OK, I will talke up the challenge and make you look like a fool. I
will show you 50+ examples of white Americans showing love for another
people/culture. I challenge you to show me just 1 instance where a
Hispanicks was able to show fondess for another people.
http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7796943
ON THE 11th and 12th floors of JPMorgan Chase's private bank,
overlooking Manhattan's Park Avenue, David Rockefeller keeps part of
his private collection of modern art. ......
the gun fired by Aaron Burr that killed Alexander Hamilton sits
behind a glass case next to "objets d'art" from Africa.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/sports/baseball/18vecsey.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref...
A younger George Steinbrenner would never have let this go so far. A
man who used to be able to cite "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, he surely
would have known the passage
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/story/347287p-296432c.html
.....his plan to bring down the oldest U.S. track record on the books
(Steve Scott's 23-year-old, 3:47.69 mile);
The tattoo on Webb's right shoulder is the Japanese symbol for
courage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Adams_%%28sailor%%29
William Adams (September 24, 1564-May 16, 1620), also known in
Japanese as Anjin-sama and Miura Anjin, was an English navigator who
went to Japan and is believed to be the first Briton ever to reach
Japan.
Adams had a high regard for Japan, its people, and its civilization:
"The people of this Land of Japan are good of nature, curteous above
measure, and valiant in war: their justice is severely executed
without any partiality upon transgressors of the law. They are
governed in great civility. I mean, not a land better governed in the
world by civil policy. The people be very superstitious in their
religion, and are of divers opinions. (William Adam's letter to
Bantam, 1612)"
http://outside.away.com/outside/destinations/200606/bhutan-1.html
Robert A. F. Thurman, the spiritual guru of our eclectic
crew ..........
In addition to being this tour's head "psychonaut"--a term Thurman
coined to describe a person on an extreme inner journey--Tenzin Bob (as
his friends call him) is also chairman of the religion department at
Columbia University, author of nine books, the first Westerner to be
ordained a Tibetan Buddhist monk....
Thurman lives in Manhattan, where he splits his life into a million
little pieces....
and overseeing his pet project, Tibet House, the Manhattan institution
he cofounded in 1987 with actor Richard Gere and composer Philip Glass
to preserve Tibetan culture. (Each person on this tour was asked to
donate $1,100 to the organization, in addition to the trip fee.)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/287796_tenant06.html
Ann Silver's landlord must pay her $500 to move out of the apartment
she's lived in for nearly 16 years.....
Silver's corner apartment, on Capitol Hill, is large and relatively
cheap, with views of Puget Sound and the many new condo buildings
downtown. She has filled it with Japanese collectibles........
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/players/01/30/tattoos0205/
Islanders defenseman Brendan Witt is used to getting odd looks -- and
not only after laying out an opponent. When people see his bare,
heavily inked arm.....
"I got the yin-yang symbol because I believe the body and soul are
intertwined. ........
This dragon is a Japanese symbol for protection. I have always been
intrigued with the stories of a lot of the Japanese symbols. "
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/business/13flier.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
By JEREMY SHEPHERD
Published: November 13, 2007
AS a former flight attendant and now as president and founder of my
company,
PearlParadise.com, I'm a lover of both the friendly skies and
some of the world's finest pearls.
I have always been fascinated with the Asian people and their culture,
and speak Japanese, the obscure Chuukese language of the South Pacific
Micronesian Islanders and Mandarin Chinese (well enough to negotiate
with Chinese pearl farmers).
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16608500/site/newsweek/page/3/
JOAN JETT, Rocker, 48
A member of the Runaways when she was only 15 and lead singer of Joan
Jett and the Blackhearts, Jett is one of the original bad girls of
rock and roll--who doesn't drink or smoke, is a vegetarian and reads
ancient Hindu philosophy in her downtime.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16610768/site/newsweek/
Well into the last century, many Europeans found the Arabs' sense of
dignity chivalrous. T. E. Lawrence wrote admiringly of a tribesman
riding alone to certain death against Turkish troops who had massacred
his family.
http://byu.scout.com/2/438214.html
Sep 14, 2005
BYU's football team implemented a new tradition that originates on the
island of Aotearoa, known today as New Zealand.
