<p>Haha, well, kind of. My bf and I thought this was funny.</p>
<p>My bf is Chinese/Japanese, and I am Russian. We were walking and holding hands in the mall this morning, and came across this old asian lady. The look on her face was priceless. She just stared at us so disapprovingly! I thought that I was the only one who noticed, but after we walked by her, my bf was like "Wow, what was that for? I'm not even her son!"</p>
<p>umm.. ya that happens...</p>
<p>Yes...it does...</p>
<p>Well I wouldn't take it too far and call it racism, the elder is just not used to seeing the new interracial generation.</p>
<p>Haha yes it isn't racism. But I have heard that some older Chinese women are very strict when it comes to who they believe their kin should date/marry. For example, it is frowned upon for a chinese woman to marry a japanese man.</p>
<p>Yes indeed.</p>
<p>catsushi, that's probably more of a result of lingering hatred stemming from the Second Sino-Japanese War. it's not that our older generation's feels that 'japan sucks because they're inferior to us', it's more like "japan sucks because their soldiers slaughtered everyone in my family and escaped without the international condemnation that Germany and the Holocaust provoked"</p>
<p>that's not really racism...not at all.</p>
<p>She doesn't hate russians, she just doesn't like the fact of an Asian with a different ethnicity...that's more like prejudice.</p>
<p>Haha thats pretty funny actually.</p>
<p>Well said, enderkin!</p>
<p>Lol that happens to my friends alot around here. </p>
<p>The only time it ever hurt one of my friends is one of my girlfriends (who is black) was dating one of my guy friends (who is white) and they were at a mall and somebody said "Use a condom, we don't need anymore of those oreo kids."</p>
<p>Ahh... people need to join us in the 21st century.</p>
<p>xD I feel for all of you. The Asians I know generally only think about dating people of their own race, and their parents are pretty adamant about that too. It's not racism though, my own parents are like that. It's just that sometimes people feel more comfortable with what they know, with someone who has been raised in the same environment. Stuff like that.</p>
<p>No it can be really bad though. </p>
<p>I have a friend who's Asian and he was dating a white girl. He really was in love with her but his parents made his life hell. Last year he put a gun to his head, but never pulled the trigger. </p>
<p>I don't know what could drive a parent to do that to their child.</p>
<p>Heh, parents worry...and think that pounding in the message will somehow get it across.</p>
<p>well it IS racism, its just that subtle kind that a lot of older people have.</p>
<p>Its ok though, they'll die out soon (was that a terrible thing to say?)</p>
<p>Eh, ignore them? Some people have preferences about who they date and that doesn't make them racist or negatively prejudiced, but as far as that women goes, shouldn't she be worrying about her OWN kids ;)?</p>
<p>Yes, but wouldn't having preferences about whom other people date be negative prejudice in some ways?</p>
<p>I don't think for Asians it's about the heredity as in the GENES so much as the culture and how the parents prefer to have their kids date those with similar values as their own family, and it's really just natural for immigrants or children of immigrants to do that, surround themselves with people like people in their mother country, because it gives them a sense of identity and makes them feel more grounded in this country. And that's really just their preferences just like if you prefer humorous guys or guys with spiky hair, the Asian parents prefer kids who don't drink, party, or....date, I mean, they think dating = marriage a lot of the time ^.^ Maybe romanigypsyeyes, your friends parents just didn't like some the things the girl did, not that she was white - maybe that she didn't study enough, spent money too frivolously, and liked to hang out with people they thought were disreputable and not...serious about their life, I guess. From my experience that's the main problem, and that's NOT RACISM.</p>
<p>Well I only had this topic called "Racism" to get everyone's attention, because "Asian woman looking at white girl with asian boy" just sounded too weird. :B It's not racism, I think she was just completely surprised and disapproved. I thought it was funny, really, and I thought I'd share.</p>
<p>Romanigypsyeyes, that is really sad about the oreo insult! And your second story was very sad, too.</p>
<p>damn... Russian, Japanese, and Chinese. Maybe the old woman was a history teacher?</p>
<p>you know, russia and china started disliking each other halfway through the cold war, japan and russia fought each other in WWII and in a small war before that, and china and japan fought in like 6 wars...</p>
<p>lmao, I'm sorry that was an awful joke... =p
and yes, she was probably one of the less accepting types of senior citizens.</p>