LI SHIWEN DRUG CONTROVERSY OLYMPICS LONDON
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/31/china-ye-shiwen-critics-olympics
korean drama popular americans foreigners hallyu
Korean Drama Craze Reaches United States
By JAYMES SONG
Associated Press Writer
March 24, 2006
HONOLULU (AP) -- It's become a daily ritual for Gayle Stephens. She often laughs and cries while getting her daily fix. She's even tried to get her family hooked.
Stephens loves Korean dramas.
She is among a growing number of Americans with no connection to Korean culture who say the shows are a more compelling and wholesome alternative to the usual daytime programming on American TV. And retail giants are also starting to tune in.
"I like the fact that they're cleaner, they're not as smutty as the American dramas," said Stephens, a 32-year-old black woman who grew up in Durham, N.C.
"I didn't think I would enjoy watching, but I really got caught up in it. It's very engaging," she said.
TV dramas have become South Korea's hottest export since cell phones, female golfers and kimchi. The Korean craze, which also includes music and film, has swept through Japan, China, the Philippines, Singapore and most of Asia and is now making its way across the United States.
"It's just a small peninsula nestled between Japan and China, but they've just hit it right," said Tom Larsen, general manager of YA Entertainment LLC, a major North American distributor of Korean dramas. "They know how to put together a good drama that their neighbors in Asia are eating up."
Now, more Americans are saying hello to "hallyu," or the "Korean wave."
Larsen said the dramas are the driver behind the wave, but it is really "all things Korea."
"It stopped in Hawaii, built up some momentum and reached California shortly after and is continuing to spread across the states," he said. "The mainland is three, four, five years, behind Hawaii."
Korean soap operas used to be only offered in select Asian video stores, but now they are going mainstream with English subtitles.
In Hawaii, retailers such as Wal-Mart, Costco, Borders, Blockbuster and Tower Records are capitalizing on the craze and in the past few months began selling Korean drama box DVD sets for $60 to $120.
The DVDs are also sold in music and book stores in cities with large Asian communities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago and New York, as well as online at Amazon.com.
Since opening in 2003, San Bruno, Calif.-based YA has seen revenue triple in each of the past two years behind strong sales of its top sellers: the tearful love story "Stairway to Heaven," and historic drama "Dae Jang Geum." YA plans to release 22 titles this year.
Fans say the Korean shows, centered around relationships and family, focus more on story lines than special effects and are a refreshing change from American programming they see as too violent and too racy.
Annette Marten, a 69-year-old nurse from Kailua, said Korean soaps depict love in a more romantic and artistic way, without steamy, bedroom scenes.
"I'm not prudish in any way, but it's so lovely how they express themselves," she said. "I get all excited if they get a hug. It has so much more meaning."
Many Korean dramas feature elements also found in American soap operas - love triangles, forbidden love, evil mothers-in-law and corrupt business partners. But a key difference is that Korean story lines end usually after 16 to 20 hour-long episodes, no matter how popular they become.
CBS' "Guiding Light," on the other hand, has been on the air since 1952.
"They go from one bed to the next and everybody ends up with someone else's husband and it never ends," said former daytime TV fan Yolanda Kala, 48, of Waianae. "It's like 20 years and they still have the same problems. At least with the Korean stuff, you start and you end."
KBFD-TV in Honolulu, the nation's first FCC-licensed station dedicated to Korean programming, had primarily Korean viewers when it first aired in 1986.
Today, less than 10 percent of viewers are Korean and ratings are higher than ever, said Jeff Chung, the station's general manager.
In just a few years, the station has helped Korean dramas become part of Hawaii's entertainment landscape.
Travel agents here are selling tours to Korea to visit filming locations. There are blogs and chat rooms. Hawaii's largest daily newspaper carries a weekly column. Korean restaurants, shops and language classes are now filled with curious non-Koreans.
There're even fan clubs devoted to the dramas.
Gerrie Nakamura and Nora Muramoto, who are of Japanese ancestry, are truly Korean drama queens.
They founded the Hawaii K-Drama Fan Club in 2002 with about 20 people, but the group has grown to 400 members, mostly middle-aged women of all races. Only about 5 percent of its members are of Korean heritage.
