DISQUS

djchuang.com: sociability of Asian Americans affected by Asian values

  • China Law Blog · 3 years ago
    Very interesting and I think you might be right. I have noticed how often I will e-mail someone in Asia and they will respond with a telephone call.




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  • BReyes-Chow · 3 years ago
    I wish I could claim such deep values and sensibilities on this one, but I have just been slacking . . . maybe the "American" part of my "Asian-American" identity has taken over? Probably not, just run-of-the-mill too much on the plate. That article is very interesting though, thanks for the resource.
  • Eddie · 3 years ago
    Hey DJ,

    I just bought that book today! :) Sorry I missed most of your discussions on it, but I just finished the first chapter and chapter 7 (which almost turned me off of reading anymore).

    I think the church they use as an example in chapter 7 is so rare and such an exception, I couldn't help but roll my eyes with almost every paragraph.

    It takes very rare senior (Korean) pastor and elder board to make it happen. I fought so hard in my previous ministry setting for almost 5 years to get on that path, but in the end, they didn't move an inch.

    So now I'm on sabbatical, majorly drained from the fight, and in need of some inner healing (!). :)

    Well, that's my 2cents I guess.
  • bumble · 3 years ago
    Or they are like me: haven't bought the book yet :-(
  • Sam Choi · 3 years ago
    It could very well be true that disintermediated media doesn't work for most Asian Americans.

    What I've found, though, is that the Asian Americans who actually care about each other will make an effort to communicate, even via disntermediated media. They will not communicate very often with people they don't care about, no matter how much arm-twisting is going on.

    I've found that the same thing is true for Koreans (Koreans who live in Korea). With close friends and others they care about, Koreans will be practically inseparable (even via disintermediated media such as Cyworld and Nate.com), but they don't bother to communicate at all with people they don't really care about.