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Monday, 10 September 2012

Louis Walsh Racist To Jason Viet Tien


X Factor judge Louis Walsh has been branded a racist by a section of the Twitter community for repeatedly correcting Vietnamese contestant Jason Viet Tien mispronunciation of 'Tulisa' as 'Tulisha.' 


Jason Viet Tien, an 18-year-old student from Hanoi, Vietnam, sang a version of Whitney Houston's 'I have Nothing' in a thick Vietnamese accent, declaring his love for judge Tulisa Contostavlos despite mispronouncing her name - much to the amusement of the audience.



During the X Factor broadcast at the weekend, Jason's mispronunciation resulted in #Tulisha trending worldwide on Twitter as thousands of tweets reacted with sinophobic humour.

Not adverse to racial controversy, Louis Walsh also said of Jason Viet Tien - "You remind me of a young Bruce Lee."

Reminiscent of the 2010 series of X Factor, when Louis Walsh described young black contestant Pajie Richardson as "You’re like a little Lenny Henry,” the only link between Pajie Richardson and Lenny Henry, Jason Viet Tien and Bruce Lee - is race. As an illustration of ignorance, Bruce Lee is not Vietnamese and Jason Viet Tien is not Chinese nor does he resemble Bruce Lee. Its an analogy of casual racism and racial stereotyping of East Asians, typically - 'they all look the same,' 'Bruce Lee is the only famous (East Asian) Chinese man I've heard of.' Through its broadcast, ITV, XFactor and in particular Louis Walsh, instigated and legitimised racism against East Asians.

Jason Viet Tien is not dissimilar to William Hung, a buck tooth FOB male caricature blissfully ignorant of western social and racial environments. In an interview prior to the audition, 'White Fever' Jason Viet Tien embarrassingly describes his craving for White British girls. Jason Viet Tien is a dupe, to further the media representation of East Asian men as 'sexless' short nerds with ghastly accents, out of their depth and out of their league, with no hope of winning the affection of alpha White females in her native country except through pity and derision, their FOB delusions of self-importance are pitied as a means of creating entertainment for the audience to laugh at - they're laughing at you Jason, not with you. (BBCZeitgeist)

Sunday, 12 August 2012

Kenneth Tong

Kenneth Tong Insults Gary Barlow's Stillborn Baby 

Kenneth Tong Big Brother contestant turned Twitter troll, has caused a stir with his latest tweets insulting Gary Barlow's stillborn daughter Poppy. The offending tweets made tabloid news, with many celebrities including Piers Morgan urging Kenneth Tong's Twitter account be shut down.

Unperturbed, Kenneth Tong boasted to The Sun newspaper, 'People will know my name and that’s all that matters...My tweets aren’t offensive to the point where they are illegal. I’m not worried about the police coming to my door. I have the best legal team.'


Kenneth Tong, a Hong Konger, claimed to be a millionaire playboy when he first appeared as a late contestant on Big Brother (Series 10) as the psychopathic boyfriend of Karly Ashworth, he quit the show after being reprimanded for threatening Rebecca 'Bea' Hamill. Although his 15 minutes of fame expired three years ago, Kenneth has remained in the public eye by trolling the internet.

In 2011, he faced death threats after launching a pro-anorexia campaign on Twitter. His tweets included: “Don’t let the fat masses oppress you from your goals. You deserve a skinny body” and “To be thinner, skip dinner." After complaints by Rihanna and thousands of other Twitter users, Tong declared the campaign was a hoax, claiming it was a dare to prove he could become a trending topic on Twitter.

BBCZeitgeist Commentary: British Chinese that have encountered racial abuse in the UK will know that if a White person is offended by a Chinese person (even if the offending Chinese has not referred to the White persons race or nor his/her racial characteristics), the White person instinctively retaliates with Sinophobic racism. Examining the Twitter backlash against Kenneth Tong, whilst the majority of tweets have refrained from racial insults (perhaps the precedence of the Stan Collymore case acts as a deterrent), others have reacted more instinctively...

