Re: Asian-ness (was Re: "Whiteness" Re: Obseneties)

In a message dated 2000:09:01 4:32:02 PM, smithma@UCLA.EDU quotes me & writes:

>>     -"banana" => utterly Americanized Asians (in the tragic sense of
>>"they have lost their marbles and their heritage and gone too gung ho >>on
American values of the lowest common denominator")
>
>That's a new one on me.
    Well, it's my father's take on things (& I agree with him to a large
degree). My Dad is harsh man at times, as a Spanish friend says of him:
_hombre duro_.
    I do admire my father for his ultra-critical bluntness & ultra-dry acidic
wit besides his obvious stiff-upper-lip stoicism, battle-worn tenacity &
creative Taoist sensibilities.
    British Colonialism has scarred my father deeply, an early radical
Socialist idealism has left him somewhat groundless politically* & he seems
to have a love-hate thing with all things British (& American).


    czHANg

* tho' this year he seems to have regained his footing & is almost rabidly
insisting all us Chang kids vote Green Party (Ralph Nader).