New Year and The Queen of Sheba

Ethiopians celebrate their New Year on September 16. I don't think that it is a coincidence it falls around the same date as the Jewish New Year, or Rosh Hashanah.

According to Ethiopian cultural accounts, the Ethiopian Queen of Sheba went to Israel to visit King Solomon to seek wisdom from the famous king.

Although this story is presented as a myth, I believe that the Queen of Sheba did exist. There is historical evidence, through written text, statues, carvings and burial sites, to indicate that such a queen did exist in the southern regions of what is now Yemen and northern Ethiopia, which would form the ancient kingdom of Ethiopia. At the time, Ethiopia was struggling with monotheism, and stories of a monotheistic country and king quite possibly reached the country and its queen, who then traveled to meet this legendary king.

Pre-Christian Ethiopians looked to Jerusalem when trying to understand their spiritual world, and as a way to get closer to this God. They were surrounded by pagan cultures, and isolated themselves, aided by the difficult mountainous terrain, to build their civilization based on this monotheistic premise. I believe the Queen of Sheba returned from Israel with many Jewish religious and spiritual insights, including the idea of this single God. She also brought with her the traditions of New Year as both a social and religious celebration.

In Christian Ethiopia, there is a special church service on New Year's day. The importance of the ram's horn in Rosh Hashanah, reflecting Abraham's sacrifice of the lamb, is observed in the social gathering of families. A ram is taken as a gift to the elder (often the grandfather) of the family, and slaughtered/sacrificed for the meal of the day.

Ethnic Kate and Her Role Models

The least innocuous of the "going ethnic" style,
the Canadian maple leaf on a hat

It looks like Kate gets "ethnic" on her various trips around the world. She even managed to find something "Canadian" on her trip to Canada last summer. The floral prints which she wore in the Solomon Islands this September were in solidarity with the Governor General's wife, who wore her own island floral print dress.

Kate with Lady Grace Kabui,
in Honiara, Solomon Islands

But it is the truly exotic which seems to earn Kate's special respect. Going barefoot and hijabed is one of the ways she shows that respect. She's not alone, and has illustrious role models to follow.

Queen Elizabeth also went barefoot, and diligently covered her head when she went to the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi in 2010, and at the Green Mosque in Turkey in 2008.

Queen Elizabeth barefoot at
the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque
in Abu DhabiAbu Dhabi

Queen Elizabeth at the Green Mosque in 2008 in Turkey,
with slippers and a head scarf

Princess Diana wore Islamic dress on many of her trips. And the Crown Prince himself, Kate's father-in-law said this about Islam:

The Islamic world is the custodian of one of the greatest treasuries of accumulated wisdom and spiritual knowledge available to humanity. It is both Islam’s noble heritage and a priceless gift to the rest of the world.

It is no wonder, then, that this deep respect transfers to Kate Middleton, wife of the future King of England, and head of the Church of England, who enters a mosque with her shoes off.

Kate at the Assyakirin Mosque
in Malaysia, Respectfully shoeless
with a dress and scarf reminiscent
of her mother-in-law's below

And who else is the role model for Kate but her mother-in-law Princess Diana. Below, she gracefully puts on a pretty floral scarf that matches her green dress, as she enters the Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo in 1992.


At one time, the monarchs of England fought wars to ward off Islamic invaders. Now, they subserviently enter their places of worship.

The Post-Modern Woman

Kate Middleton, barefoot and bare-breasted

The post-modern woman follows the latest sluttish trends, exposing as much skin as possible without being arrested for indecent exposure, yet will parrot the latest multi-culti truism, and have no qualms about Muslim women in full Islamic gear walking around her neighborhood.

Well, Kate Middleton, aka the Duchess of Cambridge, bride to the future king of England and ruler of the Commonwealth, parades around topless on an island resort while on vacation, and sees nothing contradictory about attending a princely (and princessly) visit to the Muslim country of Malaysia in a "respectful" hijab.

Hasn't she learned from the folly of her predecessors that anything the royals do is fodder for the public? Topless in a remote island while on vacation? What a silly woman. And why is she topless in the presence of her husband? Cannot she muster a little modesty in front of him?

I suppose this is what bored monarchs do, and why they got relegated to mere cosmetics. But, they can't even look good, so what good are they?

I like Queen Elizabeth (I've written about her here and here), but her odd forays into territory she doesn't understand, following what useless advisers tell her are good things, shows that even she has become the last bastion of this formidable, and fading lineage.

Perhaps Americans were right. It has taken us several hundred years to realize that the British monarchy has served its purpose, and nothing can ignite it anymore. I had hopes on William, but with a Crown Princess like that, who wants him around?

Update: Enhancing the Asian Woman

I've edited my most recent blog post, Enhancing the Asian Woman, to add more content (to explain my ideas better), and to add more photos. It is a little different from the original.

Enhancing the Asian Woman

Laetitia, Lady Lade, 1793
George Stubbs
The Royal Collection

I suppose persistence in pursuing an observations is useful.

I've been doing a large number of posts on East Asians in North America (Canada and the US), and how they have an aggressive, but alien, presence here.

A lot of my posts have been on how this group of people is picking what they think is the cream of the crop, including beta white males, who abandon their own culture and women in order to set house with them. I also have noted their more materialistic approach to life.

Below is an image posted at Laura Wood's The Thinking Housewife, with an Asian woman on horseback with a black man in a bare torso standing next to her and the horse. According to the correspondent, the image is from an ad from Photoshop, an image editing software, which shows actions used to enhance photos."


Now the irony is not lost on me that this correspondent couldn't see that the woman is Asian, and writes to Laura after reading Laura's post "Advertisers Love the Thrill of Black Man/White Woman." Photoshop must have done a pretty good job of "enhancing" the Asian woman to look more white than Chinese. Her hair is dyed a dark blond, and her eyes are heavily mascaraed to make them look bigger.


The other irony is that Chinese women do want (or desire) enhancing in order to look more white. I see it all the time, with exaggerated eyeliners and hair dyed a lightish brown, so from a distance, or from the back, these Asian women look white. The purpose, I'm convinced, is to catch the white male, trying to look close enough to what he's used to, while adding that fetishistic "otherness" to get him attracted.