Muramoto, 59, said her love of the dramas has inspired her to take Korean cooking and language classes. Nakamura, a high school teacher, said she sometimes recommends the dramas to her students to learn about family values and respect for elders.
"We grew up with 'Leave it to Beaver' and 'The Waltons,' but today's kids don't have that," she said. "They see extreme whatever - reality TV and naked girls on MTV."
More than 200 members attended the latest club gathering and got a visit by journeyman actor Lee Jeong-gil, who often plays the role of a father or businessman.
"I was blown away by the welcome," Lee said. "I never expected anything like this."
There are other fan clubs devoted to specific Korean stars, such as Bae Yong-joon, the soft-smiling star of "Winter Sonata."
The 2002 love story turned Bae into a huge star in Asia, especially in Japan, where his scarf-wearing image is featured on everything from teddy bears to key chains. Hawaii's Bae fan club boasts more than 100 members and may expand into a national group.
"`Winter Sonata' is showing on the mainland and there's pockets of underground fandom all over the U.S.," said Michelle Smith, the club's president.
While obsessed with the star, Smith said she isn't the typical fan.
"Your typical Bae Yong-Joon fan is in her 40s, has a family and listens to K-pop," she said, a reference to Korean pop music. "I ride a Harley, play electric guitar and listen to Green Day, AC-DC and Ozzy."
Music, from ballads to instrumentals, plays a prominent role in Korean dramas. There's also a lot of crossover in acting and singing, such as pop stars Jung Ji-hoon and Eric Mun.
Jung, of the hit romantic-comedy series "Full House," is better known as the singer "Rain." He sold out New York's Madison Square Garden twice last month and in October performed in front of 40,000 fans at Beijing Workers Stadium.
Retiree 62-year-old Margie Okuhara said she feels like a teenager again when the Hawaii drama club meets to swoon over the stars.
"My kids call me a groupie," she said. "I say, `That's OK, when you get to be my age, you can do whatever you want.'"
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jews asian students iq intelligence
http://www.slate.com/articles/briefing/articles/1996/06/jews_in_second_place.html
Jews in Second Place
When Asian-Americans become the "new Jews," what happens to the Jews?
Remember the scene in Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint where the newly teen-aged Alex Portnoy goes to a frozen pond in his hometown of Newark to gaze upon gentile girls ice-skating?
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So: dusk on the frozen lake of a city park, skating behind the puffy red earmuffs and the fluttering yellow ringlets of a strange shikse teaches me the meaning of the word longing. It is almost more than an angry thirteen-year-old little Jewish Momma's Boy can bear. Forgive the luxuriating, but these are probably the most poignant hours of my life I'm talking about--I learn the meaning of the word longing, I learn the meaning of the word pang.
This scene often involuntarily flitted across my mind during the past winter, when I spent a lot of time watching people glide across expanses of ice on skates. The reason is that my 11-year-old son, also an Alex, was playing in a hockey league. Having grown up in the Deep South, I was entirely innocent of ice matters when I first got into this. At my inaugural hockey-parents' meeting, I realized that I had wandered into a vast and all-encompassing subculture. Two, three, four times a week, we had to drive our children 30, 60, 80 miles to some unheated structure for a practice or a game. Often these were held at 6 o'clock in the morning. South Kent, Conn. West Point, N.Y. Morristown, N.J. We parents would stand at the edge of the rink in a daze drinking Dunkin Donuts coffee and griping that they weren't hustling enough out there.
For Alex Portnoy, athleticism was something alien. It was part of a total package that included not only the golden shiksas but their brothers ("engaging, good-natured, confident, clean, swift, and powerful halfbacks"), their fathers ("men with white hair and deep voices"), their mothers who never whined or hectored, their curtained, fireplaced houses, their small noses, their lack of constant nagging worry--in short, the normalcy and confidence that go along with belonging, with being on the inside.
