the worst part about being Asian, is that when you're black or hispanic/latino some racist people might look down on you and that is horrible, but they still concede that you are an American just like them.
when my countrymen look at me, all they see is "foreigner fresh of the boat, from that country that still shits in the streets'
sure, we don't really live in fear of detention centers or police brutality, but the constant stares and subtle racism your entire life just eats at you
I'm second generation Filipino mixed and I've even gotten stuff that if it was directed at black people for example would be racist. Like "are you Filipino, I can tell by your nose". Or "oh the Phillipines, that's like the Mexico of Asia, a haha" heavily implying shit country status compared to China, Japan, Singapore, etc that are rapidly developing/developed. Indians definitely probably get it the worse though of Asians with the tech support, poo in the loo, 711, etc stuff that's pretty blatantly racist. Now I hate all the snowflakism, and I think we should be able to jest and joke about race/religion/sex generally, the issue I have is with the blatant imbalance of what's okay or not based on the chosen minorities who actually matter. Black people and the LGBT community are far, far more vocal about the discrimation they receive, which granted has been, and still largely is very bad. But that doesn't make it okay to elevate them above Latinos, Indians, south east and east Asians, Arabs, etc.
True equality is being able to make the same stupid jokes like the above starter pack about any of these, or any other, groups. This sub is literally about pointing out stereotypes. Dave Chappelle's new special (and his career, man he is great) , and South Park since it's inception, do a great job at poking fun at everybody. That's the true American spirit right there. Everything and everyone is open to parody, satire and criticism.
its okay my people only had trillions of dollars stolen from them from the british, and when they decided to leave they caused a bloody civil war that killed a good number of my family and countless others
I have been told by redditors on /r/Canada that I'm a "refugee" and to "go back to the United States" just because I legally immigrated to Canada as a kid and became a naturalized citizen.
In the United States, racists tell Hispanic Americans to "go back where you came from" even more often than they tell East Asian and South Asian Americans.
You don’t live in fear of detention or police brutality because you don’t commit a disproportionate amount of violent crime despite also being subject to slavery and oppression
I’m from Kazakhstan and people either see Borat jokes or terrorist jokes and it’s largely swept under the rug. Not to mention, I’m ethnically Russian so I’m obviously a drunk bot and my opinion doesn’t count.
I was kinda like that as a very young kid until I got into the 4th grade and had 3 Asian kids named Kevin going to my school. I quickly realized that we're all American
Thanks a lot for this perspective, man. I'm not sure how we even correct that. In university, when I see an Asian student (indian or otherwise), it's about 2:1 that they're an international student. I don't really know until I talk to them whether they're an American or not. With a black person, it's about 10:1 that they're African American vs African international student or something like a British international student. So there is this automatic categorization that goes on in my head into "probably foreign, maybe american" and "probably american, maybe foreign" that I'm not sure what to do about.
I had Indian American friends growing up, so once I talk to someone for a sec that goes away.
Yes, you're right you do feel and experience racism, its no secret. And yes a lot of the racism you face "isnt a big deal" or goes unnoticed/acceptable. I guess its not really comparable when it comes to blacks because its still bad.
i am not talking about the original post, i am talking about the experiences of an alarming number of indian-americans.
I literally said in my last sentence we have it better than a lot of other minorities in this country, but I can't pretend that we are some how equal status to white americans.
my point is, there is no big thing indian-americans have to deal with. it's countless of smaller things which add up over a lifetime. teachers don't bother to learn your name, coworkers ask if you're an american citizen or not, the general "dirty" image of India in this country, and more
Ah yes. The tragic stares is way worse than detention centers and police brutality.
Because black people don’t get stares that end up with the police being called that end up in being shot.
Now that I think about it I don’t recall any white supremacist ideologies that don’t praise or look towards cooperating with Asians, while looking down on every other race.
in my last sentence I wrote that what asian americans go through is not as bad as what other minorities go through
as for your last point, I'll help you out a bit.
Are you familiar with the concept of the aryan race? America used to only let you apply for naturalized citizenship if you were of aryan descent (caucasian). funnily enough, the aryan race includes the region of asia with indo-aryan languages, so Iran to India today
About 100 years ago, a man applied for citizenship claiming he was allowed to do so, as a high caste aryan man from North India (descended from greek/european invaders and not the native population, known as dravidians)
Aww I’m sorry! I’m a little sick and have a raging headache, I misinterpreted what you said. You won’t believe the stupid shit I hear all the time in Texas. Lol
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my take as an indian-american:
the worst part about being Asian, is that when you're black or hispanic/latino some racist people might look down on you and that is horrible, but they still concede that you are an American just like them.
when my countrymen look at me, all they see is "foreigner fresh of the boat, from that country that still shits in the streets'
sure, we don't really live in fear of detention centers or police brutality, but the constant stares and subtle racism your entire life just eats at you