Sex does this … sex does that… What can’t sex do? Studies seem to connect almost every part of our lives to sex. A new study claims that people with healthy sex lives have an upper hand at work. What is your opinion? Do you honestly believe that cranky person in the office isn’t getting [...]
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Archive for August, 2009
Interracial marriage? Racial covering?
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009The other day, when reading the book ‘Covering’ by Kenji Yoshino, I saw this:“Racial covering occurs when non-whites “act white” by modulating their behaviors.” Yoshino gives an example of Eric Liu’s memoir ‘The Accidental Asian’ where Liu says “Here are some of the ways you could say I am ‘white’”: I listen to National Public [...]
Are you keeping them or freaking them out?
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009Love. Lust. These two drive people nuts. Who hasn’t fudged to grasp or keep the person they love or lust over? Problem is, desperation leads some of us in to doing things that – instead of helping the situation – push the ones we love away. If you go too far, you could lose this [...]
Supporting interracial marriage: Korean men to receive 1mill won for interracial weddings
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009Due to the increase in interracial marriages and the high rates of divorce pegged on lack of mutual understanding, come October, Korean men planning to marry foreign women will be able to attend a program to learn about interracial marriage before tying the knot. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) this program is geared [...]
Melting pot metaphor explained…
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009We usually go on and on about America being a “melting pot”. Question is: What do we really mean? Well this is what Catherine in an article The Great Melting Pot: “Edging” Us out within Interracial Families had to say: We just don’t seem to realize the truth of that metaphor: that a “melting pot” [...]
Is your spouse hotter than you?
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009They say beauty (or should I say hotness) is in the eye of the beholder. I have never figured out what it really means. But clearly, different people will rate you differently on the hotness scale. Isn’t a man’s meat another man’s poison? Such ratings based on ones looks never escape relationships. I remember looking [...]
