Comments on: ethnicity

By: Sunny

Sunny — Tue, 04 Dec 2001 00:49:14 +0000

AzN PrYdE! haha, just kidding. I never really went through that so I can’t comment too much. But my cousins are doing the whole "I love Asians and they’re the only people I’m going to associate with" thing. Ever heard of AA? No, not Alc’s Anon. Asian Avenue. Boy do they dig that.. and they tYpE liKe ThIS until I just want to pop them in the head! BUT anyway, back to your story. Uh, I’m sorry. I forgot.. eh. Have a nice day I guess (since I’m a dumbass and forgot what I was going to say).

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 30 Nov 2001 20:43:08 +0000

Hehe, do people think you’re chinese? How ironic, people think I’m vietnamese. Weird.

I used to think of myself as "Asian" and realized, I may not be as much "Asian" as I think. I’m a full blooded American who has never set foot near Asia. I find it weird that in HS I was believed to be this hard AzN GaNGBaNGeR. Weird.

No matter how hard I tried to break that picture people had of me, nothing worked. Then I thought, hell I couldn’t possibly be part of AP, the primary circle of friends were white, and that’s who I hung out with… Weird.

Is this even what anyone was talking about, maybe I’m in the wrong forum. I’m so lost…

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:05:37 +0000

I can relate to a certain extent. When I was little, I used to think that I was white. Only because I was very young, and I didn’t perceive the idea of different races too well.
Of course, being a Chinese guy living in a white and black community, I had to go through all those ignorant questions, as well as the racist remarks.
"ching chang chong!" "what does that mean, eric?"
"nothing, fuck you"
yes, that would be my response from back then. It still is.
I sometimes responded with a
"it means ‘i’m gay’"
laughter at ignorant people is sometimes a good medicine.
In high school, I was confronted with the wave of AzN pride. I was immersed in it, and followed the trend for a while. Only in my senior year did I truly realize that this trend is utterly stupid. Of course, by then, most of my friends were asian.
Conclusion: racists are fuckheads, the questions they impose upon us are thickheaded, especially since the world is getting closer culturally.
Friends are friends.
I see myself as an Asian. A Chinese person. I got heritage. I got traditions. I got language. I guess Azn pride was based on these thinkings. It was just wack when it got out of control.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Thu, 29 Nov 2001 21:05:51 +0000

may I say suptin?

First, very interesting stuff there, Kim… I could talk A LOT about all this… but not here…

but I will tell a funny story.

Back in MY college days (cuz I am so old remember!) I’d see all these people around suddenly "finding" themselves and they would then join all these mono-ethnic communities, thinking that well like with like, you know? It’s the NATURAL way… in somewhat of a complex satire/sarcastic move, one of my friends who was white and big and tall like Jesse… used to make a joke in the cafeteria…

We’d walk in seperate sides of the cafe and I’d yell to him: "HEY, YOU’RE WHITE!!!" and he’d say, "Yeah! and HEY, YOU’RE WHITE TOO!!!" then would run in slow motion towards eachother and give each other a high-five.

um well yeah I am sure no one will get that… but I am just sharing my experiences and like Kim who has been kown to run around with a bra on her head; I like stir up shit!!!