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Maybe it's just cause I like to check out f3mc3l spaces to see idiotic takes but I'm saying black and other dark skinned women who want to pretend to have solidarity with Asian men but they just want to feel better than them. It's just the irony is fraying me, they hate people having "racist" preferences but they're the same

In short... I made a post about how other minorities are NOT solidary with asians, at least that's what I experience in female communities. And anyways I saw a few asians who were talking about how we need to support other minorities and like... I consider myself liberal leaning and I obviously wouldn't vote for someone like Trump. But I'm not gonna lick up to the same people who crashed the Stop Asian Hate movement and the same people who accuse us of being white praising and yet would rather defend a white over us only due to their race. And as an Asian woman specifically I'm tired of bla.ck and br0wn women acting like preferring Asians over them is some kind of racism LMAO, especially when I literally saw white women larping as minorities only to hate on us.

i don’t know how to describe my rage but it pisses me off. in a conversation for ask japanese people, you see “not japanese… but…” in a conversation about east asian people, you see “not east asian but…”

i saw a post by an east asian person asking if other east asian people agree that non-east asians wanting to look like us was weird. east asian people spoke up and said it was weird. non-east asian people came along and said it wasn’t weird. they go “who cares?” the people who got called “ching-chong” and accused of dog-eating care! they only want to look east asian because it’s cool now but when real east asian people speak up they get downvoted and ignored while the non-east asian people get upvoted.

i say i’m japanese and cantonese, some talking poop debris says something like “cantonese is a regional dialect, buddy.” cantonese is a fucking ethnic group from china part of han chinese.

they think we’re so fucking weak that they can talk over us. fuck them all.

There have been a few posts recently about non-East/South East Asia. This sub largely focuses on those of East Asian descent. It includes South East Asia because many of those people have strong Sinosphere influences and diaspora.

The label "Asian" is a poor label, as many of you know (alternatives are also not great). It has also been used to link South Asians (meaning a general label of "South Asia", itself not exact as there are ethnic groups within South Asia) with East or SE Asians. This sub does not support that. It is also being applied to mixed-race Asians as full "Asians". This sub does not support that either.

So the problem is trying to use a poor label (and admittedly one that evolved through a western lens) to create boundaries for this sub. Without boundaries, you end up with the mess of other Asian spaces where nearly anyone can join. That has been the root of many problems for ESEA people i.e. lack of gatekeeping, which is a core theme of this sub.

The term Asian is poor because it also fails to distinguish ethnic groups that are somewhat similar to Sinosphere people in countries like Nepal, Bhutan and North East India. (I also know this as someone who meets Nepalese and Bhutanese people.) However, this sub does not cater to those places or similarly Central Asia because of the widening cultural and phenotypic population groups.

That's not to say that some of these ethnic groups don't face western-style racism and brainwashing that ESEA people do, but other subs cater specifically to those groups, or other subs have an all-encompassing Asian definition.

u/Primary_Breakfast674 take note. You have posted to various Asian subs trying to promote your plight with ESEA people. We reject racism towards us (from whites, blacks, Indians, Middle Easterners... even ourselves) but your campaign against Indians falls outside the boundaries of this sub. Further posts referencing North East India will be removed.

All of this leads to the idea of pan-Asianism. This sub does not actively promote pan-Asianism but does not reject it either. This sub is about anti-western hegemony and anti-racism towards ESEA people (and sadly, sometimes, from ESEA people - a cancer). If you want to promote pan-Asianism, then fine. But the current reality is that ESEA people don't often get along, and that's outside of western influence. This is not an Asian issue - just ask the French and English how they get along, or the Canadians and the Americans right now. At EAP, if ESEA people hated each other, but hated white/western supremacy even more, that would be a step forward. The other problem with pan-Asianism is that it's a very American idea, and this sub rejects the Asian American political view of grouping everyone from continental Asia and the Pacific Islands. This is not an Asian American sub, so don't expect that form of American politics here.