Saturday, 21 July 2012

Why Its Unsafe To Call John Terry a ‘Fucking White Cunt’

In January, Dianne Abbot was metaphorically hung by the British public for tweeting something as innocuous as “White people love playing divide and rule, we should not play their game.”
Against hounding accusations of racism against White people, she backtracked claiming a historical reference to the colonial past even though the tweet was clearly written in the present tense. Evidently, tolerance for radical outspoken ethnic speakers within the mainstream appears to be diminishing, even within the virtual realm of the internet it is no longer ‘safe’ to speak out nor fight against ‘white racism’ nor fight for ethnic causes without retribution or consequence - whatever happened to Britain’s tolerance of oppressed racial minorities' Black rights?

In 1964, Malcolm X orchestrated a highly charged ‘racial’ speech at the Oxford Union, the ‘White man’ was labelled a ‘devil’ and a ‘racialist’ to shuddering rounds of applause from the debating chamber, yet forty eight years on, times have changed, the election of Barack Obama opened new discussions on race and ethnicity discourse (Listen to podcast with Ralph Eubanks and Professor Mark Anthony Neal).

The Guardian is currently running a series of articles on racism in the digital age. It is argued in a post-racial age, the ‘White man’ neither tolerates nor feels burdened by the cries of racial suppression from its racial minorities. Whilst racial minority bloggers and journalists maybe given license on the Centre-Left Guardian newspaper to share their tribulations promoting race and ethnicity issues within the sphere of the mainstream, ironically 'below the line' comments accompanying these articles are less sympathetic, overflowing with (mostly white) egesta lacking an iota of empathy towards the plight of its ethnic minorities.

The internet mob heckle the ethnic bloggers till they scarper with their tails between their legs seeking sanctuary in the Huffington Post. 'Racism is the new McCarthyism,' the internet mob shout, ‘how dare you play the race card and drum up hysteria accusing poor innocent ‘White’ people of racism?!’ 


The mob are jubilant, vindicated by the courts decision in R v John Terry racist use of 'you fucking Black cunt,' yet Rio Ferdinand loses his place in the England team after making a stand against racism. So Where does this leave those still brave enough to fight or speak out against racism?
"The consensus that societies are post-racial has supported a range of political strategies often described as "cultural racism". The people are not racist, the argument goes, and any prejudice is merely a natural defensive response to the "reverse racism" of "migrants" who refuse to adapt and accept "our way of life" (Titley and Lentin, The Guardian)
In a 'post-racial age,' ethnic minorities are increasingly having to justify their position in even attempting to develop an strong ethnic identity, large sections of the community truly believe our identity should not be based on race as it is divisive. As The Guardian puts it eloquently..."being blind to race often involves being blind to racism." In attempting to deny us our ethnic identity, denying us the chance to fight back or speak out, they hope to deny us our ethnic voice, if race doesn’t exist- there can’t be any racism can there?

By BBCZeitgeist

Friday, 17 February 2012

Youtube British Born Chinese

 Youtube Video Culture: British Born Chinese or Asian?

BBC Youtube video culture is relatively new. As we know Asian American Youtube culture has been around since 2006, but now BBCs have taken to the idea -  under the guise of being 'Asian' rather than BBC.

 Asian in the UK means South Asians . i.e Indian, Pakistani's.

Asian in America basically means the same as pan-Asian, anyone of Asian descent. Indian's as an ethnicity also fall under Asian American because of India's geographical location -which in Asia.

Pan-Asian,  is an expression of cross-Asian ethnic political, cultural  unity   

So if BBCs are now calling themselves 'Asian', what exactly are they implying?

Take a look at these Youtube performers- the first is a Canadian Vietnamese.


The Chengman




The next three are BBC.

Chungj5




The Fellow Yellow





rikehtube ( brother of bubzbeauty)




Are BBCS trying to reclaim the word from the South Asian's? Are BBCS trying to Express pan-Asian unity? Or are BBCS simply jumping on the Asian American cultural wagon instead of developing a BBC culture? And if so, is this a good idea?

Friday, 10 February 2012

Heineken Serenade

HEINEKEN SERENADE

Need Valentines Day ideas? Gethin Jones presents a night of live 'Orientalist' Heineken serenades for Valentine's Day on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/heineken until 3am. See also on facebook via heineken serenade app  www.facebook.com/heineken




The (bordering on racist) Heineken Serenade advertising campaign has been awash with dubious oriental  Chinese stereotypes of a bygone age...Chinese girl falling for the White guy, Bruce Lee yellow track suit complete with nunchaku, 1950's-60's The Ah-so's Band, Manchu styles crossed with cheongsam's, in true orientalist style @ 0:08 the White guy puts his palms/hands together to greet the Chinese chef - 'ah-so!' And yes, its a Hindi song they're performing.



