Eurasian Sensation
Blog URL http://www.eurasian-sensation.blogspot.com
Located Melbourne, Victoria Australia
Tags culture, race, asian-australian, ethnicity, food, asia, music, multiculturalism
Global culture, multi-culture, pop culture, Asian culture, food culture, musical culture and... you get the drift.
Latest Blog Posts
- How Australians love Bangladeshi conjoined twins, hate Tamil refugees, and bash Indians on Nov 21, 2009 in tamils attitudes south asians curry bashing indians racism refugees
There have been 2 stories that have dominated Australian news reports in the last week or so, and one that flew under the radar. But together they demonstrate a complex picture of how Australians relate to South Asian people. First, the one you proba...
- "How to draw Asian women". Really? on Nov 21, 2009 in asians
Hat tip to Disgrasian for this. It's funny for all the wrong reasons.Watch this eHow video of self-described "cartoonist and artist extraordinaire" Bill Connolly, as he shows you how to draw a picture of an Asian woman. Apparently...Of course, it beg...
- Kumail Nanjiani on Letterman on Nov 17, 2009 in south asians random comic genius
Caught Pakistani-born comic Kumail Nanjiani the other night on The Late Show With David Letterman. While it didn't knock my socks off in the way that say, Joe Wong did, it was pretty good and he has a likeable presence. Interestingly, he didn't reall...
- Black Covers of White Songs - "Light My Fire" on Nov 16, 2009 in music soul black people
I'm always interested in how music is reinterpreted across different cultures. Even within one country, the USA, it is usually easy to identify black artists from white artists. And while a dominant historical trend has been the white appropriation o...
- Jo Koy in Melbourne on Nov 11, 2009 in culture ethnicity philippines random comic genius good times
LA-based comedian Jo Koy is in Australia this week and I was extremely fortunate to catch his sold-out show at Crown in Melbourne. (Shout out to my man Mike Chen for hooking that up.) I knew little of Koy prior to the show aside from a couple of Yout...
- "If I Was Like You" - thought-provoking short film on race relations on Nov 11, 2009 in attitudes movie review ethnicity asians film racism black people americans
From first-time film-maker Wesley Du comes this multi-layered and challenging short film entitled If I Was Like You. It recently premiered at the DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival - apparently no other festival would touch it due to its controv...
- Black chicks singing in Mandarin - why not? This is cool. on Nov 9, 2009 in music china black people language
Another of those odd cross-cultural phenomena that youtube keeps churning out. Two African-American girls living in Germany, who just happen to be obsessed with Chinese songs. Only one of them has studied Mandarin, and then only for a year, but appar...