The photo collage above is from a TLC (The Learning Channel) show called "I Found the Gown" about brides looking for the "perfect" wedding dress. I find it fascinating because of the inordinate amount of time these young women spend on their wedding, not to mention the costs they incur. And also to see the kinds of marriages taking place in contemporary times. Most are racially compatible (blacks with blacks, whites with whites, etc.) but of the few that aren't, it is often a Chinese woman and a white male.

Often, although the Chinese bride will perform some part of the ceremony in the white and western tradition, she will bring in many elements of her background including even having a second ceremony. And she always has a large entourage of sisters, aunts and of course a rather dictatorial mother, who is really the one running the show.


The Chinese bride from the collage above had with her a troupe of family members "helping" her decide on the dress. The tiny, dictatorial mother is in purple, and on the far left is an equally domineering grandmother. Sisters come along to give moral support, although they do not contradict the mother.

The strange thing about this episode was that the girl really didn't like the dress at the beginning, but through the relentless persistence of the two older women to pick it, and who bluntly told her they didn't like any of her other dresses, she caved in and seemed to have had a change of perception - she just liked what she didn't like. Perhaps this amnesia is the only way she can survive in her family.

Apart from having a white groom (as shown through various scenes in the episode), one thing that fascinated me about this Chinese woman was the subtle ways in which she changed her natural appearance. Her hair is clearly dyed a lighter brown, and her eyes are heavily mascaraed to appear larger and less oval shaped. Even her skin has a more reddish glow, but I think it is the effect of the light in the photograph.

Asian Female
Before: With a reddish tint in her hair
After: Photoshopped to have darker hair and paler skin

But back to the original photo of the white-looking Asian female on horseback, with the black male standing by.

My first thought was Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind at her Tara plantation, with her billowing 19th century American Southern dress, and a black, protective slave by her side.

Scarlett O'Hara running up the stairs
in her mansion at Tara, dress billowing

Scarlett, devastated by war and returning to her home Tara, vows:

As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.

And she does recover Tara. But she is faced with another devastation when her only daughter with her persistent suitor-turned-husband Rhett Butler, dies. Bonnie Blue, like her mother Scarlett, was a bit of an equestrian, but her stubborn insistence that she could do it all on her horse cost her her life after an accident during a trial jump at the young age of four. Rhett Butler, her devastated father, couldn't face Scarlett after this death, and left her to nurse his grief.

Bonnie, Scarlett and Rhett's daughter, on her pony

Unlike the aggressive but unimaginative white women of our era, who buckle under at the slightest (real) challenge, Scarlett stood up to her mistakes, and losses, and her last words in the film were:

Scarlett: Tara! Home. I'll go home. And I'll think of some way to get him back. After all... tomorrow is another day.

If white women were able to demonstrate half of Scarlett's courage, they might be able to salvage some of what they've lost.


The image above is from my blog post The Wrath of the White Woman, where I write:

And no-one will be on the side of the white woman: Not the white boyfriend who betrays her; the Asian female who has had her eye on him from early childhood; the Asian immigrant parents who are more than happy to have a white son-on-law and future half-Asian grand kids, who will be more Asian than white; and not the multi-culti climate that dominates Western countries these days.

And, meanwhile, the fickle East Asian woman will go for the black man with his romantic image of the muscled protector. In her eyes, he will out-bid the modern white man as the more desirable, the more manly, male to catch.

Sub-Par Designs of Asians and Their Influence in Society

Left: Marchesa Resort, 2013
Right: Sui, Fall 2012

I've written about the Marchesa sisters, and their superior design ability, especially in their area of expertise which is evening gowns.

The 2012 gown designs are now on display in various fashion websites, and I happened to find Ana Sui's latest. I've also blogged about Sui here and here. I've described her design ability thus:

Anna Sui is an Asian fashion designer who has been somewhat under the radar, but has entered the limelight due to some fascination for all things Asian. At the February 2012 New York Fashion Week, her collection of prints don't quite get the grade, as I explain with samples of designs below.

I continue about Sui, and Asian (East Asian) designers:

Asian designers have "almost" moments, as I wrote about Vera Wang's dresses (view my recent entries under "Fashion" for more on this). They are clever at marketing themselves, and also clever at picking up (copying) certain current trends. But their works lack something. It is partly creativity, partly craftsmanship, and the overall effect is oddly inferior work which almost passes as something of quality.

Anna Sui

In the same blog post, I deconstruct one of her dresses to show its inferior aesthetics and craftsmanship.

Sui, Fall 2012

Like many East Asians in Canada and the US, Sui has family which is clearly an admixture of whites and Asians. According to this site, Sui never married, but her "family photo" groups together whites, East Asians adults, with clearly white/Asian offspring.

Below is a photo of Sui and her family. I write here about the family's racial dynamics:

- Various biographical sources write that Sui has two brothers, so it is likely that the two older Chinese men are her brothers.

- One is sitting close to a white woman holding a young child, in the top photograph. She looks like she's the same woman with the child in the bottom photograph, standing next to a man holding another child. These children could be their children, they do have the half Caucasian, half Chinese features, so they must be part of the family at some generational level.

- The other Chinese man, with the his hand on the young girl's shoulder in the bottom photograph, at the far right, could be the girl's father.

The racial Smorgasbord of Sui's Family

I've written here that this offspring is creating a new type of people, here in North America.

As I wrote here:

A "new" kind of people [is]emerging from [Chinese/white coupling]: the Eurasians (white/Asian admixture), who look different, although more Asian than white, and who behave differently (I find them slightly more aggressive and insensitive - to noise, to color, to food tastes, and of course my topic of concern, to beauty). They also tend to group together, so in effect forming a new society. Their strength is also that they draw in Asians from the Asian continent, thus increasing the overall "Asianness" of Canada. There is likely to be a large demographic change in Canada within the next twenty years, with an Asian (including the admixtures) majority or close to majority, rather than a white one.

Stephen Harper's Quick Fix to the Obvious Dangers While Leaving Other Dangers Alone

I'm still trying to figure out Stephen Harper's bold move to close the Canadian embassy in Iran, and now his government's decision to strip over 3,000 immigrants off their fraudulently obtained Canadian citizenship. Most of these "immigrants" are from the Middle East, which is a euphemistic word for saying that they are Muslims.