On September 3rd, minutes before kickoff against Boston College, a new
tradition was unveiled as members of the BYU football team lined up on
the southeast corner of the field and performed a Maori haka for tens
of thousands of exhilarated fans.
http://uhathletics.hawaii.edu/coach_bio.html?pid=3&coachid=15
Although Jones is originally from Portland, Ore., his heart has been
in Hawai`i since he left as a player in 1974.
"I have always had a lot of feelings for the people here and that's
one of the biggest reasons why I came back," Jones said. "I have
always had a certain fellowship of aloha and ohana for everyone here."
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060521/SPORTS0201...
May 21, 2006
Life has been good recently for University of Hawai'i football coach
June Jones.
"I love it here. I love Hawai'i. I love the people. I love everything
about it ... all of the different cultures. It's fun to watch the
African-American players learn about the Polynesian culture. It's fun,
for me, to watch the Polynesian players learn about where the other
players have come from.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedediah_Smith
Next, the party encountered the 'roving' Sioux Indians, who impressed
Smith with their "intelligence, superior morals, stature and manner of
living". (Some of these 'mountain men' were sufficiently impressed
with the Indian 'way of living' as to join them, to live among them,
or at least, not to cause them any trouble
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003228838_mcleodobit27m.html
August 27, 2006
Grace McLeod didn't know exactly what she was in for when a Tibetan
Buddhist spiritual leader summoned her to Rumtek, India.
Mrs. McLeod converted to Buddhism in 1948 after she and her husband,
Hugh McLeod, a longtime Buddhist, studied world religions together
through the Theosophical Society. Mr. McLeod died in 1978.
"I think she was captivated by Tibetan Buddhism initially and then she
came to realize there's as much politics in Tibetan Buddhism as
anyplace else. In talking with her later on in life, she realized it's
all human nature," said the Rev. Don Castro, a minister at Seattle
Betsuin Church.
from the book "Dark Star Safari", by Paul Theroux, copyright 2003
page 83
True, the Sudanese government did very little to preserve its ancient
places, but almost every site had been adopted by a foreign university
- German, British, American - and was in the process of restoration. A
philanthropic Englishwoman was waging a single-handed battle against
neglect and erosion at a temple complex just west of these pyramids,
and an elderly German named Hinkel, a self-financed enthusiast
apparently, visited here once a year in his long-term project of
piecing together one of the nearby structures, the Temple of the Sun.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/263893_foleyaward22.html
Seattle attorney Griffith Way, who practiced law in Japan for more
than 40 years and helped establish the first Japan trade shows in the
United States in the 1950s. His collection of Kyoto paintings from the
late 19th through the early 20th century were exhibited at the Seattle
Asian Art Museum in 1999.
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071101/SPORTS0201...
Ieru said he also has vowed to learn more about his Samoan ancestry.
He said it is heartening to hear Mainland-raised teammates Colt
Brennan, Davone Bess and Jacob Patek speak Samoan.
"I feel they're getting better than me," Ieru said. "That goes to show
they're taking it serious. They want to learn about the Polynesian
cultures. It's a big plus. That shows we're brothers on this team.
That's what keeps us close."
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060408/NEWS01/604...
April 8, 2006
As he lay dying, Oliver Johnson's body was so ravaged by disease that
his mother couldn't even hold his hand.......
Six years ago, he followed a college girlfriend to Hawai'i. She
returned to the Mainland two years later, but he stayed because he had
fallen in love with "the kindness and the lifestyle" of Hawai'i's
people, said his mother.
http://www.nepalicongress.org.np/contents/features/nav.php?show=worldmap
Hillary on the other hand could not forget the smiling Sherpas of
Solukhumbu and returned time and again
to help them. In the years that followed, he spent a considerable part
of his life building schools, bridges, hospitals and even airfields in
the Sherpa homeland.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/257978_robert02.html
Thursday, February 2, 2006
The paper's quip refers to Mike Holmgren, the Super Bowl coach of our
football team. The other half of the Holmgren household is Kathy,
Mike's wife of nearly 35 years.
