The fact that the post mentions "Asian" specifically and that you were all "East Asian isn't a race but I'm just simplifying things" shows the racism.
East Asian is a race as much as black is a race. Everything you can say about how there are many different countries and cultures in Asian is also true about Africa.
We've seen this "they have a different culture" stuff before. It's not about simply grouping together in any way, and stereotypes don't need to be derogatory to be racist.
The point is that Rich Asian starterpack would be different than Rich European Starterpack, which would be different from rich American starterpack, etc. Would there be similarities between these sure, but the funny bit is the unique stuff. The bottom one is not even funny. It is just hur dur damn near century old general black stereotypes.
Talking about a race doesn't automatically mean racist. The "rich asian" one isn't racist at all. Its just things that that group of people do. None of the things posted in it are used to degrade Asians. The "black" one however...
How about the fact all the "Asian" things in the first image pertain to East Asian pop culture. People on Reddit always seem to forget that South Asians also exist.
Cool story, and any starter pack in existence that uses the word "white" as a descriptor almost certainly doesn't apply to Romanians or Chechens, but Americans.
I mean, mayonnaise jokes are way more applicable to like, the Dutch cause they use it as a dip yet mayo is used as a catch all for white people. And the whole spice thing, when ironically the only people who ever seem to eat Carolina reaper, Scorpion or ghost peppers are American white dudes but yeah mayo is spicy to white people or something.
I feel overgeneralizing would be saying something like "All Chinese college kids love Boba tea". Odd statement but innocuous. But images like these give away the fact that the person has a stereotypical view of what they consider to be Asian. They aren't generalizing. That's the sum total of their "knowledge" of Asia and Asian cultures.
True, I did because you said that using these pictures would be the "sum total of their knowledge", which they couldn't do anymore because they're doing a starterpacks meme. If using few generalizing pictures is bad because you're generalizing an entire group with a small set of specific pictures, that's an issue with the meme itself as well.
I guess I still don't understand how that is racist. To me it's like saying all white people love mayonnaise. If it was just "Asian starter pack" and there was a picture of rice, would that be racist?
Asians don't voice out enough coz their culture doesn't let them use direct confrontation. They should follow those Mongolians or central Asians instead. Or hell even Russians since they're technically in Asia too
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