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Asian Teen STD Rates?

The Centers for Disease Control reported last month outrageous rates of sexually transmitted diseases among women, especially African American women. I worked out the Asian Pacific/Islander rates of syphilis as one-third less than white women; chlamydia was 18 percent less and gonorrhea almost 50 percent less. API rates for the same diseases were 7 to 18 times lower than African Americans. That shouldn’t be a surprise if you’ve seen my figures on Asian birth outcomes, rates of unwed pregnancy, AIDS, teen sex and other risky activities before.

The press predictably supports Jeremiah Wright’s indictment of American racism by highlighting whenever African Americans fall behind white Americans. Yet the invisible counter-fact that even most conservatives miss is that Asian Americans usually fall slightly or significantly ahead of whites. Only ancient cultural values that discourage pursuit of risky sexual activities can explain Asian outcomes. Alas, such an explanation will never be investigated by the government or mainstream press.

Malkin, Our Pundit of Color
The New York Times highlighted the recent rash/rush of political pundits of color on cable news, noting that black or Hispanic talking heads typically cover the elections. Our beloved Michelle Malkin, who has become the object of quite a lot of liberal hate mail judging by the comments on her Hot Air Web videos, was the only Asian American mentioned. That’s remarkable given the huge acceptance of Asians (even men) as local anchors, and the fact that the bulk of the Asian American political and educational establishment are more liberal than Obama supporters. Maybe AsianWeek should rent out Nash and Emil as available “Asialiberals” to rationalize Ob/illary’s latest missteps and cross-attacks.

WTH ROTFL
Another New York Times article says young Indian men are using texting as a low-risk mechanism for first contact with women in a culture that sets up high barriers to direct contact. I knew a guy who married his first wife after sending her an e-mail across the computer lab 10 years ago at Stanford — how times change.

‘21’: Folk Hero
I was a 1981 graduate of MIT, and I’m certainly proud my school has finally produced an Asian American MIT geek folk hero in card counting — wiz Jeff Ma — even if they decided to cast him as an English guy who needs an accent coach (instead of William Hung). Reminds me of the mom on Margaret Cho’s short-lived All-American Girl who was proud that her son was in prison for a white-collar crime. I wonder if the politically correct Asian American history books will talk about this guy.

Comments

Art Hu:
I’m still trying to “follow” your “drift” here online.
And I’m afraid, I, for one “Asian-Pacific American,” still find you a pain in my “Chinese-American” butt.
But, whathell, nothing pained, nothing gained.
Besides, I hope I give you just as much mishegash.
That’s Chinese Yiddish for merde.
What’s “sex” as in doin’ it got to do with it? All that data and self-congratulatory I’m-clean-and-they’re-dirty craperoony.
More likely, it’s the starchy, preachy, keenly “clean” who are, deep inside, dirty as cobwebs hanging in dirty corners, or, simply, judgmental?
Who are you or anyone else to judge others? Especially in sweeping “racial” or “color” tones.
And I might add that enthusiastic suppression of er, ah, “natural,” and here, to each her/his own please, drives and needs leads only to the perdition of all “fundamentalisms,” including those perceived “moral,” or “civilized,” like pushing buttons in lieu of drawing-and-quartering.
Frank Eng
P.S.: Check out the latest on your guy, McCain. It might drive you back to your Civil War textbooks and von Clausewitz and Tsun-tzu, none of which will matter much to most if Bush wins a third term. Oh, and I do hope you get to join Michelle on that CNN panel. I’ll be outside chanting, “CNN, liar!” Well, better make it raht-cheer, online and ever so accessible.

–Frank Eng on Apr 20, 2008
Nothing judgemental, you should have figured out my pattern that I don’t believe this crap that Whites are behind Asians they don’t study as hard, but blacks are behind whites because we haven’t smashed racism yet. People refuse to connect the dots that maybe, just maybe the reasons that Asians have better outcomes than whites could be the same reasons whites have better outcomes than blacks. I claim that you can smash racism until the cows come home, it will make very little impact on eliminating “disproportionality”. Do you think if other groups had rates of sexual activity, and hours spent on homework similar to that of Asians, their outcomes might become more like Asians?
On the same hand, if Asians stopped whining about how unfairly we’ve been treated in politics and entertainment and started producing stars like Obama and Oprah and fewer nerds, we might be getting more jobs. I think blaming poor Asian outcomes on racism is just as pointless.

–awarthurhu on Apr 21, 2008
What do you folks think? Do you support the practice of only publicizing health figures when minorities have worse outcomes than whites because it helps support the theory of racism, but supressing outcomes that are better because they don’t support the theory of a structurally racist society?

–awarthurhu on Apr 21, 2008
I think that Asians in general on the whole planet Earth, on average will not score higher than all the Whites on planet Earth. The Asians in America, are mostly cream of the crop. The one’s that want to get ahead and want their kids to get ahead. They care more. As for Blacks and Whites, I think the disadvantages that Blacks have from past slavery and discriminations is about over. I think the major disadvantage that Blacks have versus Whites is the number of children they raised. The more children you have, the harder to teach and disciplined. Spending time with your kids makes a world of a difference. It is still possible to argue that racism is holding the Blacks back and the Asians are able to overcome racism, because they’re not your average Asians. I am sitting on the fence with this one.

–Huang Fong on Apr 21, 2008
OK folks, I’m loading up on research over this polygamy thing. That’s one seriously messed community they have over there, but they way those folks are being treated, they might as well arrest the entire community and turn it into a camp like Manzanar like the Japanese Americans, which Michelle Malkin agreed should have been done because these people who looked funny with wierd customs could not be trusted with national security.
I just heard on the radio white people comparing the case to the Japanese internment. And if the kids need to be protected, the government should give the kids away like puppy dogs just like the Australians scattered the “lost generation” of aborigines when they determined that their parents were unfit to bring up civilized children.
In fact, they should raid those Hmong hillbillies right now just in case their kids are at risk too, and that compound in British Columbia, even though the Canadians aren’t even sure their anti-polygamy laws are even constitutional.
Asian Americans should be very, very concerned about the FDLS case.

–awarthurhu on Apr 23, 2008

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