He knew how much his wife still loved the people of Congo and the
prospect of helping them -- how much she wants to rouse a deaf world
to their suffering.
from the book "American Soldier", by Tommy Franks, copyright 2004
page 193
.......I waited in a small alcove outside the CINC's office that the
staff called the Trophy Room. The room was furnished with Central
Asian carpets, an inlaid ivory-and-brass Arab table, and glass-fronted
cases of weapons. Most of the pistols, assault rifles, and machine
guns were battlefield trophies - many from Operation Desert Storm -
but a number were ceremonial arms presented by foreign leaders to Tony
or his predecessors. Here was where the CINC greeted visiting foreign
dignitaries: no Spartan military office, the chamber sent a clear
message that the commander appreciated the culture of the region for
which he was responsible.
http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,17501572-5001026,00.html
December 08, 2005
MADONNA swept back into Japan this week for the first time for 12
years to promote her new album, revealing a love of all things
Japanese: food, fashion, men and, most of all, heated toilet seats.
"I've always been interested in Japanese culture. Some of my videos
and my performances on stage have been influence by Japanese music,
fashion, martial arts," the American diva said.
"I love Japanese food," she added. "I probably eat more Japanese food
than you do."
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/dc_styles_asian/article/0,1793,HGTV_3509_1391164,00.htm...
It was not until the 1860s that Americans began to see Japanese goods,
thanks to the successful trade negotiation by Commodore Matthew Perry.
This exciting turn of events created a wildfire of appreciation for
the Asian aesthetic. It wasn't long before Asian architecture was
being imported as readily as Asian art by those who could afford it.
The Japanese house (which was literally brought over from Japan) and
garden (figure D) on the Henry Huntington estate in San Marino,
California, is a classic example.
The Huntingtons were not the only ones to embrace Asian architecture
early on. In 1914, famed society doyenne Alva Belmont built a Chinese
teahouse (figure E) on the grounds of her Newport, Rhode Island,
mansion.
http://www.thelizlibrary.org/undelete/woa/woa10-14.html
Eliza Scidmore - U.S. traveler and photographer. ES was a pioneer
travel writer and photographer, and prominent member of the National
Geographic Society who developed a world-wide reputation for accuracy
and insight.
Her articles appeared in many magazines of the times as well as
that National Geographic and were illustrated by her own photographs.
She spent a great deal of time in Japan not only reporting on the
geography but also the people and their customs.
Her work was so admired by the Emperor of Japan that her ashes
were carried to Japan and buried there at his request.
http://www4.cnnsi.com/2007/scorecard/04/11/tattoos0416/
Most people look at Nationals setup man Jon Rauch and think, There
goes the tallest player in the major leagues. Tattoo artists look at
his 6'11" frame and think, Now there's a canvas I could work with.
"The two that mean the most to me: I have Roman numerals starting at
my neck and going all the way down my spine that commemorate my
wedding day -- Sept. 7, 2001," he says of his marriage to the former
Erica Jurko. (The Chinese symbols are an homage to himself: They mean
"tall fire.")
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/260408_docafrica22.html
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
A urologist and professor at the University of Washington, Brannen,
63, spends eight months of the year treating patients at a hospital in
the village of Shisong in the West African nation's Northwest
province.
Upstairs at the Woodinville home the Brannens now live in part time,
half of the family room is all-American, with comfy couches set up
around a television. The other half is all-Cameroon. A "sacred corner"
with artwork and artifacts from Shisong has, as its centerpiece, a
stool like the one Brannen sits on in his official role greeting
visitors in Cameroon. From that seat in Shisong, he serves palm wine
poured from a carved calabash.
http://www.internationalliving.com/mexico/free/08-02-05.html
* Randy Travis has his Japanese-style retreat on Maui in Hawaii...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Corbett_%%28hunter%%29
Jim Corbett (25 July 1875-19 April 1955) was an Indian-born hunter,
conservationist and naturalist......
The Corbett National Park in India is named in his memory.
Edward James "Jim" Corbett was born of English ancestry in the town of
Naini Tal in the Kumaon foothills of the Himalayas.
He also had a deep affection for the people of the Kumaon Hills, and
was loved by many of the region. He is considered by some in the
Kumaon region as a sadhu.
http://www.rhodes.org/Press_Coverage/djc/djcnovtext.htm
One client, Microsoft engineer Tom Firman, understands. Rhodes, Ragen
& Smith designed a fireplace for his Japanese-style home in Bellevue.
http://www.bizjournals.com/eastbay/stories/2002/10/14/smallb1.html
Then it's obvious why every day Tyndall would leave the Japanese-style
home he built in the Santa Cruz Mountains
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/04/10/REGVFC51FD1.DTL&type=...
