I know of the wedding photos that you speak of. Good luck getting American men to effeminize themselves with heavy makeup and being photoshopped hopping around on clouds and air bubbles while chasing his bride around in a forest or lake setting.
My friend tried to start up something like this and he lost his shirt doing it. Unless you're in a community with a very large Asian diaspora, it's a business doomed to fail based on cultural incompatibility.
You hear a lot of the single-issue types shouting about "get back in the immigration line and do it legally!!" not knowing how convoluted and expensive the whole process is.
Just to illustrate how convoluted, difficult, and expensive the whole process is - there are countless Chinese families from China and Taiwan who pack up their entire families and move to Panama or Paraguay (or any other place with a more liberal immigration quota number for the US), live there for 5-10 years while their kids are going to school there learning English and Espanol, then packing up everything once again and moving to the US when the papers go through. Now that takes some effort and perseverance - and illustrates how difficult the "normal" channels are if people are jumping through hoops like this.
The self-selecting aspect of it is definitely true. While these people are spending 5-10 years in some tinpot Latin American country, they usually end up doing pretty well. I spoke with a few Chinese immigrants in Buenos Aires when I was there and it wasn't unusual for some of those guys to end up owning 4-5 convenient stores by the time they pack up and go somewhere else. You have to be in the top of the food chain to survive in a business-unfriendly, anti-immigration environment where you have zero cultural relevancy.
Most people who've lived in Washington state will not up and move to a place like Nevada. Not even with comparable housing that costs less than half of what they cost in Seattle. There has to be a considerable bump in quality of life for people to put up with rain here 10 months out of the year.
And tech centers congregate around research-intensive universities. Bay area, Boston, Seattle, Austin, etc. States with low taxes just don't have these schools.
I have the weirdest relationship with slow cookers.
I can make really good food - to the point where my own friends actually offer me money to eat at my place - every cuisine - French, Chinese, Indian, etc.
But every time I try to use a slow cooker to make a simple beef stew, I fuck it up big time. It's always too watery despite following the recipe to the dot.
You know, I've always wondered why (in the original series at least) there seemed to be few, if any Indians or Chinese for that matter.
You're overanalyzing it. Maybe you're too young to remember, but Asians were essentially absent from all American television until the last 10-15 years. Other than the few obligatory stereotypical characters (restaurant worker, geishas, lab rat, etc.), you may be able to catch a few moving around in the background in an episode of MASH or something. Remember how David Carradine starred in Kung Fu? Bruce Lee was originally cast for that part, but was replaced because he looked "too Oriental". As an Asian growing up in 70s and 80s America, seeing an Asian with a speaking part on TV was quite extraordinary.
To be frank, only small bits of progress has been made even up to the year 2012. See the local news today - you will never see an Asian male news anchor paired up with a white female news anchor. (Though an Asian female anchor will always be paired up with a white male anchor).
(I'm glad to have gone to see the Taj Mahal last year; I've always thought that if Pakistan and India went to all out war, it would be the first to go.)
I'm not a big subcontinent history buff, but I thought the Taj Mahal was built by a Muslim Mughal emperor, so maybe it'll be left alone?
2. Or Start a business with that money, while conveniently ignoring things like business risk, ROI analyses, opportunity costs, and expecting to immediately reach breakeven point in your business, all while the magic unicorn feeds your family, so your family can be rich forever.
Even today there are private colleges where the entire curriculum is based-around reading books from Greeks, Romans, renaissance authors, et cetera. They do not follow the government-proscribed model.
And how's that different than any other college, public or private? We also did the same in public high school (as did many other people I know in many other states).
By the way, "proscribe" means something entirely different than what you probably intended.
You get crap from them because the parent companies pay crap. They will build to any spec you want as long as you pay for it. It's just most companies choose to build to a lower spec - because they can.
In the fashion industry, for example, Chinese manufacturers are now considered "high-end". Go to boutique stores, and you will now only find Chinese-made clothing for the $100+ market. Anything below has been out-outsourced to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Indonesia.
Or if you're the type to distrust these polls, just go to a local HOA meeting for crying out loud. You'll come to the exact same conclusions. Remember how the "security moms" decided the 2004 elections?
I think it's more the exorbitant taxes levied on cigarettes that do most of the heavy lifting. Paraphrasing Denis Leary - you could put a skull and cross-bones and the word "CANCER" in giant bright letters and smokers will still line up and buy them and wonder what the big deal is.
