After spending 18 years in a nearly completely asian environment and then examining an other environment where asian people become more of a rarity, i have decided that i hate asian people. dont get me wrong, it's not in that racist way because there are many asian people who i love. morgan, connie, chris ha, michelle nam, and ytom. it's more of a i hate people who act asian in america.
what do i mean by this? it's really hard for me to understand myself. let me tell you what bugs me and i'll see if i can find out why. i really dislike it when asian people pretend they're black and get all smartass to white people. i dislike it when anybody does that, but at least black people can play the 'rich white boy' card and kinda get away with it (not really, but what can i do about it? im spoiled). asian people dont have that right. it's more of a 'my parents worked really hard to get to this country and made damn sure that i got excellent grades so that i could grow up and make their international journey worthwhile' card. it just doesnt work because really, the only difference between that and myself is a one of two generation head start. very soon the two groups will be completely indistinguishable.
but asian people dont want to be indistinguishable. that's why they are ignorant of other cultures; that's why they only hang out with other asian people. suresure. in sf asian people hung out with asian people because it was statistically in their favor. but in a city as culturally diverse as san francisco it was shocking to realize that on average asian people know nothing of mexican-american and irish-sanfranciscan culture, not to mention everybody else who lives in our fair city. completely unacceptable. and then i come to santa barbara, whitest college in the uc system and what do i find? even though there is less than 1 asian person for every 6 students, asian people still hang out in clicks or 4 or more! lets find the possibility of that in a totally random selection. It's one twelevehundredninetysixth chance of that happening. Amazing spectacle! I'll tell you right now, my best friends here are the ones in my close vicinity. My roommate, across the hall, next door, down the hall a bit, and sure, lauren and caitlin from lowell. It's not like a pick only white people either. Afshin is persian, Mark is flip(ish), neel is indian and polish, joe is black, chris is asian, matt is chirish, jess is mexican. i think this is a bit statistically skewed too, at such a white school, how did i get so many ethnic friends? But yet again, these guys live with me.
I've spent so much time writing this and i dont even know why. I just saw the disgusting, fat, asian kid who always eats by himself in the dlg, and i guess i wondered why he wasnt sitting with all the other asian kids. you can't cure disgusting i guess.
moral of the story: i love asian people, but i wish they would stop being so goddamn ignorant.
and i hate anime
PS. did you know that filipino people here consider themselves asian? i think that sf flips were just intimidated by the large amounts of cantonese and felt the need to distinguish themselves a bit and started calling themselves 'pacific islander'. nobody has said that here.
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