I think Harper is trying to make Canada safer, and to remove dangerous enemies. But, he is doing it in a straightforward, almost clumsy manner.

Multiculturalism is now the norm for both liberal and conservative leaders. In fact, talking against multiculturalism, and evoking the differences in races, cultures and civilizational backgrounds of people would be tantamount to racism.

I think Harper really does believe in racial harmony, where as long as there are no immediate, violent, elements in an identifiable group of people (through religion, race, etc.) that such a group of people should be able to live without interference with the rest of Canadian society. After all, that is why they came to safe and stable Canada in the first place.

So, an increase in the Asian population in Canada, brought on mainly by immigration, and which will continue to grow over the foreseeable future since Harper is not showing any signs of reducing Asian immigration into Canada, is a good thing for Harper.

1) I don't think he believes that the Chinese will overwhelm Canadian society.

3). He believes that these Chinese immigrants will mix and integrate with the rest of Canadian society and adhere to the mainstream culture (which he would be hard-pressed to define if asked).

3). If there is some cross-over, and Chinese culture surfaces in some cases, that is a good since cultural variety is good for Canada.

4). He believes that the off-spring of these Chinese (whether Chinese, half-Chinese, or any combination), and all other immigrant offspring, will become "Canadian" first, and not refer to their countries of origin for self-identification, since "Canada" is all they know.

5). He believes that with constant "Canadian identity" references, pride in Canada, cultural and historical education of immigrants (and all Canadians), other identities will take the back-burner and will surface only at specially sanctioned cultural holidays and festivals.

6). And since people have the right to follow their cultural roots, then Muslims can be Muslims in Canada, as long as they don't show illegal behavior, like procuring false citizenship cards, or plotting to blow up buildings and people in the name of Allah.

So, it is much easier to close diplomatic missions to the Islamic, nuclear weapon acquiring, Israel-threatening Iran, and to deport criminal immigrants (criminal because of fraudulent behavior), rather than to address the long-term destruction of Canada through stealthy take over by alien cultural groups, who legally enter the country through an already established immigration system.

And here is more hot-of-the press news, from the September 7 Ottawa Citizen:

Stephen Harper’s five new senators [appointed last Friday] reflect ethnic diversity

Here are the two new "ethnic" senators:

A former Progressive Conservative politician from New Brunswick, a citizenship judge who fled Vietnam and the first Filipino-Canadian elected in Canada’s largest city are among the crop of new additions to the Senate with the...two making history as the first from their ethnic groups to sit in the Red Chamber.

The three others are:

Former Action Democratique du Quebec candidate and economist Diane Bellemare fills a vacant seat in Quebec, while former Nova Scotia Tory cabinet minister Thomas McInnis and New Brunswick lawyer Paul McIntyre fill vacancies in their home provinces.

Is This The Country That Canada Wants To Enter Trade Agreements With?

Image of Xi Jingping from Drudge

Here is a headline this morning over at Drudge:

MYSTERY ABSENCE OF CHINA LEADER FUELS RUMOR FRENZY...

Which is linked to an AP News article with the same heading:

Here is part of the article:

Where is president-in-waiting Xi Jingping?

Is he nursing a bad back after pulling a muscle in a pick-up soccer game (or maybe in the swimming pool)? Has he been convalescing after narrowly escaping a revenge killing by supporters of ousted local Communist Party boss Bo Xilai? Was he in a car accident? Or is he just really busy getting ready to lead the world's No. 2 economy ahead of an expected leadership transition next month?...

[V]ice president has gone unseen for more than a week. During that span, Xi canceled meetings with visiting foreign dignitaries including U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. On Monday, it was the Danish prime minister's turn.

Xi's whereabouts during this sudden absence from the spotlight may never be known. One thing, however, is certain: China may now be a linchpin of the global economy and a force in international diplomacy, but the lives of its leaders remain an utter mystery...

So when the presumptive head of that opaque leadership disappears from public view, rumor mills naturally go into a frenzy...

[T]he U.S.-based website Boxun.com cited an unidentified source inside Zhongnanhai as saying Xi was injured in a staged traffic accident that was part of a revenge plot by Bo's supporters in the security forces...

This year, China has seen an unusual amount of political intrigue, with the spectacular downfall of Politburo member Bo exposing divisions within the leadership and prompting rumors of nefarious activity ranging from the wiretapping of top leaders to an attempted coup.

And this is the country that Canada wants to enter trade agreements with, about which I wrote here, in my blog post Oh Canada! China's Stooge:

Harper would rather negotiate with a secretive, ex-Communist country, rather than place some long-term bet on his European westerners.

Things Are Really Cooking Over at the Thinking Housewife

Image of writer Jeanne Darst from my blog post,
The Wrath of the White Woman where I write:

And no-one will be on the side of the white woman: Not the white boyfriend who betrays her; the Asian female who has had her eye on him from early childhood; the Asian immigrant parents who are more than happy to have a white son-on-law and future half-Asian grand kids, who will be more Asian than white; and not the multi-culti climate that dominates Western countries these days.

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Continuing with the theme of white/Asian couples, here's a post at The Thinking Housewife:

In my home society in New Zealand, I have experienced white women effectively and strongly stigmatize interracial dating. In groups and in family conversations they will wistfully suggest that any man who dates an Asian girl does so evidently because he cannot handle a real woman like his mother and sisters; that is, he would rather play with a pliant little doll than rise to the challenge and rewards of pursuing a European woman. His father, grandfather and the real men who created this country out of a wild bushland did not stoop to such behaviour. Moreover they will be reluctant to accept an Asian girl into the family because she is not, and will never be, one of them. Dating an Asian girl is proof that he is a beta male and they genuinely pity him for what he has allowed himself to become. Where I live in Australia interracial dating is much more acceptable and common. The absence of social stigma is a reason why I entered into a relationship with an Asian girl in the first place. Were I back home, this would absolutely never happen. My next girlfriend was openly disappointed in me when I admitted that her predecessor is Asian. The converse is true too; several years ago my sister dated an Indian man and it was made abundantly clear to her that the men of our family would never accept him. He did not last long.

