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Can anyone suggest good movies/tv shows that showcase positive interracial couples? I'm trying to collect all the tv shows, movies or videos that postively highlight interracial relationships. Also, feel free to forward scenes from You Tube. | | Star Treck | Are all of these movies chick flicks? Now And Then (1995)
Crossroads
Something New (the interracial one)
Save The Last Dance
Definitely Maybe
This Is My Life (1992)
I chose to see each of these movies of my own free will and with no persuasion from someone else. I want to know if I can rightfully tell people that I can easily survive chick flicks even though I'm not ... ahem, female. | idk what that is
crossroads is horrible(soo boring and stupid)
idk
not really
yes
idk | Why is interracial marriage among Asian Americans decreasing? I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this is a result of traditional media outlets such as TV and movies becoming less of an influence on the general Asian population as they choose to shape their own views and identity free of media molding and stereotyping by surfing the net for information rather than having their roles in society dictated to them
I do feel however that Asian representation in the traditional media is abhorent to say the very least and As such Asians as a whole need to do what ever they can to gain control of their own image. There are probably less Asians in the media today than there were ten years ago and they're stereotyped worst than ever before.
www.proudasianamerican.com/Articles/2004%20ACS.htm
Interracial Marriages Decrease Among Asian Americans
Gender Disparity Shrinks as Pan Asian American Marriages Rise
By J.J. Huang
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After rising for decades, the rate of interracial ("IR") marriages for contemporary (aged 25-34) U.S.-born Asian Americans has declined from 2000 to 2004 according to data tabulated from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2004 American Community Survey ("ACS") and the Census 2000. Contemporary 1.5 Generation Asian American females also experienced fewer IR marriages. Part of the decline was due to record levels of Pan Asian marriages (marriages between Asians of different ethnicities). Surprisingly, the rate of IR marriage decreased most prominently among U.S.-born Asian American females, shrinking the IR marriage gender disparity that historically was skewed towards females. In addition, sharp differences and changes were found in IR marriage statistics between the major Asian American ethnicities.
IR marriage has become the most explosive social issue within the Asian American community. It is an emotionally divisive debate often loaded with charges of racism and sexism from within and without along gender lines due to significantly higher numbers of IR marriages among Asian women. The 2000 IR marriage statistics are startling. Contemporary U.S.-born Asian American women as a whole were more likely to have a white husband than an Asian husband. In fact, for several ethnic groupings of Asian women, wives were twice as likely to have a non-Asian husband than an Asian husband. Contemporary U.S.-born Asian American men lagged significantly behind in IR marriages giving rise to the so-called gender disparity.
Many observers predicted the rate of IR marriages to increase for both genders as Asians continued to assimilate in the U.S. The 2004 results run counter to these expectations and all the more surprising given the short timeframe and an unexpected contributor of decreased IR marriages; Pan Asian marriages.
Study Methodology
The data tabulations focused on U.S.-born and 1.5 Generation Asian Americans aged 25 to 34. 1.5 Generation Asian Americans are defined as foreign born Asians who immigrated to the U.S. as guyren before the age of 14. These age and upbringing distinctions are important in order to focus on Asian Americans who are socialized within the context of contemporary U.S. race relations. This methodology filters out distortions such as war brides, mail-order brides and limits Asian international adoptees to the 1.5 Generation (of which only a small minority would be of marrying age in 2000). U.S.-born and 1.5 Generation Asian Americans are commonly referred to as U.S.-raised Asian Americans.
Interracial marriage is defined as a marriage to a white, black, native American, native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, other race or a mixed race individual. The data could only measure marriages where the spouse was present in the household. In keeping with U.S. Census Bureau conventions, Hispanics are considered an ethnicity and may belong to any race.
It is also important to note that U.S.-raised Asians Americans as a whole are demographically young stemming from recent waves of immigration (the exception are Japanese Americans due to their long and stable presence in the United States, they are the only demographically mature U.S.-raised Asian ethnicity). As a result, between 2000 and 2004 there was an explosion of marriages among contemporary U.S.-raised Asians Americans. Thus, although the 2004 ACS is a much smaller dataset than the Census 2000, the 2004 ACS makes up for some of this deficiency by having a higher weighting of Asian marriages.
Tables Census 2000 2004 ACS
Males RS-M99-2000US-A RS-M99-2004ACS-A
Females RS-F99-2000US-A RS-F99-2004ACS-A
2000 IR Marriage Statistics
In 2000, for the contemporary U.S.-raised Asian American population, 30% of males were in IR marriages vs. 43% of females. IR marriage was highest among U.S.-born Asians; 44% for males and 58% for females vs. 23% for males and 35% for females of the 1.5 Generation. About 80% of all intermarriage was to white race individuals.
