cm
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Post by cm on Dec 17, 2007 20:11:10 GMT -5
If different EA's have all different experiences, then it means there is no unique "EA experience". EAs cannot talk about non-EAs failing to understand EAs, when EAs do not understand each other in the first place. Yup. By posting on this site, I've learned it's obvious that the 'EA experience' is not as much based on race as it is based on geography, financial income, and values instilled to one as a child. Here you have white washed EA's. Asian washed EA's. EA washed EA's . Everybody is different. There is no 'universal' EA experience.
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Post by Ave` on Dec 17, 2007 21:27:20 GMT -5
Amen
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Post by dynamicken on Dec 18, 2007 0:07:30 GMT -5
^ my previous posts have been crystal clear in their meaning.
Interesting theories though.
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Post by avax on Dec 18, 2007 0:15:29 GMT -5
Dudedudettetarzanwoman, I've been saying the same s*** for years. Welcome.
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Post by laidbacksonic74 on Dec 18, 2007 1:35:48 GMT -5
what do you wanna accomplish with this question? that we think we are the new superior human race? we know we are not!! but we are normal pples trying to fit in somewhere....this forum is purely based on what we have in common and xperience.....like say a nintendo forum...just for nintendo freaks....it doesn't mean that a playstation dude/dudette isn't welcome...it's just...what can he or she add? he hadn't had the nintendo xperience?.....hmmm sorta hehehehe.... we have one thing in common here we are mixed or halfies..hapas or whateva u name it...our xperience are like the same.....or there are some who are interested in EA's ...i don't know...everybody is welcome....anyway we don't think we are special then others .....nooooo...we don't think laser beams coming out of our eyes..or flash lights coming from our asses....something like that
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Post by 2bob on Dec 18, 2007 3:56:28 GMT -5
so what exactly is this guy complaining about?
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Post by haplotype on Dec 18, 2007 6:45:36 GMT -5
^ By that logic no two people in the whole world can understand one another.. Clearly there are experiences that many of us generally have in common, experiences that the non-mixed are much less likely to have. An experience an EA has, is it really that different from the experience of an Asian immigrant, or a white person living in Asia? People with medical disabilities may live in worlds a lot weirder than an EA one, for example. A deaf person, a color-blind person, all live in worlds with their own culture.
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Post by haplotype on Dec 18, 2007 10:01:38 GMT -5
What common traits do EA people have? Is it that they don't know anything about Asia and don't want to be associated with it? That seems to be your assertion. I know plenty of EAs who do know about Asia, live in Asia, and may have never even met a white person. Depending on the foster family, adopted Asian kids may have white parents who taught them about their culture of origin, so they know more about their origin than people from that country. Asian kids in Asia do not necessarily know a lot about their own culture. An Asian kid today may grow up never learning how to hold chopsticks, while an EA may grow up in an environment where their Asian relatives get furious and break the rice bowl for not holding chopsticks properly. From lifestyle.iafrica.com/food/travel/572128.htm"It's surprising to see how many children don't know how to hold chopsticks correctly, which is a part of the Japanese culture's beauty," he told AFP by telephone, adding that only 20 percent of elementary students use chopsticks correctly.
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Post by haplotype on Dec 18, 2007 10:45:30 GMT -5
A world of ignorant people. Would it be more stressful to live in a world where everyone spoke many languages, and people are amazed you don't speak as many as they do? What if we lived in a world where the media complains that 3rd graders don't understand partial differential equations?
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Post by Mr Brad Pitt on Dec 18, 2007 11:21:53 GMT -5
Comments like "You look more like your mom" when they never met my mom, etc. ROFL this one's lulzy.
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Post by haplotype on Dec 18, 2007 11:37:54 GMT -5
My point is that there are trade-offs. Should we live in a world of perfect non-assumptions, where people say "oh wait, you're a woman?" or "oh wait, you're young?" That could be offensive also. And of course, there is the world of perfect assumptions, where people assume they know your mother's social security number and shoe size before meeting her.
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Post by cm on Dec 18, 2007 12:13:23 GMT -5
What common traits do EA people have? Is it that they don't know anything about Asia and don't want to be associated with it? That seems to be your assertion. I know plenty of EAs who do know about Asia, live in Asia, and may have never even met a white person. No, that's not what I meant. Yet there are some EAs in the West that are pretty detached from their Asian side, I meet ppl like that here often enough. They normally don't care much about this side of their background and aren't interested in other EAs either. That's why maybe not too many of them are here at EAN. As I said before every EA has his or her own experiences and way to identify. And I think being associated w/ "the Asians" (which as such doesn't even exist) can be somewhat stressful if the person doesn't share so much with mostly Asians in Asia or even Asians in the West but their features. Many ppl have expectations according to how a person looks. If they see two EAs, one looks whiter, one looks more Asian, I'm pretty sure many ppl would expect the more Asian looking one to also be "more Asian" or to know an Asian language etc. I feel that often ignorant ppl (and there are plenty) disregard the fact that not only did I grow up in a Western country but also do I have family bonds to a Western group. And yes, I think that's different than growing up an genetic Asian in the West. To claim 2nd generation immigrants have the very same experiences like EAs to me also disregards our family bonds. That is for the EAs who have them, some might be cut of from one part of the family for whatever reasons. Still I can see how ignorant ppl can have similar expectations of a 2nd generation immigrant like to an EA. If they see an Asian person they think they speak an Asian language perfectly but as we all know there is no language chip that comes w/ your genes so you automatically speak the language of your parents. Sure full Asians could. Many have few relatives here and know nothing at all about their culture even though obnoxious white people keep trying to speak 'an asian language' with them. You are disregarding their family bonds. Many have white relatives, many have Americanized relatives that don't speak the language. Those just want to be like any American....eat their cinnamon bread and drink their mocha, and drive their gas guzzling SUV, yet they'll get dumb comments and rude service...and get categorized by their race instead of their personality. So essentially, while the experience is different in terms of minutia, it's quite similar in the big picture.
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Post by Emily on Dec 18, 2007 12:27:36 GMT -5
If different EA's have all different experiences, then it means there is no unique "EA experience". EAs cannot talk about non-EAs failing to understand EAs, when EAs do not understand each other in the first place. You can't deny that there is something of a common denominator. People will gripe about the same issues on EAN. Of course, we all come from vastly different backgrounds, yet some things EAs face come up and are shared by many. Conversely, I'm sure there are some EAs that would not relate with the experiences being brought up. There's no immutable law that says how an EA should or shouldn't feel. We also have a special bond that I'm sure most monoracials don't have simply because there are so many of you and so few of us. Does our "rarity" really generate that much of a bond?
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Post by avax on Dec 18, 2007 22:58:13 GMT -5
Particularly hilarious that many here are telling the thread creator WHAT and how HE or SHE should feel when they have no f***ing clue what it`s like to be a monoracial. And then becoming aghast regarding presumptions and ignorance. What a joke.
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Post by ConceptDesign on Dec 18, 2007 23:28:02 GMT -5
Can monoracials feel pain? Not being one, I'm not really in a position to truly know.
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