Comments on: Asians Can Be Just As Racist Too!

By: xaynie

xaynie — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:26:44 +0000

I will be quick and answer your question: My family and I are first generation Vietnamese immigrants. I cam here when I was 5 years old so you can count me as the “1.5 generation.” I grew up seeing my grandmother almost disown my mom because she wanted to date a black man. My aunt had to hide her relationship with a Mexican man from my grandmother as well. Even though both my mom and aunt are mixed White & Vietnamese (yes, my grandmother was racist only against other minorities).

It caused a lot of problems for me while growing up because most of my friends were Asian or Latino / Mexican. I couldn’t even bring them home to do homework together because my grandmother was so afraid they would “rob her and tie her up” or that they would “steal stuff from the house.” I had many arguments with her yelling through tears “They aren’t just MEXICAN, they’re MY FRIENDS! There’s nothing wrong with them! They won’t steal stuff”

So yeah…growing up was not fun for me, in a world where you’re constantly wrestling to the American culture and traditional Vietnamese values.

By: World Harmony

World Harmony — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:50:36 +0000

its not a racist issue, its a lifestyle issue. it is asian culture to be in balance with the earth and nature, but at the rate the asian culture reproduces , this is not feasible. does anyone know why they like to have so many kids?

By: insomnia

insomnia — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:18:56 +0000

There may be some Asians that lack understanding of other Asians,

but that is in isolated event. Asians interacting and understanding with

other Asians groups dynamic seem to evolved. People can plant doubts

and tries to get Asian to mistrusts each other but in the end its a waste

of effort. Based on the article portrayal of the adults characters as

racists lack a certain empathy for the adults. How do you know they or

someone know were not a victim of a crime. They may have legitimate

reason for their outlook. Peace out brothers and sisters.

By: afton529

afton529 — Mon, 04 May 2009 10:19:23 +0000

What about Asians being racist against other Asians? What about Korean VS Japanese, Chinese VS Japanese or etc? If you look at figure skating… for example on figure skaters Mao Asada and Yu Na Kim’s forum, you can see a lot of racial overtones, jealousy and hatred against each other that is so surreal and disgusting. Might I suggest you take a look at youtube and visit both Mao Asada and Yu Na Kim’s forum and you can see this phenomenon taking place. The racism card doesn’t only apply with Asian being biased against Africans or African-Americans.

By: afton529

afton529 — Mon, 04 May 2009 10:19:00 +0000

By: Chris Wong

Chris Wong — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:03:31 +0000

Prejudices of the human mind are the result of inadequate knowledge. When one gains greater awareness of the world through knowledge, one gains an understanding of the ways of the world and one can then begin to properly reason the truth of one’s beliefs. Racism is one such prejudice.

By: Chris Wong

Chris Wong — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:03:00 +0000

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:00:26 +0000

Shocked the hell out of me as a new AP, to bring home my Chinese daughter and have Chinese friends say, ” Well now, she’s not TOO dark” as though it were a compliment. ?????? Frustrating.