Blacks and Asians couples: Do they exist?!

So.......I used to live in a very small Californian town so pretty much everything I ever saw was white people and some Mexicans (We are in Cali after all).

Here in College though I have friends from all over the world and I actually love it

I'm taking a introduction to Sociology class. We are focusing on American identity. One thing led to another and we began to talk about interacial couples here in America.

How they're perceived by others, what groups are more open to it. We all gave our point of view on the matter and some shared their experiences.


BUT I did notice that one of the couples that didn't even get touched on was

Blasian couples

Like I said before I come from a small town with very few minorities in it so it is no surprise I never saw such a couple.

Here in college though one of my very good friends is African American and my bestfriend/roomate is an exchange student from Taiwan. 

So I naturally ask them both (separately) if they knew of any Black/Asian couple. My friend 'S' from Taiwan told me she had never seen one but maybe it was because she had only been in the U.S. for two yrs. But my African American friend 'M' said she knew of one Filipino/Black couple from when she used to live in Florida.

But yup, so far I haven't really seen a Blasian couple myself.



I became more intrigued by this lack of connection between these two groups and so I went to the place we all go to get out questions answered..Google


I found a shitload of stuff on the matter. Some were old and some were fairly recent. Some were actual articles, but the most juicy stuff I found was in forums where actual people who belong to either one of those groups shared their ideas.


I knew that if it is hard to find a Blasian couple in LA then to find one in the rest of the country would be almost impossible.

The real articles I found were pretty standard. They focused on the history if immigration from both groups, blah blah blah. How in modern times both groups tend to stick to their own ethnic groups blah blah blah.

The most interesting graph I found was one of the most to least likely interracial couple you can find in the good old USA. The two most likely couples were Asian women/White men Latina women/White men Black men/White women. And then the least likely couple to encounter is 
Black women/Asian men. No wonder I haven't seen one Blasian couple as of today


Now the forums is where all the confrontation anger and frustration could be felt.


Some forums I encountered were on predominately African America/Black sites as well as forums or blogs of Asian American/Asians perspective.

Let's just say the word 'chink' and 'nigger' were being thrown around as if they were nothing.


The Asians argument:
They don't have anything in common with Blacks
Blacks tend to be criminals, sell drugs, go to jail(**sigh)
Black don't go to school
Blacks  are violent + rude + loud (**double sigh)
Blacks and Asian have history of not getting along (LA riots I guess)
Families would never accept a Black person
Asians don't like dark skin because it's not pretty
Black men have too much equipment down there and Asian women are too small for it to fit (LMFAO)
~~list goes on with more really racist and rude arguments



The Black argument:
Asians are racist
Asians are cheap and want to steal from the Black men (I'm quoting here)
Asians are nerds and stuck up
Asians love to kiss white people's ass so they try to put black people down for it
Asians have flat asses (No junk in their trunk :D)
Asians can not speak the Engrish
They can't dance (Oh hell no!)
~~Who would want to be with an Asian? that pretty much encompasses the rest of their arguments

So people were pretty much being dickheads from both sides of the fence.


Now I also found a lot of blogs in which most of the time the author was a Black girl saying with no shame they wanted an Asian man by their side. Some went even as far as to say that they didn't like Black men because they were (Insert Asian argument here).

This group of Black women who were making such revelations were 99% of the time fans of J-Pop, K-pop, Manga, Anime and so on (You can figure this out very easily by looking at their profiles)



Asians blogger that I found more open to the idea only went as far as to write 'Race shouldn't matter when dating' but none of the Asians bloggers I encountered went as far as to say 'Ugh I would totally date a Black person right now. They are so hot' Asian bloggers pretty much write they might be open to the idea if (And that seems to be a really big IF) they find the right person who happens to be Black but none of them seem willing to go out of their way to date Blacks (And I'm being nice by putting it this way)


On the other hand lots of Black people (specially women) really do seem to want to date Asians but they don't know how or are afraid of rejection.

I even found a blog written by a Korean man who writes about the Korean mind-set on things. He wrote in one of his blogs how he gets so many emails from girls asking on tips on how to date Korean men. And that most of the people who would disclose what ethnicity they belonged to were Black girls :O

So it does seem like they (Blacks, girls specially) do want to date Asians but they feel Asians don't want them :(

I don't think relations between Asian and Blacks are that rigid (at least from what I can see on campus) but they are just kind of segregated into their own little groups. I do see some Asians and Blacks being friends so I think it is only a matter of time before this couple becomes a least a little more popular. Blasian I mean...

