a race issue between…

Not sure if I like it. There's no substance, just pictures. It's like "this is what I look like...who else looks like me?" What's it supposed to mean, anyway? I'd rather have some discussion, show what might look good (or not good) on me, etc, etc.... That's why I prefer to read blogs run by people similar to my…