Jaoanese Cartoon

Have you ever see cartoon in your childhood life??
are you a TV child??? how many hours are you watching TV??
will.... I can say that most of us has watched many TV channel in our life.

so, what kind of TV channel have you watched it? for me, i always love to watch Japanese animated cartoon!! i can watch all day haha~~ and most of japanee animated i had watch it even the Japanese cartoon Movie and drama!!
when I was a child, I will watch Pokémon and i play  Pokémon's viedo game and Pokémon card game with my cousin and brother.

I watched when i was child G GUNDAM

I watch DRAGON BALL

 

I watch Vampire Knight

 Akazukin Chacha

 

 and so on~~~
this is not all the japanese cartoon i had see! it still have more!!!

-angie long

FINAL BLOG --INTRODUCE MY HOMELAND --CHINA

This is my final blog ,i hope you can know more about China .

China,It stands in Asia and lies on the west coast of the ocean. China covers 9,600,000square kilometers. People of about 1.3billion live and work together on the land.56 nations make up the whole population of China.

As you know, China has a long history of 5000 years, which turns out rich culture and special style. It’s said that every corner of Chinese ancient history was filled with varieties of prominent art works. All this influences people here by giving them a lot of feelings, experiences, images and ideas about life. But China also had a troubled past since 1840. She saw a lot: Xinghai Revolution against feudal dynasty in 1911,the anti—Japanese war during 1937—1945, the civil war broken out in 1946.Most big events brought pains, poverty to Chinese people, but they never gave in . Oppositely, people learnt not to weep when faced the hardship. They were taught to be strong enough to solve each problem. It’s the troubled time that create the valuable character for Chinese people. Finally they were succeed in rebuilding and developing the motherland.        

China was founded as an independent country named People’s Republic of China in 1949 .  After that, it began to its door to the world and built bridges of friendship with many other countries. Since then, China set its steps of fast development on all the sides, especially in the field of science and technology. We can say that new Chinese history is filled with great achievements. To exploring space, the CSA has developed the highly successful Long March rocket series. At present the scientists are preparing for the nation’s first manned space flight flying to the moon. In the field of genetic research, China also plays an important role. In 2000,our scientists have announced that they completed the their part of the international human genome project.

Up to now, China has all the way received more and more attentions from the whole world. She is showing its great changes to the world and becomes active on the big stage of the world. Surely she’ll have a better future.


---By  YIHUA HU

Barriers I had when i just came America

Culture is different between American and Asian. As a intenational here ,i faced a lot problem.Like i have struggled with lots of communication problems.Our vallues and perceptions always judge different behaviors as wrong.

For example ,once my Vietmanese classmates came to my home and  they just walked into my kitchen and opened the refrigerator to check what insider was,and later started ti check cabinets.To me,this is very rude.I never do like this.I still have no idea why they did this.But one of my friends told me that is action happends normally in Vitnam because their parents told them to do if they visit other's house.They check your kitchen in order to know whether you cook or not and know your life style.Most importantly cooing every meal is a basic necessity for Vietmanese daily life.

Moreover i have high anxiety whenever i have a conversation with Americans.I do not know how i should react to American customs or attitudes.Ofentimes i feel helpless, hopeless and tired after analyzing messages for a whole day.I often cannot keep the conversation going and I just pretend that I understand and give smiles instead.

After one year study ,i feel much better ,less and less barriers in my  daily life.


----By   YIHUA HU

American education V.S. Asian education

Have you ever heard a lot Americans go to China Japan or other Asian countries to study recently? Although as an international student here, I still do not know does American education is far away than other countries’. I am a person who educated in Asian countries and China but I still do not which is better than the other. Like the things in the world, it is hard to say which one is definitely white or black because a lot of is none of them which is grey. A lot people consider that American education is far away better than others because  american education allow students free to think and provide students opportunities to develop their creativity .

Last semester i read a article ,said a author who was born and educated in Indonesia he had to memorize all the major cities in the world but his son who grew up in American at the same age already knew use creativity to draw a map from his house to school. He also said when he was eighteen year old, he had to memorize Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” clearly but his son was allowed to write a creative love letter to Juliet. It is true Asian education focus more about the memorzing.

But does it necessary? Definitely!!!

