<p>Thankfully, Asians don't face a lot of discrimination around here. There are quite a few Asians at my school so most people are used to us and accept us like anyone else. I think the only racism was in 3rd grade (u get the picture). But in high school, there are not really any problems.</p>
<p>well, as an Asian I noticed that Asians are much more racist towards blacks and other "browner" people than whites are. My friends' parents sometimes absolutely forbid them to date anyone who's not Asian or white.</p>
<p>Asians are also quite racist amongst themselves - yeah I know that whole World War II thing quite well. It's so prevalent even in our parents' (the 40-something years old) generation. It really saddens me :(.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I'll bet what a real Chinese person does is study math (but not enough to make a name for themselves in it, just to follow in the footsteps of others) and be passive. I think Asians are their worst enemies because we can be so damn stupid sometimes. Makes me want to punch some people.</p>
<p>I've thought about this at times, but honestly, how can you call it racism when Asia makes up 54% of the world population? Shouldn't it be the other way around, with caucasian people arguing against racism from the majority? I have no problem with the asian community, I'm just interested to see how people can claim racism towards the majority..</p>
<p>I always thought it was racism when you discriminate someone because of their race, and that it didnt matter if you were in the minority.</p>
<p>Racism is everywhere...that's all there is to it. You can't really call a person a racist if he/she hates on another person of the same nationality for whatever reason. That's discrimination which is similar to racism. </p>
<p>I also learned awhile back that when people with same ideologies are together or socialize or whatever and find similar ideas/interests, then they are more likely to become more attuned and comfortable with those ideas. Such as racism. </p>
<p>The stuff I'm mentioning is just for the guy's project or whatever it is. I read some of the posts and you seemed to run a bit off topic :/. </p>
<p>I also want to mention something. This generally applies to my school. Whenever a non-Asian person sees an Asian, they automatically assume "Oh, he's Chinese" and then rant abt eyes or the language...when sizeable chunk of my school's population is Korean.</p>
<p>Similarly, whenever Asians receive remarks about abt these stereotypes, they automatically assume that other people are ignorant and can't distinguish among the many different Asian nationalities there are.</p>
<p>I just felt like posting :/</p>
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I've thought about this at times, but honestly, how can you call it racism when Asia makes up 54% of the world population? Shouldn't it be the other way around, with caucasian people arguing against racism from the majority? I have no problem with the asian community, I'm just interested to see how people can claim racism towards the majority..
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<p>Uh, using that logic, nobody can say that the hungry, or poor, are discriminated against because they make up the majority of the populace. I guess the 1% wealthiest people in the world have it oh so hard. </p>
<p>Asia does have a lot of people, but except for places like Japan, South Korea, Singapore, some urbanized parts of China, etc., most of the places are still poor compared to North America and Western Europe. Racism is all about power, and Asians don't have it, regardless of numbers. </p>
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well, as an Asian I noticed that Asians are much more racist towards blacks and other "browner" people than whites are. My friends' parents sometimes absolutely forbid them to date anyone who's not Asian or white.</p>
<p>Asians are also quite racist amongst themselves - yeah I know that whole World War II thing quite well. It's so prevalent even in our parents' (the 40-something years old) generation. It really saddens me
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<p>Yes, I agree with what you said. That is a sad trickle-down effect of minority hardship, where Asians take out the anger they feel from discrimination on other minorities (who all happen to be of darker complexion). Because of the Model Minority tag placed on Asian Americans, they're ostracized from peoples like the blacks and Latinos, while not being equal to the ruling whites. Thus, Asians become like the mulatto foremen who are used as the go-between between the masters and the slaves. </p>
<p>Asians aren't "racist" towards each other, they're very nationalistic. The Koreans and the Chinese despise the Japanese, perhaps more so than any other people on the Earth. To some extent, Japan has brought it upon themselves by not formally apologizing like Germany did regarding their crimes in the 20th century. I think this animosity is more prevalent in older Asians, and younger Asians don't really care about what happened a hundred years ago.</p>
<p>Are asians considered minorities? Cause with China and all, that's easily over a billion peeps...</p>
<p>Well Asians can be considered a majority in global terms...I guess people are talking abt both the world/US which is why we're getting confused?</p>
<p>yeah my parents are korean and they hate japanese people.</p>
<p>Like everytime my mum sees a jap person walking by, she'd comment on how disgusting the person is dressed (even if the person is dressed normally), how fat/skinny the person is, how their hair is so untidy and dirty, and then later, give me the same, whole history on what the japs did to us 50 years ago. and I just nod my head, 'oh. no. how. horrible. yes. the .japanese .are. mean. and cruel. and dirty.'</p>
<p>oh and this other time, in korea, me and granny were watching the news and the japanese president or whatever came on, and my granny started insulting that guy and his awful nation. and then it all went personal from there. she was cursing his family and everything. oh and she also gave me a long run down about the whole war thing 50 years ago.</p>
<p>I'm Chinese and yes I hang with only fellow asians. How can you blame me? Although difficult to acknoledge, I'm not accepted by any other race, especially white people. There is definitely a racial barrier. I don't think I created it. I feel white people perceive me as inferior. It is a feeling I get whenever I talk to white people. They talk to me as if I'm 10yrs old. "This asian is mad cool! Don't mess with him!" In my school, white people are the ones who form the cliques. In gym, it's ok for people to call me "Yao Ming," a fugly basketball player, because I play basketball but yet its not ok to call a black person "Mutumbo".</p>
<p>heh I guess my schools quite racist in comparison to all of your stories. At my school, asians rarely discriminate against each other because simply, theres not alot of asians. ie. There are only 3 chinese guys in my class of around 350, less than 1%.</p>
