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Re: Color Line Cuts Through the Heart (Score: 1)
by Seraphfire on Saturday, July 29 @ 13:14:23 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | "After answering, I see no conflict." - curiousgeorge
WHAT ANSWER? ALL YOU DID WAS ASK MORE QUESTIONS. HA!
And that's a pretty lame reply, you're just ducking pertinent Asian Americans issues. You're so young but already you seem unwilling to change your whole-life views. Try and listen for once instead of preaching.
Asian vs. Asian American, the perpetual foreigner syndrome
This is one of the main issues Asian Americans have. Native Asian culture is NOT the same as Asian American culture. All your posts ignore that fact, so you have fallen into the same ignorance many non-Asians have of Asian Americans. What good has spreading native Asian culture in America done for AAs? So far, all it has done is place us AA's in a time warp in the past or exotify us because Americans are embracing their idea of what our traditional culture is and ignores the fact that modern native Asian culture is far different from what Americans perceive it to be. We become foreign by association. And even if you spread modern native Asian culture that still has two problems: 1) there is no native Asian culture overall, it is native Chinese, Korean, Japanese, etc. and most importantly: 2) because we are Asian American and need to build our own race based identity.
Asian American culture on the other hand is in formation. It keeps getting stunted because of AAs like you and other Americans keep confusing it with native Asian culture. Time to put a stop to it and acknowledge that it is different.
Individual Empowerment is not Racial Empowerment
Another critical issue you duck. There have been many individual minorities who have achieved the admiration of Americans. Like Michelle Kwan, the many time world champion ice skater. Yet when she took only Silver in the Olympics, the MSNBC headline was "American Beats Kwan." Go America, America beat a foreigner - Oh Wait, Kwan is U.S.-born, oops! What you advocate is nothing new so why don't you pay attention to history because history has shown it doesn't work like you think it does.
And again, you are indeed trumpeting the mantra of conservative whites; "There is no racism, you can do anything you want if you work hard enough." But as Michelle Kwan found out, its apparently not enough to make her accepted as an American. And it ignores another troubling issue, minorities have to be extraordinary to be "good" Americans whereas white Americans can be average and white immigrants are "good" Americans as soon as they set ashore thanks to their skin color. Go white priviledge! And see here:
http://www.modelminority.com/article1047.html
"Frank Chin, another Asian American writer, views the model minority image from the flip side, contending that blacks are the true model minority, while Asian Americans have sold out to white America: "[Asian Americans] are the Uncle Toms of the non-white people… a race of yellow white supremacists, yellow white racists. We’re hated by blacks because the whites love us for being everything the blacks are not. Blacks are a problem: badass. Chinese-Americans are not a problem: kissass" (9). Black America has at the very least sustained and asserted its own cultural identity."
FFS, read the home page of modelminority.com, it explains what the problem is being stereotyped as the model minority.
Solutions
So mr. answer a question with a question, there is a solution if you only cared to read this web site more thoroughly:
1) Asian American Identity - its inevitable that a race based Pan-Asian American identity/culture apart from white or Black or native Asian will arise. We should acknowledge and promote it.
2) Race Dialogues - people don't even want to agree on what is racism. Sorry, its an objective standard not subjective. Conservative whites are unwilling to talk because they deny there is a problem, other whites feel uncomfortable (for fear of being in
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