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Post by jefe on May 21, 2013 7:40:58 GMT -5
Wow, I missed this. And I just looked him up a couple months ago.
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Post by jefe on Nov 28, 2012 13:49:08 GMT -5
^Hey, Toyomansi, long time no see. Let me know where you are now.
On topic - I think these people look look more stereotypically "mixed" esp. to Asians.
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Post by jefe on Oct 25, 2012 5:16:39 GMT -5
It has been 7 1/2 years since I met you. Are you 7 feet tall yet?
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Post by jefe on Oct 10, 2012 5:11:09 GMT -5
Good luck on getting replies.
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Post by jefe on Oct 10, 2012 5:10:08 GMT -5
HEY, how's it going? How many years has it been since you were 14?
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Post by jefe on Aug 25, 2012 0:49:25 GMT -5
Hey, nice to see the old timers chiming in. Let's get together.
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Post by jefe on May 22, 2012 11:17:44 GMT -5
This time I replied within a week.
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Post by jefe on May 22, 2012 11:16:32 GMT -5
I miss the old EAN around 2002-2005 in the pre-FB era. More interesting back then except for the trolls.
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Post by jefe on May 22, 2012 11:14:27 GMT -5
Rob, funny, but I put the cutoff point @ somewhere around those born sometime after 1977-1979, after it started to become more common and a few years after the Vietnam War ended.
I suspect there is another cutoff age older than you where EAs make up a different sort of group -- maybe those born in the post-WWII generation, but before the Vietnam War started.
Then there are the ones born before WWII - another group altogether.
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Post by jefe on Mar 28, 2012 13:41:05 GMT -5
^ We should have a reverse --> a block of Eurasian faces, with a Latino in there. See if people can spot the Latino.
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Post by jefe on Feb 6, 2012 12:34:28 GMT -5
In HK many Mainlanders thought I was one of them (oh please...). Whereas locals speak to me in English most of the time. I think Mainland Chinese speak Mandarin to everyone they suspect might be able to understand as they don't know how to speak anything else. HK people are used to seeing non-Chinese Asians and overseas born Ethnic Chinese (who speak to them in English), so, unless they sense you are a HK person or Mainlander, they might speak to you in English even if you are Asian looking. I really think it should not be too big an issue. For example, some Singaporean and Malaysian Chinese have told me that many locals insist that they are Malay and couldn't possibly be Chinese. What people assume you are may not have much bearing on what you really are. But, I admit it does feel scary to me when a cantonese-speaking HK person addresses me first in Mandarin, and then in English (when I can understand them perfectly fine in Cantonese).
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Post by jefe on Feb 6, 2012 12:17:57 GMT -5
^ Many of us face this often if not daily.
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Post by jefe on Feb 6, 2012 12:15:03 GMT -5
^ I am really curious about your situation.
You seem to have many negative feelings about your Vietnamese heritage, but went and studied Mandarin Chinese.
There are many times when I thought I would not consider having children growing up with the struggle of being multi-racial. Then I also think about the case of having a 3/4 whatever kid who could have passed as "full" were it not for his Eurasian Dad, and therefore felt a bit ashamed of his Dad. :-(
But, we have to look at these struggles not as a problem per se, but as a "character shaper". It may create some problems, but may also create some unique opportunities that only you can take advantage of.
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Post by jefe on Feb 6, 2012 12:07:35 GMT -5
As I mentioned in the past, I think people get different things from their parents. To oversimplify and generalize, I think for many people . .
- Mom has more influence on habits and practices within the home (eg, food, hygiene, folk beliefs, etc.) - Dad has more influence on social role in the community and how the family interacts with people outside the home
You need both of these to get a full representation.
This can change very much if there are people present (eg, grandparents and other relatives) or absent (1 or both parents) in this arrangement .
I had a white mom, but my Asian grandparents were nearby and I saw them very frequently in my early childhood. In fact, they watched me daily while my mother worked until my younger brother was born. I ended up learning Chinese dialect before English despite having my white mom at home who learned to speak very very little Chinese. My brother, on the other hand, never learned more than a smattering of Chinese dialect (which I am sure he has forgotten by now).
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Post by jefe on Feb 6, 2012 11:54:17 GMT -5
I don't think the situation in HK has improved much in the many years I have been here.
I know someone who works in her brother's English language training centre here in HK. Many parents threaten to pull their kids out of the school unless they get non-Asian teachers. In some cases, he was forced to let go some of the English teachers of Asian descent. I guess the parents feel they are paying money for the kids to interact with non-Asian looking people.
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