I've written exactly this:

But why the preference for Asian women [by white men]? [White women] are quadruple victims: of feminism; of Asian female aggression (at finding white mates); of their own personalities which fall between aggressive blacks and the more feminine-behaving Asians; and of the quest for "the other" by their white men. Lazy "feminist" white men are thus drawn to the other in the seemingly more feminine Asian women, and not willing to do the work of living with white women, something which their predecessors have done for centuries despite their forays into exotic lands and cultures.

These are the same white women whose genes provided for the extraordinary successes of the white race, which has now allowed, through modern technology and modern liberalism, its existential competitors to freely enter the West. Life in Western countries is coveted by almost all the peoples of the world. And these non-white, non-Western populations, who are allowed free entry into Western lands, give white men the pick of the world's crop, so to speak, when choosing "desirable" mates.

The supposedly less aggressive (compared to blacks and whites) Asian women thus behave the most aggressive of the three races when landing a white mate.

Here is a post I did on art-making and the abandonment of white women:

And white men are going for [non-white women], even in movie-making, abandoning their less "demure" white women; women, who after all participated in establishing their (the white men's) place in the hierarchy of races (and art-making). Perhaps violence and racial mixing go together, even if only in artistic endeavors. Forcing together unexpected elements is an aggressive, if not violent, act. And, at the end of the day, art is partly an expression, or a representation, of the society around it.

And here is what I said to my friendly diner waitress, who is white:

A group of white men and their Asian girlfriends were at the table next to me. I said to my white waitress: "Doesn't it bother you when you see so many white men with Asian women? They are taking away your chances of having a husband and children." The poor girl looked bewildered, but didn't disagree with me. She continues to give me good service when I go there, so she clearly didn't mind (or find racist) what I said to her.

Here are more posts I've done on this topic:
- The Wrath of the White Woman
- Radical Multi-Culti Chic
- Camera in Hand: Part II - Brookfield Place Eateries and Asian Hegemony
- The Pseudo Anti-Feminist, Liberal White Man
- Canada the Convenient
- Dolly Girl
- The Fetish of White Men: Asian Women
- Vera Wang's Eurasian Daughters
- The Retreating Tiger Mom
- Asian Not Quite Up To Par, Again

Trophy White Man

I've been writing quite a bit on Asian female/white male couplings these days, and it seems that it was a foresight to the "China/Canada" agreements that got ratified recently. I don't usually write about politics, but I have analyzed that situation to the best of my ability in a recent post which I titled: Oh Canada! China's Stooge. My general point is that Canada would rather build "economic" relations with a country it knows very little about, and whose culture and politics are not only very different from its own, but are closed and secretive, rather than with countries (say European countries) who have much more in common with Canada. It looks to me like a purely materialistic "relation" on the part of Harper, ultimately to the advantage of the Chinese.

I've written why I think white males opt for Asian women rather than their own white women, and attribute this partly to childhood trauma (young children are traumatized much more easily than we think) such as neglect by the white mother, who is off pursuing a "career," triggering off unresolved hostile feelings by the child, later manifested with rejection of white women.

But, why do Asian women opt for white men? I think it is to do with prestige. A white man is a catch. Even a white man of a lower echelon is a catch. He is higher up in the society scale than other races, he most likely has a better job, with chances for greater improvement, and earns more money on average. He is in short, a trophy, a "catch." He's the pot of gold that waits around to be grabbed.

Oh Canada! China's Stooge

Chinese Canadian Stories Research Team 2011-2012

Back Row
(L-R): Joanne Poon, Henry Yu, Denise Fong, Alejandro Yoshizawa, Jennifer Yip

Front Row
(L-R): Elena Kusaka, Wendy Phung, Rosanne Sia, Ethan Wong, Sarah Ling

Notice that Rosanne Sia (third from left in the front row) looks clearly mixed Chinese/white, although she looks more Chinese than white. As I said in this post, Chinese/white offspring will overwhelmingly associate with their Chinese background, rather than their white, Canadian one.

[Image from website Chinese Canadian Stories]

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Canada and China signed a trade agreement here [at the APEC Summit Sunday September 9] that Prime Minister Stephen Harper said will give Canadian companies firmer legal footing when they invest in China.

Harper and Chinese President Hu Jintao witnessed the signing of the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA) after the two men held a private one-on-one meeting on the margins of the annual Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit.[Source: Sun News]

Is there really a dearth of countries who will buy Canadian goods? Isn't Europe a better option (if only to increase current relationships)? Even Mexico seems like a better deal these days. And of course, there is the neighbor to the south, which Harper seems to be subtly undermining.

Harper would rather negotiate with a secretive, ex-Communist country, rather than place some long-term bet on his European westerners.

...Harper said Europe has the resources to deal with the debt crisis on its own. He has rejected the idea of pledging more money to the IMF. Canada already pledged $10-billion to the fund in 2009. [Source: National Post]

And in the guise of economic benefits for Canada:

...about 65,000 Chinese students attend post-secondary institutions in Canada every year. Those students are worth a $1.7 billion boost to Canada’s economy.[Source: Toronto Sun, February 10, 2012

Harper certainly cannot be described as "wimpy," but I think his understanding of the world is skewed. He doesn't seem to understand that there are evil forces out there, and most of his actions and decisions seem to be based on economic gain. Why reduce immigration from poor countries, while leaving the door wide open to Chinese immigrants? His real purpose is that Chinese "engineers" and "scientists" will provide economic advantage to Canada. Yet, at this time of world recession, from which Canada is not exempt, what happens to the native Canadians and their prospects, with added competition superficially introduced into their mix?

Now to get to the main point of my blog.

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I was in Home Outfitters today looking for a coffee canister. I instinctively looked at the "made in" label, as I do these days. All of the, ALL OF THEM, were made in China.

And right across the aisle from me was a Chinese couple, with a toddler girl asleep in a stroller. They were diligently shopping for a variety of things from a sink cover to an oil and vinegar container to place mats. They discussed prices, compared products, looked at color varieties, and finally bought the container.

