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Post by catgirl on Aug 30, 2008 14:05:40 GMT -5
I never know when to play the card. Sometimes when I play this card just without anyone asking me they look at me with big eyes  Its easier to play the card if someone just simply asks me about my background... |
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Post by cally on Aug 31, 2008 17:14:12 GMT -5
I guess "playing the asian card" is when you say you're part asian if you know it will get you some form of special treatment? I'm still not sure quite what he meant when he said that.
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Post by dipsydoodle on Aug 31, 2008 20:53:35 GMT -5
I tell em I'm a hapa papa and let them figure it out from there.
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Post by LaFace on Sept 5, 2008 3:34:16 GMT -5
"Italian and Filipino" I don't like to use the descriptive, 'half', as the simple-minded think I'm not as Italian or Filipino as some of my peers, purely because of my physical appearance. I also never use the half term. So silly. ^In the past I used the descriptive, 'half', that is, until I visited this board and read someone's explanation as to why they don't use it. I then realised that the reasons this person gave applied to myself in the real world, hence I gave it away. It was probably you whose post I read that helped me make this decision. I'm sure to some it may seem like a little thing, but its meaning in and of itself tells a lot about how one chooses to represent themself, whether they are aware of it or not. For what it's worth, I've forgotten the name of the thread that this post was in, however it included a poll asking how people describe themselves as. One of the options was 'half X and half Y', which is what I used to describe myself as. Another one of the options was, 'double'. At the time, when I first read it, I didn't know what 'double' entailed. However, I now fully agree with this option, as I see myself both as an Italian-Australian, and a Filipino-Australian (two ethnicities, or a double ethnicity), on equal terms with people who are just Italian-Australian, or just Filipino-Australian. Just because I look like a mix, ie not as Italian or not as Filipino as those who are monoracial, in no way means that I am 'lesser' of either culture as these people. In many cases I'd argue that the situation is in fact the opposite, but I'll leave that for another discussion. I'm might try "Kazakh" for a while; see what kind of reaction I get. I want to try this too but havn't because I don't want to misreprisent kazakh people. ^How would you be misrepresenting them? I've told people I'm Mongolian and Liechtensteinian, just because they will believe me, and when I tell them the truth, we then have a laugh over it! |
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Post by jericho on Sept 6, 2008 23:17:24 GMT -5
Haafu seems to work here in Japan. Though I rarely use it. In Japan you're in either one of two categories, there's Japanese and then there's Non-Japanese. Which doesn't really bother me in the slightest.
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Post by saeka on Sept 8, 2008 8:44:13 GMT -5
Haafu seems to work here in Japan. Though I rarely use it. In Japan you're in either one of two categories, there's Japanese and then there's Non-Japanese. Which doesn't really bother me in the slightest. What are you talking about??? You can be in more than one catagory! depending on who it is. |
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Post by Ganbare! on May 26, 2010 2:46:23 GMT -5
^People still have trouble accepting this double nature, their survival as monoracials seems to depend on dumping us in either category.
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Post by sim on Sept 14, 2010 8:31:38 GMT -5
oh...i thought playing the asian card was your....get out of bringing ID card.
Well, it is in my case.
I get IDed ALL the timein the UK when buying alcohol (as part of an innocent weekly shop) in supermarkets. Or even buy 15 DVDs. Yikes. (I'm 26). I went to get my blood tested a few months back and the lady asked me if I was off to school afterwards...and told me I looked no older than 16. I thought when I moved to Hong Kong it would be better...but I got asked by the Chinese IT guy if I was an intern. I had to tell him I had 5 years of experience behind me and he couldn't believe it- kept asking if it was 5 years AFTER university (it is).
I just say I'm half Chinese if I don't have ID. Generally works. Although, it's actually my white father that had the baby face growing up (and the slight frame).
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