<p>Hi guys, I'm from SE Asia and I've never been to the States in my life. And since I'm going there for college, I have no idea what to expect from the people.
So basically, what I'd like to know is, how are Asians treated over there? Any information would rock.</p>
<p>Interesting, duoy, interesting. I wouldn’t know as I hadn’t been to America myself, and am waiting to go as well. It’ll be interesting to see the replies.</p>
<p>I think you will be treated just fine.</p>
<p>If you are friendly to people, they will be friendly with you.</p>
<p>It depends in part on where you go to school. Without stereotyping too much, you will probably feel more comfortable going to school in Los Angeles or New York City than in a small town in North Dakota.</p>
<p>It seems that sometimes, the asians hang out together, and all eat together in the college cafeteria, etc. etc.</p>
<p>But if you want to experience America, I would advise you to interact with everyone.</p>
<p>Many americans are the children or grandchildren of immigrants. </p>
<p>99% of the people you meet will be just fine.</p>
<p>If your English is bad, that may be a problem.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice. I’m actually planning to go to Colorado if you know anything about that.
And nah, my English is pretty awesome since I’ve been going to a British school ever since I was 2 lol.</p>
<p>In my college, all the international asian students stick together. It’s kinda sad since it’s apparent that it’s very hard to break the cultural barrier. So yea, there’s a cultural barrier. For example, all the international Koreans hang together and speak Korean. This deters other students from talking to them since it’s awkward…</p>
<p>I’m a Chinese American but I hang around with all American students. Easiest way to know everyone is to open your room door and be SUPER SUPER open during the start of the school year. Hang out with everybody. Nobody cares about your accent if you’re all having fun together.</p>
<p>There’s an Chinese kid across the hall from me. We always ask him to come over and play video games or go out and party. Not once has he joined us. Idk, either he’s shy or he doesn’t like us. I dunno… that just popped into my mind.</p>
<p>nah, there are some white kids who only hang out with other white kids and speak american</p>
<p>The best advice I can give is to hang out with lots of different kinds of people. It’s fine to hang out with other Asians, but just keep a wide social circle. Often what people dislike about Asians (I recognize I might be flamed for stereotyping, but this does happen) is that they often stick together and will only speak their language, which is pretty exclusionary. But if you don’t conform to this (at least not all the time), I don’t think you’ll have any problems. Just make lots of different kinds of friends and you’ll do just fine. Good luck!</p>
<p>Lmao, rymd, funny.</p>
<p>I can give you my experiences based on the asians at my college. When I mention asians for this, I’m talking about Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and Malaysian, not Indian they are on the whole quite different on campus. </p>
<p>There is no animosity or ill feelings, but there is a significant cultural divide which leads to a physical divide. Most of the asians here are very quiet and shy, their English is reasonable but only for basic small talk. Once you start trying to be humourous or talk about things other than study and the weather, it becomes harder to communicate.</p>
<p>Because of this, they tend to not be active on campus, staying in their own dorm and hanging out with fellow asian exchange students. I think the real issue is the shyness. For instance on my level I have one Chinese girl and one Spanish girl. Their English is at about the same level, but right from the start the Chinese girl has been distanced, mainly due to significant introversion which makes it very hard to talk to her, she doesn’t seem as though she wants to talk either. Where as the Spanish girl, whilst her english wasn’t perfect was notably excited about meeting people and becoming involved with the campus. It didn’t take a while until the Chinese girl was considered boring and shy whilst the Spanish girl was considered fun and interesting. </p>
<p>What I’m saying is, it’s up to you and it will be based on how confident you are around your peers at your new college.</p>
<p>[just</a> avoid people like her](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube), and you’ll be fine. It’s only natural for people to stick to other people of their own ethnicity. For the most part, people get along fine. But there will always be those special few who can’t accept other people’s cultures.</p>
<p>I’m Asian myself and it just depends on the area of the country you’re in but it’s very safe and normal. I’ve grown up on the west coast but now I go to east coast for school. I’d definitely say WA, CA, OR, and the majority of the east coast states are tolerable. I can’t speak for mid-west states or southern states, but I’ve been to Florida and as long as you’re not in the small towns, then you will be fine.</p>
<p>Asians are really discriminated against at every school in the US, sometimes they are even burned at the steak…good luck…</p>
<p>^ Judging by your spelling maybe you should go back to school, along with easing up on the stupid comments.</p>
<p>The biggest problems I see with students from specifically China that come here for college are:</p>
<p>(1) Speaking the language fluently w/o too strong of a accent , some immature people may tease you behind you back
(2)Some are so intelligent that they lack social skills to the point that when they do interact with their fellow students they some off as very awkward, which again some immature students may tease you behind your back</p>
<p>Other then that, everyone in my college at least is very nice and open.</p>
<p>Best of Luck</p>
<p>Most people don’t care that you’re Asian, and the ones that do aren’t worth getting to know.</p>
<p>idk if youre a dude or a chick but if youre a dude youll be the man. everyone likes to have the crazy token foreign dude in their friend group.</p>
<p>Here is an honest opinion that you won’t find on here. I hate Asian international students. I find that MOST but not all of them to be obnoxious, annoying, and inconsiderate to other people. </p>
<p>I stopped going to one of my classes regularly because of this (I only go when the professor is giving back homework and tests but that still is unbearable). I couldn’t take their blatant disregard to other students around them. During the first couple weeks that I attended class, the professor had to stop class a couple times every day and tell them to be quiet. If you didn’t get the hint that you shouldn’t be yelling and laughing during lectures the first couple times then I’m not sure how you had the intellectual qualifications to even get accepted to a college (especially a top 15 rated one). </p>
<p>Asians at the library are the worst. The library is supposed to be a quiet studying environment. You are not suppose to be carrying like an idiot like you’re hanging out with your buddies. It’s like they weren’t taught manners. </p>
<p>You would think they would conform to social norms but no they do the exact opposite. They stay in their tight-nit group of other Asians and isolate themselves from everyone else doing the same old thing and get defensive when someone tries to tell them how to act. </p>
<p>I was actually surprised at the earlier posts on this because everyone I know at my school hates international Asian students. My advise to the OP and others is not to become the stereotypes that I described. Learn the social norms and mingle with everyone not just exclusively Asian students. Don’t be obnoxious during lectures and the library (people go to class to learn and the library to study AND THAT IS IT). There is a time and place for everything.</p>
<p>Hi Alexandra!</p>
<p>@Spydersix: Are you kidding me man, you are really insensitive.</p>
<p>OP: At my school, Asians are not discriminated against. However, there is always the stereotype that every Asian should get straight A’s. This is not that big of a deal though. If you go to a large campus then you are sure to meet tons of people that will accept you, especially through your classes. You won’t have a problem bro</p>
<p>@ spydersix: I don’t know where YOU go to school, but at the community college I went to, the Asian international students were always quiet during class time. </p>
<p>At UCD, the library is usually super quiet (even more quiet than the library at my community college, and it was a mix of people of ALL races talking, not just the Asians), and you can bet that the Asian international students are there too.</p>
<p>BTW, how sure are you that they’re Asian international students and not American Asians?</p>