The downside of everyone learning math and science

I recall a conversation I had with my dad many years ago. We were talking about the movie Schindler's List, and he was lamenting that there weren't any movies about the Chinese holocaust. I told him maybe it was because all the Chinese kids were being told to study math and science instead of film. Can you imagine the Chinese kid going to his parents and telling them he wanted to study filmmaking?

Morale of the story: There are advantages to having diverse expertise amongst your people.

Conforming our faces to Western glasses

There's this movie called Iron and Silk, where a white man goes to China to teach English... It talks about the culture differences and he gets to experience discrimination. He builds a nice rapport with his students, and one day they're talking about the differences between the Western world and theirs. One of his students says, "Your face... it's so 3-dimensional..."

I recently went to see the movie "Bolt" in 3-D at our local theater... I'm wearing 3-D glasses for this movie, and coming out of the theater I get these marks above my cheeks from where the glasses were sitting. This reminded me of how uncomfortable my safety glasses at work were... they wouldn't sit at the bridge of my nose and instead cut into my cheeks. This is because these glasses were designed for non-Asian faces. Maybe it's time we design safety glasses for Asians and stop trying to conform our faces to the Western world!