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| I am waiting for the day when we'll laugh about the fact that we use to have Asian Student Alliance, Black Student Alliance, Latino Student Alliance in Universities.
Yes, these groups are a tremendous help to those who are subjected to the mainstream stereotypes. And I do believe that they are still necessary today. But as Newton's smart brain stated. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. What we see as a comfortable haven for people of similar expriences to mingle. Others see as a form of seclusion based on race.
"All the Asians hangout together", "The Asians only hangout with their own kind and are rude to people who are not Asian", "It's the Asian Invasion". These are only some of the things that I hear from people, some of them are even Asian American themselves. I'm not going to argue the symantics, the stereotypes, and the ignorance that these statements have. But I am going to say this, Shut the fuck up!
I don't see you actively reaching out to have friends of different color. Why is that? Because you don't have a lot of things in common with them. So it's okay for you to hang out with all white people but it' not only for Asians to have their own group? You keep referring to them as "Asians" and not even consider for one second that they might have been in the United States all their life? You keep the mindframe that they are foreigners, so why don't you actively help them out and introduce them to the American culture? Oh that's right, you excluded the Chinese for thirty years, put all the Japanese Americans in a concentration camp, abandoned the Hmong soldiers and left them to fend for themselves til this day. Your inability to welcome immigrants from Asia forced them to live in degrading enclaves that is known as Chinatown, Japantown, and Koreatown. In your eyes, we are the perpetual foreigners, ones who will never be able to become Americans.
When we are new to this country, you degrade us by calling us Chinaman and laugh and frown at our culture. When we have become too assimilated, you say that we are taking over, and use us, the "Model Minority", a term you invented, to turn us into a wedge between the Whites and the Blacks/Hispanics. When we just want to life in peace you say that we are too passive and not engaging enough. When we are active you see us a threat and hide behind your pitifully disguised excuses.
Asian Americans who are oblivious to these above statements need to wake the fuck up.
To the Asian Americans reading this, I am not telling you to start a fight with your white friends. I am however, asking you to recognize some of the issues that we Asian Americans face. Do not judge other Asian Americans because maybe it is you who are oblivious to reality. I am also asking you to reach out and actively seek friends of any race. We end racism by educating those around us that we are normal people. We are not especially gifted in math and science, we don't all know martial arts, we don't all eat dogs, we are not stereotypes, we are people.
Until the day when we see people as individuals and not color, we will continue to have organizations like ASA, BSA, LSA... and read stories about people who wrote a hate speech and calls it a satire. | | |
| Don't play with me, I don't appreciate being messed around with. I think you are confused, get your head straight, I'll give you time.
Kind of tired of partying, rather have a nice night in and watch a movie or something.
The media needs to cut more bullshit and try to fix more problems rather than cause them.
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| I realized now that I was trying to force myself into your personal life when I know nothing about it. I am sorry, I don't think things will work out when they are forced. We both have two busy and distinct lives, it would take way too much effort to try to combine them. It is better off if all of this is ignored and we continue on as if this was all just a figment of our imagination.
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| It's just one of those days where I want to go back and fix everything I did wrong.
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| This was published in CU Campus Press...
"If it's war the Asians want...
It's war they'll get
Max Karson
Issue date: 2/18/08 Section: Opinion
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Since
I transferred to CU last year, I've noticed some tension between the
white students and the Asian students. There's never any outright
conflict, but I notice little things. Like, Asians always seem
surprised whenever I talk to them. They stare at me for a few seconds
as though I must have made some mistake, and once they realize I'm
intentionally speaking to them, they aren't always thrilled.
On
the other hand, white people are quick to ridicule Asians. They have no
problem with making demeaning remarks about their looks, mannerisms,
and accents-things they would never say about black people.
So
when an Asian refuses to make eye contact with me or dismisses me with
a one-word sentence, I just say to myself, "Max, Asians are not evil
cyborgs. They're human, just like you. And if you were a minority
student in a sea of walnut-brained business majors and skiers, you'd be
crabby, too."
But last week, I had an epiphany.
After my
friend and I finished working our abs at the Rec Center, we decided to
head upstairs to tighten our buns on the StairMaster. As we walked down
the hallway, a rubber ball bounced out of one of the racquetball courts
and landed at the feet of an Asian in front of us. He picked up the
ball and leaned over the railing of the court nearest to him.
"Hey,
that's not ours," I heard a guy call up from the court. The Asian
stared down at him for a moment, and then held the ball out to him.