They were a youngish couple. They could be the university students that Harper is so wholeheartedly supporting these days. Possibly post-graduate students - it is common for married couples with children to have one member enroll in graduate school, with all the benefits including married couples housing, day care centers, social groups, and even extra financial aid just for being married. Of course, foreign married students with children in post-graduate programs get special preference.

I was intrigued by them. I waited for a while trying to see what language they were speaking. It sounded like Mandarin to me. They were clearly "new comers" from their abrupt and clumsy behavior at manoeuvrings around the store. I stood there watching them, wondering what their purpose was in coming to Canada. I doubt they will want their daughter to grow up culturally "Canadian" although they will make sure she speaks fluent English, and can compete with the best that Canada has to offer.

What a convenient turn of world events. Cheap Chinese, western-styled goods are amply available in Canada, and will continue to stream in for the foreseeable future. They can "support" China while living their cushiony lives in a modern, first world country with all the amenities of: decent, superior, safe and solid homes, with ample rooms and two-car garages; safe neighborhoods; excellent education system; freedom of speech, thought and to walk around (and shop around) wherever they please; pollution-free environment; fresh, healthy food; and of course, opportunity (and financial ability) to have more than one child, etc., etc. They can even plan trips back to China to make sure their children know first hand about their country of origin.

So, they become (quickly) Canadian citizens, but in name only. Everything else is a Chinese/Canadian hybrid, with emphasis on the "Chinese."

China, of course, wholeheartedly supports, and even encourages this. More Chinese in Canada only means more Chinese influence in Canada.

As I wrote here, another phenomenon that is occurrinng is the Chinese/white coupling that is prevalent, with a "new" kind of people emerging from that: the Eurasians (white/Asian admixture), who look different, although more Asian than white, and who behave differently (I find them slightly more aggressive and insensitive - to noise, to color, to food tastes, and of course my topic of concern, to beauty). They also tend to group together, so in effect forming a new society. Their strength is also that they draw in Asians from the Asian continent, thus increasing the overall "Asianness" of Canada. There is likely to be a large demographic change in Canada within the next twenty years, with an Asian (including the admixtures) majority or close to majority, rather than a white one.

Harper at the APEC meeting with Asian leaders [Image source]

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O Canada! Our home and native land! True patriot love in all thy sons command. With glowing hearts we see thee rise, The True North strong and free! From far and wide, O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. God keep our land glorious and free! O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

The Asian Woman's Jackpot of Marrying a White Man

Kelly Ripa with her new talk show host

There are interesting discussions going on at The Thinking Housewife about interracial marriage, or more precisely, interracial coupling.

Kelly Ripa, who is has been hosting the morning talk show Live with Regis and Kelly by herself after that old-time TV personality Regis Philbin retired as her co-host, is bringing on some forgotten football player as her new host. This might help the downward spiral of her show Live with Kelly sans Regis, although I don't think adding "Michael" to the title and bringing on this non-photogenic and clumsy co-host will help her much.

But I don't think that it is that surprising that Ripa goes for racial "diversity." She is married to a dark-skinned Hispanic third-rate actor (all his TV series and his films have been relegated to the deep recesses of production shelves), and occasionally brings him on to co-host with her to give him a break from the unemployment line.

Kelly Ripa with her husband

At another post on interracial coupling at Laura's site she notes that "40 percent of Asian women in America now marry outside their race" which means that they marry white men.

I see the same thing in Toronto where every third couple I see is that combination.

In fact, just a few days ago, I sat outside in a relatively busy part of town to have coffee, and practically all the couples that passed by me were the white male/Asian female variety. I even thought I should start some kind of tally.

Laura Wood comments that it is:

...the relative femininity of Asian women [that] is attractive to white men.

And here is where I disagree.

Since I'm bombarded with this vision on a daily basis, I decided to investigate what could be considered so attractive about Asian women that white men are leaving their own women in droves to couple with them.

Firstly, I don't think that Asian women are as "beautiful" as white or black women. I've written about this here and here.

Second, I don't even think Asian women are necessarily more docile (more feminine) than white or black women. The harshest argument (actually, twice) I've come across in a public setting are between a white male and an Asian female.

Third, I think the white male pairing off with an Asian female is some kind of fetishistic behavior that white men are exhibiting. Not to be too crude, but it is like some kind of odd Freudian background which makes some people desire feet, for example. So, it is more of a desire brought on by some psychological blockage rather than a true desire.

Fourth, following from the third point, white men are pairing off with Asian women because they are rejecting their own kind, which means that they are rejecting themselves, which means that they are rejecting their background which failed them at some point in their (early) life).

What could have set off this fetishistic behavior?

I can try to understand it.

- It could be that white women, after the rise and triumph of feminism, have neglected their men, and most importantly, their vulnerable young sons, to such an extent that all the family memories young men (and of course young girls, but they can buttressed with feminism and "girl power") have of their mothers are negative ones.

- I would think being neglected in day care centers practically from birth so their mothers can "go off to work," figures largely in this.

- Another most likely cause is the high divorce rates amongst white couples, leaving young children, and especially their sons, susceptible to all kinds of negative environmental impacts, including loneliness, feelings of neglect, awful daycare centers, resentment and even hatred of the parent they think caused this miserable life etc.

So, I agree that black women are generally more difficult to get along with, and partly that is because I don't think black women want to pair off with whites, but with other blacks.

That leaves with the conveniently placed Asian women, who, from my observations, seem to find it a kind of jackpot if they catch and marry (or pair off with) a white man. This is true both of recent Asian immigrants, and third or fourth generation Asian-Canadians. A white male is a better catch, materialistically, socially, culturally, and even aesthetically.

They cleverly behave well and docile during courtship, but start tightening the reins once they have successfully sealed the relationship. I've seen this happen in a couple of public situations. Here are high profile Asian/white relationship blowouts I've written about [1, 2].

And, often, these white men end up being a mediocre type, possibly a life-long disappointment (as Vera Wang's failed-business-man husband and Amy Chua's scholar-turned-erotic novelist husband show).

By then, the male has been coerced into including "Asianess" into the family life, and has children who look more like their Asian mother than his own mother (mixed Asian children always look Asian to me), so he is deeply into the relationship (which he agreed to and accepted when he first entered it). And any kind of "rebellion" will just make his life more difficult, so he sticks by this as long as he can.

