May

25

2008

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My Huge Problem with ‘Integral Theory’

04:43PM by Alvin Lin

It seems a lot of Asian Americans these days love ‘integral theory’ and ‘holons’, it sounds like new cult terminology, but anyways I have MAJOR problems with this theory. Look at the following link, an intro description of the theory:
http://holons-news.com/altitudes.html

Basically, I think the reason why Asian Americans have gotten screwed so much the past 200 years in the West, is because we actually need to lower ourselves to the thinking of Western society, and we haven’t yet. Western society, democracy, and market economy in targeting marketing segments, is based on: 1. Might is Right (whether it be political or economic or military), 2. Ethnocentric behavior among every other racial group in America except for Asians, 3. Egocentric, self interested behavior.

In America politicians don’t cater to your community, companies don’t advertise to you, and TV/film don’t care about your images or actors, unless you vote and buy and choose based on tribal or ethnocentric or racial lines. In America 95% of Blacks vote Obama, 2/3 women vote Hillary, Jewish Amerians vote based on Israeli issues, and these mentalities cross over to mass media too where studios and companies cater to demographics who buy and consume influenced by race or identity.

If anything, buying into integral theory is what has screwed over Asian Americans and Asian people for such a long time. It’s time to be realistic and adopt the tactics that work in this country and in Western societies, namely political and economic and consumer solidarity along tribal and racial lines.