Update II: Here’s another site that has the same article. Just scroll down midway to read it.
Update: Here’s the original article that was published in 1990. Interesting reading, for sure. Found it on a message board called AZNLover.com. Yeesh.
Chi-hui Yang, the outgoing festival director of the SFIAAFF (and also, the awesomest guy on Earth and it is so sad to see him leave after 12 years for newer adventures), recently found this after cleaning up his office, an old SF Examiner from 1990 with the cover story: Asian Women, Caucasian Men — The New Demographics of Love.
I wonder if Jeanie and Jamie are still together? I bet their 1990 selves were being all political on the Berkeley campus, fighting for human rights post Tianamen Square or some socialist revolt in South Korea. Maybe they attended a Color Me Badd concert or since it is NoCal, they were Dead Heads? Maybe their favorite TV show was The Fresh Prince of Bel Air? I know they were probably still typing their term papers on either Brother electronic typewriters or using a simple MS-DOS based word processor.
It seems so quaint to me, but I’ll just let you guys talk about it in the comments section.
WOW. I remember that infamous article well and I was a student at Berkeley then. Your mentions of typing term papers on Brother electronic typewriters and MS-DOS word processors were eerily dead-on in my case. RIP, dot-matrix printer.
1990… I’m gonna guess Jeanie and Jamie were Twin Peaks viewers and that Jamie’s favorite cast member was Joan Chen.
Shit, I remember this too. And I’m sorry but when did I stop being the awesomest guy on earth?!!
Can someone talk more about the article? I get it but would love more for context.
Never read the article, but thought of this UCLA Pacific Ties cover right away.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=31242174&l=6053c65ea7&id=1041991479
Heh, heh…..
I STILL have my old Brother semi-electronic typewriter. Got lots of font/type wheels for it too….I haven’t seen ink ribbons for it in a loooooong time though…..probably have to search on-line and hope they’re not selling “dried-out” ones. I was thinking to save it as a museum-piece to show my daughter some day. That and my cassette tape and record players…..and 5-1/4 & 3-1/2 inch floppies……and DOS v5.0 & WIN v3.1…..and Nintendo NES w/the robot too!! LOL.
Not familiar with the article, but several of my friends are AF/CM couples.
It’d be interesting to see how long interracial relationships between AF/WM or Mongoloid females and Caucasoid male couples last if only somebody gave enough of a damn to do a study. In my guess they are short termed and rarely last their novelty. It’s really sad that to see AF pay for WM with their credit cards, I’d prefer to see her pay with cash some times as proof that she strips and gets paid in dollars. Why is it that when AF’s go out with AM’s they expect the guys to pay but when they go out with WM’s they want to be the one to pay? I don’t get the logic in that? Does anyone???
PAM,
You sound like a bitter Asian male. Chill out.
I too would love to be able to read this article. And I too wonder if Jeanie and Jamie are still together (I admit, I just did a brief, brief Google search before I thought, “What am I doing?”) As an Asian female, I’ve always semi-worried that a Caucasian male that I might date is someone who is simply going through his Asian-Fetish phase, especially if his ex was Asian. But I’m currently in a wonderful, long-term relationship with a Caucasian man so I’ve gotten over it. My background though is that I was born in raised in an all-white small town, so I thought I was white until about 5th grade, and when it hit me that I wasn’t, I struggle with issues about being Asian through my teens. So I grew up being attracted only to white males (cause there were no other options) and I suppose that’s continued to this day. Perhaps Jeanie and Jamie were still hand-writing most of their papers, with a Bic pen and white-out (the bottled kind you have to brush on).
Wowza! Thanks for posting that mag cover!
This was a HU-MONGOUS conversation topic at the time in the Bay Area Asian community. Wonder how everyone now feels about this topic and it’s related one: why no Asian men with White women? Or is it no longer an issue of interest or meaning? And what about Asian men and women dating or mating with other non-asian “races?” Does it matter anymore on a political/symbolic level?
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why is that when you’re taking the picture you think you look terrific but 20 years later you invariably say, “dang, i can’t believe i used to do my hair like that/think that acid wash jeans were cool/peg my pant legs/yada yada yada”?
Trying to read through the 1990 article, but I’ve run out of things to puke up. >.<