But if you are black girl at least try to not seem and sound so desperate when you are making your love for Asian men so obvious online. Men won't take women seriously when women appear to be too easy and available. Let's keep it classy, ladies.

Working @ Express SUCKS: My experience

 I'm awake finishing some school homework when I suddenly felt the need for some good old
online shopping

One thing led to another and I ended up browsing through the EXPRESS online store.

Suddenly horrible memories of the two worst weeks of my life (Exaggeration at its best but I tend to be dramatic) came back flooding my mind



First of all. working in retail tends to suck everywhere. There are always rude customers, the pay is horrible, the expectations are usually too high for what you get and the hours you get tend to suck at best. All in all, not the best field to work at.

But Express takes the cake in my book.

I worked at Express for less than three weeks but I still remember a lot of things that made me  
want to run out of that place after one hour of work.



Everything began with me being broke. And as you know broke college students do not look pretty. I had been working at a shoe store until recently but it freaking closed down with the owner telling us about this one week before it actually happened

So there I was broke, sad and hungry. I of course began to apply everywhere and as things turned out I got one of my first calls from Express.

The woman who called me sounded extremely nice so I was actually excited about the possibility of working there.

I went to my first interview. The person interviewing us was actually the assistant manager and not the manager herself.


One word to describe her would be: Bitch


I seriously could smell the bitchiness emerging from her pores as she made her way to us from the backroom.

During the entire interview she kept reminding us how she was soooo harsh when it came to hiring new people and how she never kept people who wouldn't immediately giver results and how we needed to be available every single day that we were putting down on our applications (Even though she wouldn't give people more than 8 hours per week HA)

I of course kissed her ass and tried to be as outgoing as possible to get the job. Let's just say I was desperate at the time.

Me and one other guy from that group interview ended up getting hired.

So, there I was on my first day of work. Besides the usual nervousness I was feeling okay about the whole thing. I finally met the manager who turned out to be a total sweetheart.

But of course since I'm sooo lucky it turns out the manager wasn't fat as I had thought but 81/2 months pregnant. So she was taking her maternity leave for two months. And yup. The bitch was going to be in charge from then on.

Let's pretend the assistant manager (The b...) was named 'Rosy'.

Well Rosy acted like a totally neurotic, too-good-for-everyone over-confident beyotch the entire time she trained me.

She gave me tips on:
-How to push merchandize to customers until they wouldn't be able to say no.
-How to get customers to get credit cards they didn't actually need.
-How to kiss more ass.
-And on how to act like stalker and follow customers around the store asking them their names.

Yup. Overall the place was shit.

I suddenly remembered why I had never like shopping at Express.

One reason was because of the clothing. It's so dull. It's mostly for women over 35 who want to pretend they still got it. And the prices are just stupid for such mediocre clothing

Another reason was because of the workers (stalkers) working there.

Back then, I used to blame them and curse quietly at them because they just wouldn't let me breathe.

Sometimes one just wants to browse around. Look at prices. Walk around the store and just enjoy our time there.

But at Express, you can not do that!

You just can't.

If you work there you get am earpiece with a small microphone attached to it. Every worker around the gates Has To run to a customer and ask them for their name (WTH!), tell them we have oh so many good looking things in the store (LIE) and demand an answer as to where the fuck they are going so we can get them to spend some fucking dough in our establishment.

'Hi what's your name?' I had to ask this more than 100 times in less than 3 hours working there on my first day.

People gave me the stink eye (I probably would have done that to myself too) and walked away although some good Samaritans did stop to tell me their names (There's still nice people our there **tear)

After asking all these very important questions I would have to tell every other worker all the information I had gathered from our new victim. It went something like this

'This is _______. A lady named Cynthia just walked into our store. She says she is looking for a pair of pants to go have a hot date with a married man'

Yup

Ok. I never had someone tell me that many details but you get what I'm saying.

Imagine having to have to grab my little microphone and having to tell all the other workers what some innocent stranger wanted, who they were, what they were doing, etc. I felt like a pervert. Stalking my prey as soon as I saw them

And I had to hear these type of conversations about 5000 times from all the other workers as well. Because of course we all had to stalk people.

And so Rosy (remember the witch?) would always come to me and say things like:

Her: "You're okay so far but I just wish I could inject you with Red Bull to make you more hyper"
Me: Smile/nod ---- Actual thoughts: Okay psycho

Or another one of my favorites

Her: "You can't let anyone get away. You must make the sale. That is the one priority you must have"
Me: Sure, I'll try harder ---- Actual thoughts: ***Sigh / I really want to hit your face right now

So I had to work like that for two miserable weeks. Everytime I walked back to my car after work I would think to myself. What the hell is wrong with that place?