"That's not ours," the guy said again.
Then another voice called out from a different court, "Hey, does anyone see a ball up there?"
The Asian looked over, confused.
"I think it goes to that court," I said, pointing to the one nearest to me.
The
Asian stared at me blankly for another second, and then he looked back
down into the court next to him and offered them the ball again.
"That's not our ball," the guy called up.
"Excuse me," I said. The Asian whipped his head around and scowled at me. "I think it goes to that court."
He paused a few seconds, and then he said, in a perfect American accent, "Okay," and tossed the ball into the court next to me.
That's when it hit me.
The
Asian was so jaded by his experiences with the whitebread, brainless
tree sloths of CU that even though three people had explained to him
that he was trying to return the ball to the wrong court, it was
inconceivable to him that we might be right.
And when he looked into my eyes, it wasn't just irritation and disgust that I saw-it was hate. Pure hate.
I'm
such a fool for not realizing it sooner. I can't tell you how many
times the Asians have treated me like a retarded weasel and I've
forgiven them. But now I know that Asians are not just "a product of
their environment," and their rudeness is not a "cultural
misunderstanding."
They hate us all.
And I say it's time
we started hating them back. That's right-no more "tolerance." No more
"cultural sensitivity." No more "Mr. Pretend-I'm-Not-Racist."
It's time for war.
But we won't attack their bodies or minds. We will attack their souls.
The
first step, or "Phase 1," is to find them all. Anyone who is interested
in signing up to volunteer can do so by e-mailing me. Next Sunday at
noon, we will all meet at Farrand Field. Each volunteer will be issued
an extra-large butterfly net.
The hunt will then begin.
When
I blow my whistle, we will scatter in every direction and catch as many
Asians as possible. Make sure to pay special attention to the Rec
Center, the UMC, the math and engineering buildings and Lollicup. If
you're not sure if someone is an Asian, give them a calculus problem to
do in their head. If they get it right, net 'em.
Captured
Asians will be dragged to my apartment on the Hill and hog-tied. Once
they're all secured in my living room, "Phase 2" will come into effect.
The Asians' reformation will begin with a 100-round beer pong
tournament. They will listen to "It's a Small World" on repeat while
they play.
When the tournament is finished, the Asians will then
be forced to eat bad sushi from Hapa-with forks. When all the sushi is
gone, they will be permitted to sleep for four hours, but the entire
time I will shout through a megaphone, over and over, "Why didn't you
make enough Wiis?!"
In the morning, the Asians will arrange
themselves in rows, if they haven't naturally done so already. I will
stand in front of them and hold up a card with the name of an emotion
on it such as, "sad," or "surprised." The Asians must then make a
facial expression to match the word on the card. Any Asian who remains
deadpan or makes the wrong face will be tickled until they pee. When
all Asians make the correct face at the same time, the game will end,
but then they will be yelled at for being conformists.
The
Asians will then be allowed to play "Dance Dance Revolution." However,
the game will be rigged so that the Asians will receive no points,
regardless of how robotically they dance.
Any Asian who tries to
escape will be butterfly-netted and sent back to my apartment for
another "Phase 2." Anyone caught speaking any language other than
English will be kissed on the lips.
Once the Asian spirit has
been broken, "Phase 3" will begin. Before we let the Asians go, we will
go to their homes and redecorate them in a traditional American style.
We will replace their rice cookers with George Foreman Grills, their
green tea mochi with fried Snickers bars, and their rice rockets with
Hummers. And booster seats.
When "Phase 3" is complete, the Asians will be released.
Now,
I understand that this plan may upset some of you Asian readers, but
the only other way to make peace would be to expel you. If you're
smart, you'll turn yourselves in now, and it will all be over in a few
days.
Besides, look on the bright side-we're not going to put
you through anything we haven't put ourselves through, and we all
turned out fine."
From the white people I talked to, only a few are outraged about this, most of them thinks of this as just a satire and dismisses the issue. Two of them told me this was funny.
All the minorities I talked to about this article are outraged.
I researched this guy, and he's obviously a manipulative psycho. Using the freedom of speech as protection, he spreads hate and fear to others around him, and people with power has not really done anything about this.
Most media articles seems to be slightly empathetic to him, mainly saying he always gets into trouble for jokes that other people don't get.
The campus press said if this was about black people, they would never allow it to be published.
This was on all news including CNN.
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