In the Portnoy household nobody played sports--bodies existed only to generate suffering--and there was only one thing that really went well. That, needless to say, was Alex's performance in school. "Albert Einstein the Second," his mother called him, and thought it may have been embarrassing, he didn't really disagree. By the time Portnoy's Complaint came out, in 1969, it was clear--and this was part of the joke of the ice-skating scene--that people like awkward Alex were going to wind up ahead of the gliding shiksas and their halfback brothers, because they were more book-smart. The goyim were wasting their time with all those sports. What the Jews had was the real ticket. Alex's overwhelming insecurity wouldn't have been so funny if it hadn't been unjustified.
In my many hours standing next to hockey rinks last winter, I sometimes engaged in one of the Jews' secret vices: Jew-counting. All over the ice were little Cohens, little Levys, their names sewed in block letters on the backs of their jerseys. It was amazing how many there were. Occasionally, an entire front line would be Jewish, or even the front line and the defensemen. (Green--is he one? Marks?) The chosen people were tough competitors, too.
In fact, a Portnoy of the present, a kid with his nose pressed up against the window (to borrow the self-description of another ghetto-bred Jewish writer, Theodore H. White) would surely regard these stick-wielding, puck-handling lads as representing full, totally secure membership in the comfortable classes of American society. Some Lysenkoist suburban biological deviation, or else intermarriage, has even given many of the hockey-playing Jewish boys blond hair and even blue eyes.
More to the point, these Jewish kids and their parents have decided to devote endless hours of childhood to an activity with no career payoff. Do you think they're going to 6 a.m. practices for a shot at the National Hockey League? Of course not. They're doing it--mastering hockey, and every conceivable other sport--to promote "growth," "teamwork," "physical fitness," "well-roundedness," "character," and other qualities that may be desirable in a doctor but don't, as a practical matter, help you get into medical school.
What all the hockey-playing Jewish kids in America are not doing, during their hundreds of hours hustling to, on, and from the ice rink, is studying. It's not that they don't study at all, because they do. It's that they don't study with the ferociousness and all-out commitment of people who realize (or who have parents who realize) that outstanding school performance is their one shot at big-time opportunity in America.
Meanwhile, there is another ethnic group in America whose children devote their free time not to hockey but to extra study. In this group, it's common for moms to march into school at the beginning of the year and obtain several months' worth of assignments in advance so their children can get a head start. These parents pressure school systems to be more rigorous and give more homework. This group is Asian-Americans.
iq test
Question #1:
Christopher Langan for the Mega Foundation: It is reported that one of this century’s greatest physicists, Nobelist Richard Feynman, had an IQ of 125 or so. Yet, a careful reading of his work reveals amazing powers of concentration and analysis…powers of thought far in excess of those suggested by a z score of well under two standard deviations above the population mean. Could this be evidence that something might be wrong with the way intelligence is tested? Could it mean that early crystallization
of intelligence, or specialization of intelligence in a specific set of(sub-g) factors – i.e., a narrow investment of g based on a lopsided combination of opportunity and proclivity - might put it beyond the reach of g-loaded tests weak in those specific factors, leading to deceptive results?
