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kasia
12-02-2002, 09:18 PM
what do you do? do you consider them part-asian anyways and embrace them as one of us? or forget them?
BeTheReds
12-02-2002, 10:29 PM
Originally posted by kasia@Dec 3 2002, 05:18 AM
what do you do? do you consider them part-asian anyways and embrace them as one of us? or forget them?
It wouldn't make a difference either way if you embraced them or not. If they are mixed then they are mixed. You could say that they are one of us, but again I would argue that there is no us.
sal612
12-02-2002, 11:05 PM
Well I think it's quite unfair to say "you're not with us!" because some 'hapas' might be born in an environment that was a bit segregated from the Asian side of their identity...so they are just used to being more like their other side.
AliBabaIncorporated
12-02-2002, 11:36 PM
I lean towards the "forget them" option, at least in terms of whether I consider them as one of my own people or not. Sure, Kristen Kreuk and Michelle Branch are hot, but so are lots of other N. American mainstream media figures. I haven't got any more cultural similarity to white-cultured hapas, or for that matter white-cultured Asian-Americans, than I do to the average white person raised in America. Whether or not they "acknowledge" their Asian side or not, or go out to Asian-American media events or not, or decide to "explore their heritage" by reading some Amy Tan books, isn't gonna change that fact.
BeTheReds
12-03-2002, 12:58 AM
I don't think everyone is wording the answer correctly. Forget them? Why? Because you only like movies and music with Asian people being portrayed in positive ways?

I think it might be better to simply say that you don't take any more notice of them.

I don't know who half the people you are talking about are anyway.
kitty
12-03-2002, 12:52 PM
*kaff, kaff* tiger woods *kaff, kaff*
angel nympho
12-03-2002, 12:59 PM
Does it matter if WE embrace them? I highly doubt they care. I don't know any of them, so I don't know if they identify with Asians or not... until I know that, I couldn't give a fuck.
kimpossible
12-03-2002, 01:06 PM
Originally posted by kittygirl@Dec 3 2002, 12:52 PM
*kaff, kaff* tiger woods *kaff, kaff*
I dunno. I think everyone wants a piece of Tiger and want to force him to choose a 'side'. I feel for him. He even has a press release explaining his ethnicity. He shouldn't have to choose or prove anything.
YuheiCarreau
12-03-2002, 05:58 PM
Originally posted by kittygirl@Dec 3 2002, 02:52 PM
*kaff, kaff* tiger woods *kaff, kaff*
Hey, Tiger Woods is my hero. He's the only famous Hapa who identifies himself AS a Hapa, instead of choosing a side (like Halle Berry, for example). Plus he made it a point of aknowledging his Thai heritage (and White, and Native American,and...) when everyone was touting him as the first Black PGA champion.
loserbutt
12-03-2002, 06:06 PM
halle berry is part asian?

but as for famous, I think we already had a thread on this

bruce lee
tiger woods
keanu reeves
catherine zeta jones
tyson beckford
YuheiCarreau
12-03-2002, 10:34 PM
Originally posted by loserbutt@Dec 3 2002, 08:06 PM
halle berry is part asian?
Whoops, sorry, Halle Berry is White and Black, not Asian at all. I keep forgetting that "Hapa" is not the same as "biracial".
Shuriken
12-04-2002, 10:30 AM
Adam Sandler has written a "Hanukkah Song," in which he "outs" a number of ethnically Jewish celebrities who aren't immediately identified as Jewish, celebrities like Robert De Niro and Jennifer Connolly (who are both half-Jewish). He performs this in his movie Eight Crazy Nights. Maybe someone should write a "Hapa Song."
noriko
12-04-2002, 03:22 PM
wait, catherine zeta-jones is hapa?? i knew she was from Wales (actually, from a city about 10 miles away from the tiny town my dad's father grew up in), but i just thought she had unusual features, or something.

is she part asian? anyone know what, specifically?
(and yeah, i did look on the internet, but all i could find is that she's welsh)
loserbutt
12-04-2002, 03:32 PM
catherine zeta jones is actually 3/4 asian and 1/4 english

you know whats funny about DeNiro? He's more Irish than Italian yet he always plays the Italian gangsta
SunWuKong
12-04-2002, 03:35 PM
Originally posted by loserbutt@Dec 4 2002, 06:32 PM
catherine zeta jones is actually 3/4 asian and 1/4 english

you know whats funny about DeNiro? He's more Irish than Italian yet he always plays the Italian gangsta
huh? are you sure? post a link?
loserbutt
12-04-2002, 03:36 PM
? umm, look it up on E! online or IMDB.com or some other website. I thought that was common knowledge
kimpossible
12-04-2002, 03:41 PM
Hmm. I looked too and couldn't find that she was part Asian. I knew she was Welsh.
YuheiCarreau
12-04-2002, 03:42 PM
Originally posted by loserbutt@Dec 4 2002, 05:36 PM
? umm, look it up on E! online or IMDB.com or some other website. I thought that was common knowledge
I've never heard that before. And according to IMDB.com, her mother is Irish and her father is Welsh.
loserbutt
12-04-2002, 03:42 PM
well I saw it in some celebrity gossip magazine that comes with my sunday newspaper
maldito
12-04-2002, 07:15 PM
Originally posted by YuheiCarreau@Dec 3 2002, 10:34 PM
I keep forgetting that "Hapa" is not the same as "biracial".
You mean how you and other people define it.
loserbutt
12-04-2002, 07:50 PM
dang it, can't seem to find any confirmation that she's part asian. well, just look at her! doesn't she look asian?
YuheiCarreau
12-04-2002, 11:11 PM
Originally posted by loserbutt@Dec 4 2002, 09:50 PM
dang it, can't seem to find any confirmation that she's part asian. well, just look at her! doesn't she look asian?
No. Maybe try getting info from a paper that doesn't regularly carry headlines like HEADLESS CORPSE FOUND IN TOPLESS BAR :P
enygma
12-05-2002, 03:34 AM
Originally posted by loserbutt@Dec 4 2002, 07:50 PM
dang it, can't seem to find any confirmation that she's part asian. well, just look at her! doesn't she look asian?
i think her looks come from the "black irish" side of her family. i guess a long time ago, some spaniards settled in ireland either by choice or shipwreck and the people who had the darker coloring were called "black irish". unless, of course, she gets her coloring from the welsh side of the family. :P
loserbutt
12-05-2002, 08:29 AM
no, it was in that parade celebrity magazine, its sorta like people
SunWuKong
12-05-2002, 08:47 AM
hahha uh... yeah i couldn't find any info on the web about her being part-asian. that's why i asked you.

