I think there are a few places in my paper where I can either add or erase. While doing the exercise on Wednesday I found some places in my paper where I could expand on a few subjects.
Reading
My pro and con for Paper Bullets
Con: I really don’t know if it was necessary for the author to talk about the sex scenes in detail.
Pro: I like the talk between him and the Cambodian women. Really made me think about the differences between being Hapa and being Asian.
Film
I really need to start watching Bruce Lee films. I looked up the showdown between the two martial artists on the internet and in seems as though there is some controversy as to how it went down. I’m wondering if the directors who made Birth of the Dragon used this as an excuse to make the film in their own image.
2018 Asian American Olympians
For those of you who are going to watch the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea here are a list of athletes to watch who are Asian American:
Figure Skating: Nathan Chen and Maia/Alex Shibutani
Short Track Speed Skating: J.R. Celski
Snowboarding: Chloe Kim
Paper
I’m thinking about adding a paragraph in my paper about how media representation of Asian cuisine. As I mentioned before in an earlier post, it seems that Asian American food has made it’s way into media. One particular show that touches this is Rick and Morty where they make fun of Panda Express (I actually understand why). However, I wonder how I should talk about this in my paper because I don’t exactly know if this is necessary to talk about since there is a page limit.
Film
I thought this was a very good film to watch because from my perspective I don’t know much about the Indians who came from Uganda. I first heard about South Asians in Uganda from an article that I read and that was it.
On a side note, I wonder how many South Asians stayed in Uganda. Plus, how many of those who stayed survived?
I found a few short documentaries on Idi Amin on YouTube. Most of them have the fact that he was part of one of Britain’s imperial armies. That seems to be a very common fact on most military dictators in European colonies.
Idi Amin (left)
Reggie Ho
For those of you who are wondering if there are any other Asian American athletes, there was a college football player named Reggie Ho who was a key placekicker for the 1988 Notre Dame Championship team. There is a short documentary about him called Student/Athlete.
http://www.espn.com/30for30/film?page=student/athlete
Adding
In my paper I am currently adding my perspective of my history with Asian-American food. I think the one problem that I cannot confirm is the fact that I still can’t tell if a dish is Asian or Asian American. I’m still debating on whether or not I should keep some of the facts and quotes that I found from the books I read.
On a side note I did eat Panda Express on Saturday.
Reading
The book kept me thinking about a crossroad because of the way it depicted two, maybe three different lives of what could of happened to all those Vietnamese orphans.
One other thing that came into question was the first chapter where the woman drops off her child at the orphanage, where I believe that the children could have been dropped off in a number of different ways.
Vinh kind of made a good point where he asked, “What makes you so special”? However, someone can ask him the same question.
Film
The Beautiful Country took place in a time that surprised me. If the setting is 1990 then the main character must have been born sometime in the late 60s maybe.
I was actually satisfied with the ending when Binh finds his father and works with him. However, I believe that a sequel could have made for this considering we don’t know what Binh would do if his father passes away.
I always wonder how Vietnam Veterans would react when they saw someone of Vietnamese descent. In the one scene where Binh meets a few veterans who have missing arms, they ended up giving him a ride. This is probably one out of many reactions that veterans would have done if they met someone who is Vietnamese.