Arthur Jensen: I don’t take anecdotal report of the IQs of famous persons at all seriously. They are often fictitious and are used to make a point - typically a put-down of IQ test and the whole idea that individual differences in intelligence can be ranked or measured. James Watson once claimed an IQ of 115; the daughter of another very famous Nobelist claimed that her father would absolutely “flunk” any IQ test. It’s all ridiculous. Furthermore, the outstanding feature of any famous and accomplished person, especially a reputed genius, such as Feynman, is never their level of g (or their IQ), but some special talent and some other traits (e.g., zeal, persistence). Outstanding achievements(s)
depend on these other qualities besides high intelligence. The special talents, such as mathematical musical, artistic, literary, or any other of the various “multiple intelligences” that have been mentioned by Howard Gardner and others are more salient in the achievements of geniuses than is their typically high level of g. Most very high-IQ people, of course, are not recognized as geniuses, because they haven’t any very outstanding
creative achievements to their credit. However, there is a threshold property of IQ, or g, below which few if any individuals are even able to develop high-level complex talents or become known for socially significant intellectual or artistic achievements. This bare minimum threshold is probably somewhere between about +1.5 sigma and +2 sigma from the population mean on highly g-loaded tests. Childhood IQs that are at least above this threshold can also be misleading. There are two famous scientific geniuses, both Nobelists in physics, whose childhood IQs are
very well authenticated to have been in the mid-130s. They are on record and were tested by none other than Lewis Terman himself, in his search for subjects in his well-known study of gifted children with IQs of 140 or above on the Stanford-Binet intelligence test. Although these two boys were brought to Terman’s attention because they were mathematical prodigies, they failed by a few IQ points to meet the one and only criterion (IQ>139) for inclusion in Terman’s study. Although Terman was impressed by them, as a good scientist he had to exclude them from his sample of high-IQ kids. Yet none of the 1,500+ subjects in the study ever won a Nobel Prize or has a biography in the Encyclopedia Britannica as these two fellows did. Not only were they gifted mathematically, they had a combination of other traits without which they probably would not have become generally recognized as scientific and inventive geniuses. So-called intelligence tests, or IQ, are not intended to assess these special abilities unrelated to IQ or any other traits involved in outstanding achievement. It would be undesirable for IQ tests to attempt to do so, as it would be undesirable for a clinical thermometer to measure not just temperature but some combination of temperature, blood count, metabolic rate, etc. A good IQ test attempts to estimate the g factor, which isn’t a mixture, but a distillate of the one factor (i.e., a unitary
source of individual differences variance) that is common to all cognitive tests, however diverse. I have had personal encounters with three Nobelists in science, including Feynman, who attended a lecture I gave at Cal Tech and later discussed it with me. He, like the other two Nobelists I’ve known(Francis Crick and William Shockley), not only came across as extremely sharp, especially in mathematical reasoning, but they were also rather obsessive about making sure they thoroughly understood the topic under immediate discussion. They at times transformed my verbal statements into graphical or mathematical forms and relationships. Two of these men knew each other very well and often discussed problems with each other. Each thought the other was very smart. I got a chance to test one of these Nobelists with Terman’s Concept Mastery Test, which was developed to test the Terman gifted group as adults, and he obtained an exceptionally high score even compared to the Terman group all with IQ>139 and a mean of 152.
jews vs chinese
>a quarter of Westinghouse Science Talent Search winner
50% of finalists are now Chinese (1,8 millions Chinese vs 10 million American Jews)
>For most of the 20th century, the student body at Stuyvesant was heavily Jewish. A significant influx of Asian students began in the 1970s. For the 2010 academic year, the student body was approximately 72.05% Asian and 23.55% Caucasian, 1.21% African American and 2.43% Hispanic.[4]
poor asians commit less crimes
www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=7c3-F-3Vo54&t=25m40s
http://books.google.ca/books?id=vgHgNsmZ3vsC&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&dq=race+crime+rate+chinese+american+san+francisco&source=bl&ots=PCYX6XVSpb&sig=nBXZxLnwHxBsWlpnVxvmGc0onXQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=suwRUL2GJpOK6QHXv4GIDw&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=race%20crime%20rate%20chinese%20american%20san%20francisco&f=false
american vs japanese
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RVHDlPqZWE
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stock
If growth exceeds expectations, all else being equal, the expected
stock return should exceed the above-stated hypothetical 10 percent
to 13 percent returns—perhaps by a very large margin. For example,
on August 19, 2002, The Lowe’s Companies, a home improvement retail
chain, reported a 42-percent gain in second quarter earnings. The
results surprised analysts who expected a 29-percent gain. That day,
the shares of Lowe’s rose $4.21 to close at $41 (an 11 percent gain)
while the general stock market, as measured by the S&P 500, increased
by approximately 2.36 percent.
IF WE DIDN'T HAVE A CENTRAL BANKING SYSTEM THE COST OF THE CAPITAL WOULD BE 5 TO 10 TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE
THEREFORE, WE WOULDN'T EVEN HAVE COMPUTERS, BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT?? COMPANIES MUST BORROW THE MONEY, IF YOU CAN'T FUCKING LEND MONEY YOU ALREADY LENT TO SOMEONE ELSE, THEN THE COST OF BORROWING WOULD BE FAR MORE EXPENSIVE!!! A COMPUTER WOULD COST 10,000$, SO BASICALLY NONE OF YOU WOULD HAVE COMPUTERS.