On a related tangent, some high profile white male/Asian female divorces are happening, which I've written about here, which is a kind of litmus test for what's also happening in the rest of society.

From my experience, children of these mixed Asian/white couples are much more Asian, have no interest in white culture, will promote their "Asianess," and in a surprisingly twist of events, will couple with other Asians, and often with half-Asians like themselves, which gives them the best of all worlds: Canadian and western materialistic gains and a comfortable, familiar cultural lifestyle.

Prescient Perceptions

A view of the Cloisters with the Hudson River
in New York City

Laura Wood, from The Thinking Housewife, writes to Lawrence Auster at View From the Right:

You have done a great job over the last several days.

I agree. View From the Right has been unusually active and prescient these few days (and months).

Larry Auster responds to Laura:

But I think my message is too much for people to take. It’s getting too much for me to take.

To which Laura replies:

The alternative is denying reality and denying that things are as bad as they are.

I agree that writing about reality these days is exhausting. It is summer after all, and why not write about the warm weather, and other cheery things? But, each time I am about to do that, right next to what I'm observing, or alongside what I'm thinking, something negates this.

I'm not sure where this will lead, for now, at least. But, still, there are beautiful things to wonder at, observe and record. I will continue to do that as I go along.

Adept Attackers of Beauty

Frumpy, home-body Miu Miu

I sent the email below, along with a link of my blog post From Schiaparelli to Prada: Deterioration of Culture to a correspondent.

I have written a long post on the Met's exhibition "Schiaparelli & Prada, Impossible Conversations" (linked above), but this email adds more on my ideas and observations about the decline, or perversion, of culture that I see around me. Art, and artists, are often the first to grasp (either by accepting or rejecting) societal changes. I think Prada has given us some insights, not what she really wants us to see but nevertheless insights, on our current culture.

Here is my email, which I titled: War on Beauty and the related War on Masculinty:

Hi ____,

I read a little while ago your post on beauty with interest.

Beauty is a hard concept to "analyze" and to "deconstruct" as leftists love to do. It is an ethereal presence. We react to beauty rather than coldly observe it. We have to admit it is there in some things, probably not in us, and thus we realize it is some kind of favored state (it is clear that beautiful people, and babies, are treated better than ordinary people). At our best, we are humbled by beauty.

This hierarchy of beauty is what grates liberals and leftists.

I've written several (many) blogs on beauty, and I've noticed that there is an even more vicious war going on against beauty than when I started my blog a few years ago. This time, I think people are well-versed on how to attack beauty, and how to make beautiful people, things, etc. feel they're doing, and are, something wrong (and evil). Decades (even centuries, if you look back at the origins of modernism) have made such people adept attackers of beauty.

I wrote this post on Prada's really ugly clothes after I saw the exhibition "Schiaparelli & Prada, Impossible Conversations" at the Metropolitan Museum. Schiaparelli, in her time (around the turn of the 20th century), was considered a radical fashion designer, yet her least feminine designs are not as viciously ugly as Prada's. Schiaparelli was also much more talented, skilled (trained, I think) than Prada, and she admits the power of femininity and feminine beauty.

Prada is the post-modern feminist who seems to have a visceral hate for femininity. and feminine beauty, and ultimately beauty in general (I won't go into the many viciously anti-woman homosexual designers, since perhaps their deficiencies are obvious, but the heterosexual, female Prada is the ultimate betrayer.)

Prada of course supports all the evils that come with feminism, yet her life is strangely traditional, with a husband of several decades, two grown sons, and one son who is following her footsteps in her fashion design empire. She herself inherited this already successful empire from her father and grandfather, so she hardly qualifies as a female empire builder. She holds her temperamental husband at bay by giving him the high profile role of managing her company (and metaphorically, her too?). She's a clever, smart feminist. Those are the types that really do rule this world, since they realize that the female energy IS different than the male's. So, what they're after in not equality, but a reversal of roles (of power), even though they know from experience that this isn't likely to happen. But, I think even clever, smart Prada succumbs to her illusions, since her inner-most desire must be (from all the information she keeps giving us) to make women the superior sex. I think one of your correspondents called this envy. I think that is what it is. The natural, obvious, strength (power) of men, which they carry with such ease, is something to be admired, just as beauty is to be admired in beautiful women. When this admiration is perverted, it turns to something ugly like envy. I think we are in the age of perversions. And this is manifested, at least in my observations of culture, in the cult of ugliness as a vicious retaliation against beauty, and I think related to that (since it all presents itself as equality) the cult of male feminization, which is part of the degradation masculinity.

And finally, what happens if a woman can no longer be beautiful? The alternative now is that she has to look masculine. How does Prada reconcile all that with her "hatred" of masculinity AND femininity? One way is that modern fashion designers (and artists in general) who still work with/for/about women are creating alien monsters, neither male nor female. But, this is something I've just began to observe, and I still have to think about it some more.

Kidist

Android, from Prada's 2013 collection

O Brave New World

Pablo Picasso
Women Running on the Beach, 1922

I've read Aldous Huxley's Brave New World many times. Only recently, I found out that he derived his title from Shakespeare's The Tempest.

From Wikipedia:

Brave New World's ironic title derives from Miranda's speech in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Act V, Scene I:

O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't.
—William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene I

"My eyes were made to erase what is ugly"

Left: Dufy, Jetee d'Honfleur, 1930
Right: Cassigneul, La Plage Aux Hortensias, 1985

[More images after the end of the post]

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Raoul Dufy:

"Mes yeux sont faits pour effacer ce qui est laid"
("My eyes were made to erase what is ugly")

A couple of days ago, I posted some images by Jean Pierre Cassigneul, a painter whose print I have carried around for many years. Yet, I don't know (or didn't bother to know) much about it, or him.

It is Dufy who has always attracted me. From a long time back, I started to study his vivid colors and exotic (French) locales. He painted a variety of subjects, but almost always the same ones. He painted mostly the French coastline, often in southern France in Nice, but sometimes in the north in Deauville and Honfleur. He scatters his scenes with people. His themes include: at the racehorses; sailboats; views of the sea through open widows; bouquets of flowers; musical instruments; and some famous European (mostly French) towns and buildings. He was also a diverse artist and designer, making textile prints, tapestries, murals, furniture, woodcuts, lithography, ceramics and theater sets.