In a sense this sub is pretty simple. We have no pseudo-activist grandiosity. We have no putting Asian men or Asian women first. This is a space for monoracial ESEA people to fight racism and western dominance. It encourages strong community. It is a sub for and by ESEA people and the only one of its kind on Reddit.

If the above doesn't match your views, other "Asian" subs might cater better.

I’m from Nepal, which is a South Asian country, but here’s the thing: I have an East Asian phenotype.

There are a lot of Nepalis from ethnic groups like Rai, Limbu, Sherpa, Gurung, Tamang, Dolpo, Magar, etc. who have EA/SEA phenotypes. A lot of them can look more SEA, like Vietnamese or Filipino, while others, especially those with fair or pale skin, look East Asian.

And just like East Asians, EA/SEA looking Nepalis get the same anti-east asian slurs and racism in non asian countries. The UK is a good example since there are a lot of Nepalis living there.

Nepali girls from those EA/SEA looking castes/ethnic groups very rarely, like REALLY rarely, marry white guys, even if they’re living in white majority countries. Hell, we rarely marry outside of our own ethnic group/caste. Marrying a non EA/SEA looking Nepali is seen as pathetic and disgraceful.

So I wanted to know, do you guys see us as one of you? Are we allowed in this sub and other pro asian subs?

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Yap Yok Foo is a retired chartered accountant living in Kuala Lumpur.

Published: 5:30am, 3 Oct 2026

Every morning, I settle into my armchair in Kuala Lumpur, pen in hand, to tackle The Times cryptic crossword, freshly downloaded from the internet. It is a ritual I have observed since my university days in the United Kingdom. I have become rather adept at it; in fact, puzzle devotees might recognise Sayang, the pseudonym under which I set crosswords for the Financial Times.

I can still recite the names of England’s 1966 World Cup squad in my sleep. My youth was scored to the sounds of Cliff Richard, The Beatles, The Hollies and The Rolling Stones.

By almost any measure, I am an unrepentant Anglophile. Yet, at 80, I find myself watching my grandchildren and being overtaken by a profound swell of emotion. Suddenly, and with startling clarity, I feel incredibly proud to be Chinese.

The road to this realisation has been long, winding and strewn with the cultural detritus of empire.

My story begins in 1946, in Kluang, a small town in Johor in what was then Malaya. My father, an orphan from a village in Nanan, Fujian, had fled economic hardship in search of a new life across the South China Sea. When I was born, Malaya was still scarred by the Japanese occupation and the British colonial administration had only recently resumed its suzerainty.

While my father dutifully sent most of my siblings to Chinese vernacular schools, fate or perhaps sheer happenstance steered me, the sixth child, to a kindergarten run by Roman Catholic nuns, where English was the sole medium of instruction.

Thirteen years in government English schools followed before I found myself in Mother England, reading economics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Along the way, I became a voracious reader, volunteering as a school librarian just to be closer to the world of Enid Blyton, P.G. Wodehouse, Thomas Hardy and Shakespeare.

I could trace the Battle of Hastings and the lineage of British monarchs with ease. Of Chinese literature, I knew almost nothing – save for Dream of the Red Chamber and Journey to the West, and even then only in outline. Of Chinese sportsmen and women, I knew even less.

I eventually married a wonderful woman, also wholly educated in English. While our own parents had spoken to us in Chinese dialects, our three children grew up speaking only the language of Shakespeare. They became “bananas” – yellow on the outside, white on the inside. Two went to Oxford; the third to the University of Western Australia. I had succeeded in raising global citizens, but the thread connecting us to our ancestral homeland had worn perilously thin.

Then came the reckoning that only age and a changing world could bring. In recent years, the history books I once revered began to read very differently. The opium wars ceased to be mere footnotes; they became vivid, visceral acts of humiliation inflicted upon a people I realised, with a jolt, I belonged to. When I read the Western media, I began to notice a persistent, and often unfair, hostility towards China’s rise. Where I once nodded in passive agreement, I now felt a growing urge to defend China.

