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News & ArtsTuesday, November 17, 2009
International More on the Black China Girl, Lou Jing
Posted by Charles Mudede on Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:53 PM
This is Lou Jing..
In many ways, Lou Jing is a typical young Shanghainese woman. Pretty and confident, she speaks Mandarin heavily accented with the lilting tones of the Shanghai dialect and browses the malls of this huge city for the latest fashions.Born to a Chinese mother and an African-American father whom she has never met, the theater student rocketed into the public consciousness last month when she took part in an American Idol-esque TV show, “Go! Oriental Angel.”
The marketing gurus for the series could hardly have dreamed of a better promotional gimmick... Here was a tale guaranteed to attract eyeballs—a girl of mixed race brought up by a single Chinese mother struggling to gain acceptance in a deeply conservative, some would say rascist, society.
If Lou Jing is the product of a black American and Chinese woman, I can understand why a number of Chinese people are freaking out. Just look at her...
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.... SOME would say.... please. Asians, and Chinese in particular, are some of the most intensely racist people on the planet. Hopefully her presence on the pop-culture scene helps them progress a bit.
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Just cause I'm in that kind of mood:
Born to a Chinese mother and an African-American father whom she has never met
Shocking.
Born to a Chinese mother and an African-American father whom she has never met
Shocking.
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Wow... she is gorgeous. The Chinese would be foolish not to embrace her with open arms. I sure would!
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I'd say it's more related to the Han myth that they're all descended from the Yellow Emperor, who has subsequently been deified. Koreans and Japanese have the same type of myth and the same problem. If you're descended from gods, then any mixing with non-divine peoples has to be seen as blasphemy.
It's among the many reasons I'm happy that we're a mongrel nation.
It's among the many reasons I'm happy that we're a mongrel nation.
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Does anyone else think that mixed-race individuals have a tendency to be way hotter than everyone else? WOWZAH.
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She is gorgeous. Sadly this sort of fear of a prevailing blackness or brown-skinned world is not solely a thing of China but it also rears it's ugly head in Europe, Latin America and here. And what better proof than how our own President is viewed and feared by some segments in our society.
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@8 - I was just about to mock the same line.
How poetically phrased, Charles.
@6 - Yep. I have the feeling it may be related to the "genetically dissimilar" line of thought. Or maybe just: "hey, that's a new look!"
How poetically phrased, Charles.
@6 - Yep. I have the feeling it may be related to the "genetically dissimilar" line of thought. Or maybe just: "hey, that's a new look!"
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She does look "blacker" than a lot of Afro/asian people.
Chinese people are crazy racist in their own way. It is very different from American racism, what with the real lack of non-Asian people in China. They've got attitudes about different minority groups that most Americans would not notice, plus there are lots of old cultural myths about foreigners (white and black) being sex maniacs who are out to steal all the Chinese women. Of course, our porn industry does not help with the conception at all.
Chinese people are crazy racist in their own way. It is very different from American racism, what with the real lack of non-Asian people in China. They've got attitudes about different minority groups that most Americans would not notice, plus there are lots of old cultural myths about foreigners (white and black) being sex maniacs who are out to steal all the Chinese women. Of course, our porn industry does not help with the conception at all.
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@12 Oh, Mudede prose. I love your terrible metaphoric language filled with sexist and racist epithets.
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Kinda looks like a painted up version of a couple hundred Black-Vietnamese hookers that popped up in LA during the mid 90's.
Still, I'd rather see this kind of mixed race result than the butt-ugliness that is being produced in NYC's melting pot. Ugh.
Still, I'd rather see this kind of mixed race result than the butt-ugliness that is being produced in NYC's melting pot. Ugh.
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Charles you sound more like Alexyss K. Tylor every day. "Bust you out with super sperm, indeed..."
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Umn... what do you mean she doesn't look Chinese? Look at the shape of her face. Don't you see her cheekbones?
She's very Chinese in the shape of her face, and general construction. She's darker in color, of course, and her hair texture seems closer to black than not, but really now, it's mostly a color shift, not a structural change.
