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Shame is hard to confront. Even if you know it's baseless, it's still hard to come face-to-face with.

~Alex Tizon

Topics: Come Confront Even Face-To-Face Hard Know Shame Still You

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You are validating someone's life by telling their story. Even if it's a sad one.

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Topics: Even Life Sad Someone Story Telling Validating You

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In the America that I grew up in, men of Asia placed last in the hierarchy of manhood. They were invisible in the high-testosterone arenas of politics, big business, and sports. On television and in the movies, they were worse than invisible. They were embarrassing. We were embarrassing.

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Topics: America Arenas Asia Big Big Business Business Embarrassing Grew Hierarchy Invisible Last Manhood Men Movies Placed Politics Sports Television Than Up Were Worse

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Most of us, when imagining an All-American, wouldn't picture a man who looked like me. Not even I would.

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Topics: All-American Even Imagining Like Looked Man Me Most Picture Us Who Would

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American pop culture is perpetually in adolescent mode. The notions of what it takes to be a man, as depicted in pop culture, are very superficial, one-dimensional, and adolescent.

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Topics: Adolescent American Be A Man Culture Depicted Man Mode Notions One-Dimensional Perpetually Pop Pop Culture Superficial Takes Very

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One of the things I love about wen wu is its encouragement of developing the spiritual and intellectual aspects of the self that are actually more important than the development of the body and the capacity to commit violence - which is how much of Western pop culture defines a man.

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Topics: About Actually Aspects Body Capacity Commit Culture Defines Developing Development Encouragement How How Much Important Intellectual Love Man More Much One Of The Things Pop Pop Culture Self Spiritual Than Things Violence Western Which I Love

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I think there has been a long-running notion in the West that Asia was a continent of people that were really conquerable. That people from Asia were weak, they were small in all ways - including physically small, geopolitically small, economically small - all of which are changing, of course.

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Topics: Asia Been Changing Continent Course Economically Including Notion People Physically Really Small Think Ways Weak Were West Which I Think

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The thing about stereotypes as we all know, there is often truth in them, but it's almost always a partial truth.

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Topics: About Almost Always Know Often Partial Stereotypes Them Thing Truth

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The idea that humanity is divided into these separate and distinct and disparate groups with clear boundaries has been disproven by science a long time ago, decades ago. Humanity really is more of a continuum, and that people belong on the same continuum and there are no clear breaks between these so-called races.

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Topics: Been Belong Between Boundaries Breaks Clear Continuum Decades Disparate Distinct Divided Groups Humanity Idea Long Long Time Long Time Ago More People Races Really Same Science Separate So-Called Time

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Wen wu contradicts the very American notion of John Wayne being the ideal of manhood. In the wen wu way of thinking, it's much more important to restrain rather than exert yourself through brute power.

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Topics: American Being Brute Exert Ideal Important John John Wayne Manhood More Much Notion Power Rather Restrain Than Thinking Through Very Way Wayne Yourself

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Biography

Nationality: Filipino

Type: Author

Born: October 30th, 1959

Died: March 23rd, 2017

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