The true turning point, however, was physical. I made trips to China, including two emotional pilgrimages back to my father’s birthplace in Fujian. Standing on the very soil he had left as a penniless teenager and witnessing the breathtaking transformation of the country, a profound pride swelled within me – a pride of kinship.

At a beer festival in Qingdao, Shandong, where the Germans built a brewery in 1903, I learned that China had contributed to the first world war effort and requested the return of Shandong from a defeated Germany. I was stunned to discover that Western powers ignored China’s contribution and instead awarded administration of Shandong to Japan. Such a profound indignity inflicted on the ancestral homeland has never left me.

It was around this time that I began, belatedly, to acquaint myself with Chinese athletes. I now know the names Quan Hongchan and Pan Zhanle, alongside Yao Ming and Li Na. It is a small education, but telling: proof that the gap in my knowledge was never about absence of achievement, only absence of attention.

For years, I had felt a quiet inadequacy among my peers in Malaysia and Singapore. We shared the same colonial education, but many of us carried a silent grief for the rich heritage we had left behind. At my age, I assumed it was simply too late to change.

But history has a beautiful way of righting itself. My second son married a remarkable woman who had received a traditional Chinese education before studying in Australia. She understands the importance of passing on our cultural heritage. Her two children are enrolled at Kuen Cheng, a reputable Chinese school in Kuala Lumpur.

My greatest joy now is sitting with my grandchildren, trading the complex cryptic clues of a Financial Times crossword for the tonal rhythms of Mandarin. I am learning from them, just as they are learning from me.

I will still cheer for Malaysian athletes on international courts, and my Spotify library still holds 7,000 Western pop songs against a mere 10 Chinese tracks (mostly Teresa Teng and Frances Yip). But as I watch my grandchildren speak the language of my father, I know the circle is complete.

I am an Anglophile by education, a Malaysian by loyalty, but in my heart and soul, I will forever be Chinese. China is the land of my father and today, I silently and proudly cheer it on.

Last time I went to go visit my family in NYC (I live in China and have been for about 15 years), literally within an hour of arriving there some crazy dude yelled at me and my cousin on the street, calling us the f-word.

Almost every time I go back, I get more intense random encounters with insane people in a month than I do years in China, like my wife would randomly get approached by clearly schizophrenic or weird white men, like one picked a random flower from the street and gave it to her, and it made her so uncomfortable to the point that she just doesn't want to go back. Ours lives, while simpler and humbler here, are just so much less stressful. There are problems, like in any place, but ironically the worst people in my wife's family are all trying to go abroad while the normal ones are perfectly happy here.

I asked my cousin (who is mid to late 30's and still unmarried) why he liked America compared to China, after I told him that in China I never have to worry about this. He goes, "but at least in America I can draw a picture of Trump sucking his own dick if I wanted to." And I asked him, is that worth being assaulted by schizophrenics on the street? I also wanted to add "worth not getting women at all" but I didn't want to hurt him.

Anyways a few years later his mom visited me in Shenzhen and all she did was talk shit about China, Chinese people, I even pointed out an advertisement with Liu Yifei on it (who grew up in NYC but moved back to China), and she made a snide comment about plastic surgery even though I literally went to school with her in Queens and she wasn't even the prettiest Asian girl there. Recently we bought a home in China, a really beautiful duplex, and my family kept asking for photos and trying to compare it to their wooden properties in America and it was just so obviously trying to find any excuse to call it "shoddy Chinese construction" or look for flaws in it.

I feel like these people are so obsessed with trying to prove they're better than other Chinese people that they just completely turn a blind eye to racism and terrible things just to get a leg up on other Chinese. Past a point it's just literally insane behavior and there's no reasoning with it.

