ITT the Jews and the Chinese get along GREAT

lol: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/16/us/studying-and-living-jewish-asian-intermarriage.html

http://www.chinaheritagequarterly.org/tien-hsia.php?searchterm=027_jews.inc&issue=027

Lol, the ad I got on that Times article is "Meet Amazing Asian Singles"

BTW I have heard from multiple sources that a lot of the waiters in the chinese restaurants in chinatown/LES used to speak yiddish since they had so much jewish clientele.

there's a famous jewish joke about that

In a Jewish reataurant, a man comes in and his order is taken by a Chinese waiter who speaks perfect Yiddish. After the waiter takes his order and goes to the kitchen, the man calls over the manager.

"Where did you find a Chinese waiter who knows Yiddish?"

"Shh!" the manager says. "He thinks he's learning English."

feel like it would be superfluous to point out that all the marriages in that article were jewish male <> asian female

tbf I think it's more common? but if you want to meet a nice jewish girl you are playing your cards right with the law school thing.

well I don't think it's just 'more common' - and tbf it's not just confined to the jewish dude <> asian girl pairing, the white guy <> asian girl phenomenon is p widespread. there are probably interesting sociological and gender role issues at play here but of course i'm not a social scientist

Now that I sit here and think about it, any Asian/European mixed couples around here seem to always be white female, asian male.

We publish a society magazine, and it happens not all the time, but a noticeable amount of time that I'll come across an Amy Wu who looks like Barbara Mandrell.

It's not always the same woman either, I should say.

Married couples in the United States in 2010 (thousands)[11]
White Wife Black Wife Asian Wife Other Wife
White Husband 50,410 168 529 487
Black Husband 390 4,072 39 66
Asian Husband 219 9 2,855 28
Other Husband 488 18 37 568

via wikipedia

hard to read but
white husband asian wife = 529,000
asian husband white wife = 219,000

asian husband black wife = 9000, the most elite club

where the gays at?

https://docs.google.com/a/mediaradar.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:c--k8RQxTqoJ:escholarship.org/uc/item/66521994.pdf+&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgP8Oq8cdQzXw0Se_-pqWw9qzW3At63jZCmvM256uk28B8RG_rtgA24Syh3zQcVzsUpJcjh4O4SaSfbUOEt8Pm0dPJAa4cOIq2c5VtmU0l3Q4vWTfxr5puSym4rEZOHa392LGZp&sig=AHIEtbTxWznB9MkMw4K1TGYyip4tZvgOrg

Same-sex couples are as likely as different-sex married couples
to include a racial or ethnic minority

The Census data describes couples by the race or ethnicity of the “householder”, who was Person 1 on
the Census form and is usually the person in whose name the home is either owned or rented. Among
different-sex unmarried partners, just 74% of householders were White. In general, the racial/ethnic
distribution of householders does not differ much between same-sex couples and different-sex married
couples, while different-sex unmarried couples include a larger proportion of racial/ethnic minorities
(see Figure 2). For both same-sex and different-sex married couples, 81% of householders were White.
Compared to different-sex married couples, same-sex couples had slightly higher proportions of African-
American householders and slightly smaller proportions of Asian householders. The proportion of
Hispanic householders did not differ between the two groups (12%).

wait that's just the 'householder'

Same-sex couples are the most likely to be interracial or interethnic

More than one in five same-sex couples
(20.6%) are interracial or interethnic
compared to 18.3% of different-sex
unmarried couples and just 9.5% of
different-sex unmarried couples (see
Figure 5).

More than half of same-sex couples in
9.5%
Hawaii (53%) are interracial or interethnic
(see Figure 6). About a third fit that
category in California (33%), New Mexico
(31%), and Nevada (30%). Other states
where same-sex couples are likely to be
Different-sex married couples Different-sex unmarried couples
Same-sex couples
interracial or interethnic include Alaska
(28%), District of Columbia (28%), Oklahoma (26%), Arizona (26%), Texas (25%), and Colorado (24%).
Less than 10% of same-sex couples are interracial or interethnic in Maine, Mississippi, Vermont, West
Virginia, and New Hampshire, and Alabama.

Figure 5. Percent of couples that are interracial/ethnic

I'm glad the stats bear me out - recall something from the latest census that showed that asian females were twice as likely to marry outside their race than in the race, and asian males were twice as likely to just be unmarried? lol asians I guess

well the stats don't bear out the twice as likely stat

Asian Wife / White Male - 529
Asian Wife / Black Male - 39
Asian Wife / Asian Male - 2,855
Asian Wife / Other Male - 37

but I'd be curious to see the asian-american vs first gen stats

yeah I think it was limited to a certain age demographic? not overall

like 20-35

Get these stats out of my thread, I hate numbers...