Monday, 2 January 2012

Once You Go Black You Can't Go Back

Chinese parents have traditionally held  firm on the subject of marrying Blacks...“ng mau ka hakkgwai” is repetitively indoctrinated into our psyche, so much so that statistically interracial Chinese Black marriages remain an oddity (read this article Black Chinese inter racial marriage statistics). 

However, jungle fever does exist. I once knew a FOB Chinese female that worked for an offshore firm in the Caribbean, there she frolicked with local Black natives, but did not marry them. Another was a British Born Chinese female that grew up in London in a urban Black multi ethnic area, she gave birth to a Blasian child, but has remained unmarried, fulfilling the stereotype 'once you go black you become a single mom.'

Further examples can be found in the British Born Chinese Facebook group - this group epitomises the state of modern twenty something BBC's.

 
The above unnamed BBC female has (if one is not mistaken) a Colombian boyfriend. How can one tell She's partial to inter racial dating, especially men of color (i.e Blacks)? Well, the profile's content is a dead give-away. Firstly her 'swag,' heavy tanning (she's almost the same color as her boyfriend) either through excessive globe trotting or sunbathing on beaches/sunbeds probably in the Balearic's – copycat western culture. Secondly, cultural tastes. RnB, Alexandra  Burke, Rihanna, Beyonce, JLS, Cheryl Cole (married to Black footballer Ashley Cole), these are typical examples of urban ‘Black’ culture. She has bought into it.

She supports the British Legion - Maximum respect to the British armed forces! This is British multiculturalist indoctrination in action, She is proud to be British, but her social circle provides the biggest clue, her friends list contain a plethora of Blacks and other non-Chinese. BBC diaspora exhibit a tendency to deliberately display photos of themselves with their arms around/hugging their friends that are Brown, Black, White etc as if to prove they're one of them...and say 'yeah, I wannabe and can be just  like you.'

Now, look at two further social network profiles, one from Facebook and one from Tumblr, these are 'very' Black profiles...they must belong to Black's right?


Wrong, both profiles belong to British Born Chinese 'chigger' females, the first one lists three African American's as her philosophical role models. The second girl lists almost all Black Blasian Urban RnB Rap artists and pin up models as her musical tastes and role models. 

So why is this relevant? 

I was recently introduced to a BBC female, a very pretty girl, but unfortunately she exhibited these exact traits of a White and/or Black-washed multi-culturalist BBC, i.e heavy dark tanning, multi-ethnic friends of every ethnicity, her role models are Kim Kardashian, Beyonce etc, her music tastes are RnB, she vacates to the Balearics, she goes out drinking a lot with her non-Chinese friends etc, plus two other traits not visible to a Facebook profile...the accent, she had a strong regional urban accent and a stinky attitude, similar to a ghetto attitude. There is no doubt, this is the type of Chinese female most likely to be partial to dating ‘urban’ guys (i.e Blacks etc), the very thought of her with a Black guy was enough to turn me away for life. Its not so much  a case of ‘once you go black you can’t go back’...but 'if you go black...no Chinese man will want you, therefore you can't go back.'  (BBCZeitgeist)

Tuesday, 19 April 2011

Famous British Chinese Top 25 List 2011

Famous British Chinese Celebrities. British Chinese people in this context refers to any persons of Chinese descent. Top 25 List, compiled by BBCZeitgeist in accordance with Facebook's fanbase, in reverse order of popularity - (updated August 2012)

25. (3,259) Katie Leung  - British Born Chinese BBC, Actress, AKA Cho Chang, Harry Potter's girlfriend
 24. (4,001) Max Minghella  - Mixed race Chinese descent. Actor

 23. (4003) China Chow Mixed Race Eurasian. Actress Model


22. (4531) Maggie Cheung - Chinese, born Hong Kong. Actress

21  (4,590) Cherry Lee TheBathroomGirl Youtube - BBC British Born Chinese Malaysian, singer
20 (5,709) Matthew Koon  - British Born Chinese BBC.  Dancer

