10 People you didn't know were Asian

[kitty]

http://www.destroy-all-monsters.com/hapa.shtml

Amusing site I came across... though I think most of the people on it have been talked about on YW... still... sort of a fun little comprehensive read.

[>:^|]

Why the * does Iva Toguri D'Aquino have the special honor of being listed under "10 People who are Asian, but we wish they weren't... Hey, where's #10?"

[Shuriken]

There's an even more extensive list at EurasianNation.com.

Did you know that Cate Beckinsale is one-eighth Burmese? I didn't.

[thaite]

Why the * does Iva Toguri D'Aquino have the special honor of being listed under "10 People who are Asian, but we wish they weren't... Hey, where's #10?"

I dunno, but I agree with this one

[teaz0r]

dean cain used to be so hot.
then believe it or not, ripley ripped him a new hole.

[mr. x]

man i didnt know zack was part asian wtf? he was like the whitest boy on SBTB

as for Kate Beckinsale, well its gone now

they forgot keanu, i had no effing idea until i read it somewhere

[golden_buns]

Lou Diamond Phillips asian?

I thought he was chicano

[mr. x]

Lou Diamond Phillips asian?

I thought he was chicano

looks a lil native american too

anyway wtf is yatta? i watched til the dudes in the weird underwear showed up and then closed it

[tommyhtown]

What surprises me more than Phobe Cates being part-asian is that she is 40 already.

[golden_buns]

What surprises me more than Phobe Cates being part-asian is that she is 40 already.


She looked hot in the 80's but I have no idea how she looks like now.
It's been long since the last time I saw a pic of her.

Tamlyn Tomita was also hot in the 80's, but now she looks too old. She doesn't even resemble to what she looked before

[Faithless]

Jennifer Tilly, eh?

What, is she less that half Asian?

[krome]

Bah, I knew all these, except maybe Ben Kingsley (no surprise, tho) or Nicole Scherzinger (Nicole who?). The one they really missed was Persian Farrokh Bulsara (http://myweb.lsbu.ac.uk/~stafflag/freddiemercury.html) (aka Freddie Mercury).

[moJo]

man i didnt know zack was part asian wtf? he was like the whitest boy on SBTB
i was shocked when i heard that too. i forget who told me. i think the bleached blonde hair made it even harder to tell.

he's half-indonesian.

[mr. x]

i was shocked when i heard that too. i forget who told me. i think the bleached blonde hair made it even harder to tell.

he's half-indonesian.

so it is possible for half asians to have blonde hair eh? hmm and nicole richie (Paris Hilton's parner in crime on TSL) is Lionel Richies daughter and i was like "wtf isnt lionel black and doesnt nicole look like whiter than white?)

[krome]

^ Lionel Richie's daughter is adopted - she's not Lionel's biological spawn (altho she still is part-black, I believe). And Mark's hair is bleached blonde - can you read? :biggrin:

[yoMAMA]

so it is possible for half asians to have blonde hair eh? hmm and nicole richie (Paris Hilton's parner in crime on TSL) is Lionel Richies daughter and i was like "wtf isnt lionel black and doesnt nicole look like whiter than white?)

Great show!

loved their comments

"we should have a three-some"! :biggrin:

Timeless TV classic :tongue: :smile:

[TB4000]

I always had this feeling Ann Curry was latina...ah, well.

[mr. x]

^ Lionel Richie's daughter is adopted - she's not Lionel's biological spawn (altho she still is part-black, I believe). And Mark's hair is bleached blonde - can you read? :biggrin:

hmm didnt see that part. though he acted pretty blonde :rolleyes:

Great show!

loved their comments

"we should have a three-some"! :biggrin:

Timeless TV classic :tongue: :smile:

who they say that to?

hahah "wallmart, is that like where u go to buy walls?"

my God how can she be so rich and yet SOOO stupid?

[moJo]

so it is possible for half asians to have blonde hair eh?
i think brandon lee was born with born with blonde hair. but obviously, it became dark brown.

and MP gosselar has naturally darkish brown hair. :)

[etcj]

Oh my god, YATTA made me laugh so much.