HAHAHAHAHAHAH FUCKING STUPID IDIOTS!!!
CENTRAL BANKS GIVES ECONOMIC FLEXIBILITY AND TOOLS FOR GOV PLANNERS TO DIRECT THE ECONOMY AS THEY SEE FIT
THE REASON WHY THE ECONOMY COLLAPSED IS BECAUSE CENTRAL PLANNERS DIDN'T SOLVE THE DOUBLE DEFICITS OF TRADE AND BUDGET AND THE DEREGULATION OF THE FINANCIAL SECTOR.
CONTRARILY TO WHAT THE PAULTARDS SAY, A BIGGER GDP DOESN'T MEAN MORE GOVERNMENT DEFICIT AND GENERAL INDEBTNESS, CHINA HAS A LARGE GDP, BUT HAS MORE ASSETS THAN DEBT. IF THE ECONOMY IS BIGGER, MORE COMPANY WILL BORROW, SO IT'S POSSIBLE THAT DEBT ACCRUES; HOWEVER, IT DOES NOT NECESSARILY BECOME UNSUSTAINABLE.
STOP VENTING OUT YOUR FRUSTRATION OF BEING COMPLETE LOSERS ON THE JEWS, IT'S NOT A VERY HEALTHY WAY TO EXPUNGE YOUR NEGATIVITY.
GOLD STANDARD
GOLD STANDARD
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GOLD QUANTITY EQUIVALENT TO MONEY QUANTITY
GOV KEEPS GOLD AND DOESN'T SELL IT TO ANYONE
GOLD KEPT IN RESERVE LIMIT THE AMOUNT OF MONEY IN THE ECONOMY
GOLD MAY BE EXCHANGED TO OTHER GOV, BUT NOT PEOPLE OR COMPANIES
>"China and Africa should increase co-ordination and co-operation in international affairs," Hu said. "We should oppose the practices of the big bullying the small, the strong domineering over the weak and the rich oppressing the poor."
>"Africa's past economic experience with Europe dictates a need to be cautious when entering into partnerships with other economies," Zuma said.
>"We certainly are convinced that China's intention is different to that of Europe, which to date continues to tend to influence African countries for their sole benefit."
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greed
>How the hell is this possible that Whites still turned out on top? Not the Jews, mind you, just the average Whites like Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese and of course, Anglo-Saxons. How come they, and not East Asians, colonized the world and at their peak controlled 85% of the world's land area? How come it was non-Jewish Whites who put a man on the moon, invented the car, the airplane, the electric battery and a whole lot of other stuff? If we assume the standard deviations to be equal or to be higher for East Asians, none of this will make sense anymore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t3QSGRN1-U&t=88m30s
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMYz2AHwEzo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHyspkeyIfs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7deJXU4ZRG0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujlqENq5S08&t=10m13s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DJkE3zh6RE&t=23m02s
GREED
CREATIVE
creating an elaborate and cleative theory is not much different from writing a shit autistic short story with bad engrish
you're just making associations between different concepts
therefore high iq people are more creative than lower iq people 99,9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of the time
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PEDOPHILIA NORMAL?
>Freund and Costell (1970) studied 48 young Czech soldiers who were shown slides of children between 4 and 10, both male and female, as well as adolescents and adults, male and female. Penile responsivity to female children, ages 4–10, was intermediate to adolescent and adult females and males in one scoring system. In the other scoring system, all 48 soldiers showed penile response to adult females, as did 40 of 48 to adolescent females, and notably, 28 of 48 showed penile response to the female children age 4–10.
west more positive illusion delusional arrogant humble east
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_illusions
asians have a lot of gifted genius iq intelligence
>no creativity
ignores all current statistics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulHGC6zA824
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CHINA GUNS GERMS AND STEEL COLONIZATION FEEL BEHIND WEST
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHyspkeyIfs
http://www.mysteriouschina.com/china-once-invented-machine-gun-in-qing-dynasty/
>CHINA INVENTED THE MACHINES GUN
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