Grandma KNOWS
For those of you who already know and love my wonderful adorable loving grandma... here is another reason...
I just walked by her room, where she passes part of the day playing solitaire while watching Chinese dramas on her tv. This time, however, she was watching the station where they loop loads of great add from Barack Obama!!! As I was walking by, they were telling the story of Michelle and Barack meeting of her family. AWWWWWWW!!!
Also, the other day I was watching tv and there was a clip where it showed McCain and she said [in Chinese]: >cringe in face< Eww. That guy. He's not good. He's bad (better understood in Chinese as "huai!") as if she was watching a chinese drama. BAAAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA.
I recently watched a history channel special about body language and how it impacted past elections, of course citing the first televised political debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon - how body language can create a sense of connectedness and trust, and give away when people are hiding something, etc., how 73% of what you say is not from your words, (and is definitly more valued and monitored in eastern cultures.) So given my grandmother's lack of English...
Of course, elections are about the candidates' visions for the future, and their past records as proof they are capable of acheiving such a vision. The reality is, how people VOTE sometimes pushed these things aside, as the the winning of this election has been complicated by race, or better said, racism, and many American's visceral reaction to the name Hussein. So in my constant anxiety of the true extent of the Bradley Effect, its reassuring to remember there are more wholesome effects. Especially, specifically w.r.t. my grandma liking Obama, because in the US, racism is just as intense, if not MORE intense, amongst the minorities.
Two more weeks....
I just walked by her room, where she passes part of the day playing solitaire while watching Chinese dramas on her tv. This time, however, she was watching the station where they loop loads of great add from Barack Obama!!! As I was walking by, they were telling the story of Michelle and Barack meeting of her family. AWWWWWWW!!!
Also, the other day I was watching tv and there was a clip where it showed McCain and she said [in Chinese]: >cringe in face< Eww. That guy. He's not good. He's bad (better understood in Chinese as "huai!") as if she was watching a chinese drama. BAAAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA.
I recently watched a history channel special about body language and how it impacted past elections, of course citing the first televised political debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon - how body language can create a sense of connectedness and trust, and give away when people are hiding something, etc., how 73% of what you say is not from your words, (and is definitly more valued and monitored in eastern cultures.) So given my grandmother's lack of English...
Of course, elections are about the candidates' visions for the future, and their past records as proof they are capable of acheiving such a vision. The reality is, how people VOTE sometimes pushed these things aside, as the the winning of this election has been complicated by race, or better said, racism, and many American's visceral reaction to the name Hussein. So in my constant anxiety of the true extent of the Bradley Effect, its reassuring to remember there are more wholesome effects. Especially, specifically w.r.t. my grandma liking Obama, because in the US, racism is just as intense, if not MORE intense, amongst the minorities.
Two more weeks....
posted by shirley at 12:45 PM
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