When I was in China, the teacher required us to recite the formula of the mathematics. At that time, I really did not know the reason and it was unwilling for me to do that. I thought it is not necessary to do that because we can look up them in the textbook. Since I came to American, I found I have a huge advantage of memorizing. When I took the mathematics classes here, I realized that I can calculate the result much faster than my classmates who grow up by the American education. Once when American students use the book to find the formula and then use the calculator to count the results of the second part of test sheet, I already finish the whole test. At that time because of the huge amount of the test questions, a lot American could not finish all of them on time, some of them because the time was so limited ,they failed that test. But it is piece of cake for me to do that because I already memorized all of them when I was in China. Do you still think memorizing is not important and spend time to memorize is not worth?

It is hard to say which countries education is better.Each of them has advantage and disandvantage.What we should do to learn the advantage and improve our own disadvantage.

-by  YIHUA HU

Our Final ---the POP SHOW

When the other classes have final coming next week .Our Asian American class already finish our final two week ago and we really did a great job in our final--the POP SHOW, I even can not believe we already made it .

Suprised ,we did a great job on the show even the time is limited and something did not do as well as we expect which is not that perfect.But what we should know is nothing is perfect in the world and the main point is everyone in the class already try our best.

Be honest before the show I really worried I really lose confidence about the show because the time is so limited(since we knew the what should we do on the Pop show,only have two weeks left)and one week before the final is the Thanksgiving break, everyone had their own vacation , our group although tried to find a time when everyone can make it to come together to practice,but it was impossible to do that. Had no choise ,the only thing we can do was we share our idea in the facebook and everyone practiced at home by ourselves. I  am a person who gona act as a bad driver and i borrow a cover of steering wheel from my friend and try to use that to show that i am a bad driver and i am a person who drive on the road gona be dangerous . Actually this was my first time to do the show in American, I kind of scare if i did not do well gona infulence our group. Then i asked some of friends ,and perform to them ,after i got several feedback ,i already know how to do it well.

From this Pop show ,i learned a lot. Nothing is impossible. It is similar like when we face some difficulty problem ,now matter how difficulty it is you can not give up at the first time.What you should do is you should believe nothing is impossible.If you can try your best ,definitly you can make it at the end.

Pop show ending means our Asian American class will ending soon. Overall this is the first class i never took before in my life and this is a class let me know how important groupwork is. At the begining of the semester i am not used to this class which is totally different from other class . Pro Irene did not require too much ,she give a lot freedom to students and make students become more creativity.This is the class will never happen in China. When i was in China ,i agree with others higher standards can makes education better.So school make the test much more harder ,and student including me just focus on stuffing knowlede to our mind in order to get as high grade as we can .Since i came to American ,i feel the education like that already lost the meaning of the true education.Students should have more freedom and more creativity.

Thanks Pro Irene ,thanks T.A ,thanks all the classmates ,i really learn a lot in the class and i really enjoy it .


---By YIHUA HU

My heemin blogs Chris Harrold

Up until this year I have never did a blog. Im tellin you this class has really got me into some new stuff and really educated me. I honestly am not sure how well I blog but i try to keep it solid and on topic. I hoped you enjoyed! Til next time keep it heemin
-Chris Harrold

adidas Dwight Howard, Derrick Rose and Slim Chin: Fast Don't Lie Music V...

Slim chin is just too funny. You can see him on these random commercials or movies like Hangover. You just have to watch him. Keep it heemin.
-Chris Harrold

Family Expectation good or bad?

One major Asian American stereotype is that the parents of Asian American children are extremely strict. With conversing and researching how this stereotype came about with my class, we realized that it is because Asian culture always stresses honor, whether it be for your family or for yourself. They also automatically have an expectance of their child that they will become successful and hardworking. And anything short of that is considered a failure. Some might think that is fine, others dont. However, the argument becomes real when the children commit suicide because of the high expectation from their parents. This was a discussion posted on the internet a couple years ago......

It’s a tragedy: suicides of Asian-American students at Cornell, MIT, UC Berkeley, Cal Tech, and other universities.