Anyways, I was shocked about Dean Cain being half-Japanese, same thing with Mark Paul Gosselaar. However, I did know that The Rock and Greg Louganis were Samoan.

What's up with YATTA?

[kitty]

dean cain is a studmuffin :)

[Faithless]

dean cain is a studmuffin :)

And can play an alright bad guy, like in "Out of Time".

[TB4000]

And can play an alright bad guy, like in "Out of Time".


Uh-oh...you know kittygirl has a love of Dean Cain but isn't too fond of Out of Time. Conflicts may be arising....

[kitty]

Uh-oh...you know kittygirl has a love of Dean Cain but isn't too fond of Out of Time. Conflicts may be arising....

.....

........

i've sat through episodes of ripley's believe it or not for a certain hottie hapa...

o.O

[moJo]

.....

........

i've sat through episodes of ripley's believe it or not for a certain hottie hapa...

o.O
oh wow. that really is dedication.

that's worse than me sitting through all the episodes of Baywatch:Hawaii to gawk at Jason Momoa.

[Faithless]

Uh-oh...you know kittygirl has a love of Dean Cain but isn't too fond of Out of Time. Conflicts may be arising....
A thousand pardons!

[DragonKnight]

What's up with YATTA?
Lolz, first time I saw them was watching J-durama on a Saturday night. The group are members from this one show, Silly Go Lucky. I really dunno the real deal with them but it seems like a passing fad for the comedy troupe.

[applehead]

What surprises me more than Phobe Cates being part-asian is that she is 40 already.

yeah i was totally thinking...
"um, isn't she kinda young to be married to kevin kline..."
then i realized that she ages too.

[applehead]

dean cain is a studmuffin :)

oooooh yeah.
he is hotness.

[younggiftedandblack]

oooooh yeah.
he is hotness.

Watching your boy on T.V. now playing a racist on an old episode of "A Different World".

[moJo]

Watching your boy on T.V. now playing a racist on an old episode of "A Different World".
oh yeah, where he tags on Ron's car at the football game!
i remember that episode.

[kitty]

Watching your boy on T.V. now playing a racist on an old episode of "A Different World".

huh? dean cain? racist?? never.

[applehead]

hahahahahha.
don't they "make-up" at the end?

[younggiftedandblack]

hahahahahha.
don't they "make-up" at the end?

LOL!! Kind of. It's an akward, uneasy make-up.

[TB4000]

LOL!! Kind of. It's an akward, uneasy make-up.
The one part that gets me is when Dwayne responds back to one of them "I'm an educated black man, your worst nightmare!", then the applause starts. It seemed kinda corny when I first saw it, but I guess it did have some relevance.

[applehead]

dwayne. what an all around good guy.

[rice cracker]

dwayne. what an all around good guy.

Yeah, but he married that unbearable Whitney. She was so obnoxious.

[applehead]

what happened to her by the way.
my god, she looks so different now.
i've been watching her on dead like me.on showtime.

aging scares me.

[TB4000]

what happened to her by the way.
my god, she looks so different now.
i've been watching her on dead like me.on showtime.

aging scares me.
That's the show she's on now? Last time I heard she was the voice of the female cat in that animated movie Cats Don't Dance...LOL. It was eerie seeing a black girl with that much of a southern drawl, man.

[applehead]

yeap she's a sassy meter maid. who is also Death.
cool character though.
good show.
you should watch.

[TB4000]

yeap she's a sassy meter maid. who is also Death.
cool character though.
good show.
you should watch.

with that kinda endorsement, I think I better.

[mr. x]

oh yeah, where he tags on Ron's car at the football game!
i remember that episode.

is this a soap opera?

[younggiftedandblack]

is this a soap opera?

You've never seen "A Different World"? It's an old sitcom that was a spin-off from the Cosby show that was popular in the early to mid 90's. It took place on a black college campus.

