http://i.imgur.com/RbdZz.jpg
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 02:16 (eleven years ago) link
Kagan was half the reason for this thread, the other half was my dad.
― I was in this prematureleee air-conditioned supermarket (Leee), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 02:19 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.speakingofchina.com/china-articles/jewish-women-chinese-men/#.ULV0j-TAeSo
― buzza, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 02:21 (eleven years ago) link
disappointed that wasn't a sophia chua rubenfeld update
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 02:27 (eleven years ago) link
based on my experiences irl, I'm pretty sure jewish men are much more likely to marry chinese women ; )
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
and that wasn't a zing @ woody allen !
http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-RD648_chua_f_CV_20111223162015.jpg
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 02:29 (eleven years ago) link
sophia is old news, lulu is where it's at
https://twitter.com/luluchuru
― buzza, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 02:30 (eleven years ago) link
okay the picture of her meeting mia farrow is just too ironic/serendipitous to be true
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 02:32 (eleven years ago) link
Sophia ChuaRubenfeld @SophiaCaribou
"black friday" sounds like it should refer to a historic massacre or war crime or something. The reality is only slightly more terrifying
i think she is beautiful enough that one would listen to this coruscating social commentary
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 02:37 (eleven years ago) link
not really warming to lulu, it's all a bit emo, like a series epigrams by victorian spinster amateur poets
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 02:42 (eleven years ago) link
you guys are gross
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 02:45 (eleven years ago) link
Recently read an article about Chinese firms giving ridiculous precedence to Jewish applicants based on the perceived traits mentioned in the first link.
― Mates of 808 State (S-), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 03:17 (eleven years ago) link
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, 28 November 2012 03:18 (eleven years ago) link
good work if you can get it
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 03:21 (eleven years ago) link
This says we're both right!
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/05/23/the_worlds_most_racist_job_ad
― Mates of 808 State (S-), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 03:32 (eleven years ago) link
I hadn't thought about it before (and i didn't finish the article), but I know two married couples who are chinese man/jewish woman.
― how's life, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 12:40 (eleven years ago) link
Wonder if all this means I can sign up for JDate.
― I was in this prematureleee air-conditioned supermarket (Leee), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― how's life, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
"A Jew and a Chinese, both of them lovers of traditional music and driven by spiritual concerns and climate worries, have decided to make an environment-friendly album together"
― Mordy, Sunday, 23 December 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
get ready to order chinese food!
― 乒乓, Monday, 24 December 2012 02:29 (eleven years ago) link
and a movie -- les miz!
― Mordy, Monday, 24 December 2012 02:30 (eleven years ago) link
:)
― 乒乓, Monday, 24 December 2012 02:32 (eleven years ago) link
only two tables of white ppl in the chinese resto I ate at earlier
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
maybe the asian people were jews
― iatee, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2012/12/25/167977055/for-some-jews-christmas-is-more-than-chinese-food
― Mordy, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
rest assured tho. for me christmas is still only chinese food
― Mordy, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
lol: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/16/us/studying-and-living-jewish-asian-intermarriage.html
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.chinaheritagequarterly.org/tien-hsia.php?searchterm=027_jews.inc&issue=027
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
Lol, the ad I got on that Times article is "Meet Amazing Asian Singles"
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 15:28 (eleven years ago) link
there's a famous jewish joke about that
― Mordy, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 15:28 (eleven years ago) link
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."
― Mordy, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
feel like it would be superfluous to point out that all the marriages in that article were jewish male <> asian female
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
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
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― pplains, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
It's not always the same woman either, I should say.
― pplains, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
Married couples in the United States in 2010 (thousands)[11] White Wife Black Wife Asian Wife Other WifeWhite Husband 50,410 168 529 487Black Husband 390 4,072 39 66Asian Husband 219 9 2,855 28Other Husband 488 18 37 568
― iatee, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
via wikipedia
― iatee, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
hard to read butwhite husband asian wife = 529,000 asian husband white wife = 219,000
asian husband black wife = 9000, the most elite club
― iatee, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
where the gays at?
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
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 couplesto include a racial or ethnic minority
The Census data describes couples by the race or ethnicity of the “householder”, who was Person 1 onthe Census form and is usually the person in whose name the home is either owned or rented. Amongdifferent-sex unmarried partners, just 74% of householders were White. In general, the racial/ethnicdistribution of householders does not differ much between same-sex couples and different-sex marriedcouples, 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 ofHispanic householders did not differ between the two groups (12%).
― iatee, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
wait that's just the 'householder'
― iatee, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
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 interethniccompared to 18.3% of different-sexunmarried couples and just 9.5% ofdifferent-sex unmarried couples (seeFigure 5).