Last year, psychologists at UC Davis released research findings that family conflict is a major risk factor for suicide in Asian Americans. An August 19, 2008 Time Magazine article titled, “A Family Suicide Risk in U.S. Asians?” contained the following excerpt:

“Among students…the problem may have to do with family expectations. ‘Although we don’t have good statistics yet, we believe that many Asian American students are prone to feeling depressed over a lack of achievement,’ says [Stanley Sue, a professor of psychology and Asian American studies at UC Davis]. Getting Bs instead of As on a report card may not seem like a great sin to most students, Sue says. But in a culture and family structure where sacrifice by an older generation for the advancement—and education—of its children is a deep-seated tenet, feelings of shame for ‘failing’ can become unbearable, Sue says, noting that this pattern is most evident in families with immigrant parents and among foreign students sent to study at universities by their families.”
til next time keep it heemin
-Chris Harrold.

William Hung- She Bangs

This is just too funny. Til next time keep it heemin.
-Chris Harrold

POP

To add on to what Brandon's blog said, I agree because we were the smoothest group. Our presentation was on point and we didnt need emcees to indicate what was next on our list. However, pop was really fun and I had no idea things like that go down here at SF State. I have been to a couple events at Jack Adams Hall and they were nothing like POP!! There were funny moments, serious moments, emotional moments and even akward moments. Even if Im not in ETHS 210 next year I will definitley come back and see the new classes. But I bet they cant top our class, especially the dance group. That was the group I was in. I did my thang as well the other members and we really put on a show. Pop! til next time keep it heemin
-Chris Harrold

POP

Pop was really fun.  I was part of the movie crew.  So basically my job was just to be an extra in the movie and play one of the roommates who was watching football on television.  During POP, I sat next to timmon and we talked and watched the performance of our class as well as the other classes.  As for experience, I learned how to manage with what we had.  I learned how to manage my time so that I could go film my parts and to not be late of ditch class.  I thought the dance crew’s performance was the best.  I didn’t think that so many in our class were good dancers.  It took me by surprise.  I was kind of sad about the shadow puppets, because someone had to stand in the middle and hold the white sheet up so it drew everybody’s attention away from the real show.  The other classes were pretty nice, but like Irene said, they were really boring and it was like a talk show, that one guy didn’t even have any good jokes and I knew most of them.  Overall, I think we worked really hard and that our class did the best because nobody expected us to do what we did so we had a wow factor.
- Brandon

chinese food?

This so called Chinese food from panda express.  I have only eaten from panda express once in my life and I thought that it was really nasty.  I ordered the orange chicken I think?  Anyways it tasted nothing like the genuine thing.  It tasted so watered down.  I cant believe that people acting pass that off as Chinese food.  People actually like this kind of food.  My roommate tells me he loves panda express.  So then I gave him some real Chinese food that my dad brought me when he visited and my roommate could not stop eating it.  Guess that’s what happens when you never tried real Chinese food.  This must be why so many people think that Chinese food is greasy and gross.  If you want some real Chinese food, go to a place where the menu has English and Chinese words on it.

-brandon

             So I have a couple of friends that love watching Korean dramas.  At first, they kept telling me how good these dramas were.  My excuse for not watching them was that I used to watch dramas with my grandparents and it always made me sad to watch it, because dramas were too dramatic ha-ha.  Well that was two years ago. But recently I heard this song called hallelujah by Big Bang.  I really liked the song so I told my friend about it and he told me that they sing it for a drama and that T.O.P is in the drama call IRIS.  So being curious at how the song fit with the drama, I decided I would watch the pilot.  Instantly I was hooked.  It was one of the best dramas of 2009 so that’s probably why.  This made me seriously reconsider what I said about dramas. I didn’t finish yet because I’ve been busy but this drama has it all, guns, romance, explosions, and moments where I needed a tissue.

- Brandon =]

chinese food

When I was young, my grandparents always took me to go to restaurants with them to eat lunch.  We always went to Chinese restaurants, so I always wondered, how come we never went to McDonald’s or something like that.  Now I don’t even like McDonald’s and I like to eat dim sum, but I always wondered what it was.  My grandparents told me it was better not for me to know what was in it because I probably wouldn’t eat it anymore.  I learned that one of the dish that my grandparents eat was something gross and decided I would never eat that.  I thought that asian food was gross and used animals that nobody else would eat like monkeys or dogs.  After talking to my roommate, I discovered that Asians aren’t the only people to eat stuff like that.  Every culture has its own kind of food and they may seem gross to others, but its normal for them, so don’t bag on people just because they are different.

