When they are not playing Counter-Strike, studying, or studying, Asians like to wind down and take off some stress with some good old fashion karaoke. Karaoke is popular in the Asian community for one reason: it’s a great way to enhance the Asian flush (a term used to describe an Asian’s generally low tolerance for alcohol.) In combination with cheap alcohol, cheesy pop songs, off key singing, and uncontrollable pelvic thrusts, karaoke becomes an extremely fun event for the Asian singer(s) and the surrounding listeners. The singer(s) have the opportunity to unleash their inner Rain while simultaneously busting out moves that James Brown (R.I.P.) would be jealous of. The listeners get to enjoy the painful yet “entertaining” comedy that ensues. This social phenomenon has been studied by Harvard psychologists and has been labeled as the William Hung Effect. An excerpt of the study results is listed below:
‘Through the random sampling of individuals that were confirmed to be of Asian descent through extensive blood and DNA testing, a comparative experiment concluded that the amalgam of an Asian’s low level of alcohol tolerance, bargained liquor, and a karaoke machine is the epitome of fun in the Asian culture.” - Harvard University’s “The William Hung Effect”
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1 greebo // Feb 20, 2008 at 1:27 am
i find it interesting this blog is (C) 2006 when the first entry is mid-feb 2008, right after stuffwhiteylikes took off. pasted from the other pages?
you should do these pages:
DIM SUM
japanese rice cars
hair cuts
hip hop
white women
and maybe some bitter asian man thing about his women being taken, and being de-masculinized by mainstream culture, unless you’re a martial artist (that’s another entry)
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2 greebo // Feb 20, 2008 at 1:31 am
and CNY
and copying japanese women’s haircuts
joining friendster/facebook (instead of myspace)
square glasses and bad hair (first gen men)
LV bags, burberry clutches (japanese women in particular, but no different than the rich, consumption-oriented american woman)
red chili paste for your pho soup
tech geek gadgets
are you including indians as “asians”? cuz that’s a whole nother feature waiting to explode.
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3 greebo // Feb 20, 2008 at 1:32 am
keeping up with stuff white people like!
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4 Peter // Feb 20, 2008 at 7:40 am
Sure thing!
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5 Alex // Feb 20, 2008 at 2:31 pm
this is hilarious!
also check out my blog:
http://www.amazingmusicvideos.com
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6 Ernie // Feb 21, 2008 at 6:17 pm
1) Holy CRAP that’s me in the photograph! No, not the William Hung photograph, of course.
2) We talked a bit about this on 8Asians. There are a couple of other gems of “What Asian People Like:”
http://www.8asians.com/2008/02/17/stuff-white-people-like/
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7 themachine // Feb 21, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Hahahaha. What are the odds… Thanks for being a good sport and reading the site.
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8 Grace // Feb 22, 2008 at 12:07 pm
I just want to let all of you know Ernie does a mean karaoke impression of Britney Spears.
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9 sukjong // Feb 25, 2008 at 12:47 pm
i don’t mind the generalizations, but posting SKIM, a Korean-American artist, as one of the pics for karaoke, seems a little lazy. She is an activist and hip-hop artist, sings about immigration, prison, loving women, working single mothers, and works with 2Pac’s former manager Leila Steinberg. And yes, while she is AMAZING at karaoke she is much more than a posterchild for karaoke, i would say actually that there is no other artist out there quite like her. I would say that she takes her love of hip-hop back to its resistance roots…
http://www.myspace.com/skimmusic
here’s one review:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/skim
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10 Chinkygirl // Feb 26, 2008 at 3:40 pm
wow, i didn’t know about skim, but then again, i dont keep posted on these things
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11 MV // Mar 11, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Wow is that Skim? You’re right, she is much more than a random karaoke asian person. Cop her music if you can. Don’t sleep on Skim.
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12 Byron // Mar 21, 2008 at 3:24 pm
That video is too painfull
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13 jessica // Apr 21, 2008 at 1:04 pm
are asian people attracted to read heads?
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14 Ray // Jun 23, 2008 at 4:40 am
Karaoke? eet ees true. Damn I’m half asian, and for most of my life i never liked karaoke, until like that past year or so.
and too jessica’s comment: ARE YOU SERIOUS?? If asian people attracted to red heads is an asian stereotype, better write me into THAT category. WOW the hottest thing ever is either the stereotypical Irish girl with pale skin red hair and freckles, or a Japanese chapatsu with pale skin and red-hair. SOO FREAKING HOT!! im way into redheads no matter what their race.
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15 Tom // Feb 4, 2009 at 1:29 pm
What about 80s music. Asians love Michael Jackson and Madonna
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16 Sage // Jun 22, 2009 at 4:24 am
“Asian flush (a term used to describe an Asian’s generally low tolerance for alcohol.)”
This statement is a layman’s term for ALDH2 deficiency. Take note, there is a higher risk of esophageal and oropharyngolaryngeal cancer among those with this genetic mutation who drink alcohol.
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18 Laptop Battery // Nov 19, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Karaoke? eet ees true. Damn I’m half asian, and for most of my life i never liked karaoke, until like that past year or so.
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