Among major ethnicities of Asian males, U.S.-born Japanese and Filipino Americans were most likely to be intermarried at 51% (tied). 1.5 Generation Chinese and Vietnamese Americans were least likely to be intermarried at 16% and 17%, respectively.
Among major ethnicities of Asian females, U.S.-born Filipino and Korean Americans were most likely to be intermarried at 66% (tied). 1.5 Generation Asian Indian and Chinese Americans were least likely to be intermarried at 24% and 26%, respectively.
Many observers have been surprised by the high rate of IR marriage in 2000. To others it affirmed their belief that Asian Americans were assimilating by marrying into the white majority. IR marriage tended to be lower in urban counties and highest in rural counties where a still significant portion of Asian Americans reside.
2004 IR Marriage Statistics
In 2004, the numbers of married contemporary U.S.-raised Asian Americans increased significantly; up 70% for males and 64% for females. The large wave of marriages over the last four years could indicate recent social changes of importance for Asian Americans. At first glance, the overall statistics do not appear to have changed significantly; the overall rate of IR marriage increased 1% for males but decreased 3% for females. However this represents a reversal of a long trend in IR marriage and is perhaps a turning point for the Asian American community.
All of the increase in the rate of male IR marriage was due to a 2% increase for the 1.5 Generation. This may not be unusual, the 1.5 Generation rate was extremely low in 2000 at 23%. For U.S.-born males the rate of IR marriage decreased 3% (from 44% to 41%) due to an increase of Pan Asian marriages which were 17% of the total (a 50% rate increase from 2000).
The female IR marriage statistic for the 1.5 Generation decreased 2% with no change in the rate of Pan Asian marriages. That is a significant decrease in IR marriages in itself. But for the U.S.-born, the rate of IR marriage decreased an astounding 9% (from 58% to 49%). The unexpected change in IR marriages among U.S.-born females was primarily due to a huge increase in Asian marriages among Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese and Asian-Indian females, in that order. The most dramatic change occurred among Korean women with a 15% rate decline in IR marriages. Pan Asian marriages rose to a rate of 11% of the total (a 38% rate increase from 2000).
Asian Newlyweds Prefer Asian Spouses
Another way to analyze the changes in IR marriages would be to exclude those contemporary U.S.-raised Asian Americans who were already married in 2000 and focus solely on new marriages between 2000 and 2004. By assuming no divorces, deaths or emigrations occurred, this rough analysis reveals a greater contemporary decline in IR marriages.
For Asian males, the 90 thousand new marriages were roughly split between 1.5 Generation and U.S.-born Asian males. New IR marriages were 24% (vs. 23% in 2000) for the 1.5 Generation and 37% (vs. 44% in 2000) for the U.S.-born.
For Asian females, the 105 thousand new marriages evenly split between 1.5 Generation and U.S.-born Asian females. New IR marriages were 34% (vs. 43% in 2000) for the 1.5 Generation and 43% (vs. 58% in 2000) for the U.S.-born.
Thus, the rate of IR marriage among newlyweds is significantly lower than for those already married in 2000. Pan Asian marriages comprised 16% of the above newlywed marriages for the men and 11% for the women. In addition, the IR marriage gender disparity for newlyweds is the smallest in recent history, 10% for the 1.5 Generation and 6% for U.S.-born. The disparity was 8% overall.
Pan Asian Marriages on the Rise
Pan Asian marriages, while not uncommon, are often overlooked as a factor in Asian American marriages. Most observers have viewed the marriage choices for Asian Americans as a black or white affair or more accurately a choice between a white race individual and an Asian individual of the same ethnicity. The traditional assimilationist perspective predicts Asian Americans would marry into the majority white population for socioeconomic achievement. Otherwise Asian Americans would marry an Asian of the same ethnicity to retain cultural and ethnic ties. In short, there did not seem to be a compelling socioeconomic or cultural reason for Pan Asian marriage.
Some sociologists, including Dr. C.N. Le (www.asian-nation.org), predicted a rise in Pan Asian marriages from more subtle social factors such as heightened race consciousness, greater acculturation, and a sense of shared group identity. Dr. Le argues that as Asian Americans achieve socioeconomic success through high education and professional occupations there is greater social interaction among Asians from various ethnicities. U.S. demographics and race relations also tend to ignore ethnic distinctions and promote Asians as a single racial group in various facets of American life. (A recent example is the creation of Asian fraternities and sororities.) And as the Asian American population matures from a community that is mostly foreign born to U.S.-raised the historical animosities between Asian ethnicities become less relevant. The record numbers of Pan Asian marriages in 2004 support Dr. Le's prediction.