More than half of same-sex couples in9.5%Hawaii (53%) are interracial or interethnic(see Figure 6). About a third fit thatcategory in California (33%), New Mexico(31%), and Nevada (30%). Other stateswhere same-sex couples are likely to beDifferent-sex married couples Different-sex unmarried couplesSame-sex couplesinterracial 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, WestVirginia, 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
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
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 - 2,855Asian Wife / Other Male - 37
but I'd be curious to see the asian-american vs first gen stats
― iatee, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I think it was limited to a certain age demographic? not overall
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
like 20-35
Get these stats out of my thread, I hate numbers...
Oh wait.
― Ultramega OK Cupid (Leee), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2015/02/10/384069013/part-asian-american-all-jewish
― 龜, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 02:23 (nine years ago) link
Once, she even told her mother she wanted to give up Judaism. "Is that possible?" her mother asked.
The perpetual metaphysical quandary of Jewishness.
― stately, plump buck angel (silby), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 04:33 (nine years ago) link
http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/kaifeng-china-jewish-roots-passover/?_r=0
― 龜, Monday, 6 April 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2j0yTlfSGk
― 龜, Friday, 4 September 2015 12:06 (eight years ago) link
lol @ ISRAEL text message
― welltris (crüt), Friday, 4 September 2015 12:13 (eight years ago) link
awww that is making me feel all emo
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 20:43 (eight years ago) link
ha maybe it's supposed to be a dude named Israel texting?
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 20:46 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOse8IoxUTI
― écorché (S-), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 04:35 (eight years ago) link
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/196382/chinas-secrets-of-jewish-success
In the best-seller The Spirit of Jewish Culture (the English title on the cover is Whats [sic] Behind Jewish Cleverness) by Sai Ni Ya, one of He Xiongfei’s pseudonyms, he writes that Jews “are the most intelligent, mysterious, and the wealthiest people in the world. In a sense, not knowing about Jews equals not knowing the world! When Jews sneeze at home, all the banks in the world would catch a cold one by one. Five Jews together can control the gold market of the humankind; the antagonism between the East and the West, in a sense, can be said to be that between two Jews—Jesus and Marx.”
― Mordy, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:30 (eight years ago) link
Oy
― Οὖτις, Monday, 25 January 2016 16:33 (eight years ago) link
Vey
Five Jews together can control the gold market of the humankind;
let's do this
― • (sleepingbag), Monday, 25 January 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link
hang on let me clear with the Elders of Zion first
― Οὖτις, Monday, 25 January 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
When you take over, please remember who started this thread!
― Sofialo Ren (Leee), Monday, 25 January 2016 18:32 (eight years ago) link
Five Jews sounds like the next hip bagel joint
― broderik f (darraghmac), Monday, 25 January 2016 19:27 (eight years ago) link
H invited our neighbors (two kids who are watched during the day by their Chinese grandmother) for an impromptu playdate after seeing the grandmother (who speaks virtually no English and cares for the kids) roaming the hallways in boredom. The grandmother went to her apartment and came back with an envelope with $20 in it for Chinese New Year. Are we supposed to give her/them something in return?
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 16:59 (eight years ago) link
I mean if we just give THEM $20, doesn't that defeat the purpose? But if we give them more, it seems competitive and if we give less it seems cheap. So how does this work?
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 17:01 (eight years ago) link
don't give anything but maybe invite them to dinner later
― 龜, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 17:08 (eight years ago) link
ooh yeah, power move
― goole, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 17:08 (eight years ago) link
That's a good idea. Parents are really nice -- they've gotten our kids birthday gifts (and we did the same in return) even though we haven't really had the change to hang out.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 17:10 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/m3kucf1.jpg
― 龜, Sunday, 6 March 2016 23:30 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/originalspin/status/718161821270585344
― Mordy, Thursday, 7 April 2016 19:50 (eight years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese-Jewish_common_ancestry_theory
― 龜, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 20:00 (eight years ago) link
Courtesy bump for Christmas.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Saturday, 24 December 2016 23:37 (seven years ago) link
Love Jews, love China, all good. Merry Christmas!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 24 December 2016 23:55 (seven years ago) link
Wait I don't actually love Jared Kushner, just need to point that out.
i got my christmas chinese takeout - place was packed
― Mordy, Sunday, 25 December 2016 00:02 (seven years ago) link
Last year I had hoisin with my latkes and it was A++
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Sunday, 25 December 2016 16:13 (seven years ago) link
Out for Korean tonight.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 25 December 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Hh7uItO.jpg
― 龜, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
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.
― 龜, Saturday, 4 May 2019 11:56 (five years ago) link
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/chinese-itzik-haifa
― aegis philbin (crüt), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 17:35 (two years ago) link
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.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 18:49 (two years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/dining/ed-schoenfeld-dead.html
― 龜, Saturday, 15 January 2022 13:59 (two years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/nyregion/new-york-shun-lee-chinese-restaurants.html
― 龜, Monday, 10 April 2023 11:12 (one year ago) link
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.
― The true speed of Billy Joel (Deflatormouse), Monday, 10 April 2023 18:33 (one year ago) link
https://www.thechinesequest.com/
― 龜, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 16:06 (four months ago) link
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.
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 16:44 (four months ago) link