Simu 7
Waldemar Fischer
I have a simu remote as well here in Australia controlling an AS30 motor for my ZipTrak external blind. I also have some Somfy motors for my internal roller blinds, so will give their Somfy studio remote a try to control my external blind as well.
The Simulation Centre of the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University is the most up-to-date simulation centre in Central Europe. It is equipped like a real hospital. There is a heliport on the roof, operating theatres on the clinical floor, intensive care units, medical devices and simulators. But thats not what SIMU is about. SIMU is mainly about the possibilities of trying and experiencing all medical procedures first-hand. From the simplest to the most complex ones. There is no other place where you could train everything without jeopardising the life of patients. SIMU is where mistakes are welcome as long as you learn from them.
SIMU is built on cooperation, and thus all academic, technical and operational needs are provided by teams from two departments of the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University, the Department of Simulation Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University and the Simulation Centre of the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University. These teams are behind the innovative teaching, complement each other perfectly and create one of the broadest and best-trained groups of experts in their field. Together they form SIMU.
SIMU provides a brand-new approach to teaching General Medicine and Dentistry. SIMU is complementing the existing curricula with a unique aspect of acquiring individual skills and procedures by means of simulators. During your studies at the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University you can enjoy a rare chance to experience the interconnection between medical simulations and clinical practice at faculty hospitals. This five-story student hospital is loaded with healthcare and simulation devices and accompanied by one the largest and best-trained teams in the field. It is under the guidance of this team that you will get right in action and experience what you would have formerly experienced only after several years of studies or in medical practice.
Marvel made history this year with the release of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, the first major Asian-led superhero film in the U.S. The story follows Xu Shang-Chi, a Chinese American young adult played by the Chinese Canadian actor Simu Liu.
Several Asian women have been doxxed and harassed by members of the subreddit because of these posts, including author Celeste Ng, who has featured multiracial Asian families in her writing and has a multiracial family herself.
Though these posts come from a very vocal group within r/aznidentity, the community is large and their posts cover a diverse array of other topics. For example, there is a whole flair (the Reddit tagging system) dedicated to media and entertainment, which is where Liu comes in.
Have you heard of MRAsians before? How do you think our community should move forward in combatting this ideology and building coalitions between Asian men and women? Let us know in the comments below. Thank you for reading.
Thank you so much for writing this piece and bringing awareness to this issue, Madison. This is so so important especially after the fame Simu Liu gained from Kim's Convenience and Shang-Chi. We can't turn a blind eye just for the sake of Asian American representation...
Liu first rose to prominence in his breakout role on Kim\u2019s Convenience (2016-2021), a Korean Canadian sitcom adapted from the play of the same name written by Ins Choi. Kim\u2019s Convenience first premiered on Canadian broadcast network CBC Television in 2016, then gained a massive following worldwide after Netflix distributed it internationally in 2018. The show follows the hijinks of the Kim family, an immigrant Korean Canadian family who own a convenience store in Toronto. Liu played Jung Kim, the disowned son of the Kim family who was gradually making up with his father, Mr. Kim.
The international release of Kim\u2019s Convenience coincided with the explosion of the Facebook group \u201Csubtle asian traits,\u201D a group for sharing memes about Asian experiences (mostly in the Western diaspora) founded by Asian Australians. Thanks to this group and other Asian social media spaces, Kim\u2019s Convenience became a hit among Asian diaspora communities around the world.
When Simu Liu himself became an active member of subtle asian traits, also known as \u201CSAT,\u201D he became a community leader-of-sorts when it came to Asian representation in entertainment, as he occasionally shared personal posts about his experiences in the industry. From there, his social media platform grew, and he managed to gain the attention of Marvel Studios, asking them to make him an Asian superhero. In 2019, Liu was officially cast as Xu Shang-Chi, the first Asian American superhero lead of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Despite making it big, Liu seemed to stay true to his roots\u2014he brought the SAT community along through heartfelt updates and photos from behind the scenes, in the time from his casting announcement all the way through the release of Shang-Chi.