Ellison, founder and chief executive officer of Redwood City's Oracle
Corp., has put his Japanese-style Atherton home on the market for $25
million
Newly married Ellison, 60, recently moved into his better-known
property: a sprawling mansion designed to resemble a 16th century
Japanese imperial palace on 23 acres in nearby Woodside.
from "Fortune" magazine, April 4, 2005, from the article "Nike After
Knight".
Few employees, let alone an outsider, have ever been in Knight's
office. One executive who works closely with Knight told me he hadn't
been in there in almost a decade. The only thing that anyone seems to
know about the sanctum is that Knight fashioned it in a Japanese
style.
from "American Heritage" magazine, May 2005, from the article "Hawaii
Territory":
One of the most spectacular is the island paradise of the heiress
Doris Duke, now open to all as Hawaii's newest museum. She purchased
five acres near Diamond Head, built a retreat she called Shangri La,
and over a period of nearly six decades filled it with one of the most
important collections of Islamic art in the United States, some 3,500
objects: flower-strewn tiles, lacy marble windows, fragments of rooms
purchased from Middle eastern estates. Her most significnat
acquisition is an immense lusterware mihrab, a prayer niche, from a
thirteenth-century Iranian tomb.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_38/b3951097.htm
SEPTEMBER 19, 2005
On first glance, Marc Benioff doesn't seem like a man in a hurry. The
bearlike 40-year-old chief executive of software pioneer
Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM ) favors Hawaiian shirts and rarely shows up
in the office before noon.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002094192_juanitaobit18m.html
Through a late-in-life love affair with Hawaii's sea and sun, Mrs.
Fosness also developed a fondness for its music and people. At the
memorial celebration, Kamahele will do what she did in Mrs. Fosness'
last days: She will bring two Hawaiian musicians and the three will
sing their friend to sleep.
http://www.taiwandc.org/wsj-2005-06.htm
Michael Pillsbury, influential Pentagon adviser and former China
lover,
...
"I was giddy with the Confucian classics and all the magnificence of
Chinese culture," he says.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/2002448144_reichel22m.ht...
Monday, August 22, 2005
Even the cops were wearing flowers in their hair at the Keali'i
Reichel concert Saturday at Summer Nights at South Lake Union Park.
And that was just one sign of the spirit of aloha that drenched the
place.
Singer-guitarist Reichel and his dozen Hawaiian singers, musicians and
dancers played to an appreciative crowd of some 2,000, including a big
contingent of local Hawaiians and many presumably like me, who know
the islands only as tourists.
http://www.biography.ms/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty_%%28history%%29.html
Bounty raised Tahiti on October 25, 1788, after ten months at sea.
Bligh and his crew spent five months in Tahiti, then called Otaheite,
collecting and preparing a total of 1015 breadfruit plants. Bligh
allowed the crew to live ashore and care for the potted breadfruit
plants, and they became socialised to the customs and culture of the
Tahitians. Master's Mate and Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian and
a Tahitian named Maimiti married.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/obituaries/24schneebaum.html
Tobias Schneebaum, a New York writer, artist and explorer who in the
1950's lived among cannibals in the remote Amazon jungle and, by his
own account, sampled their traditional cuisine, died on Tuesday in
Great Neck, N.Y.
Mr. Schneebaum came to prominence in 1969 with the publication of his
memoir, also titled "Keep the River on Your Right" (Grove Press). The
book, which became a cult classic, described how a mild-mannered gay
New York artist wound up living, and ardently loving, for several
months among the Arakmbut, an indigenous cannibalistic people in the
rainforest of Peru.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/visitorsguide/centry.asp?ID=227
Seattle Japanese Garden
This is one of the best examples of a Japanese-style garden in North
America. Now past 40 years old, the garden has aged beautifully.
Stroll around the koi pond and enjoy the stylized pruning of conifers
and the massive wisteria, which blooms in late spring. Like the
Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle Japanese Garden is in Washington
Park, and many people include both on a visit to the park. The
Japanese Garden is at 1075 Lake Washington Blvd. E. Hours: 10 a.m.-7
p.m. Tuesday-Sunday (until 8 p.m. in summer). Admission: $5; $3 for
ages 6-18, 65-plus, college students with ID and the disabled.
Information: 206-684-4725;