In any culture where the woman is oppressed in public, you can be darn sure she wears the pants in their private life behind the doors. It's like taxes - you can lower them in some areas but it'll be made up for sure in other areas.
I have several friends who are car salesmen - everything from entry level econoboxes to luxury. They tell me consistently that they are much more likely to be able to get the largest sales margins from the least economically and socially advantaged people.
It's a need for a different marketing demographic.
US airline consumers shop purely by price.
Asian airline consumers shop by airline food quality and stewardess attractiveness, and are willing to pay for these qualities (as idiotic as it is). It's not unusual to hear Asian people talk about preferring one airline to another because of these two factors, and they don't blink an eye even if they have to pay an extra $200USD for these perceived differences.
But the ideological divide is more defined as urban vs rural within each state, rather than state vs state. In Oregon and Washington, for example, it's essentially liberals along the I-5 corridor near the seaports and hard rednecks outside of those pockets. Same with CA outside of LA and SF.
I guess that's why we have airplanes, so we can "flyover" those parts of the country. But it also makes any union disassembly very tricky, logistically speaking.
"It was always super-important to be SEEN to be working"
I know several people working at Microsoft and Google who set up auto-email scripts to fire off random report emails to their reporting supervisors at random times between 1-3am every night.
This is not new. South Korea has been doing this for years. The Hyundai chaebol / business conglomerate has factories there along with some other companies.
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I know of the wedding photos that you speak of. Good luck getting American men to effeminize themselves with heavy makeup and being photoshopped hopping around on clouds and air bubbles while chasing his bride around in a forest or lake setting.
My friend tried to start up something like this and he lost his shirt doing it. Unless you're in a community with a very large Asian diaspora, it's a business doomed to fail based on cultural incompatibility.
You hear a lot of the single-issue types shouting about "get back in the immigration line and do it legally!!" not knowing how convoluted and expensive the whole process is.
Just to illustrate how convoluted, difficult, and expensive the whole process is - there are countless Chinese families from China and Taiwan who pack up their entire families and move to Panama or Paraguay (or any other place with a more liberal immigration quota number for the US), live there for 5-10 years while their kids are going to school there learning English and Espanol, then packing up everything once again and moving to the US when the papers go through. Now that takes some effort and perseverance - and illustrates how difficult the "normal" channels are if people are jumping through hoops like this.
The self-selecting aspect of it is definitely true. While these people are spending 5-10 years in some tinpot Latin American country, they usually end up doing pretty well. I spoke with a few Chinese immigrants in Buenos Aires when I was there and it wasn't unusual for some of those guys to end up owning 4-5 convenient stores by the time they pack up and go somewhere else. You have to be in the top of the food chain to survive in a business-unfriendly, anti-immigration environment where you have zero cultural relevancy.
That's the absolute truth. The ROI is really astounding - some even say $8 for every $1 spent.
Beats paying lots more money to lock up people down the line and to hire more law enforcement.
I'd like to see the "Buffet Rule" get some traction
No reusing plates, aim for the sneeze guard, and no wasting food?
Most people who've lived in Washington state will not up and move to a place like Nevada. Not even with comparable housing that costs less than half of what they cost in Seattle. There has to be a considerable bump in quality of life for people to put up with rain here 10 months out of the year.
And tech centers congregate around research-intensive universities. Bay area, Boston, Seattle, Austin, etc. States with low taxes just don't have these schools.
I have the weirdest relationship with slow cookers.
I can make really good food - to the point where my own friends actually offer me money to eat at my place - every cuisine - French, Chinese, Indian, etc.
But every time I try to use a slow cooker to make a simple beef stew, I fuck it up big time. It's always too watery despite following the recipe to the dot.
Maybe mine's broken.
You know, I've always wondered why (in the original series at least) there seemed to be few, if any Indians or Chinese for that matter.
You're overanalyzing it. Maybe you're too young to remember, but Asians were essentially absent from all American television until the last 10-15 years. Other than the few obligatory stereotypical characters (restaurant worker, geishas, lab rat, etc.), you may be able to catch a few moving around in the background in an episode of MASH or something. Remember how David Carradine starred in Kung Fu? Bruce Lee was originally cast for that part, but was replaced because he looked "too Oriental". As an Asian growing up in 70s and 80s America, seeing an Asian with a speaking part on TV was quite extraordinary.