[moJo]

Yeah, but he married that unbearable Whitney. She was so obnoxious.
ya know, had Lisa Bonet not left the show after like the first or second season, i'm sure Dwayne woulda ended up marrying her. they'd be much cuter together.

[Irezumi Kiss]

ya know, had Lisa Bonet not left the show after like the first or second season, i'm sure Dwayne woulda ended up marrying her. they'd be much cuter together.

I thought Whitley was better. Lisa's character had no real impact on the style of the show and it got better when she left. And Whitley's repressed sexual urges for Dwayne gave it an "edge."

Remember the hapa girl he was dating (half Black/half Japanese) who got into a fight over him with Whitley at his apartment and then his mother (Patti LaBelle) broke it up? Classic, classic show dat iz....

[TB4000]

I thought Whitley was better. Lisa's character had no real impact on the style of the show and it got better when she left. And Whitley's repressed sexual urges for Dwayne gave it an "edge."

Remember the hapa girl he was dating (half Black/half Japanese) who got into a fight over him with Whitley at his apartment and then his mother (Patti LaBelle) broke it up? Classic, classic show dat iz....
Also the birthplace of Cree Summer...most recognizable voice ever.

[Irezumi Kiss]

Also the birthplace of Cree Summer...most recognizable voice ever.

...mmmm....Cree Summer...the goddess of Boho chicks everywhere...

...also the voice of Penny on Inspector Gadget!

[TB4000]

...mmmm....Cree Summer...the goddess of Boho chicks everywhere...

...also the voice of Penny on Inspector Gadget!


I know, man...and not only Penny, but a bunch of others. Who knew that this
http://www.penduluminc.com/MM/images/July99%20Reviews/Cree4.jpg

could produce this?
http://www.thegremlin.com/WARNER.BROS/15780wb.JPG

[krome]

I didn't like The Cosby Show. Aside from its excruciatingly dull "humor," I think it really reinforced the Black lightocracy caste system. While most of the guys were fairly dark and clearly fuller-African, almost all of the female characters were hi-yella mixed-mulattoes.

[Irezumi Kiss]

I didn't like The Cosby Show. Aside from its excruciatingly dull "humor," I think it really reinforced the Black lightocracy caste system. While most of the guys were fairly dark and clearly fuller-African, almost all of the female characters were hi-yella mixed-mulattoes.

Well, if you're talking about the Cosby Show instead of Different World, the only "hi yella" women on the show (I can recall that weren't minor cast members) were Denise (Lisa Bonet), Sandra (Sandra LeBoeuf) and Raven Symone's character as a child. Different World had all sorts of tones going on up in there...

Everyone else had "paperbag" to dark-skinned complexions. That being said, during the time it came out, there was a sort of light skinned vs. dark skinned "war" going on in the Black community, so in an indirect way you could probably infer that to the show, but I think Cosby's reins on the finished product was a little too sophisticated for that ideology to ever be direct, especially considering Cosby wasn't "light" to begin with.

[nonamerasian]

I didn't like The Cosby Show. Aside from its excruciatingly dull "humor," I think it really reinforced the Black lightocracy caste system. While most of the guys were fairly dark and clearly fuller-African, almost all of the female characters were hi-yella mixed-mulattoes.

I wouldn't say "fuller-African," but that's another topic, I guess.

Besides that, I think his show was pretty representative of a Black-American family in terms of skin tone.

Shows today are weird, though. It does seen that the men in the families can be of any shade (but often mid-to-dark), but the woman and daughters are almost always light. This happens even in the cartoons, like the Proud Family.

A recent exception to this phenomenon is the Tracy Morgan show where the wife is an average complexion.

There are other exceptions, but what was stated above does seem to be the trend.

[Irezumi Kiss]

You know something, as much as we can talk about the dearth of Asian/Asian-American actors/actress in the media, you never see many dark-skinned Asians either, with the exception of maybe Tia Carrere, who is the only really natural (minus suntan) brown-skinned Asian popular media star I can think of...unless we're still checking Kiana Tom....

[nonamerasian]

The only ones I can think of are Apu and family.

. . .I don't think that's a good thing.