Posted on 12/12/2009 9:08:01 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Edited on 12/12/2009 11:36:12 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
My wife brought this point up once. I told her "That's what your female friends, mother, daughters, sister and even my mother and sister are for." She never mentioned it again.
WOW!
I *love* the FRee Republic because I learn something new every time I sign on. It is literally true: there would have to be an entire University’s worth of knowledge here, and access to some of the finest minds in America and worldwide, all waiting to be tapped, all readily available in an easy-to-digest format. An incredible resource.
I never new that about the Wedding Tackle preferences of Antient Greece and Rome, and now I am jolly well going to read up to confirm that, and the cross-dressing Emperor, and Tax-Chick’s question about whether Antient Greeks had chiseled abs. I would never have thought to do this otherwise, except that I’d read it on the FRee Republic.
Long Live the FRee Republic! And God Bless Jim Robinson!
One of the things that strikes me as most odd about Mishima is really something odd about Japan. Here was a guy who put together a private army, the “Tatenokai”, dedicated to protecting the Emperor, and instead of people saying, “Wait a minute, what’s going on here?”, his army was allowed to train with the Japan Self Defense Force.
Mental escapism from reality.
A lot of Nazis were closet gays as well, Ernst Rohm didn't even try to hide it.
That is exactly what happened over there, didn’t it?
Born in the US because his parents were with the symphony and travelling at the time. That still doesn’t make him NOT Chinese.
I am talking acting. Nakadai was a great actor. Bruce? So-so.
I’ve been FReeping all these years for many of the same reasons. No matter what the subject is, the community of FReepers knows everything about it, and will share at length. Just the book recommendations would be worth all the donations I’ve made over the years.
> Born in the US because his parents were with the symphony and travelling at the time. That still doesn’t make him NOT Chinese.
(grin!) nice try!
Hong Kong was a British Protectorate in 1940. Being born in San Francisco made him an American Citizen; had this not been the case and had he been born in Hong Kong, I put to you that he would probably have been a British Subject (as opposed to a British Citizen), and thus entitled to protection by the Crown but not entitled to settle in the UK without additional permission. He would have qualified for this thru his Dad.
He would probably not have qualified for a ChiCom passport.
He was ethnically Chinese/German.
> I am talking acting. Nakadai was a great actor. Bruce? So-so.
I’ll concede that.
Haha, I wasn’t ‘trying’ anything. That’s what I know about Bruce Lee. I don’t think he ever really thought of himself as an American citizen. And I don’t think most people born in HK during British rule thought of themselves as British subjects. You know the ‘Chineseness’ is a very strong thing. And he got fed up with Hollywood when his idea was stolen and David Carradine became the star of ‘Kung Fu’.
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LOL I concede, FRiend.
In my dreams I would have given my left nut to have a few lessons with Bruce Lee, if for no other reasons than to tell grandchildren about it. I’d settle for lessons from one of his immediate students and still feel privileged beyond measure.
> And he got fed up with Hollywood when his idea was stolen and David Carradine became the star of ‘Kung Fu’.
I think we can certainly agree that this was a travesty, and a nonsense. No disrespect to David Carradine, but he looked about as Chinese as I do!
You’re right about Bruce Lee’s sense of Chinese-ness — after he abandoned Hollywood he went back to make movies in Asia, where he felt he belonged, and where he did his most amazing stuff. I never tire of watching Bruce Lee movies.
> Haha, I wasn’t ‘trying’ anything. That’s what I know about Bruce Lee.
And you would be right, too — I was being a smart@rse and determining his Chinese-ness by his place of birth and/or his place of immediate ancestry (US and UK Protectorate, respectively), rather than his physical appearance or his personal preference or antient heritage and culture.
Rather like what should happen to the Natural-Born-American-ness of somebody else famous that we both know and love. Applying the same standard to both seems abundantly fair.
How the latter of these ought to be determined should inform the determination of the former, all things being equal...
(Grin!) (Ummmmm... waitaminit! Checkmate? — perhaps, but only if you are a Birther, like me...)
I’ve got to admit it; I love the look of “bishonen” Asian men. The smooth skin and youthful, almost feline appearance. I have a picture of Goro Inagaki on my computer desktop. Does that make me gender-confused? Perhaps, but life goes on.
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