December, 2011 // Posts published in December, 2011
KoreAm magazine asks: Why Are There So Many Good Asian American Cartoonists?
It’s true! America and Canada are chock full of talented Asian-North American graphic novelists (and illustrators!). In the past, our blog has looked at the talents of some of the amazing artists floating about our communities. In Canada, Ricepaper magazine, a quarterly periodical that covers Asian Canadian literature, culture, and the arts has often showcased the talents ...
A Christmas Carol, my Ass
The BBC produced a 3 part series on Racism a few years back. It was part of the season of programmes broadcasted on the BBC marking the 200th anniversary of the Slave Trade Act 1807, a landmark piece of legislation which abolished the slave trade in the British Empire. The series explores the impact of racism ...
Get screwed by Social Media
The following item below had been originally posted on Yahoo news, a couple of years back. Yes, our blog has a page on Facebook, but we hadn’t really promoted it. We’re not sure of how and what to make of our “friends” on Facebook. Here’s the link to our “banana Asian” Facebook site: https://www.facebook.com/banana.asian And here is ...
When identifying yourself as a White, helps…
Having grown up in Vancouver, many of my contemporaries saw our ethnicity as a liability. During the 60’s and 70’s, it just wasn’t cool being labelled as a “new Canadian”, or a “FOB (Fresh of the Boat)”. The stigma of being associated with being from what was then considered a third world country – China, Hong ...
Students share knowledge on Sex slaves and the horrors of the Asian Holocaust
It has been a week since the 2011 International Human Rights Day Student Symposium (IHRDSS). The following is a brief summary of events marking IHRDSS. There have been so many things that took place during this week – former Canadian Prisoners of War speaking out against the “token acknowledgement” by some officials; and in our nation’s capital, the large public rally held ...
Killing of Private Danny Chen, racially motivated?
Our American neighbours are organizing rallies and marches for allegedly murdered service man, Danny Chen… “March for Danny Chen …OWS Supports the Chinatown Community” At an American Army base in Kandahar Province of Afghanistan on October 3rd 2011, Private Danny Chen was found dead in the living quarters of the army base where he was stationed with ...
[Humour] Italian bread!
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Apparently, some of our readers enjoy a racy joke or two. Here’s one that has nothing to do with Canadians nor with Chinese, but it’s dirty, like the politicians we have running our country. … *Hey* we warned you! … Old guys and italian bread . Two old guys, one 80 and one 87, were sitting on ...
Kudos to Patrick Chan for speaking the Truth
Everyone here at the UGLY Chinese Canadian is a big fan of Patrick Chan, Canada’s pride of the competitive figure skating world. Patrick Chan was born on December 31, 1990 in Ottawa, Canada. And that, my round eye friends, means Patrick is a Canadian born Chinese … a CbC. A Banana to you wise readers. Patrick is the 2011 ...
Vancouver 2011 election results… now what?
IDEA* Municipal De-Brief and Holiday Season Cheer DATE: Saturday, 17 December 2011 TIME: 7:00pm to 10:30 pm PLACE: Foo’s HO HO, 102 East Pender Street, Vancouver, BC Facebook info: https://www.facebook.com/events/255408747847823/ There will be a Vancouver municipal De-brief on Saturday December 17 and you are invited. The forum will be moderated by well-known Vancouverite and PlaceSpeak founder Colleen Hardwick ...
“Funny as Fuck” Map of Vancouver tells it like it is
New map divides Vancouver into such categories as poor people, gay guys, and old people from the Georgia Straight… by Mike Usinger Are you so politically correct that you find the Onion and all that it stands for riotously offensive? If so, now is the time to stop reading the city’s latest breakdown of who lives where in Lotusland. ...
Canada: One country, two systems
by Bill Chu Chair, Canadians For Reconciliation Society It may come as a surprise that like China, the governance in Canada is also based on the principle of “One country, two systems”. The two systems are the democratic system under which non-aboriginal Canadians are governed, and the colonial Indian Act system under which aboriginals have been governed ...
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