Posted on September 22nd, 2008 by Colin
What’s up with all the Asian insect threats going on in the burroughs these days? We have Northern Snakehead fish in queens, Aisan Longhorned Beetles eating our trees… and now the dangerous Asian Tiger Mosquito has come this last summer to bite us from up to half a mile away?
I have a strange and unnatural immunity to mosquitoes. I get bitten sometimes, but normally the itching and swelling goes down within an hour. I’ve beentold that consuming large amounts of Vitamin B, which would make sense considering my Sparks and Red Bull consumption both of which have large amounts of B vitamins, but the New York Times doesn’t believe that to be true. I’m going to speculate instead that it’s from the time when I lived in the East Village above a roof that had pools of standing water and didn’t have the sense to buy a screen for my window. Point is, I haven’t even noticed the presence of these mosquitos, but all my friends seem to be getting more bites. But it seems New York’s environment is in danger guys.
Is it just me, or is does there seem like there’s some sort of inherent xenophobia and racism behind all of this? Is it coincidence that these are all from Asia? Can I call them AZN? The AZN Tiger Mosquito? Are AZNs responsible for environmental disruptions in New York? Does this have any relationship to the amount of work international superstar Bai Ling has been getting? Becuase she has ten upcoming movies, guys, andI’m not sure how she’s gone from being a gratuitous fashion accessory villain in The Crow to having ten soon to be released movies.
Stop destroying our natural city environments, Bai Ling.
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September 22nd, 2008 at 12:48 pm
The xenophobia and racism seems obvious — that these exotic and new species are taking away jobs from native New Yorkers. The truth is that ANZs like Bai Ling are just doing jobs that Americans don’t want to do.
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Colin reply on September 22, 2008:
I actually think a lot of people would love to be an international superstar like Bai Ling.
Are preservationist ideologies, even when pertaining to the environment, inherently xenophobic? I’m starting to think so.
Arch reply on September 22, 2008:
Yes, I agree; I also didn’t mean to undermine Bai Ling by suggesting her contributions were inherently inferior.
Preservationism seems especially absurd in the context of so-called “natural city environments.” Isn’t a modern city environment a necessarily artificial construction (built on the constant introduction of the new)? Whose idea of nature are we preserving anyway?
September 22nd, 2008 at 1:45 pm
we should round up all of these pests and put them in some kind of camp off the west coast…something that would intern them somehow…i don’t know what we’d call it but i’m sure they wouldn’t mind.
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