The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays by Wesley Yang reviewed • Hacker News Board

Re: The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays by Wesley Yang reviewed

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Post by dang » Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 8:45 AM UTC

probablyasian wrote: post #22

Asians in America are considered soulless, mercantile and at best technically skilled people. We are sexless, have frail constitution and therefore totally unintimidating. Frankly, I like this set-up. This allows us to fly below/above the radar of idle-minded people. You accomplish a lot when drama queens and trouble causers of society are preoccupied with something else other than you. Although, it has started to ch…

I upvoted the comment back up because it doesn't seem particularly bad to me.

However, would you please stop using new accounts for each few comments you post? That is against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

People needn't use their real names here, but do need to have some consistent identity for others to relate to. Otherwise this place isn't a community, and we want it to be a community. I've explained this many times: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Re: The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays by Wesley Yang reviewed

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Post by simtel20 » Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 10:17 AM UTC

peteretep wrote: post #28

simtel20 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not a quote from the book being reviewed, this is a quote from the review itself summarizing the book's stories. Fuller context: "Representing a decade of journalism and essential reading for those concerned with identity in America today, Yang’s essays range from profiles of pickup artists to critiques of campus activism, but they tend to center on those — often Asian, usually male — who find themselves excl…

The linked article states a fact, regardless of the fact it’s a review of another piece of work. I would like proof of that fact.

It seems to me that it's stating facts about the essays, not necessarily making or quoting a broader statistical statement. It's like a reviewer writing that "Hunter Thomson writes about his time in Las Vegas which is largely drink and drug fueled" and you asking for statistical proof that Las Vegas dynamos run on beer and cocaine. The review is talking about the subjects of the specific works being reviewed, not necessarily the world at large. That's why I quoted more context from the review, to make that clearer.

Re: The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays by Wesley Yang reviewed

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Post by magic_beans » Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 2:43 PM UTC

thaumasiotes wrote: post #26

magic_beans wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd love to see another version of this study performed at UCLA. Unlike New York, California has a huge and highly culturally-integrated Asian population.

Why stop at college students? Interracial marriages between Asians and whites in the US are about 80% Asian female / white male and 20% the other way around. There is no group that preferentially marries Asian men over Asian women, so again Asian guys are screwed.

Well, data point of one here: my partner is an Asian man and I'm black ;)