feeds from the High Culture forum http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:05:35 +0000 10 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6124 'Hafu' draws viewers into world of Japanese identity
Participants see themselves as part of emerging community

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20100622ev.html]]> Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:05:35 +0000 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6124 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6120 http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/03/the-dna-of-abraham-s-children.html
http://blog.newvoices.org/?p=3627]]> Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:19:13 +0000 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6120 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6102 This paper looks briefly into his background, his impact and the history of the scene, and whether it's a tsunami or just a large wave in a train of waves.....apparently Mandlebrot cites Hokusai's print....as a fractal pattern.


http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/63/2/119.full.pdf+html]]> Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:52:58 +0000 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6102 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6095

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8497330.stm]]> Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:05:32 +0000 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6095 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6092 Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:19:36 +0000 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6092 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6079

Like for instance.

is it because it makes women look more feminine?

I really like the tiny face look on women.]]> Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:10:14 +0000 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6079 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6061
AFP article

Many say he was just following protocol by honoring a Japanese tradition of greeting.

When I was in Japan I bowed to nobody as I viewed myself as an American and used the western handshake instead.]]> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:39:21 +0000 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6061 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6052 so fluffy white and spongey
what the fuck are you?]]> Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:23:39 +0000 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6052 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6045
For instance we always make yams with orange juice and rind with butter , I guess it would be called orange candied yams and they are my favorite. ]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:41:07 +0000 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6045 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6026
I'm not American but I can't help but be intrigued by what has been going on over there in regards to Obama, the public option, the Republicans.. Fox "News" etc etc.

I would like to know how the public option will affect your life.. and what the general consensus is of family and friends in regards to supporting it and how it will affect them. (If it get's passed, which in all honesty looks like it won't be)]]> Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:28:16 +0000 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6026 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5961

Surfing the web today and came across an article about how Osaka police department are putting up this poster. It states:

Help prevent illegal aliens and illegal laborers.
Before you hire a foreigner, check their credentials and make sure that the are in Japan legally.
Over stayers (people who have expired visas) are considered illegal aliens.
Business owners will also be prosecuted for hiring illegal aliens.

IF YOU SEE ANY SUSPICIOUS FOREIGNERS, CALL 110 (POLICE EMERGENCY LINE) IMMEDIATELY.

I had no problems with the first part of it because I do agree that illegals have no right being here, HOWEVER, this poster was being posted in residential areas and apartment buildings, instead of labor offices like they should be.


And of course, the last line is just so wrong in 18 different ways. How do distinguish whether a person looks suspicious or not? To a lot of people, foreigners are suspicious by default. I can already see the 110 switchboard lighting with "suspicious gaijin sightings"]]> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:21:03 +0000 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5961 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5933 I understand it is played a lot in schools in Japan and taught to the kindergarten age kids and wondered how many of us also learned it on the opposite side of the planet. ]]> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:50:30 +0000 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5933 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5919 I was wondering how many havsies here had parents in the Internment/Concentration Camps during WWII? There were the 10 camps plus another one I believe was in Mexico that rounded up all the Japanese/Mexican mixed people. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:33:14 +0000 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5919 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5895 How big of a problem is cannabalism in the community? Thu, 14 May 2009 03:28:19 +0000 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5895 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5865
Well, here is our solution!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...L&type=tech

http://lavalevel.net/2009/03/15/death-in-r...-death- in-game/]]> Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:15:00 +0000 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5865 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5834 http://www.legalizationofmarijuana.com/

I think that the pros outweigh the cons of legalizing marijuana. What do you all think?

And no, I have never smoked marijuana in my life. I just think that it's ridiculous that so many people are going to jail each year for possessing the stuff. The police should concentrate on more serious crimes.]]> Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:21:39 +0000 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5834 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5777 Yabusame has appeared on ABC News online. A rare western glimpse at an ancient Japanese tradition. My trip to Japan in Hesei ga nen was centered on Yabusame. I went in September in order to see it. There were so many people there it was hard to see...]]> Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:40:54 +0000 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5777 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5731
My mother's Japanese friends were talking about how the younger generation in Japan are not very patriotic. Their solution was to introduce compulsory military service for men.

Do you think this is a good idea? ]]> Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:12:24 +0000 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5731 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5727
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Hollywood flicks we see mostly see Black-Black couples, or Latin-Latin couples, but Asian women are always paired with a White guy. It seems like most TV shows and movies in the past ten years exclusively pair an Asian girl with a White (or Black) guy romatically. Asian men are being completely suppressed and excluded in television and film.

No Asian actresses are willing to object to the scripts, or fight against these negative stereotypes. They don't understand the power of TV/film to mold the way people think.

These shows affect kids. Teens, especially girls, judge themselves on others' opinions, and are easily influenced. Young, insecure Asian girls are conditioned through social norms/media to 'act White' and want only White men (self hate), and young Asian American boys growing up in the US are conditioned to think they are unattractive, or become shy or unassertive. Some Asian youth resolve identity conflict by developing self-hate and bashing their heritage, family, and people (ex 'I won't date Asians', or criticizing other Asians).

Whether it be fashion magazines, gossip mags, TV, movies, or our friends, all of us are influenced and emulate in some way what we see on screen. Entertainment can be as influential as advertising, product placement, or branding. So many shows and movies in America demean Asian men, while perpetuating an 'Asian Girl Fetish' in this country. It is Hollywood Colonialism.]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:53:46 +0000 http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5620