She's very Chinese in the shape of her face, and general construction. She's darker in color, of course, and her hair texture seems closer to black than not, but really now, it's mostly a color shift, not a structural change.
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*shudder* Why do you make everything sound so creepy and gross, Charles?
"All of her genes surrendered to the potency of her lover's blackness ("I can bust you out with my super sperm")."
Barf. The way you write is super sexually charged and just drips of misogyny and racism. It's really ooky.
"All of her genes surrendered to the potency of her lover's blackness ("I can bust you out with my super sperm")."
Barf. The way you write is super sexually charged and just drips of misogyny and racism. It's really ooky.
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"In this particular mixing of genes, the black father totally dominated the Chinese mother."
wow, way to have a terrible grasp on how genetic inheritance works.
wow, way to have a terrible grasp on how genetic inheritance works.
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@19: Couldn't have said it better myself.
@20: Glad to see everyone dogpiling on that line. Gah. I was about to type, "Charles, what were you THINKING?" but then I changed my mind.
@20: Glad to see everyone dogpiling on that line. Gah. I was about to type, "Charles, what were you THINKING?" but then I changed my mind.
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@20, you might not have noticed this but I was writing from a pre-Mendel understanding of biological inheritance. I thought the word "swamping" would make this clear.
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beautiful woman, beautiful voice, a shame that racism can still cause such controversy where it has no place.
Mudede, your damn writing still makes me roll my eyes over posts that i should agree with.
Mudede, your damn writing still makes me roll my eyes over posts that i should agree with.
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The other hot black person with some Chinese heritage that comes to mind is Tyson Beckford http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyson_Beckf…
If you want to see what Black, Chinese and Indian gets you, look at the West Indian Blacks. Take a trip to Brooklyn or Queens if you can't make it the Caribbean.
If you want to see what Black, Chinese and Indian gets you, look at the West Indian Blacks. Take a trip to Brooklyn or Queens if you can't make it the Caribbean.
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Why is it that every time Charles Mudede touches a keyboard, something gets "totally dominated?"
Yes, we all know that you once read some Foucault and now like to style yourself a power expert, but the force with which you jam it into awkward contexts is astounding!
Yes, we all know that you once read some Foucault and now like to style yourself a power expert, but the force with which you jam it into awkward contexts is astounding!
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Mudede, your writing is laughably pretentious. It's an interesting story, but there's a reason so many (nearly all negative!) comments are about the presentation.
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china has a large influx of african immigrants, and though its racism is not as bad as korea, china is super racist towards blacks and chinese of mix black ancestry, but they do embrace the whites and the chinese and white mix.
some people might tempted to say that its just as racist here, but it doesnt even compare. people are attacked, yelled at on buses, slapped if theyre holding the hand of a black or dark skinned foreigner. fugget about it. the kind of racism they have is comparable to the jim crow type that we use to have here in the south. it would suck to be of african ancestry in asia. except for the phillipines, where they keep it real.
some people might tempted to say that its just as racist here, but it doesnt even compare. people are attacked, yelled at on buses, slapped if theyre holding the hand of a black or dark skinned foreigner. fugget about it. the kind of racism they have is comparable to the jim crow type that we use to have here in the south. it would suck to be of african ancestry in asia. except for the phillipines, where they keep it real.
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Yes, hybrid vigor indeed... she's super beautiful!
As to chinese racism: One myth I've heard to support their racist superiority is that when 'god' made people he threw them onto different corners of the Earth. Whites weren't thrown close enough to the sun, and are (essentially) undercooked. Blacks were thrown too closely, and are burnt, but the Chinese were thrown to the exact spot, and are properly toasted.
It's as useful a racist myth as any, and kinda humorous I think!
As to chinese racism: One myth I've heard to support their racist superiority is that when 'god' made people he threw them onto different corners of the Earth. Whites weren't thrown close enough to the sun, and are (essentially) undercooked. Blacks were thrown too closely, and are burnt, but the Chinese were thrown to the exact spot, and are properly toasted.
It's as useful a racist myth as any, and kinda humorous I think!
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@28, It is an interesting story. But, like a large number of Mudede posts, the story is only an excuse to slap up some hot 'tang on the Slog.