In 2004, Chinese males were the most popular Pan Asian husband for contemporary U.S.-raised Asian females. Chinese and Vietnamese females had the highest numbers of Pan-Asian husbands. The popularity of the Chinese as Pan Asian spouses might be due to the long history of the Chinese diaspora setting up communities in nearly every non-Chinese Asian country.
On the other hand, Japanese females were the most popular Pan Asian wife for contemporary U.S.-raised Asian males. This is somewhat surprising given the recent historical animosity most native Asians have for the Japanese and perhaps an indicator of decreasing ethnic barriers. Chinese males recorded the highest number of Pan Asian wives.
It is likely that Pan Asian marriages will remain popular. And by implication their offspring could exponentially grow the population of Asians with mixed ethnic backgrounds in years to come.
The Future of Asian Americans
Perhaps Pan Asian marriages are evidence the dynamics of U.S. race relations are eroding traditional cultural and ethnic ties (and animosities) in favor of greater racial solidarity. It is a potentially exciting development for the Asian American community. As a historical example, it was not long ago in the early 20th century that Irish, Italian and other southern European whites experienced severe discrimination in the U.S. by other whites. Today, after suffering far more intra-race wars than Asians have, white Americans have overcome their ethnic and nationalistic prejudices in part through Pan European intermarriage to create a cohesive racial identity.
The Asian American community has historically been fractured along ethnic lines. Certainly if white Americans from various European ethnicities formed a single racial identity it is likely Asian Americans will and Pan Asian marriage may be a key contributor. Hopefully, this will lead to a stronger Asian American identity and a united Asian American community with its inherent political and social implications.
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Copyright © 2006 craigslist, inc. terms of use privacy policy feedback forum | | interracial marriages among all races have been rising and are still rising in canada especially. as well as us and europe. | Has the "Big Screen" been a force for racial unity in America? Hollywood has always been conscious of ethnicity in film making. From the days when there was a dearth of "colour" on the marquee, to modern times when race is often used for technique, sometimes in a stereotypical way -- occasionally in a reverse discriminatory way. Evincing scenes of cordial interracial relations is often used for effect, however subtle, but it was fairly rare in the early movie years.
DO YOU THINK:
1.
a) Movies influence race relations?
b) Can racial tolerance be inducted into society by the "Big Screen"?
If yes to either question in #1, then,
2.
a) Can movies, and the performing arts in general be a destructive force for societal cohesion and propriety?
b) Should there be more restrictive controls on what young people watch? Should we make more effort to shield our guys from depravity in the the films? WHich invites endless questions, such as;
Is censoring and proscription more harmful to society than exposing impressionable minds (in youths) to the realities, however sordid, of our world?
Excuse my multi-question query: I felt the questions to be intimately related and so, I threw them all together. Please feel free to answer any one or more parts of my post. Thanks. | My take is that many involved in the film industry attempt to impose their own view of the world onto the public sector just because they can.
They tend to feel that they have the power to change people's views and morals. In many cases, they use that power wisely, but, other times, they fail miserably.
We all need to resist the temptation to allow Hollywood to define our mores. | Why does the left love the racist warmonger Woodrow Wilson? www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/port…
On this PBS webpage, they acknowledge that Woodrow Wilson was a racist, yet try to whitewash his bigotry. Wilson, it is admitted by PBS, resegregated the federal government, and signed a law making "miscegenation" ("interracial" marriage) a felony in DC.
Previously, while at Princeton, Woodrow Wilson wrote a book about the History of the American People. According to Wilson, “The white men were roused [to secede] by a mere instinct of self-preservation.” Furthermore, according to Wilson, the Ku Klux Klan was “a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.”
Wilson was a fanatical warmonger who made George W. Bush look like George McGovern. Although Wilson pretended that America was neutral in World War I, Wilson deliberately aided the British and French. This should have surprised nobody who read Wilson's history books as he was nearly as bigoted toward German-Americans and other white immigrants as he was toward black people. The Lusitania was a ship carrying weapons for the British and French disguised as a peaceful civilian ship. After the Germans made an absurd offer to Mexico to ally with Germany if the Americans joined the war on the side of the British (instead of merely continuing to supply the British to wage war on Germany), Wilson used that as a justification for doing what he wanted to do all along, enter World War I. Wilson and his Congress passed legislation outlawing free speech and jailed anti-war protesters. German-Americans faced unbelievable bigotry and hate that was so bad that many changed their names. Filmmakers were arrested for making movies about our Revolution. The leader of the Socialist Party was thrown in jail for giving a speech against the war. Wilson implemented a military draft for the first time since the end of the Civil War.