:)
YuheiCarreau
12-05-2002, 12:23 PM
Originally posted by enygma@Dec 5 2002, 05:34 AM
i think her looks come from the "black irish" side of her family. i guess a long time ago, some spaniards settled in ireland either by choice or shipwreck and the people who had the darker coloring were called "black irish". unless, of course, she gets her coloring from the welsh side of the family. :P
I believe the Black Irish are descendants of Irish people and the Spanish sailors who were shipwrecked there after the English navy defeated the Spanish armada.
artsfartsyjanet
12-05-2002, 12:42 PM
Does Yuhei Carreau come from Mary Poppins? Don't kill me if I'm totally wrong. :unsure:
BeTheReds
12-05-2002, 04:40 PM
How about Ray Munns, an MTVjay who I learned was 1/2 Korean yesterday and only revealed his Korean-ness backstage when he was never on camera and had a thing for Suchin Pak (uggh narsty).
TyroneK(prettypretty)
12-05-2002, 04:48 PM
I hear Jay-Z is half Filipino. This was published in A Magazine, former arbiter of all things true & Asian. Can anyone verify or disprove this?
YuheiCarreau
12-05-2002, 05:12 PM
Originally posted by artsfartsyjanet@Dec 5 2002, 02:42 PM
Does Yuhei Carreau come from Mary Poppins? Don't kill me if I'm totally wrong. :unsure:
No, that's my Japanese first name and my mother's maiden name. Yu = yuyujiteki no yu, hei = heiwa no hei; Carreau is a slightly mangled spelling of a French name (it should be Carreaux).
angel nympho
12-05-2002, 05:27 PM
Originally posted by BeTheReds@Dec 6 2002, 12:40 AM
How about Ray Munns, an MTVjay who I learned was 1/2 Korean yesterday and only revealed his Korean-ness backstage when he was never on camera and had a thing for Suchin Pak (uggh narsty).
Seriously? He doesn't look half ANYTHING.
VV o n g B a
12-05-2002, 07:29 PM
Originally posted by BeTheReds@Dec 5 2002, 06:40 PM
How about Ray Munns, an MTVjay who I learned was 1/2 Korean yesterday and only revealed his Korean-ness backstage when he was never on camera and had a thing for Suchin Pak (uggh narsty).
munns just looks like a dork. i remember he released a trance cd and hyped it on mtv with commercials of him liquiding. back then i was a regular of a dance forum and he got a lot of flack for that cuz he was so bad at it. :rolleyes: :P
BeTheReds
12-05-2002, 08:15 PM
Yes, Ray Munns was 1/2 Korean.. and also a big dork. I stopped watching MTV long ago after singled out was canceled. I miss Jon Sencio and Jenny McCarthy and Kennedy.
SunWuKong
12-05-2002, 08:21 PM
Originally posted by BeTheReds@Dec 5 2002, 11:15 PM
Yes, Ray Munns was 1/2 Korean.. and also a big dork. I stopped watching MTV long ago after singled out was canceled. I miss Jon Sencio and Jenny McCarthy and Kennedy.
you young'uns...

i miss downtown julie brown!!!


wubba wubba
BeTheReds
12-05-2002, 08:35 PM
Well I only started heavily watching MTV in High School. I remember all the people from the 80s tho, like Julie Brown and Martha Quinn and John Norris the VJ, not the news guy.

Paulie Shore..... hahahahha

Adam Sandler on Remote Control...
SunWuKong
12-05-2002, 08:41 PM
Originally posted by BeTheReds@Dec 5 2002, 11:35 PM
Well I only started heavily watching MTV in High School. I remember all the people from the 80s tho, like Julie Brown and Martha Quinn and John Norris the VJ, not the news guy.

Paulie Shore..... hahahahha

Adam Sandler on Remote Control...
oh man i had a crush on martha quinn. not sure why though it's not like she's that good looking or anything.
BeTheReds
12-05-2002, 08:45 PM
it's just because she was so cool in an era where all other news and tv personalities were outdated or boring. No she wasn't terribly attractive, but she was a rebel. That whole channel was back in the day.
SunWuKong
12-05-2002, 08:45 PM
alright i should start a new thread about this... (http://forums.yellowworld.org/index.php?act=ST&f=48&t=4065)
TyroneK(prettypretty)
12-08-2002, 01:50 PM
Is anybody going to answer my Jay-Z question?
Craig
12-08-2002, 02:57 PM
Originally posted by VBKao@Dec 8 2002, 04:50 PM
Is anybody going to answer my Jay-Z question?
I don't know who Jay-Z is, so I can't answer. However, I have noticed that most of the people I've met or seen that are half Filipino or Indonesian seem to be able to easily pass as White (except if their skin color is dark).