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I love how the predominantly white Slog population enjoy piling on their me-toos whenever there are Asians worth criticizing. It feels good to think you're superior because you're so enlightened, right? You've all obviously achieved Stephen Colbert levels of race blindness that you'd never paint literally a billion people with a broad brush based on stories you heard your disillusioned friends with yellow-fever tell you while bitching about how they weren't immediately bedded by all the poontang they expected during their eastern conquests. I'm simply hallucinating and posts like 1, 4, 14 don't actually exist. Lalala
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2009/1…
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2009/1…
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I'm deeply skeptical of the content of any article about racism that manages to misspell the word.
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"All of her genes surrendered to the potency of her lover's blackness"
Really Charles? You of all people should know not to judge by skintone. Look at shape and structure of Lou's facial features. She definitely looks mixed to me.
Really Charles? You of all people should know not to judge by skintone. Look at shape and structure of Lou's facial features. She definitely looks mixed to me.
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@24: But, really, that explanation is of the type that only raises yet another question. *Why* were you writing from a pre-Mendelian understanding of inheritance? Is this your understanding of inheritance? If not, why not go with what you know, rather than playing dumb?
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@38
Charles, the phrase is "taking the piss", as in "taking the piss [out of something]" i.e. to take down a peg.
"taking a piss on" is, even in the UK, mere micturition.
Charles, the phrase is "taking the piss", as in "taking the piss [out of something]" i.e. to take down a peg.
"taking a piss on" is, even in the UK, mere micturition.
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You know, one out of seven human beings is Han Chinese. With numerical superiority like that, I don't think they're the least bit worried.
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The citizens of Japan I know are racist not because of a desire to protect genetic purity but out of fear of violent crime. Despite statistical proof that immigrants in Japan commit fewer crimes per person than your average Japanese national, it's the exception that proves the rule: whenever a black serviceman stationed there rapes or murders a Japanese citizen (and it happens), his is the media-borne face of crime for months and months.
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Jay Bulworth had it right: "All we need is a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction. Everybody just gotta keep fuckin' everybody 'til they're all the same color."
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@32
Actually, my sense of superiority comes from being smarter, stronger, faster, and better at quickly solving problems than most people I have ever met.
Charles: I think that you would get less flak if you had not been such a dick to those penguins.
I have seen some very good asian mixes, but most of the Korean(Japanese)/African mixes I have seen are not as pleasing to my eye as the Chinese/African hybrids.
Actually, my sense of superiority comes from being smarter, stronger, faster, and better at quickly solving problems than most people I have ever met.
Charles: I think that you would get less flak if you had not been such a dick to those penguins.
I have seen some very good asian mixes, but most of the Korean(Japanese)/African mixes I have seen are not as pleasing to my eye as the Chinese/African hybrids.
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I guess Charles is a bit sheltered because she looks like a lot of Chinese Jamaicans that I've known. the potency comment is just well, stupid. And its not like she is the only black Chinese person on the entire mainland. And given what are known about the genes and the constructs of race, you could have said that perhaps the Chinese mom had more african ancestry in her genes that previously known - I'm goin to have to search for your post on the Skin movie (Afrikans parents have black daughter, who goes through various race classifications throughout her life even though she is a product of her parents' genes)
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I could not disagree more. I'm Japanese from Japan - Honshu, and she has a totally East Asian Face (and body like her mother's). Her beautiful skin coloring and curly hair are what set her apart physically, but she 100% fits the asian archetype for facial and physcial beauty. Culturally she is totally Chinese, having lived in China and traveled extensively.
I'm not suggesting she is beautiful because she doesn't look black. I'm suggesting the combination of color, culture, poise, E.Asian humiliity, and innocence are what give her uniqueness. She is incredibly gorgeous by any standard. Amazing she hasn't been nabbed by a modeling agency.
I'm not suggesting she is beautiful because she doesn't look black. I'm suggesting the combination of color, culture, poise, E.Asian humiliity, and innocence are what give her uniqueness. She is incredibly gorgeous by any standard. Amazing she hasn't been nabbed by a modeling agency.
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