I visited the church plant that he pastored, Riverside, for a few weeks last year before it folded. They have a pretty amazing story–and now 4 children!
(A little meta update: PChin re: being written about in the Post.)
Archive for August, 2012
28 Aug
cultural empathy
http://blogs.hbr.org/hbr/hbreditors/2012/08/why_america_lacks_global_leade.html (reposted from another jp, joyce pan!)
But for C-Level leaders in global organizations, one single characteristic — “sensitivity to culture” (so-called “cultural empathy”) — ranks at the very top of the requirement list. This rare quality can’t be “taught,” or injected simply by working in an overseas office.
Cultural empathy requires a degree of egolessness, because you have to surrender the notion that your country, or language, or point of view is best. Cultural empathy means that you have to not just see through the eyes of someone who is different, but you have to think through that person’s brain. True cultural empathy springs from personality, early nurturing, curiosity, and appreciation of diversity.
27 Aug
ethnoburbs
There are also multiple Asian migratory streams in the region, where most Asian adults are immigrants. In Los Angeles County, 68.1 percent of the Asian population was foreign-born in 2010. Within the County, most come from countries in East Asia (42.7 percent) and Southeast Asia (40.0 percent), followed by South Asians (17.3 percent).
But contrary to popular perception, the most frequent country of origin is in Southeast Asia, not East Asia. That would be the Philippines, which accounts for 23.a percent of Asian immigrants, followed by Korea (15.9 percent), China (13.1 percent), and Vietnam (9.4 percent). That differs somewhat from the national pattern, for which the Philippines (17.7 percent), India (17.1 percent), China (14.8 percent), and Vietnam (11.9 percent) were the top four sending countries for foreign-born Asians.
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/politics/2012/08/rise-majority-asian-suburb/3044/#
(Interesting to me, even though San Marino is half Asian, it doesn’t “feel” like an ethnoburb at all in terms of small businesses–it’s basically a White suburb with…lots of Asian people. So it’s a place where really successful small business owners might live, but not where they actually operate their small businesses, some of which are actually…quite big.)
(Something else about San Marino is that its main streets are luxuriously wide, which always makes me think of this episode of Seinfeld: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pothole)
27 Aug
penn state
23 Aug
sleep and race
21 Aug
the book is IN
76,404 words
242 pages with references, 225 without (thank heavens–original dissertation was 400+)
8 chapters, +intro and conclusion chapters
16 months of fieldwork (2006-2008)
60 interviews
16 years of the IVCF story (approx 1992 to 2008)
6 people in my family at start of fieldwork, now we are 10
6 friends who read the ENTIRE manuscript and gave feedback
$12.15 to mail to new jersey
1 extremely happy and relieved assistant professor
21 Aug
not the way it’s supposed to be
Nine incidents of anti-Sikh or anti-Muslim violence/vandalism in less than 2 weeks. Reposting JZP’s reflections:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/2012/08/ideals-and-realities-of-religious-tolerance/
Reading Jerry’s post makes me think of the Korean American immigrant congregation that I grew up attending, which was smack plop in the middle of a working-class White neighborhood in southwestern Ohio. How strange we must have looked to them, especially in the 80s. Remember moments of both tension and warmth during those years re: the relationship of the congregation and the neighborhood.
It’s hard to pass through a KA congregation without accumulating some sort of Korean-church-baggage. I remember my childhood community as a (mostly) happy place with a lot of warmth, somewhere I could see my parents be in their own skin. Most of all, I remember it being a safe place–a place with massive intergenerational closure (your parents knowing your friends/your friends’ parents/everyone’s business*) where we played for hours unsupervised in the nearby creek, running in for a snack or mixing our own Kool-Aid/Tang from the never-ending stash in the kitchen. So my heart breaks especially for the children in these communities, whose sense of safety and security has been shaken in a way that never should be.
*For better or for worse
18 Aug
friends of texas
Final list of folks who filed amicus briefs in Fisher v. Texas: http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/fisher-v-university-of-texas-at-austin/ Am including excerpts from briefs filed by the UC chancellors and the State of California as last minute additions to the book.
As someone who studies race/religion, was interested to see that a coalition of religious groups (including Sojourners, employer of the very cool Stacey Schwenker) filed as a friend of Texas. To my knowledge, they didn’t file in the Michigan cases, so that’s new.
17 Aug
a history of jello (and mormons)
(Random, but why are Jehovah’s Witnesses so into prayer? http://www.pewforum.org/Prayer-in-America.aspx)
11 Aug
affirmative action and social science
Glad to be one of the 444: http://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/news/news-and-announcements/news-and-announcements-2012/hundreds-of-u.s.-researchers-file-brief-with-u.s.-supreme-court-supporting-university-of-texas-diversity-policies
What I did on my summer vacation: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/care/CARE-asian_am_diversity_D4.pdf
(Big thanks to Rob Teranishi, Bill Kidder, and the CARE staff for helping pull the AsianAm brief together)
