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Includes several Asian countries such as Myanmar and Nepal.

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I’m trying to find out why the ethnic category “Chinese” isn’t included in “Asian” in many British surveys I encountered. I see this problematic for two reasons:

(1) Treating “Chinese” as one separate category can encourage people to see them as a big homogeneous group, (stereotype of “those from China and speak Chinese)

(2) If Chinese isn’t Asian, what are other Asians not from South Asia? Many of my friends from East & South-East Asia think they’re Asian. However, it seems EA & SEA people are categorised as “others” when Chinese is categorised as “Chinese” not “Asian > Chinese”. I’m worried that many EA & SEA categorise themselves in a wrong category and make their existence less visible.

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It sounds interesting but I’m not sure if I can bother reading it...

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The report includes a focus group on Asian American women (pp. 59-60). 

I agree that I feel safer (or safest?) when walking with my white male friend. He does feel like a “pass”. It also makes it harder to make them notice I and other Asian women are harassed on the street, because it seldom happens when they’re with Asians. 

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We were judged based on who we looked like, and that is about as un-American as it gets.

George Takei

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White American people (and sometime white British people) want to claim they’re victims of vicious and cruel Japan in WWII while they seem to have no memory what they have done to the rest of the world. 

I’m personally tired of British people trying to force me to apologise for them about Japan’s brutal action on British soldiers during WWII, while most of them don’t know why British fought against Japan.

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It’s an interesting read. As regards Asians, it sounds as if they don’t think there were any Asian-American.

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Just like you don’t hate Germany for what Hitler did, don’t hate Muslims for what ISIS did.

superflytoseoul (via plusandperfect)

When it comes to that, it’s interesting British people aren’t hated that much, considering the sheer amount of racism and massacres they have done.

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Although Asians in the United States are targets of racial prejudice and discrimination, cultural forces may hinder their acknowledging that such bias has occurred. High personal self-esteem (SE) may facilitate acknowledging discrimination—which is costly yet necessary to remedy unfair treatment—but the importance of personal SE for Asians has been questioned. This study investigated a novel question: Does high personal SE function as a psychological resource for Asians’ attributions to racial discrimination? Participants received negative performance feedback containing one of three levels of cues to a White evaluator’s prejudice (feedback only, less-clear cues, or more-clear cues). Participants with lower SE reported elevated attributions to discrimination only when cues were more clear, whereas participants with higher SE reported elevated attributions when any cues to prejudice were present. Results suggest that high personal SE serves as a psychological resource for Asian targets of prejudice, lowering the threshold for acknowledging discriminatory treatment.

I guess these white scholars want to address racism problems, but unfortunately what they did fall into “Asian” stereotypes. Do they really think same things can be done about black people and their racism?

One thing I can say for sure about self-esteem is racial discrimination can damage one’s self-esteem, as other harassment and crime can cause (see Hollaback’s statistics about mental health and street harassment, for example).

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"Asians are good at maths stereotypes” are just a myth (or s**t)

I came across another “Asians are good at maths” stereotype online, so I tried to prove how shit it is:

As an Asian, I’m supposed to be good at maths.

As a woman, I’m supposed to be poor at maths. (It’s true women are discouraged to study science and maths in Japan, as in the UK)

As a humanities students, I’m supposed to be poor at maths. (Probably they don’t know about corpus linguistics and formal semantics)

As a left-handed person, I’m supposed to be good at geometry and poor at algebra. (left/right brain stuff) Also poor at languages.

In reality, I, an Asian left-handed female student majoring in humanities, am good at algebra and languages but miserably poor at geometry.

In conclusion, none of these stereotypes are true.

Then, what is white (white American?) stereotypes? What are they good at? Are they poor at maths and English spellings? White British stereotypes would be they’re poor at foreign languages and they don’t give a shit about it, but I know most of my fellow PhD students have a command of French and/or German, and I know several British who can speak more than two languages.

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Today we march for #GrantsnotDebt: for free and fair education, against Tory attacks on the poorest. Join us! #PMQs http://thndr.me/x6rbpd

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This article compares the results of white, black and Hispanic women and shows women of colour receive more street harassment than white women. It doesn’t say which kind of verbal harassment they receive, but I imagine women of colour are targetted by both sexists and racists.

Sometimes it’s hard to separate racial harassment and sexual harassment. For example, if a man says “Oy Chinese [or other BME]! I’ll put my dick in to your ***” then it’s a combination of sexism and racism. 

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It’s quite true. What I learned through racism is doing racial harassment to other racial group will solve nothing. (I sometimes see/hear/experience racism between ethnic minorities.) It’s far better to be nice to other minority groups and fight together.

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Microagression and catcallings happening everywhere :( 

I wish I could stop them, but sometimes I need to find a way to keep myself happy despite of these things.