Yes, K-pop has international fans. Personally, I like 2NE1 and I hope they succeed, but I know that the global popularity of K-pop is WAY overstated by Korean and K-pop media outlets. (That list you linked to of Western celebrity "fans" who "support" K-pop includes Daniel Radcliffe who said he was given a Girls'…

I highly doubt that K-pop, of all things, will lead to increased interracial marriage. That's actually pretty absurd. First of all, K-pop is barely a blip on the world radar - I'd wager that 99.9999% of non-Asians have never heard of Girls' Generation, let alone freaking KARA. And even if plastic surgery adheres to a…

I still think it's conjecture. I'm no fan of Michelle Malkin, but I'm not crazy about using people's ethnic backgrounds or assumptions about their upbringings to qualify their opinions.

I seriously doubt that Malkin's Filipino heritage had much at all to do with her motives for writing the book defending Japanese American internment. It's always other people who bring up her being Filipina to remind her she isn't white; I've never seen much evidence that it's important to her one way or another.…

I don't know if you've noticed, but nobody on this site is really interested in a thoughtful, informed rumination that points out the myriad historical and socioeconomic factors involved in this phenomenon. And they are CERTAINLY not interested in anything that might force them to look at themselves. This post is an…

The most interesting take I've ever read on this has been Margaret Cho's In Defense of Michelle Malkin:

Most of the coverage I've seen so far seems to center on "ewww, they were drinking dead person water" and not about what might have happened to this woman.

You do know this isn't a movie, and that this video shows an actual event involving a real human being, right? I have no idea why you are warning about "spoilers" here - this is a news story, not entertainment.

It's tragic either way, but it seems that typical family annihilators have circumstances, often a divorce, or the loss of family finances, that drive them to these acts, so they're primarily motivated by desperation or revenge. This is the example I was thinking of earlier.

I don't really think heritage or self-identification matters when it comes to modeling. It's not like your family or your racial awareness comes through on the catwalk — modeling begins and ends at your looks. But I'm sure there are situations where people will disagree over someone's racial appearance, so, yeah, I'm…

If I'm not mistaken, the term "family annihilator" refers to a parent, overwhelmingly fathers, who murder their families prior to their own suicides in an attempt to exert power and restore their sense of authority. I think there is a different term used to describe, say, parents who commit murder-suicide with their…

Yeah, when people discuss the topic of differentiating Asian ethnicities, I think there might be some conflation with the sensitivity towards "all Asians look alike" which really refers to the phenomenon of non-Asians thinking Asian INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE look alike. That has a different connotation from saying that East…

I've explained this about three times. My objection was not to INVALIDATE your point, it was to emphasize that your point is not UNIVERSAL, or even near-universal, and that it's a mistake to speak as if it were. I said that your perspective was limited, and you reacted as if I said it was NEVER true and was denying…

It is not my "interpretation" - you are backpeddling on the fact that you made a massive generalization, and I find it really hard to believe that you don't prejudge individual relationships. Go back and read your original post:

I have no idea why K-pop and Girls' Generation are mentioned in this article, but since we're here making ill-informed comparisons and conflations of K-pop and J-pop, let's watch a video of theirs that superficially parallels "Heavy Rotation" in that it has a similar slumber-party/military-uniform-dancing theme. (I…

When did I ever suggest that all or most of these couples were "pure unions between soulmates destined for each other"? Are you kidding? I simply don't think that anyone's limited set of observations about other people's relationships gets to stand in as universal truth across all circumstances. Who knows, your…

If you are truly interested in a rigorous analysis of these issues, I would recommend this paper by sociologist Nadia Kim which addresses most of the ideas you have put forth. The bottom line is, you cannot be a "privileged class" in America if you are not seen as American. It provides a lot of background information…

"viewed as more 'other,'" not "less 'other.'"

You've got to be joking. I'm not going to go into this, but your question about the prevalence of "guido" parties is no different than the questions asking how the Duke party is any worse than parties mocking hillbillies. These other parties are objectionable, but to make parallels about the populations being mocked…

I know exactly what you are asking, and it really boils down to, "Will Asians follow in the tradition of previously oppressed groups like the Irish, Italians, and Jews to eventually become white." (Although I would say that Jews' "whiteness" is a little more tenuous, and not universally acknowledged.) I've heard this…