Oh wait.

I had to look in the mirror to remember that I'm good at math and like money.

feel guilty for being good w/ computers, liking cameras + photography
#noapologies for hating math & money tho

do u take photos of meals?

probably like one out of every 100 meals I've ever eaten

I own property and am the only adult in my household who can vote.

I know, not Chinese but can't help thinking of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gerq4GpHpKw

http://www.yelp.com/biz/barbaras-cleaners-torrance

Oh I think we were talking about the Ron Unz meritocracy/harvard article elsewhere, but this guy claims to refute it:

http://andrewgelman.com/2013/02/that-claim-that-harvard-admissions-discriminate-in-favor-of-jews-after-checking-the-statistics-maybe-not/

iirc Chinese firms will hire foreign folks simply to stand around and look important at business functions so

― Toshiro Mifune is my spirit animal (silby), Wednesday, November 28, 2012 4:18 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha i was paid to do exactly this almost on the same day that silby posted this message.

hope boy_slayer finds his jewish soulbro

is it... you, buzza? *smooch*

Where truth reigns there is life; . . . where the lie reigns there is death. Life now sundered may carry on for some time, but God is no longer its essence. History furnishes us . . . with two major and cautionary examples. We are terrified when we behold them as if we had seen some nocturnal spirits. Both have long since fallen into the grave. One can still be seen like some cloud up in the skies; the other like a rigid corpse. We mean the Jewish people-the spirit without a body; and the Chinese, a body without a spirit.

Judaism has embraced within itself all aspects of the ancient consciousness of God just as Christianity has within it all the contradictions of the modern consciousness of God. Judaism like Christianity has thus to be recognized as the underlying principle of the historical process. Jews, therefore, must exist as the thorn in the flesh of Western mankind.
Just as the East needs a Chinese Wall so as not to be disturbed in its stationary existence, so the Jews are the fermentation within Western man- kind, from the beginning called upon to represent the principle of move- ment . . . [Since Christ] they have wandered like a ghost through the world of the living . . . and they can neither die nor be resurrected.

is this Zizek again or what

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Hess

Chén or Chan (simplified Chinese: 陈; traditional Chinese: 陳; pinyin: Chén; Wade–Giles: Ch'en) is one of the most common East Asian family names. It ranks as the 5th most common surname in China, as of 2007[1] and the most common surname in Singapore (2000)[2] and Taiwan (2010).[3] Chen is also the most common family name in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hong Kong (spelt Chan in Hong Kong and Macau). It is the most common surname in Xiamen, the ancestral hometown of many overseas Hoklo.[4] Chen (חֵן) is also a Hebrew word meaning "loveliness" and "grace", which is the 30th-most-common surname in Israel.[5]

that is…not the same consonant. or word. or anything.

yeah, definitely not a cognate

Thought this was being revived due to your Ben Chang comment on the racist thread.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-and-china-ink-400-million-trade-agreement/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X036MPckzI

http://shanghaiist.com/2013/05/13/watch_a_little_slice_of_jewish_history_in_shanghai.php

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/05/23/retired_high_ranking_chinese_official_asks_why_jews_are_so_smart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp2tyCiDTGg

chabad!

http://www.chabadbeijing.com/

my grandfather (RIP) was from a town in russia (what's now belarus, i believe) that was dominated by a yeshiva. during WWII, the people who ran that jeshiva, and several of the students, up and moved to shanghai. the article above suggest whoever may have still been there moved to israel over the following decades.

my grandpa came to america ca. 1915 FWIW.

Last year I had hoisin with my latkes and it was A++

Out for Korean tonight.

https://i.imgur.com/Hh7uItO.jpg

there's been a big influx of orthodox jews visiting the traditional chinese medicine shop down the street, i assume related to the measles outbreak.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/chinese-itzik-haifa

Regarding the top Chinese executive in Israel, who chose to learn Hebrew as a young man:

...his grandfather told him that Jews were smart—people of the book. Everyone thinks this in China, he said. If his years communicating with real Jews in Israel has disabused him of this notion, he was too polite to say so.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/dining/ed-schoenfeld-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/nyregion/new-york-shun-lee-chinese-restaurants.html

paywalled, i *love* Shun Lee West/Cafe but never been to the Palace. Was aware of the new location but haven't bothered to investigate though it's much closer to where i live. Just assumed the experience and decor wouldn't be the same.

https://www.thechinesequest.com/

very cute, this is one of my favorite things that's come out of the expansion of Chinatown along the Port Washington line so far.