I'm black/Japanese and I think it's perfectly acceptable for Asians to be a bit protective of their culture. If it wasn
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Grace Park
evangelicangel — 17 years ago(January 09, 2009 07:45 PM)
I'm black/Japanese and I think it's perfectly acceptable for Asians to be a bit protective of their culture. If it wasn't a big deal, Hollywood wouldn't go out of their way to always pair an Asian girl with a white male. Rarely do you see Asian/Asian relationships in our mainstream. Why is that?
As someone said, there are billions upon billions of Asian people, but for some reason movies will only portray an Asian woman with a white guy. It doesn't make any sense in the least. The same goes for black women, although they've been a bit luckier when it comes to being paired with other African American men.
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StJuno — 17 years ago(January 10, 2009 04:18 AM)
Is Korean, yes. Born there, moved to Canada when he was a child. He and Grace have never walked the red carpet together. She's been photographed with Michael Kang quite a bit and some people have mistaken him for her husband. Grace and her husband Phil have only been photographed together once, for a Vancouver magazine.
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Coolestmovies — 16 years ago(June 29, 2009 03:12 PM)
Do you think your unique, diverse cultures, civilizations and looks just magically APPEARED in everyone's little corners of the world? Ridiculous. You're the way you are because of 1ebccenturies, millennia even, of human migration and intermingling and evolution. And centuries, even millennia, from NOW, your people, whatever they may be, will look different than they do now, and yet their culture, their civilizations and especially their looks will still be "collectively" unique. Look forward to it. It won't necessarily be white people "spoiling" the mix, but that will be part of it, and I for one think it would be beautiful to see what many "cultures" look like 500 years from now, a thousand years from now, even TEN thousand years from now. Because NONE of 'em will look like us. You can count on it.
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Coolestmovies — 16 years ago(June 30, 2009 10:57 PM)
That's not how it works, and that's not what I'm talking about, and you know it. In fact, that's pathetic sarcasm to boot. More like racism, but these threads are full of people who hate other cultures, and hate people of their own cultures who dare to think outside the box, so you're in good company!
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Besides, it's not like the Vietnamese culture hasn't survived its fair share of mixing down through the ages: mixing, migrating and evolving with neighbours, invaders, colonizers and foes unfortunately. But whaddayaknow, it still has a strong "cultural" identity (OMG what a shock!!!), even if not every single person within it is of "racially" pure stock going back to the dawn of man.
Face it, nationalist pride and racial protectionism may be successful a great deal of the time in countries that are still behind the world curve, but not ALL the time. Better yet, in modernized, industrialized and ethnically integrated places like Europe and North America and even parts of Asia, and especially in the big cities and increasingly in the smaller ones, the cultural mixing amongst younger generations would blow your socks off. And what culture should they be protecting, prey tell?? The homogenous one their well-intentioned but often racist parents emigrated from, or the multicultural one they themselves were BORN into? Growing up in a culture like the one we have in Canada, or the U.S. or parts of Europe and even Asia, those color lines become less and less important, and some people realize that it's alright to mix it up a bit.
Within WESTERN/WESTERNIZED societies, individual cultures will survive for many years to come just as they always have, but there WILL be an increasing number of people in each new generations that just doesn't understand the need to wear the racist blinders handed down to them by their well-intentioned and culturally-protective parents. I see it ALL AROUND ME, and the snarky comebacks of a few closed-minded souls on a message board will do absolutely NOTHING to stop it from happening. Maybe back in the home country these things are easier to fend off, but not here. Too bad for you, I sez!
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Toolman911 — 17 years ago(January 27, 2009 10:11 AM)
I know it's pretty stressed for a Korean woman to marry a Korean man. You sometimes see Korean women and other race men, but there is still a push in their family and community to marry within their own race and culture. Very similar to Mexican women as well. Not always the case, but still a desirable match within their own groups.
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AlphaQSilly — 16 years ago(October 18, 2009 09:28 PM)
Aren't they divorced now?
Also check out her latest Maxim photos no ring!
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etsis — 17 years ago(January 30, 2009 04:58 PM)
A couple of wedding photos.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34013257@N08/3208792475/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34013257@N08/3208792453/