Dufy is certainly the more important painter. Cassigneul never got the similar popularity. I think Cassigneul paints well. His subjects are pleasing and his paintings pretty. But there is a lack of completeness in his paintings, like a slightly blurred photograph, or a painting without the moldings of light and dark (shadow and light) to give them a three dimensional quality.

For all of Dufy's Fauvist "seemingly wild brush work and strident colors...with [his] subject matter [having] a high degree of simplification and abstraction [source]" his paintings are defined and sure, even if they often look like watercolor sketches. Sail boats have clear lines; horses are molded and given rounded bodies through dark and light paint; the sea is differentiated with white paint for crests and dark blue for troughs; the outer and inner colors of petals are given different shades; and he painted portraits of actual, recognizable people, rather than anonymous subjects like Cassigneul.

Cassigneul paintings are pleasantand flattering to the women, who are his central (overwhelming) theme. But they are always anonymous women, and he tells us nothing about their personal backgrounds: no names, titles, positions, or even relations. Many have dark, vacant eyes.

Dufy's subjects look anonymous, but they are seldom alone, and are almost always within a social context of the horse races, at the regattas, or on piers and promenades. We recognize the individuals and groups of individuals through their social and cultural milieu. Where his subjects are alone, they have distinct features. They are almost exclusively women, either painted as portraits or nudes. And in many of his portraits, he gives us the names of these female subjects.

Left: Dufy, Portrait of Regina Homburger, 1952
Right: Cassigneul, Profile, 1982

Left: Dufy, Reggatta, date not available
Right: Cassigneul, Dans le Train Bleu, Côte d'Azur, 1970

Left: Dufy, Fenêtre ouverte sur la mer, ca. 1923
Right: Cassigneul, Femme au Balcon, Vue de l'Avenue Foch, 1990

Left: Dufy, The Racetrack, 1928
Right: Cassigneul, Longchamp, ca. 1967

Left: Dufy, Le champ de courses de Deauville, ca. 1941
Right: Cassigneul, Dimanche au bois, 2008

Anti-Semitism Is Evil Intentions Towards Jews

A group of Jews, including a small boy, is escorted from
the Warsaw Ghetto by German soldiers in this April 19, 1943 photo.
The picture formed part of a report from SS Gen. Stroop
to his Commanding Officer, and was introduced as evidence
to the War Crimes trials in Nuremberg in 1945. (AP Photo)
[Source: The Atlantic, Oct 16, 2011]

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GalliaWatch writes:

Here's a must-read article posted in English at Front Page Magazine, and in French at Riposte Laïque. The author, Giulio Meotti describes the end of European Jewry, as Islam slowly but surely takes over. Whatever happens to the Jews, you can be sure, will happen to all of us.

I agree with the overall warning in her article, but I think we should look at anti-Semitism and its evil intentions towards Jews as something that happens to Jews. Of course, all evil eventually destroys what is before it. But, the intention of anti-Semitism is the destruction of Jews. I think we should be able to understand that without transferring it to us.

I do agree, though, that Islam has a more thorough system of elimination, and a wider span. Its strongest hatred is directed at Jews, but all other infidels follow. In terms of combating Islam, it is important to understand this method of elimination, because, yes, as Giulio Meotti writes, next are all the other infidels.

A Petty Vandal's Petty Conquista of "Art"

Left: Woman in a Red Chair. Picasso, 1929
Menil Collection. Houston Texas
Right: Defaced painting

Here is the story of an "artist" defacing the work of another "artist."

Houston cops are hunting for a dapper art vandal who was caught on video spray-painting a priceless Pablo Picasso painting at a museum last week.

Cell phone video shot by a visitor at the Menil Collection Wednesday showed a suave hoodlum in a dark suit jacket and sunglasses spray-painting a stencil over the Spanish master's Woman in a Red Armchair...The brazen graffiti writer sprayed a picture of a bullfighter slaying a bull and the word "Conquista" on the painting.

The witness who shot the video told KPRC television that he confronted the well-dressed vandal afterward.

The vandal said he was an up-and-coming artist and desecrated the artwork in order to honor Picasso, the witness, who didn't want to be identified, told the station.

In this era when "art" is the most scared thing around, it is truly a sacrilege to deface a "work of art," even an ugly and mediocre painting!

But Picasso had it coming. I visited a recent exhibition of his work at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and concluded that he was one of the biggest artist frauds around, and not only that, he was also one of the biggest defacers of art.

It is ironic that another useless, talentless artist should mimic him, to the extent of defacing his (Picasso's) images. Picasso's students cannot be accused of hypocrisy.

But, of course, this vandal only did superficial harm, since all he did to the painting was spray gold (!) paint on it, scribble the word "conquista" and a stick-bull. And isn't spray paint, the modus operandi of graffiti "artists," itself considered art by our connoisseurs these days? Picasso's heirs are pretty lame.

And to make it even worse, this petty vandal was caught on a cell phone! Some museum patron video taped the whole incident on his cell phone and "confronted the...vandal afterward." So much for a Kodak Moment gone awry. I actually don't know who is worse, the vandal, or the cell phone hero, who just wanted another sensation to post on his Youtube/twitter/blog.

Gretchen Sammons, a museum spokesman, assures us that:

'The artwork is currently with the museum's onsite conservation lab. The prognosis is good. But we have no idea when it will be back on display. It's an active investigation with the Houston police.'

The prognosis is good!

I'm working on a blog post on ancient Greek and Roman culture, which I viewed at the Royal Ontario Museum recently (actually, I've been there several times this past month). As I went through the sculptures, I was astounded at the beauty of the work, and specifically the carvings of delicate, gauze-like drapes on these sculptures.