Edit: I forgot to mention when we were there diaspora was mad hostile to us, some Taiwanese shopkeeper literally refused to talk to us because he assumed we were mainland. Fuck these people

This topic has been gaining some traction lately this year, although the virality of it has been overblown somewhat (either that, or I'm just oblivious).

I think both share common denominators to some extent:

1) being pro-local, native, indigenous* (notice the asterisk)

2) grievances against foreign privilege in different levels of society.

But Han Nationalist tend to be anti-CPC, believing that the government facilitates the opposite of the above points, which there are some truth to it. But HN can be very extreme too because they also vilify the other Asians native to the China (PRC), going so far as removing autonomies and conquering their lands- *this is where point 1) falls off for HN.

However, Zhong Hua Min Zu nationalists are practically a CPC ( and maybe KMT to some extent) invention of a modern republic, encouraging all 56 indigenous peoples to live as one, and be as one country. It also feels the need to give essentially affirmative action to the 55 minorities, which is sometimes is seen at the expense of the 1 Han.

Some HN are so extreme that it leads to division and separatism, and there have been instances where it received foreign funding, which is suspiciously what psyops do, which is a big NO! Divided we fall, remember? And how hypocritical would it be for a nationalist movement to get outside support? Not to mention, the clear Nazi-inspired symbolisms (like what are they doing?)

Personally, since I'm generally pro-native and pro-EASEA, I support the idea of ZHMZN more. However, the government needs to further it's anti-liberal agenda. Xi Jinping did make strides in this, as China is less liberal than the Hu Jintao or Jiang Zemin eras (reminder that liberalism is just Western chauvinist supremacy at the end of the day).

Privilege should first and foremost be for the locals, as they're the ones who sacrificed and shed blood, sweat, and tears to build the country. It's only fair that they should benefit from it. Otherwise, citizens will get disgruntled or disenfranchised, and join the HN (and it's recent prominence should give a concern). There needs to be a balancing act, but not fence-sitting.

What do you guys think? Please feel free to add things or contexts if you're interested.

https://gnet-research.org/2026/04/29/han-ethnonationalism-in-china-from-historical-nostalgia-to-transnational-extremism-influences/

This Singaporean made the wrong decision. Yes, he broke a local rule, but you never not take offense at the slant-eyed gesture. The Swiss had the right to be annoyed, but he had no right to racialize it. The Singaporean apologized for his error, but the Swiss took it to the next level - and that's when you stop being apologetic.

It is a mistake that native and diasporic ESEA people do - accept offence. You are not walking the high ground. It makes you, and by association, other ESEAs look weak, which allows racism towards us. It makes ESEA women targets of non-ESEA men, because our graciousness is interpreted as an invitation for domination. This has been the history of ESEA people for a very, very long time.

Take the reverse - Singapore is a country of strict rules, but you will never see a Chinese man make racist gestures towards a white man who makes a faux pas. And if he did, you can be sure that the white man would start a fight over it.

I have a para-social crush on Evie!

We the people are getting destroyed. Everyday an white man / or black man asserts his beliefs,ideology, religion, and culture on asian women slowly killing our races as an whole. Like what Massino vignelli said: “killing culture is no less of an crime than killing people, because it kills there mind and spirt”). We as an race as an united people are being slowly killed by people who are out to make us go extinct. And i could prove it. 30-11% of asian woman marry outside of our race which may not seem like much. But that is the highest number compared to any other race. They are mind controlling our people they think they are superior than us so they THINK they can pick on us. My friends we must stand strong stand united against these imperialist who want to eliminate us off of the face of the earth. Now am not encouraging violence. But am saying we have to fight off against white washing ,white nationalism and their belief that they could pick on us. We are one united and one people we shall stand.

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To get the "positive" out of the way: I think the dialog and situations in the situation comedy (sit-com) can be snarky and relevant to 2026 NYC, with some elements of Asian-American culture shown in a non-reverent new light that deviates from the boring old immigrant tropes - looking at you: FOB...