<p>I think theres has to be something cultural about asian sticking together, because well... look at chinatowns.</p>
<p>People from the same culture stick together because of the same interests, experiences, and backgrounds. People do try to make an effort to hang with others, but mostly there are "cliques" because the people in those are pretty similar. How many jocks don't at least hang out with other jocks? How many potheads don't hang out with others? You guys are complaining about something that naturally happens, even though many try to prevent it. I'm sure there is some racism invovled, but mostly you can't really blame others for not being otugoing enough or for them not accepting you cuz you mught be 'different.' you have to live with it. </p>
<p>P.S. Thank god I'm not a woman, but that's a whole other can of worms. :)</p>
<p>By racist I did mean the C&K versus J thing. Of course what the Japanese ARMY did during WWII were wrong and atrocious beyond words, (and personally I think their rightist govt. today is being a s.o.b. for not admitting it and changing the textbooks, whatnot), and I was brought up with it drilled into my head (since I grew up in Nanjing, a city where no right minded Japanese tourist would go for obvious reasons; and Singapore, where every now and then they'll be a drama show about how the Japs lined people up on the beach and machine-gunned them). It was only recently that it came to me there IS a difference between the sin and sinners. There are alot of Japanese people who doesn't agree with their government (just like you can't make an assumption that Americans are bigots just based on the President), and that the Chinese govt. itself had barred some information to increase animosity towards Japanese, such as most Chinese people don't know that Japan had loaned money for rebuilds after WWII and helped our economy, stuff like that. </p>
<p>Call me idealistic, but it is one of my life's goal to see peace and cooperation in greater east Asia. We share so many similarities, from looks (I totally failed that test at <a href="http://www.alllooksame.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.alllooksame.com/</a> , except that I know only Korean and Japanese guys dye their hair), to art (sumi-e, brush painting), music (there are increasing numbers of crossovers, with CJK artists going all three ways), even writing (hanzi hanja kanji). Brains. Together we can some day rival any european union or united states ;).</p>
<p>what about those things from childhood?
for example:</p>
<p>my father was japanese (push eyelids down), my mother was chinese(push eyelids up), look what happened to me! (push eyelids so that one's up and one's down).</p>
<p>i'm not sure if that could actually be considered "racism," or just a form of stereotypical jokes. </p>
<p>my boyfriend took japanese this semester, and he was always saying how his japanese teacher was so racist against koreans.</p>
<p>i can't really think of any examples, though</p>
<p>Purrli, East Asia has started to and has been a rival to Western powers for many years now. Battles today are msotly fought over ideas, and Asia is winning that war right now. Many US pundits and right-wing conservatives fear China as a growing power that is consuming vast resources, and US automakers' main compeitors come from Japan. The US is in a $66 billion deficit to China and many people believe that one reason for teh US invading Iraq is to secure oil from the boomin economies of India and China. There are also pan-asian trade agreements that help asian economies and prevent western companies from gaining too much of a foothold in asian markets. I believe that China Korea and Japan do realize the need to come together against common evils, i.e. north korea, terrorists...and are trying to come to terms with any animosity they might have towards each other. China has become freer int eh past decade and has opened up it borders for immigrants. Its market is also making strong gains throughout the world while its space program is "taking-off", forgive the pun. Japan's economy is still booming after the dot-com bubble burst and Korea is doing the same iwth its huge companies like Samsung and Hyundai. Asia is not far behind the west and may ahve caught up with many of the Europena powers.</p>
<p>I used to go to a school where there were only 3 asians and people would say rude comments such as, " heyyy ching chong you look like a ding dong!!" pshh how mean -__-</p>
<p>asian americans have the highest average income. period. if you are an asian who's being discriminated against, tell them ignorant losers to suck it. it;'s the hard work and the intelligence that count. we asians are overrepresented in the most selective high education institutions in the country. you wanna discriminate me as an individual? sorry man, it doesnt work. </p>
<p>i hate some lazy jocks who once looked down on me in HS (they are all going to crappy colleges)...................im gonna be contributing so much to the economy than all of them combined.</p>
<p>yes that sounds elitist, i dont care, they can suck it.</p>
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<p>IMHO, too many Asians are content with thinking equality just means a fat paycheck. Money means squat without any kind of power or influence. I'd rather much have political and cultural equality. </p>
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<p>This can run down a dangerous slippery slope that promotes separatism amongst ethnic groups. It basically freezes the status quo and says that it's only rational that it stays that way. Yeah, and we have really come a long way by sticking with the status quo.</p>
<p>I finished the paper...basically I focused on Affirmative Action, Racism among Asians, and Racism towards Asians.</p>
<p>For Affirmative Action, my partner focused on how it does a disservice to Asians because colleges want a diverse population, so many Asians that are qualified might not get accepted. Then he talked about the IIT-JEE exam. (He's Indian...he thinks IIT should be mentioned everywhere lol).</p>
<p>For Racism among Asians, my other partner focused on Chinese vs. Japanese.</p>
<p>For Racism towards Asians, I focused on the Model Minority myth.
Asian Americans only represented about 3.2% of the U.S. population back in 1994. I talked about the more affluent people who are able to immigrate to the U.S. and the ones who aren't as successful can't come; therefore, Americans get a misconception of this supposed ideal race called Asians.</p>
<p>Someone said that Asian Americans have the highest average income....I looked into that and the reason for that is many Asian American families have more of their family members in the workforce, increasing the income. Also, the data doesn't exclude residents who reside in the U.S. for business purposes for lengthy periods of time, but are not actually citizens of the U.S.</p>
<p>Thanks for the resources you all provided.</p>