As an Asian American pursuing a career in the film industry myself, Liu quickly became a role model of mine. It wasn\u2019t hard to root for him; he genuinely felt like one of us. His personal presence in SAT, where so many of my real-life Asian American friends and I congregated online, plus his loud dedication to Kim\u2019s Convenience even after he was cast as the lead for a Marvel/Disney blockbuster, made him seem genuine and relatable.
However, Liu has also failed to show up for our community before. For example, he called actor Mark Wahlberg out in a 2018 tweet for Wahlberg violently assaulting a Vietnamese man as a teenager (in addition to other attacks on BIPOC). But in late 2020, Liu announced he was joining a project where he would be working alongside Wahlberg and simultaneously deleted his previous tweet about Wahlberg\u2019s violence.
On September 15th, Slate released a massive article breaking down the subreddit r/aznidentity, which calls itself \u201CA New Era for Asian Americans and Asian Diasporas around the world.\u201D Their description reads:
\u201CThe most active Asian-American community on the web. We serve the Asian diaspora living anywhere in the West. We are a Pan Asian community (East, Southeast, South) against all forms of anti-Asianism (anti-Asian racism). The community is about helping Asians make sense out of their own life experiences, find a supportive like-minded community, and live the best possible life. We emphasize our Asian identity, not to be used as pawns by the Right or Left.\u201D
At 44,500 members, r/aznidentity is one of the largest online Asian American communities, and will naturally have a diverse array of voices and opinions. However, as the Slate article highlights, one of the loudest voices allowed a platform in the subreddit are Asian men who criticize Asian women for dating non-Asians\u2014especially Asian women who date white men, referred to as \u201CWMAF\u201D (white male/Asian female) coupling in their posts.
In addition to specific threads linked in the Slate article, it\u2019s not hard to find posts targeting Asian women. For example, this post about \u201Casian blue checks\u201D (Asian women with verified Twitter accounts) alleges that Asian women use white supremacy as an excuse to befriend and date white people.
As a former Asian-Pacific American studies student, I understand where these Asian men\u2019s perspectives are coming from. While Asian women have been fetishized throughout history, Asian men have been perceived as a threat (yellow peril) who would steal jobs and white women from white American men; Asian migrant workers often faced violence because of this, and media went out of its way to portray Asian men as desexualized and undesirable.
While there are necessary conversations to have about how this legacy of racism persists today, especially in racial \u201Cdating preferences,\u201D r/aznidentity\u2019s posts tend to target real-life Asian women, rather than the racist hetero-patriarchy that has sought to destroy our families and communities for centuries.
Another woman\u2019s experience, Eileen Huang, is detailed in the Slate article. Huang is an undergraduate student at Yale who was relentlessly harassed by men from r/aznidentity after their blog post about anti-Blackness within the Asian American community went viral in May 2020. To this day, a year and a half later, the subreddit continues to post about Huang; just a few weeks ago, one member called Huang \u201Ca self-hating racist bigot.\u201D
Huang responded to the attacks by finding out the real-life identities of the people attacking her to directly confront them, which she said left them \u201Cjust so frightened\u201D without their anonymity. To her surprise, many of them were college-educated professionals working high-paying jobs. Huang responded to the Slate article on Twitter:
r/aznidentity keeps up with this ongoing crisis as well, with masterposts and threads tracking anti-Asian hate crimes in the U.S. However, this has led to anti-Black comments that incorrectly attribute this violence to the Black community more than other groups. One user wrote, \u201CBoba libs literally value black feelings over Asian lives\u201D on a post responding to a Twitter thread (written by \u201COG boba liberal\u201D Huang) about the effects of increased policing on Black and brown communities as a response to anti-Asian violence. (The term \u201CBoba liberal\u201D refers to Asians with \u201Cshallow political ideas.\u201D)
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