 19. (7809) Eric Lau - British Chinese, Musician
18 (9,045) Emmy The Great  - Mixed Race Chinese descent, born Hong Kong. singer


17 (9,194) Rachel Khoo - British Born Mixed Malaysian Chinese / Austrian. Eurasian. TV Chef
16 (9,300) Lukian Wang British Born Chinese BBC, model, internet whore and girlfriend of Johnson Lee

15  (9,323) Rachel Stevens - Mixed Race Chinese descent - unconfirmed. Singer TV presenter
14 (13,284) Karen David - Mixed Race Chinese descent, Born India. Actress, Singer

13. (19,076) George Young - Mixed race Chinese Greek. British born. Actor

12. (20,186) Xiaorishu Youtube - BBC British Born Mixed Vietnamese Chinese

11 (22,356) Stylesuzi Youtube Cosmetologist British Born Chinese
10. (30,046) Gok Wan  - Mixed Race Chinese descent, British born. Fashion guru.
9. (44,770) Herman Li - Chinese, Born Hong Kong. Musician, guitarist Dragonforce
8. (62,351) Stevie Hoang - British Born Chinese BBC, Parents are Ethnic Chinese from Vietnam. Singer.


7. (62,790) Jamie Woon - Mixed Race Chinese descent . Musician
6.  (62,798) Vanessa Mae - Mixed Race Chinese Thai, Born Singapore, raised UK. Classical Musician

5.  (173,174) Alexa Chung -
Mixed race Chinese descent, British Born. TV presenter and model.

4. (238,459)  KT Tunstall - Mixed Race Chinese descent, British born. Musician

3. (415, 911) Bubzbeauty Youtube Bubbiosity - British Born Chinese BBC. Youtube's comical cosmetologist.

2. (487,137)  Naomi Campbell - Mixed race Chinese Descent. Model
1. (591,160) Abhisit Vejjajiva - Mixed Race Chinese Descent, British Born. Thailand's Prime Minister
 
Some Interesting Stats
  • 15 out of the 25 are  mixed race
  • 9 out of 25 are full blood chinese
  • 16 out of 25 are female
  • 9 out of 25 are male (5 of which are mixed race)
  • 4 out of 25 are full blood Chinese males
  • 2 out of 25 are full blood Chinese male (BBC) British Born and Raised
  • 7 out of the 25 are British Born Chinese
  • 1 out of the 10 mixed race females are married to (or in a relationship with) a full blood Chinese.
  • 1 out of the 25 is a full blood BBHKC male- BBC (Hong Kong) male - Matthew Koon.
Statistically, there are observable prima facie trends relating to unpopularity, discrimination and under representation, it is largely faced by full blood Chinese men, in particular British Born Chinese full blood males.

Against extreme odds, 7 BBC's in the list of 25 have garnered a fanbase, Matthew Koon is the first non-caucasian to play Billy Elliot, Stevie Hoang produced music in a makeshift studio, Katie Leung beat 4000 other Chinese girls  for the single Chinese role of Cho Chang, Bubzbeauty had no outlet except the virtual world of Youtube. Life before Youtube, before the internet and before JK Rowling, the odds of these BBC's gaining recognition or an audience would be close to nil.

Just how Chinese are these Mixed race?

Further reading: http://bbczeitgeist.blogspot.com/2011/03/mixed-race-chinese-those-of-chinese.html

Thursday, 14 April 2011

Chinky Eyes - Sexy Racist?

Among the Black urban ghettoised communities, there is an observable sub-cultural phenomenon...



Hundreds of Facebook profiles of dark skinned 'ghettoised' Black and South East Asian women insert  'chinky eyes' as their middle name. For these urban dark skinned women, almond shaped eyes are  a representation of sexiness, 'that phrase' is considered a term of endearment, casual racism is sexy. 

Judging by the facial features, the first female has suspected Asian blood, however, She is fully assimilated  into 'Black America,' the remnants of her Asian heritage has been reduced to nothing but a ethnic slur in honor of her Asian ancestors for passing down their genetic features.

Reverse analogy can be used to illustrate how improper 'that phrase' is.

Pinky 'Coon Lips' Cheung or Pinky 'Nig-Nog Lips' Cheung

Appropriate, flattering and sexy? Clearly there are no double standards in casual racism...