Magnum Opus

Hello friends. I have greatly enjoyed my time both here on my blogs and on the internet in general: researching, writing and discussing Asian issues with all the netizens out there. However, I am sad to say that very soon I will leave this blog, and will most probably stop using the internet in general (apart from using it for school) in order to focus all of my energies on achieving my future goals. 

Before I leave the world wide web I would like to leave you all with my last work. Entitled ‘Why Asian people should care’, this next series of posts will definitively outline my thoughts on the status of race in society today, and how it applies in particular to Asian people. I will then spend the second part detailing the things that we as Asian people should do both right now and in the long term to be able to raise our kids in a world where they are viewed and treated as human beings of value. 

 

Now I did sort of do this before. However the first time I tried to write it up I lost motivation and half-assed it, partly because I was stressed and overworked at the time, and because I wasn’t sure peopele would take the time to read a 5000 word thesis. However since I have decided to really work towards putting my own plans for my life in motion, I feel that I have to do it right, if nothing more than for my own satisfaction and my desire to get it all off my chest. 

 

Be warned, this final series will be incredibly long and detailed. It will comprise the content of all of my previous blog posts combined into a single manifesto of sorts. Keep an open mind while reading it, some of the ideas may be a little strange to you at first. I hope some of the ideas presented will resonate with some of you out there, and hopefully lead to something substantial offline too.

 

Seriously guys thanks for staying around. I hope you enjoy my magnum opus, coming out here on this page, July 29. 

 

(If you haven’t already checked it out, you can browse through all my previous posts on my old blog http://www.dangerzoneq.xanga.com. Make sure to read through all the earlier pages too if you decide to visit).

Navigation: why I write about Asian issues

I received a message the other day inspired inspired me to write about why I write and maintain this blog.

 

From looking out at the world over the course of my life it has become clear that all of the interactions that take place between different people are subtly influenced by a wide varieties of underlying dynamics. Things such as one’s gender, race or class will affect the way in which a person will be viewed and therefore treated. These tiny, minute attributes can have so much of an effect on a person that they could conceivably control the entire course of an unsuspecting individual’s life.

 

However, if one becomes aware of these dynamics – or better yet develops a deep understanding of how these dynamics operate – one can then gain control over the outside world instead of being controlled by it by manipulating the system itself to advance your own interests.

 

Now i knew from the very beginning that this type of blog would not become ‘popular’ in the way that some blogs go viral. First, most people are more interested in more light hearted, dont-have-to-think-too-much subjects in the vein of ’10 ways to know if your boyfriend is cheating on you’ type of blogs (lol). Secondly I know that most people don’t even stop to think about these sorts of things to begin with.

 

in short this blog isn’t meant for most people. It is meant primarily for Asian (and colored) people who are searching for knowledge in order to attain mastery and control over the invisible dynamics that were thrust upon them by wider society in order to live strong, happy, fulfilling lives. I’m not trying to educate white people when i talk about white privilege or subtle forms of racism, because after studying social movements throughout history I know that tpeople who hold power will never give it up willingly. I hope that through this blog I can at least reach some of the strong asian or colored people out there on cyberspace to pass on the knowledge i have gained thus far so that we can fight and push back against these dynamics in our own little ways over the course of our day to day lives to hopefully achieve meaningful change.