The Difference Between Chinese and Japanese culture.

The peoples likely had the same origins (as they have the same body structure and facial structures) but their history is very different.

Japanese food was very much centered around fishing and foods that could be grown in small areas (such as rise) where as Chinese food was more varied in its meats selection (as china had a lot more land).

Culturally, they were similar in that both were an honor-based patriarchial society (likely because they influenced each other). They warred a lot against each other. The Japanese were almost always the aggressors as they would come to China looking for resources and the Chinese would repel them. I assume that the Chinese also sailed to Japan for military purposes but they are known more for piracy than anything else.

Due to geography, the Chinese were introduced to Western culture first (due to overland routes) and therefore had more british influence than the Japanese did. As well, the Japanese had more American influence than the Chinese did for the same reason. Perhaps that is why the Japanese seemed to take to the Industrial Revolution of the 1800's more quickly than the Chinese. At any rate, by the 1940's, the Japanese had a sizeable naval presence and the Chinese didn't.
til next time keep it heemin
-Chris Harrold

Before Yao and Jeremy Lin there was Wataru Misaka

Wataru "Wat" Misaka (Japanese: 三阪 亙 Misaka Wataru) (born December 21, 1923) is a retired American basketball player. He was the first player of Asian descent and the first non-Caucasian person to play in the National Basketball Association(then known as the Basketball Association of America). Misaka, a Nisei Japanese American, was born in Ogden, Utah. Playing for the University of Utah, he led his school to the 1944 NCAA and 1947 NIT championships. Misaka took off two years between these titles to serve in the U.S. Army. A 5'7" point guard, he was selected by the New York Knicks in the 1947 BAA Draft. During the 1947–1948 season, he played in three games and scored seven points before he was cut from the team. Misaka was inducted into the Utah Sports Hall of Fame in 1999.
 Til next time keep it heemin.
-Chris Harrold

Is Panda Express real Chinese food?

Every now and again I treat myself to Panda Express. Its ok but its nothing like the real, hot and fresh Chinese that I have to order and wait for it to be cook. Its always worth the wait though. I think that Panda Express could be offensive to Asians because the truth is, its fake. It may be convenient and quick but just as I stated before it will NEVER be like the real thing. Just as I feel Latinos and/or Mexicans may be offended by Taco Bell. These restaurants are Americanized and watered down. However, I never really hear the Asians complain about Panda and I never hear Latinos complain about Taco Bell. Til next time keep it Heemin.
-Chris Harrold

thanksgiving =]

My thanksgiving was pretty awesome.  It started out with all my family coming over.  I started talking to my cousins about scary movies and they told me they never watched Paranormal Activity and I was kind of surprised, so seeing as I had the movie, I asked them if they wanted to watch the movie.  They do, so then I thought wit a grin on my face, hahahahahaha this is gonna be fun.  So the whole time the movie was playing, I turned off the lights and closed all the doors.  Then, trying to scare them,  I would grab their shoulders when the scary part played, but it didn’t really work.  In the end, they thought the movie wasn’t scary at all, rather it was boring.  So after that, we were called to the dinner table because we were about to start eating.  We ate curry chicken =].  In iron chef, I may have made it pretty good, but when my mom makes it, there are no leftovers.  We also had some turkey and some chow mein.   I always love hanging with my family and after being away for about three months, I was elated to find out that we were all going to hang out the next day and watch Harry Potter.
- brandon lee

My Asian American Studies Experience

When I first entered the class, I was nervous because I noticed how full it was and i didnt think I was going to crash it. But Ms. Irene allowed the students to accept me or reject me. I had no idea how accepting Asian Americans can be. Since Ive been in that class I have learned so much about them and their culture. It amazes me how much they had to go through and accomplish since coming to America. Every class was exciting and unforggetable and the Midterm and Final was an incredible experience. I am grateful that they accepted me but I will forever cherish my experience in Asian American Studies at SFSU. Til next time keep it heemin.
-Chris Harrold

Asians Americans can fight. Dont get them messed up!!!

I posted this because it irritates me when people under estimate Asian Americans because they are quiet. Did you see the kick??!! til next time keep it heemin.
-Chris Harrold