Such a great song, I’ve been waiting for the video for quite some time…and its AWESOME…plus boobies!

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This is the latest in a long line of products and behaviours that exoticise and trivialize people from Asian countries. I came upon a really dumb website to-day. it is called asiajam.com. Here is its description:

Asian Fashion starts at AsiaJam.com. We carry a huge selection of the newest Asian Fashion from Japan, Hong Kong and Korea. You can find styles from Japanese Streetwear for teens to fruitsy t-shirts for girls which are ‘kawaii’ or cute!

Not content with fetishising Asian women and emasculating Asian men, hijacking the language of Asian countries as decorations and funny pictures, and trivializing the traditions of these people, we now need to mimic their style of dress! North America will not be content until we can compartmentalize everything about a culture, saving the stereotypical parts, and throwing out what makes these people “people”.

I realize that this is sort of a trivial (and somewhat egregious) leap to make, but let me remind you that this is most probably taking off from the popularity of Gwen’s Harajuku girls; who aren’t allowed to speak English in public (even though they can!) and who grossly misrepresent Asian and Asian American women as mysterious sexual objects. In light of this, AsiaJam.com becomes more than a harmless site where you can buy trendy Asian fashions, and more like another way to show how we in the west can hijack the culture of others without paying attention to the worth and value of people.

Personal issues have prevented me from posting here for awhile, but this one is long overdue.

Today is the national (and international, as it were) day of action against the injustice being done in the city of Jena, Louisiana, in the United States of America. The main campaign is to free 6 wrongfully convicted young black men from what has been called “modern day Jim Crow justice”, and take the state to task for its racist use of power.

It all started with two black students sitting under the “white tree” (so called because only white students sit under it at lunch) at their school. The next day, there were nooses hung from it, as a warning. This led to protests under the tree, by black students, threats from the DA to make the lives of the protesters miserable, clashes between white and black students, and the wrongful arrest of 6 African-American students.

Click here if you want to learn more. I’m really not doing this serious subject enough justice. I urge you all to read more and educate yourselves on this issue.

I promise. I’ve got loads of material on the way