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Name: Andrew
Birthday: 6/16/1982
Gender: Male
Interests: Spending time w/friends; reading; studying; sharing stories; hearing other people share their stories; music-guitar/piano/etc.; discovering important truths; taekwondo/running/swimming; deep conversations; conversations that make me laugh so hard that my stomach hurts; nature; eating; sleeping; dreaming (awake or asleep); playing basketball; walks; connecting with God in whatever way possible.
Expertise: Philosophy (some day...). Christian apologetics.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Research
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Member Since:
1/22/2003
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| AA males in the media (again)...I highly recommend Laura Li's recent post on the portrayal of Asian American males in the media. Unlike me, she actually pays attention to media, has a sense of what's going on in pop culture, and puts up links to everything she's talking about. She writes better than me too. | | |
| Obama on AbortionWell, not by me, but here. I hope to be able to read this post some day, but it looked interesting enough to link... | | |
| Musical PerformanceHere is my musical performance with a friend named Michelle Ji. I play guitar and she sings Jason Mraz's "You and I". I hope you enjoy! | | |
| Mummy 3I watched the Mummy 3 last night. What annoyed me was that this was another example of Hollywood giving us an exotic, sexy, and mysterious Asian female, and a White rugged, independent, male with a smile coming over from the West and winning her over. (Not noting the fact in the movie that there are a MILLION cultural differences that would've made such a union difficult. There are many examples of difficult marriages between American-born White husbands and their Asian-raised wives, neither of whom knew of all the difficult cultural differences they would face.) It didn't bother me so much when Tom Cruise did it in the Last Samurai. Maybe AAA and InterVarsity have influenced what I get annoyed at? What if there were a movie where an attractive Asian male came over from China and romanticized an attractive White female? Has that ever happened? Do you guys know of any examples? I know that there were romantic themes between Jet Li and a Black woman Aaliyah in Romeo Must Die, but the directors cut out the scene where Jet Li kisses her, and I think I heard that the reason was that they didn't want to show an Asian guy kissing someone. (I'm not sure about the last part; there may have been another reason.) I'm open to correction on any of these points. It's easy for those involved in supporting AAA or APIA issues to get a little oversensitive, but maybe I'm not. (edit- I just surfed the web a little and found out that that Jet Li said that they cut out the kissing scene because it was inappropriate for him to kiss someone after his father (in the movie) died.) | | |
| Women's GymnasticsYay! I'm glad Shawn Johnson won a gold medal. Between her and Nastia Lukin, I liked watching Johnson better. She had such a big smile, and she kept giving happy thumbs-ups and waves to the camera when she won. She seems like a fun person. Johnson didn't seem to be happy most of the time (except when she won her medals). Maybe she was pre-occupied with other things? Maybe she had more pressure too. (Didn't her dad say that "second place is the worst place to be in this family" or something like that? Geez, that'd be a lot of pressure.) Anyway, what can you really know about a person just from the Olympics? Probably not too much. | | |
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