So sad, but true.

It hits on the common misconception that American = white (or black). Anyone else is assumed to be an immigrant or a child of immigrants. At an internship back in 2006, a co-worker told me about the crap his college roommate put up with constantly. He was of Indian heritage, but both he and his parents were born in the US. Yet he would get:

Stranger: So, where are you from?
Roommate: :: first thinks it's not a weird question since they're at a large university :: Oh, California.
Stranger: No, :: seriously begins talking SLOWLY AND LOUDLY :: WHEEERE... ARRRE... YOUUU... FROMM?
Roommate: :: in the exact same Native Californian accent he's had for the entire exchange :: CALLLLLL EEEEE FORRRR NIIIIII AAAAAA.

Sadly, the video makes the assumption that the majority of men who will watch this are going to not be Asian. All of those points were both cringeworthy and (as a half-Asian) utterly ridiculous if I had said them.

Although the vid does serve a good purpose, its tacit assumption of American males = not-at-all-Asian is annoying. At least to this half-Asian male.

It's good to know that I'm not the only person who has experienced #1-6 and felt uncomfortable rather than flattered.  As an international student, I never experienced this until I came to the U.S.  I've been in the U.S. for years now so I've gotten used to ignoring or walking away from the person, but it still never stops being incredibly annoying.

So spot on, but I think it's the psychology of assimilation-ism, and isn't limited to Asian communities. 

"I think part of that resistance for many Asian Americans is that many AA's have absorbed the mainstream mindset when it comes to race relations. While there are many of us that are conscious of and sensitive to matters regarding race, I cannot count the number of times I've encountered other AA's repeating stereotypes about other races or otherwise saying or doing racist things. And this bleeds into how AA's choose IR relationships.Interestingly enough, among my friends, there actually are several examples of IR Asian/Black, Asian/Latino/a, and East Asian/South/SE Asian pairings, almost as many as Asian/white pairings. However, I tend to run with a pretty progressive group of people, who I would hope would be more open to IR.So, while this panel in particular is not necessarily representative of the AA IR experience, I would also submit that being AA, even as most are aware of the racism directed towards them, does not necessarily instill any kind of solidarity for racial/social justice and plenty of AAs absolutely fall into mainstream mindsets about attractiveness and desirability in dating. And that includes a disposition towards dating White (if not intra-racially or intra-ethnically) and away from dating those of darker complexion."

I'm an Asian student from the UK and I have experienced similar things. The most common scene would me walking on the street being greeted by random guys in Asian languages. If me and my (Asian girl) friends ignored their awkward Chinese greeting, they'd try Japanese ones, then Thai...then...every single Asian greeting they've learnt....What's worse is when I told them to fuck off (in a polite way), some of them kept following us! When a girl says NO, she actually means NO!! It doesn't make any difference which ethnic origin she's from (but some men just don't understand the basic rule of politeness)!

This kind of verbal harassment never happened to me if I hung out with a group of British or European girls. And, of course, I have never seen a single British girl being greeted by any random man in English!!! Some of my Asian girlfriends are born in the UK and have strong British accent. Still, those guys wouldn't respect them in the same way they respect 'white' British women.

My personal "favorite" as an adopted Korean is, "Are you from North or South Korea?" People are quick to talk about how dangerous North Korea and Kim Jung-il.  At the same time, they are completely ignorant and unaware of the oppressive nature of North Korea and the conditions for the people there and that it is nearly impossibe to find a North Korean in America, let alone an adopted baby.

This happens to me. So often. What's particularly annoying are the various 'methods' employed by people to try and 'guess' my ethnicity instead of you know, asking me. Or, even better: not caring.

These include "Where are you from?" "Where are your parents from?" "Where were you born?".

It makes for even more awkward, uncomfortable tension when they discover that it is indeed possible for there to be an Asian woman who is from the heart of Texas, whose parents are from Cambodia (but, surprise surprise! are not Cambodian!!), who was born and raised in Acadiana, Louisiana.

In the end it gives me the satisfaction of not really answering the question that they really have no business in knowing or caring about. I don't ever see my ethnicity as taking up a substantial part of my identity, but all they see is the chance to show off how culturally aware they are.

4:27 love her expression. It's like she's thinking, don't say it dude..

So I'm a sociology and spanish student, and I have nothing sociologically imaginative (or useful) to contribute to the conversation. I must say, I am terribly attracted to the young man with dred locks. If he started any conversation with me, I would steer that ship right towards a make out session.

I like the title image there. I think you could make one with the film goonies and call it the "bane of the overweight child's existence."  I was in 5th grade when goonies came out and it was a long year of people following me around going telling me to do the truffle shuffle and calling me chunk.  I hate that movie.  Chunk is a buffonish caricature obsessed with eating.  To me it is the jazz singer for fat kids.  None of my friends understand my vitriol.  For them Goonies is a beloved childhood classic.  I've never thought much about how my female asian friends feel about full metal jacket, but I have to assume they hate it for much the same reasons.

Ah, so amazing. The beginning of the (rapid) end of my last relationship happened when he asked, "do you eat dog?" full knowing I'm a vegetarian. 

The other one is when I tell people I'm Canadian and then they pull their lids and say something like, "but look at your pretty eyes!" I don't get offended over this. Usually just give a compliment back on a random facial feature, like a round nose or petite ear so maybe they see some perspective. But maybe not.

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