To be frank, only small bits of progress has been made even up to the year 2012. See the local news today - you will never see an Asian male news anchor paired up with a white female news anchor. (Though an Asian female anchor will always be paired up with a white male anchor).
(I'm glad to have gone to see the Taj Mahal last year; I've always thought that if Pakistan and India went to all out war, it would be the first to go.)
I'm not a big subcontinent history buff, but I thought the Taj Mahal was built by a Muslim Mughal emperor, so maybe it'll be left alone?
2. Or Start a business with that money, while conveniently ignoring things like business risk, ROI analyses, opportunity costs, and expecting to immediately reach breakeven point in your business, all while the magic unicorn feeds your family, so your family can be rich forever.
FTFY.
Even today there are private colleges where the entire curriculum is based-around reading books from Greeks, Romans, renaissance authors, et cetera. They do not follow the government-proscribed model.
And how's that different than any other college, public or private? We also did the same in public high school (as did many other people I know in many other states).
By the way, "proscribe" means something entirely different than what you probably intended.
You get crap from them because the parent companies pay crap. They will build to any spec you want as long as you pay for it. It's just most companies choose to build to a lower spec - because they can.
In the fashion industry, for example, Chinese manufacturers are now considered "high-end". Go to boutique stores, and you will now only find Chinese-made clothing for the $100+ market. Anything below has been out-outsourced to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Indonesia.
The facts seem to back these two guys up.
71% are OK with surveillance cameras in public places; 58% are fine with full-body scans and pat-downs at the airport
Or if you're the type to distrust these polls, just go to a local HOA meeting for crying out loud. You'll come to the exact same conclusions. Remember how the "security moms" decided the 2004 elections?
and because of that smoking has been going down.
I think it's more the exorbitant taxes levied on cigarettes that do most of the heavy lifting. Paraphrasing Denis Leary - you could put a skull and cross-bones and the word "CANCER" in giant bright letters and smokers will still line up and buy them and wonder what the big deal is.
In any culture where the woman is oppressed in public, you can be darn sure she wears the pants in their private life behind the doors. It's like taxes - you can lower them in some areas but it'll be made up for sure in other areas.
Even by 2000, Sony was already getting its lunch eaten by the likes of Panasonic and Samsung.
The quality slide had started by the mid to late 90's, corresponding to their offshoring away from their Japanese factories.
Survivors of the Japanese (and to a lesser extent German and Italian) internment camps can probably tell you.
The answer is always - it depends.
I have several friends who are car salesmen - everything from entry level econoboxes to luxury. They tell me consistently that they are much more likely to be able to get the largest sales margins from the least economically and socially advantaged people.
That's why Hispanics are the new advert cash cow.
It's a need for a different marketing demographic.
US airline consumers shop purely by price.
Asian airline consumers shop by airline food quality and stewardess attractiveness, and are willing to pay for these qualities (as idiotic as it is). It's not unusual to hear Asian people talk about preferring one airline to another because of these two factors, and they don't blink an eye even if they have to pay an extra $200USD for these perceived differences.
But the ideological divide is more defined as urban vs rural within each state, rather than state vs state. In Oregon and Washington, for example, it's essentially liberals along the I-5 corridor near the seaports and hard rednecks outside of those pockets. Same with CA outside of LA and SF.
I guess that's why we have airplanes, so we can "flyover" those parts of the country. But it also makes any union disassembly very tricky, logistically speaking.
The senators' kids go to public schools? That's a riot.
When I think of slaves, I think of people you have to feed, clothe, shelter, and provide medical care for.
The people you call "slaves" sound like a bargain to their employers.
"It was always super-important to be SEEN to be working"
I know several people working at Microsoft and Google who set up auto-email scripts to fire off random report emails to their reporting supervisors at random times between 1-3am every night.
I'm in the top 5% of income bracket in the US and I still get excited to pick up pennies.
I'm not cheap, though. But I am not beneath picking up free money on the street.
For some reason, this price stuck in my head:
Super NES Street Fighter II Turbo was $64.99 at Fry's back in the early 90's.
I remember games were all in the $50-$60 range back then.
What gas money initially saved with a VW is quickly repaid at the repair shop, and then some. TDI or not.
This is not new. South Korea has been doing this for years. The Hyundai chaebol / business conglomerate has factories there along with some other companies.