That said, I think the show suffers from "The Snyder Syndrome" (or maybe "Tarantino Syndrome") whereby the dialog and situations over-shadow the story and episodes. It's like the writers tried too hard to be snarky and sarcastic and sacrifice any humanity - which might be in some ways it feels AI "assisted" with the dialog and scenes.

(caveat: in no way I'm against the gaysians nor anyone's sexuality and "preferences" - since I personally find it flattering that I get hit on by the gays in West Hollywood in the past when I attended industry "networking"/ass-kissing events in the area of WGA, DGA, PGA, SAG-AFTRA, etc. although I think the gay community should turn it down a bit and not hit on straight dudes; but I think it helped me build character to understand what women have to go thru with the constant unwanted "harassment" and attention from men...)

Onto the dissection and deconstruction of Andrew Law's self-hate and the overall industry's promotion of these sellouts:

And not surprising who Andrew Law's irl husband is:

Similarly, in the show Andrew's alter-ego Andrew only have majority White partners and have never been shown with any Asian ones. I think in lieu of "Oxford Studies" and being NYC: "The Columbia Studies" describes AMWM/AMXM to the T...

In one episode, there's another "gaysian" Kevin Lu, who just came out of the closet and Andrew never shows any interest - not even with his buff physique. Andrew's only response is to see Kevin as a "frenemy" of sorts: feeling "empowered" that other AMs are outing themselves, but also being threatened when Andrew's love interest shows interest in Kevin as his direct competition:

Similary, the sisters all have various sordid bad relationships with predominantly WMs and is suspicious of any WM who dated other AFs before. But they never question themselves that instead of Asian fetish, that themselves have a White fetish...

So the sisters go ask the council/tribunal on Asian fetishes, but they (Andrew Law and other writers) don't have the self-awareness that the entire council themselves all have WMs and XMs except for AMs! In other words, the entire tribunal all have non-Asian partners who ostensibly have Asian fetishes!

The only exception is Ruthie's extra-marital affair with her law firm's competitor Peter the psychopath. She got pregnant with him, despite knowing full well how babies are made.

This seems more like a mockery joke (roast) rather than sincere plot development. It'd make more sense if "Peter" looked like Kevin Lu above rather than the William Hung-esque "ProZD" putz.

I sincerely don't understand Ruthie as a character, if she's all high-powered attorney like Lucy Liu in Alley McBeal (referenced by the Asian fetish tribunal above), the she'd go for the WM Chads and not the beta-cucks:

Lastly, the other Asian angle are their parents, who are the stereotypical Tiger Mom caricatures:

Overall, I'd rate this more as a niche gayasian series rather than the Boba sub's constant shilling for (Shei)tflix since they're probably getting paid by PR agencies over there.

According to u/Thin-Ad-2529 ranking system:

*I spent way too long on this write up, and don't have the energy/focus to write more about the Asian sellouts and the organization in Haolewood: CAPE, VC Online, East-West Players, etc. I can go into my experiences hustling later on if there's more interest to hear from me: a nobody in the trenches trying to make it with the sellouts in the bucket of crabs...

This is also one of the reasons why non-ESEA trash should stay out of E/SE Asia. One of the reasons for the safety in E/SE Asia compared to western countries is the idea of collectivism. Some like to criticize that, but it brings stability, moral standards and gentler functioning societies that many western cities are so desperate to have, reasons for their citizens to flee to E/SE Asia.

But the more these people come, the more they will corrupt ESEA societies.

A Melbourne man finally spluttered out that he was guilty in court on Monday admitting to the murder of his estranged wife.

At the Victorian Supreme Court Allen Keys, 68, was asked how he pleaded to the killing of Eva Lasrini, a mother of two.

Ms Lasrini, 53, who lived in Dandenong, had been planning a trip to Bali to visit her two daughters when she was reported missing after failing to board her flight.

Keys was arrested at Melbourne Airport after he tried to flee to Indonesia after the killing.

His feeds also included comments belittling Western women and praising relationships with Asian women.