Seriously though, who made that kind of selling strategy?

From what I've gathered online and from my own experiences at other Express stores they are all on stalking-mode.

A lot of people (potential buyers) would just walk out of the store as fast as their feet could take them after being approached by three different workers wanting to know their name.

Poor them. Customers just wanted to have a nice day shopping around without being bugged but
No no no. We can't let any enjoyment happen there.

Just when I was going to pass out from rolling my eyes so much at all the other dummies working at that place some kind of powerful being took pity on me and helped me find another job less than a week later.

And so I got out of the damned place never to look back at it again.

To date I have worked in fours retail stores, a bookstore, as a babysitter, waitress but Express has given me the biggest heartache and headache in my entire working life (So far)

I hope the bitch Rosy gets the stick up her ass out so she can actually see what customers want and how to approach them in a less pushy way.


Nah. I just hope she fell on her butt at least once.

Bye Express. See you never

2NE1 'Best face' ranking

2NE1 is in the house

Sooo, here is another ranking

This time we're rating 2NE1 good looks

Yes, I know they are not known as the most beautiful girls in Korea. But I can still make a list about who I think is the 'better looking' face from them four.

Plus, after ranking Super junior, I needed a rest from big groups

Okay......let's get right into it

In 4th place we've got

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 CL (I don't care eh eh eh eh ehh)

Why? Her eyes are not her best feature. I blame them for her not so-beautiful face. Everything else in her face is just fine. Not gorgeous but they are okay.

Her eyes though make her look really really cross-eyed. I'm not sure if she's actually a little cross-eyed, or if that's just an optical illusion because of her eyes shape, or because she kind of poses like that. The thing is she does look cross-eyed (At least to me she does).

That's why I think she looks best with sunglasses on. Her face is actually small and her lips look quite cute. CL is the fiercest in 2NE1 and she sure makes a badass leader, it's just that her face doesn't look the best. 

3rd place goes to..

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Minzy (Hate you)

Why? Well, Minzy is a very strange creature in my book. She is the maknae of the group but when 2NE1 made their debut I seriously thought she was the oldest O_O
That's saying a lot. She can look young at times (Like the picture above) but she looks older than her age most of the time. She is the best dancer in the group but she tends to look a little fat. I think she is naturally thick because from what I've seen she works out more than any of the other members but her build still looks the same.

When she uses her "bad girl" face she looks kind of black too. I wouldn't be surprised if someone told me tomorrow that her great great grandfather was black. Of course, she looks more Korean but there seems to be a hint of blackness in her.

IDK maybe I'm just imagining things because she has a big butt 
and can dance >_<

2nd place goes to

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  Park Bom ( It hurts :\ Appa Appa Appaaa)

Why? Park Bom looks plastic. She looks scary plastic.
If I was teaching future plastic surgeons on things to not do, I'd show them a picture of Park Bom. I don't know what the hell she has done (or not done) to her face. but she looks way way worse every time 2NE1 makes a comeback. Her face is completely frozen!!!!

She can barely even move her lips anymore. Her eyes look so swollen as if she could barely keep them open anymore and her nose keeps on shrinking. I don't care what any 2NE1 fan says, this girl has had something done to her. The illness that she claims to have wouldn't make her nose magically get smaller and smaller.

**Sigh......   But why is she is 2nd place then, you ask. 

Well, Park Bom was one of the cutest members when they first debuted. Even though her face was on the round side, she still look pretty. Her long brown hair made her look like a doll. And her long legs were and still are her best feature. She could have been in the last place on this list but because
she was so pretty once I put her on 2nd place instead. It is my own personal opinion so stuff it if you don't like it.

 

1st place goes to..

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Sandara Park (I'm the Best)

Why? She is undeniable cute. Everyone always says she doesn't seem to age. And I have to agree on that claim. If anything, she looks even younger than when she worked in the Philippines.

I think that last part is probably because of makeup techniques. Filipinos make up techniques suck ass. Most of their celebrities look like extras from low-budget productions. So once in Korea, Dara was able to have real make-up artists make her look even more beautiful and younger than she already was. She lacks in so many aspects compared to the other three, but she is by far the cutest and most natural-looking member from 2NE1. She is the only one snatching make-up campaigns for YG.

So YG should definitely be thankful to this girl for not feeding the idea that YG doesn't pick their artists because of looks. Dara is living proof that one can be an exception to that rule.