As I looked at these works, I remembered seeing similar translucent drapes on one of Picasso's paintings at the AGO. It is on Les Demoiselles Avignon, a painting that distorted nude female figures and covered them with a gauze-like material. Someone as clever as Picasso (and as talent-bereft) could have only got the idea from these classic Greek and Roman sculptures. And of course, rather than marvel at the beauty of these sculptures and elevate them, the petty, envious Picasso can only desecrate and destroy them. And his are not goddesses, as the Greeks and Romans portray, but prostitutes from a whorehouse in Spain.

At one time, destroying or effacing the works of art of a civilization would be enough to start wars. And no, Woman in a Red Chair is not art, which the reason why the only irate person was a cell phone "artist" who just wanted the images for his personal gallery on twitter.

Will Vera Wang Wear Black for Her Divorce?

Wang and Becker, on May 15 2011
at the Museum of Modern Art's 39th
Annual Party, with Wang in her hippy
costume while her husband is in
full black tie attire

Here's is a high profile divorce of an Asian woman and a white man. My intuition has been that Asian women/white men marriages are more fragile than they seem. Since this type of union is relatively new (as far as the human species is concerned), I think we're beginning to see the beginnings of the fall outs.

I was never impressed with the Wang/Becker marriage. I wrote about the fashion designer and her husband last January intuiting some kind of marital discord:

[Wang] doesn't talk about her husband in the article [January 10, 2012 Harper's Bazaar]. Does he travel from one side of the country to the other on Wang's schedule?

Wang had recently bought a home in California, and relocated her business from New York, where her husband still lived at the time, to Los Angeles.

And about Becker, I wrote:

He looks like another one of those insipid, disconcerted spouses.

Later on, I found that he actually quit his job in 2010 to work with Wang's fashion conglomerate. I wrote:

A 2010 headline at the NaviSite website informs us that "Arthur P. Becker Steps Down [as CEO] and is Succeeded by R. Brooks Borcherding," which implies that Becker has retired. This leaves him ample time to follow his wife around to satisfy her yins and yangs.

People Magazine confirms Becker's beck and call to his wife with:

Though Becker reportedly had his own business ventures, he was also involved in Wang’s company, which has expanded into makeup, fragrances, mass market, juniors, home goods and a lower-cost bridal line in recent years. However, a friend of the designer tells WWD that the couple “will not let this impact the running of the company. They have worked too hard to build it up.”

A cheeky blogger writes:

Some suggest the divorce from Arthur Becker had some clues in her Fall 2012 Bridal Collection (view gowns 7-13 here), known for Wang's penchant for all things dark.

This may be a joke, but I have written about Wang's funereal wedding gowns, where I comment:

Wang's flashing bride in black is a negative statement on weddings, and life, in general. In our culture, white is for purity, whereas black is often for death, the mysterious (and evil?) underworld, darkness and obfuscation. And if the bride wears black, it is as though the she went to her own funeral. Or is a widow executing a vengeful act...And what real-life bride wants to be dressed in black, even with the modern woman's dearth of cultural knowledge and sensitivity?

And the bride wore black:
Wang's Wang's black wedding dress
from her Fall 2010 collection

Appearances matter. A black wedding dress, however much a fashion statement, is a black wedding dress. Of course, besides the macabre color Wang chose for the most important day in the union of a man and a woman, she also produced mediocre gowns which I call mounds of chiffon, which were exaggerated piles of gauze to detract from the mediocrity of her designs.

Becker plans to continue working with the Wang enterprise (at the other end of the country from Wang's California base). There is no doubt that Wang is a savvy and aggressive entrepreneur. But eventually, young women will catch on, and demand more from the dress they will wear at an important milestone in their life. What will Wang concoct next? And what will Becker do?


Above is a 1995 photograph of Wang and Becker. I describe the photo thus:

Fashion designer Vera Wang coiled, Eve-like, around her husband.

Even insipid white men eventually untangle themselves from life-threatening situation.

Silence In Front Of an Atrocity Is Worse Than the Atrocity

I took the photo above in a subway station. It is right there, in our face, two lesbians having a moment. A match.com ad for gays and lesbians, right next to a run-of-the-mill ad for a bank (National Bank of Canada, to be exact). Actually, a run-of-the-mill bank ad for gays and lesbians - "Visit us and find your savings" it beckons. I sat down to contemplate this. Gays are boldly going where they've never gone before: into our daily lives, along our main streets, in schools, churches, television shows. A woman was sitting on the other side of the bench, and I said to her, "Can you believe that we have to look at this, on a subway ad?" I took a risk, but I decided that being quiet in front of this atrocity was worse than the atrocity.

Surprisingly (this is multi-culti Toronto after all) she agreed with me. "I keep my eyes averted, and try not to stand too close to the poster," she said. That looks like it could be difficult, since, unlike me, it sounded as if this was a regular subway stop for the woman.

The aggressive homosexual movement will never become mainstream. Toronto had the "Gay Pride" parade this past week-end, which takes over the whole downtown. As he had announced, Toronto's Mayor Ford did not attend. He "planned" his trip to coincide with his family holiday in the lake regions of Ontario.

Mayor Ford "homophobe." What else can he be?

Recently, the pathetic CNN "reporter" Anderson Cooper, with his adolescent giggle and "danger zone" reporting, melodramatically announced: "The fact is, I am gay." Who didn't know that? He never made a secret of his "orientation," talking about his boyfriend like a giddy girl. I think this "outing" is his paranoia, where he can sense the negative mood against homosexuals, and like a spoilt and stubborn adolescent (the mental state of all homosexuals?) insists that "this is what I am."

Anderson Cooper, Hero

The useless Main Stream Media (via the Daily Mail) puts its arm around his shoulder with:

Cooper's sexuality has long been an open secret in TV circles, but for him to state it publicly is a brave and bold move.

What chutzpah he has!

Other useless "journalists" are saying that he "came out" for the ratings. Why would he do that? It will probably bring down his ratings, since ordinary people are not sympathetic to open homosexuals, unless they are the semi-funny sitcom actors on Will and Grace (and it is not "the gays" who make that show but the two ditzy straight women Grace and Karen, with their perennial gaffes).

Grace and Karen, from the sitcom Will and Grace. Ditzy straight women,
just the right kind of female friends for gays, and the right kind of
characters to take the attention off the gays so that straight viewers,
mostly female, can watch a "gay" show.