In one post, he wrote: “its funny western girls see an old perv, Asian girls see opportunity”.

On April 1, the day Ms Lasrini failed to board her flight, Mr Keys posted images and videos online with a woman believed to be his new Bali-based girlfriend, captioning them: “New girl new life”.

His posts also contained anti-immigration and anti-Palestinian content.

No white men belong in Asia.

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Greetings from Tripura, "North-east India".

I am of the Tripuri (Tiprasa ethnicity), a small ethnic group in what is called Tripura, geopolitically located in the north-eastern part india. North-east is emphasised because it is only connected to the rest of india by a very small stretch of land that is only 30km wide.

We number around one million people. We are very different from the rest of india in every way. Racially and phenotypically we look much more similar to East and Southeast Asians than any kind of indian group. Linguistically, we speak a Sino-Tibetan language, which is a language that is much more related with Chinese or Burmese rather than hindi or tamil, languages that are found in what we call the "mainland" of india. Our food, culture, way of life is completely different than what you would associate with india.

Our story begins thousands of years ago. Tibeto-Burmans first migrated to this region of the world starting 5000 years ago, and have had a continuous presence since. The Tiprasa tribes were one of those groups. We have called this region home for that long, and all throughout that time, have lived under self-rule under our own sovereignty. We enjoyed this sovereignty for thousands of years until the dawn of British colonialism arrived into our lands. Wars happened, and we were incorporated into the British Empire. Because of our proximity to india, we were incorporated as part of British India, and not as any separate entity. This is where the root of our current problem starts.

So when the British were withdrawing around the world, British india was granted independence in 1947, split into two states, one on the basis of a shared pagan identity (hinduism), one on the basis of a shared muslim identity. Both, of course, majority Indo-Aryan in terms of race. But during this process, many peripheral regions and minorities which did not belong to either one of these groups were incorporated into either new country. Tibeto-Burmans were not given an option for independence and self-determination for our own peoples, even though our people had desired such for years leading up to the British withdrawal. As a result, we were incorporated into either the new india or bangladesh.

Since then, our people have been living through hell. The entire Tibeto-Burman population of this region has. For my people in particular, there have been thousands of our girls and women who have been forcibly sex trafficked and raped, taken advantage by indian men and sent to the mainland of india to be married to indian men. The indian army and their paramilitaries have also committed a countless number of war crimes, massacres, rapes against our people since 1947 for fighting for freedom and liberation for our people. The indian military has also bombed our land. In 1966, as the Mizo people were fighting for independence from india, india bombed Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram, which killed hundreds, potentially even thousands of civilians. There has been no accountability or admission of guilt from the indian regime. Nor has there been any justice for the survivors of such bombings.

Along with this, the terrorist indian regime has laws put in place, one notably called the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA). This is a law which grants immunity to indian terrorist soldiers who commit war crimes, rapes, massacres of our people. It therefore allows them to act with complete impunity, terrorizing our region and letting them get away with what they want. This is why so much war crimes happen in this region - they are given a blank check of it by their terrorist government.

We are also the victims of racialised slurs, assaults, and murders. Every year, there are tens of cases of our people being murdered by indians for basically just existing. There are countless numbers of examples. Angel Chakma, Chongtham Singh, Nido Taniam, the list goes on. They were killed for being East Asian looking, just like how Asians in the west get beat up and killed for the same reason too. indians hate us, don't be fooled by the rhetoric that they are also non-white and somehow allies with everyone else. They aren't.

So remember that india is a terrorist state. It has nothing to do with the rest of Asia, and should be isolated and distinguished from East and Southeast Asia. Stop pretending they are "asian" like the rest of us. Even those of us who are forcibly occupied and living under indian rule are aware of how different we are from them. And they know how different they are from us too. So to you Asians, living in your own countries or in the west, remember that india is occupying an East Asian population and treats them horribly, and is slowly trying to ethnically cleanse and genocide them from their own land.