Laowai Comics: The Taboo Career for Expats

What’s your job here in Asia?

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Asian-American Goes Back to the Motherland

Asian-American masculinist goes back to the Motherland.

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Laowai Comics: Where Are You From?

Just asking. Where are you from?

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Laowai Comics: What Happens When VPN Expires

Meet the Great Fire Wall.

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Laowai Comics: The “English Corner”

Welcome to our “English Corner”.

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Laowai Comics: Think About the Kids in China

In an American backyard.

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Laowai Comics: When Laowai Speaks Chinese

Often ignored.

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Laowai Comics: We Know That Guy

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Laowai Comics: The Almost Civilized Nong

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One Picture = 1,000 Words? Here’s 5,000 (and change)!

There’s certainly a theme in this week’s saved-but-unused pictures. What do you think it is?

Betty Ford reading to schoolchildren – a veritable rainbow, minus The Asian, The Latino, and The Redhead

Civil rights movement

Racist gags with Seth MacFarlane’s Dads

Swedish Culture Minister Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth and the “racist” cake controversy. Seriously, how could anyone not realize that this photograph could be anything but a PR nightmare?

Lorde and boyfriend James Lowe

Laowai Comics: What Happens When People Gossping About Me Think I Don’t Understand Them

What happens when the Chinese locals gossiping about me think that I don’t understand them…

That’s fair!

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One Picture = 1,000 Words? Here’s 1,000 – and Boy, What Words They Could Be!

In my week of looking for images for The Wang Post, I come across some strange things. This was saved as “The Atlantic – Naked Chinese”. It is, I think, a CCTV image of a naked Asian male running across a traffic lane carrying a sex doll. I could backtrack and look for the source of the article it accompanied, but what would be the fun in that?

Run Forrest anonymous naked Chinese man, run!

Cute Little Girl Ignores “Stranger Danger” for Cookies, Ice Cream, and Swimming

A Korean mom films herself teaching her super adorable daughter Ye Bin about what to say and do if a stranger offered her cookies and ice cream and to take her swimming. (Ye Bin shouts, “Yes!” to all of the above. We get it; we’re pretty excited about cookies, ice cream, and swimming, too.) If you’re a parent and trying to educate your young daughter about life lessons, it may not be the best to condition her to these questions with a cup of snacks in her hands.

Laowai Comics: Bad Pickup Lines

Pickup lines that may not work. Click to enlarge.

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One Picture = 1,000 Words? Here’s 6,000 (and Change)

We’re all cheated an hour in the U.S. this weekend (daylight savings), so a few quick words – we have to make the most of our time! – what random, interesting stuff do you come across in your internet meanderings?

Here’s my response in no other order except for chronology, as a result of my search for images for TWP.

Shanghai, 1930s

War propaganda poster, 1940s

Old vs. new – or is there really a difference?

The “clean-up” of China’s images for the Beijing Olympics

From The Sartorialist

Laowai Comics: Hey! Yo? Bye!

Who doesn’t love stupid puns?

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Laowai Comics: The Chinese Urban Decibel Scale

The Chinese Urban Decibel Scale. Click to enlarge.

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14 Signs that You’re a “Twinkie”

Ever been called a “twinkie”? “Banana”? A “white-washed” Asian? These names connote that an Asian individual is “yellow on the outside, white on the inside,” having lost touch with his or her “original culture”. Asian-Americans who achieve a high degree of assimilation into dominant culture may identify with the labels; however, used derogatorily, the monikers misunderstand the complexity immigrants undertake to negotiate between identities: creating a new life in a foreign land inevitably entails a cultural tug-of-war, with casualties on both sides. Further, the assimilation experience varies across ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and economic status.

This list doesn’t define you, but it offers some markers of your degree of assimilation. Politically correct enough for you?

1. Your high school friends were all white.

The only Asian person to ever walk the halls of Bayside – going, going, gone…

2. You speak your ethnic language at an elementary-school level, or less. You can’t read the characters, but you know your food names.

And sometimes you only know one, not even in your own dialect

3. You weren’t spanked as a child. (While disciplining children physically is controversial in the West, it’s traditional in many Asian countries.)

Second place is the first loser!

4. You prefer using forks to chopsticks.

It’s really simple…

5. Your mother’s a bad cook.

Awkward

6. You play the drums or the guitar, not the violin or the piano.

This isn’t necessarily a bad thing

7. You’re uncomfortable talking about your Asian-American identity, preferring your “colorblind” perspective.

8. Tiger Balm isn’t your immediate solution for mosquito bites.

9. You say that you only date white girls/guys.

We’ve covered some of that here and here

10. Your parents just encouraged you to “do your best” in school without regard to your grades.

While others might be more familiar with the “Asian dad” meme

11. You’ve watched two, maybe three animes, in total, including Pokemon or Sailor Moon.

Well, Pikachu is yellow… on the outside…

12. You’ve never gone to karaoke.

Once again, that’s not necessarily a bad thing

13. You have a low tolerance for spicy foods. You go light on the wasabi, tteokbokki, and Szechuan anything.

Yikes! Feel the burn!

14. You’re adopted.

Ah, well

14 Signs that You’re a “Twinkie”

Ever been called a “twinkie”? “Banana”? A “white-washed” Asian? These names connote that an Asian individual is “yellow on the outside, white on the inside,” having lost touch with his or her “original culture”. Asian-Americans who achieve a high degree of assimilation into dominant culture may identify with the labels; however, used derogatorily, the monikers misunderstand the complexity immigrants undertake to negotiate between identities: creating a new life in a foreign land inevitably entails a cultural tug-of-war, with casualties on both sides. Further, the assimilation experience varies across ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and economic status.

This list doesn’t define you, but it offers some markers of your degree of assimilation. Politically correct enough for you?

1. Your high school friends were all white.

The only Asian person to ever walk the halls of Bayside – going, going, gone…

2. You speak your ethnic language at an elementary-school level, or less. You can’t read the characters, but you know your food names.

And sometimes you only know one, not even in your own dialect

3. You weren’t spanked as a child. (While disciplining children physically is controversial in the West, it’s traditional in many Asian countries.)

Second place is the first loser!

4. You prefer using forks to chopsticks.

It’s really simple…

5. Your mother’s a bad cook.

Awkward

6. You play the drums or the guitar, not the violin or the piano.

This isn’t necessarily a bad thing

7. You’re uncomfortable talking about your Asian-American identity, preferring your “colorblind” perspective.

8. Tiger Balm isn’t your immediate solution for mosquito bites.

9. You say that you only date white girls/guys.

We’ve covered some of that here and here

10. Your parents just encouraged you to “do your best” in school without regard to your grades.

While others might be more familiar with the “Asian dad” meme

11. You’ve watched two, maybe three animes, in total, including Pokemon or Sailor Moon.

Well, Pikachu is yellow… on the outside…

12. You’ve never gone to karaoke.

Once again, that’s not necessarily a bad thing

13. You have a low tolerance for spicy foods. You go light on the wasabi, tteokbokki, and Szechuan anything.

Yikes! Feel the burn!

14. You’re adopted.

Ah, well