I'll gladly keep taking red envelopes as long as I still get them!
Happy new year y'all! I also turn 21 today :^) being young is greaaaaat
Thanks ^^, it's also a national holiday here in NZ albeit with an icky colonial history.
Gonna open a restaurant called God Save the Queen that has all the staff dressed in lederhosen and market it as authentic European food
I agree. "Authentic Asian cuisine" doesn't actually mean anything.One poster correctly wrote something along the lines of 'But what's European food, exactly?'
How's everyone doing? Been taking a break from ERA due to the toxicity of OT (though occasionally find myself being drawn in) besides for a handful of threads (the asian women thread was basically the last straw). But wanna see how the folks are doing here. :) Life's a bit crazy with work and such - started dating someone (long-distance, urgh) and that's opened up a whole weird bunch of emotions and thoughts.
How's everyone doing? Been taking a break from ERA due to the toxicity of OT (though occasionally find myself being drawn in) besides for a handful of threads (the asian women thread was basically the last straw). But wanna see how the folks are doing here. :) Life's a bit crazy with work and such - started dating someone (long-distance, urgh) and that's opened up a whole weird bunch of emotions and thoughts.
You should take care of that before the date.
I see the Gordon Ramsey thread has a Asian studies major married to a Korean woman defense going on in it, explaining to everybody why he's the expert.
I see the Gordon Ramsey thread has a Asian studies major married to a Korean woman defense going on in it, explaining to everybody why he's the expert.
Oooh, Asian threads haven't peaked until those lads show up!I see the Gordon Ramsey thread has a Asian studies major married to a Korean woman defense going on in it, explaining to everybody why he's the expert.
I had an account on GAF but barely visited or lurked. However, over a period of time I have heard that, despite it being pretty progressive (or used to be), there was an undercurrent of racism against pretty much all things Asian. Some of it was actually more overt, from what I understand. I had friends who used to lurk on there tell me this, but since I hardly ever visited, I didn't think much of it.
Fast forward to this place opening up and me hearing about it and making another account, and visiting it more frequently, I got to say, that yep, I'm starting see what everyone was alluding to. This place is pretty racist against Asians. Any concerns about racism faced by Asians seem to be dismissed and handwaved away quite often. Asians are gaslit to hell and back. Arguments often run into tone-deaf brick walls. Self-proclaimed experts on all things Asian who firmly believe their opinion is the final word. Fetishization up the wazoo. I wish I could say I was surprised, but then I think about where I am, a place filled to the brim with racist weaboos and Asianphiles, and I sadly realize, that this is likely par for the course.
I don't post much anymore but I pop in every once in a while. That Ramsey thread is a mess. That poster in particular had been doing this shit for YEARS over at GAF and now here. He treats every Asian topic and controversy with some grand generalized sociological western interpretation of Asian culture and always backs it up with his "I've dated/married an Asian so *I know.*". He's an unironic "I'm an expert" meme come to life and in the past he's really pissed me off in NK topics at GAF.
I'm glad that some of y'all are calling him out on that shit.
Meh, it's life. At this point the only thing you can really do is accept that this is American society and American Life and if you're a minority you're never going to be equal to white people.
The subconscious racism does seem way more jarring when it comes from "progressives," sort of the way that it's so much more laughable that the party of "family values" are the biggest hypocrites, but I don't think it's possible to fight that honestly.
MY plan of action is to continue this upper middle class struggle and pass on wealth to my kids because at least in America money matters and they can buy their way into a safe neighborhood and a relatively bubbled life. Even if in larger society they'll have to deal with this, they can be relatively like everyone else most of the time.
Yeah. Unfortunately, it does color my impression of users when they espouse progressive values. I do tend to see a lot of it as virtue signaling.
I meant Era in general.Meh. I have awful memory so it has to be particularly egregious. I also never look at people's post history because I'm lazy.
My wife and I are trying to figure out where to raise our toddler now. We're pretty much committed to the Midwest and are in Chicago proper now but are probably going to move to the suburbs soon. We've had to eliminate perfectly nice suburbs as they have like a 95% white census and are trying to find at least some of the more multi national and Asian-centric suburbs that also work for our jobs, but it's pretty challenging. That being said, there's no way we're moving back to Ohio where I'm from.My husband opposes this idea vehemently but honestly I'm with you.
I don't really care what it looks like. What I know is that my child is much less likely to grow up with any inferiority complexes induced by something uncontrollable, like his/her race.
The biggest problem with most enclaves is that, due to goddamn overachieving Asians (lol), they're all in extremely expensive places. SF, LA, OC, Seattle, Houston, parts of NYC, Boston, and Hawaii... if you look for the places with the highest concentrations of Asians you'll also find it's extremely, extremely pricey. Places where 100k is just middle class, haha.