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ASIAN AMERICAN ISSUES
The White Stuff: Whiting Wongs & Wonging Whites
hey're our neighbors, buddies, allies, enemies, clients, bosses, employees, lovers and spouses. Many of us have more daily contact with Whites than with other Asians. Consequently, we often feel we know them better than they can ever know us. Maybe that's at the heart of our frustration as Asian Americans. They are as ubiquitous and pervasive as the air we breath while to them it seems we are eternal curiosities, outsiders, exotics.
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And so we sometimes find ourselves lashing out with nasty generalizations about the people we blame for all that seems wrong with American society and, more specifically, our place in it. They are ignorant, shallow, boorish, smelly, sneaky, treacherous, malicious, dumb, weird -- in short, all the labels we feel have been so unfairly slapped on us.
But even as we hurl such epithets we cannot forget the countless acts of kindness, warmth, generosity, friendship, passion and love that we have enjoyed from these very same people. As our anger and frustration subside, we recognize that our fates are inextricably intertwined, not merely in sharing a world, a nation, a society, an economy, a culture -- but often in sharing even our most intimate lives. One in five of today's Asian American marriages are to Whites. And contrary to the imbalance of the past, the ratio of new AM/WF marriages to new AF/WM marriages is steadily approaching unity.
So we naturally have a strong interest in decoding the other side of the equation. Understanding is a two-way street. Fortunately, there are Whites who have enough interest in us as individuals to share their perspectives on us and on their interactions with us. This page is for those who -- as corny as it may sound -- have chosen to serve as bridges.
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Wednesday, Jan 22, 2025, 06:38:55 AM)
Andrew Xiaoliang Campbell ,
OKAY what is it with the term "egg"? Look at the picture in with the caucasian and chinese man!they are same colour! And we all know men produce more melanin and hemoglobin making them darker, still a "white" woman is darker!
*You say "Lucy Liu and those other Angels"*
Ask any chinese/korean/japanese born in the countries I mentioned , they will not know who lucy liu is! Lucy Liu is an american asian actress! And I get a feeling you are talking about F.O.P's cause asian americans dont stroll around in china town alot, also, only chinese peasants who escape to america still huddle in the smelly low class china towns! Go learn calligraphy , play computer ,and advance in science like the mainlander chinese!
"-You slurp your noodles "
Only Japanese people slurp noodles... it is really rude in china!
Teacher Kwan
Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 19:38:04 (PST)
Here's some humor:
White on the outside, yellow on the inside. The "Egg" suffers from a racial identity problem. They are frequently seen wandering around Chinatown, or eating a bowl of Pho, and will be first in line at the Jackie Chan opening. How do you know you are an Egg?
See if the statements below describe you.
You Know You're an Egg When:
-You're indignant when the waiter hands you a fork in an Asian restaurant.
-Your cell phone has Chinese characters on it
-You drink loose leaf Jasmine tea.
-In most the pictures you have of yourself you are the only White person, and you didn't notice it at the time
-You slurp your noodles
-Chicken feet = good eatin'
-Red bean ice cream is a real treat
-PEARL MILK TEA and Ca Phe Sua Da are preferred to Baskin Robbins and Starbuck's
-You saw Crouching Tiger hidden dragon in Chinese and won't watch the dubbed version.
-You can tell when the dialogue jumps back and forth between Mandarin and Cantonese.
-you can tell which actors are from Taiwan by their accents.
-you know how bad Chris Tucker's Chinese is.
-You have those little Chinese health balls on your desk
-You give a slight bow when you meet people.
-You are charged with drunk driving because you said the entire be pe me fe alphabet by mistake.
-You pass out lucky money/hung bao/li-si in red envelopes on Lunar New Years
-You don't think January 1st is New Years
-You think White people smell funny.
-You say "Lucy Liu and those other Angels"
-You would rather just walk.
-You have met Zhanghuimei and My Huynh, but you can't quite put a face to Gloria Estephan
-All this open space gives you the heebie jeebies
-Most of your girl/boyfriends have been Asian.
-You can't quite connect with 'regular' White people
-You know Taiwan and Chinese politics better than the American politics.
-You don't think "cross straits relations" is a conversation about Transvestites and Heterosexuals.
-You get antsy when there aren't enough Asians around.
-You have to explain to your work colleagues that you actually LIKE to drink cold coffee.
-You shout "Ai-ya!" or "Ko-wa!" anytime you get surprised instead of "Oh God!" or "What the Hell?"
-You regard pointing feet at others as unspeakably rude.
-You just don't get "Americans"
-You and your Asian friends discuss something about Pho or Lo Mein, the White folks give you an odd look and you say "It's a Vietnamese/Chinese/etc. thing, you wouldn't understand"
-You play Maj-jonng using the terms "Bao tien", "Huu-la" and "pong" and don't use the set with the Arabic Numerals on the tiles
-You know what Bok Choy is and can cook soups and sauces with it
-You read this page and didn't realize it was a joke.
Andrew Xiaoliang Campbell
Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 12:21:28 (PST)
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