ysl
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Post by ysl on Jul 1, 2008 0:50:08 GMT -5
Does your non asian parent ever make insensitive/ignorant comments about asians in front of you without thinking? how do you deal with those situations? do you say something or let it go?
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cm
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Post by cm on Jul 1, 2008 0:55:53 GMT -5
Nope. My dad and mom though, both make stupid jokes about other races.
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Post by straylight on Jul 1, 2008 9:40:43 GMT -5
No way. My dad's probably self-loathing, if anything. And he's the one that encourages me to appreciate Asian cultures more (food, women, travel, etc..). My mom's the same, my brother's the same. And I'm the meat and potatoes of the family.  |
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Post by halfbreed on Jul 1, 2008 10:23:24 GMT -5
He makes jokes about them chewing with their mouth open, but nothing really malicious.
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Post by i move the stars for no one on Jul 1, 2008 10:57:00 GMT -5
unfortunately both my parents have racist tendencies,only my dad (asian/polyneisan) is more unapologetically vocal about it and gets away with it because he's good at playing the foreigner who doesn't know better,even though he's been here more than 30 years.
my mom,although she married outside her race,is still the byproduct of being brought up by white people from Bakersfield CA and Indiana in the fifties.i think she's unconsciously racist.
when either of them says anything,yes,i call them on it,though usually by making fun of them being small-minded rather than being confrontational.
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Post by Pocky Monster on Jul 1, 2008 11:34:02 GMT -5
He's Popeye the sailor man! Toot-toot!
He lives in a garbage can!
He likes to go swimmin' with bow-legged Thai women..
He's Popeye the sailor mannnn!! Toot-toot!
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Post by ChickenSoda on Jul 3, 2008 19:42:23 GMT -5
My mom doesn't really have negative asian comments, but she seems to think that all Chinese things are "lucky".
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Post by Miyuki on Jul 4, 2008 0:47:17 GMT -5
He makes jokes about them chewing with their mouth open, but nothing really malicious. My Father-In-Law says this about Asian people all the time! I never know what to say!  |
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Post by betahat on Jul 4, 2008 3:13:57 GMT -5
My mom sometimes laughs about how superstitious my chinese grandmother can be (oh no - cutting nails after dark?), and how some of this rubbed off on my dad through his pessimism and paranoia about bad things happening, even though he is pretty rational. But she doesn't really make generalizations about any race.
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Post by truelies on Jul 9, 2008 9:13:12 GMT -5
I think I recall my mum saying "alot of Japanese men have bandy legs". Haha - Same, but my dad refers to them as 'rice field legs.' |
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Post by turboman on Jul 9, 2008 11:45:36 GMT -5
Back when I was living with my parents, my dad (British/Scandinavian) used to occasionally make generalisations about Asians, nothing serious but I still gave him s*** about it. What I really wanted to say to him was, "do you sometimes forget that I'm half Asian, ay motherf***er?" (lol) But then he probably would have replied with something along the lines of "You're a Kiwi, born and bred."  |
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hilary
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Post by hilary on Jul 12, 2008 3:24:05 GMT -5
My mother has a tendency to raise her voice about 300 decibels and will completely stop using linking verbs and most prepositions when she talks to someone with any kind of asian accent. She says it helps facilitate communication with my father. He has a master's degree in English and has been teaching it for 25 years. It really just makes her sound ridiculous and insulting.
"what you want for breakfast, Hieu?"
"oh, the usual. correct grammar and coffee."
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Post by betahat on Jul 15, 2008 2:00:55 GMT -5
Hilary - that sounds exactly like my white mom. She doesn't do it with my dad (who has a PhD in English along with a hybrid Canadian/British accent) but does do it talking to his mother sometimes or when talking to other Asians. We give her a hard time about it too.
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