ITT the Jews and the Chinese get along GREAT

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.

Mir Yeshiva in Shanghai - the yeshiva still exists in Israel. very famous place.

yup

I always feel a little uncomfortable at "Why are the Jews so smart?" type questions, but somehow when they come from China they seem much freer of the suspicion that normally comes with such questions. It's like the idea of success doesn't have as much baggage attached in China as it does elsewhere. Maybe that's an oversimplification on my part.

nah it speaks to one of the worst aspects of chinese culture IMO

At least he asked "Why are the Jews so smart?" and not "Why do the Jews know everything?"

According to the traditionist Muqatil ibn Sulayman (d. AH 150), whose Quranic commentary is among the earliest to reach us, a small group of Jews was disgusted by the prophet-killing of their brethren among the Children of Israel. In answer to their prayer that they be separated from the rebellious, God opened a tunnel through the earth from the Temple in Jerusalem to China, and closed it behind them after their exodus. The righteous Jews have lived in China ever since, from whence they will return only to fight against the Antichrist. Others put the righteous community of Moses at the opposite end of the world, beyond al-Andalus (the Iberian Peninsula), the western limit of Islam and of the then known world.19

19 See Muqatil ibn Sulayman, Tafsir al-Quran, commenting on Q 17:104, and discussed in Uri Rubin, Between Bible and Qurān: The Children of Israel and the Islamic Self-Image (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 1999), 27–28. Such traditions seem to develop from debate over the ten tribes of Israel lost ca. 722 BCE, when the Assyrian conquerors of Israel deported them (see 2 Kings 7:6, 23; 2 Esd. 13:41–42, 46–47; Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, trans. Ralph Marcus [Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1937], 11.133). Might they also reflect knowledge of rabbinic stories like the Jerusalem Talmud’s account (Kilayim 9.4) of Rabbi Meir’s emigration to “Asia”? The idea that the ten lost tribes had settled in Central Asia was popular among medieval and early modern Europeans as well, including the famous historian Guillaume Postel in his Des Histoires Orientales (Paris, 1575), 34–37.

(Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, by David Nirenberg)

http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/12/israel-increasingly-courting-china-as-an-ally/?_r=0

My dad will be pleased to hear this.

http://woksandlox.com/

cute. Are these sorts of things implicitly singles meetups? I think H and I once went to some kind of interest-based meetup group a while back and we felt like we were the only couple.

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.