The results of Wilson's warmongering were catastrophic. Although World War I was on the verge of ending with a peace that would have returned Europe to the status quo antebellum, the war lasted another deadly year and a half. Following the collapse of the Czars in Russia, a provisional government was established with the goal of establishing democracy in Russia, but was pressured by the British and French to stay in the war. In Russia, the only political party opposed to the war was the Bolshevik Party, so the Germans sent their leader Vladimir Lenin in a sealed train to Russia so that he could lead the people to establish a Communist government.
Thanks to Wilson, the British and French went on to win World War I and they set out to what winners of wars do, punish the losers. Wilson's stated goal was to "make the world safe for democracy," a goal which would famously be the goal of George W. Bush's foreign policy 90 years later. Wilson failed even more spectacularly. Wilson, in order to fulfill his crazed desire to abolish the monarchies and create his moronic "League of Nations," allowed the Europeans to impose harsh reparations on Germany and other defeated countries, crippling their economies. The result was the rise of National Socialism in Europe and World War II. Another result of the treaty was that the Ottoman Empire's former territory was carved up by the Imperialist European powers. The British gained possession of a historic territory known as Palestine, which had been the site of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem nearly 1000 years earlier and was the homeland of the Jews for the last 1000 years BC or so. The British promised that land to both the people who already lived there and to a group of political activists primarily based in America who sought to reestablish the long-extinct nation of Israel. To make a long story short, the Palestinians ended up having their land stolen from them and watched as the US funded the Israeli invaders.
Back home in America, the original Dubya (Woodrow was actually his middle name; his real first name was Thomas) got exactly what he deserved, the utter contempt of the American people. The Senate rejected the treaty for his stupid League of Nations. The economy went into a recession worse (in its first year, Wilson's last) than the Great Depression. There were riots across America. Communist terrorists waged attacks against Wall Street, encouraged by their puppet masters in the Soviet Union. Fortunately for America, Woodrow Wilson had a stroke that left him incapacitated, so he couldn't make things any worse.
Fortunately, a great man emerged to save America from the disaster that Woodrow Wilson had created. An obscure Senator from Ohio by the name of Warren Harding was nominated by the Republican Party and won the Presidency in the largest popular vote landslide in American history (although not the largest electoral vote landslide because of the Solid South). Harding said he was going to bring a return to normalcy and he did exactly that. He cut government spending and taxes dr | | He's responsible for the segregation of the early 1900s and was a huge fan of Eugenics.... Sounds just like the Nazi left to me. | How does this plot synopsis sound? this is just a rough draft of my plot synopsis for my teen drama story. here it is:
Proudly living in the busy streets of New York, the stunning and beautiful brunette of medium height, sixteen-year-old Deanna Santos is no stranger to scandal and controversy. Street-smart and fearless, she is no one's fool-----least of all her father Raphael's and stepmother Laurel's. Yes, it is a fact that Deanna was sexually abused by her father and was able to take him by putting him in prison, but now that Laurel has done the unthinkable-------bailing Raphael out of prison because she absolutely refuses to believe that Deanna was ever abused------Deanna must now find a new way to bring her father down yet again as well as devise a plan on how to prove to Laurel that she's been telling the truth all along. But that's not the only drama in store for Deanna.
With summer vacation coming to a near end, Deanna wants to start her junior year of high school drama free. Unfortunately, wanting isn't getting , especially at a place like Constance High School, a predominately interracial high school where Deanna and 30 other students get bussed to daily. Aside from her family drama, Deanna is hellbent on exacting revenge on her long time arch nemesis Bianca McKay, who got her into a world of trouble over the summer that cost Deanna a big L.A. movie role. While the inevitable catfight/rift between Deanna and Bianca goes on throughout the year, Deanna will make sure she shows Bianca who the real ***** at Constance really is and more importantly, when she should watch her back.
let me know what you think of this synopsis and if i should make any improvement or change it around. | What happened to the court case?
If someone is accused of sexual abuse, it is not simply a matter of bailing them out of jail and the whole thing goes away.
Also, what happens to Deanna emotionally because of the abuse? Have you researched the psychological ramifications of familial sex abuse? That might be a good place to start. |
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