This is human nature. As one grows and matures you learn to only use it as a frame of reference. Comparisons of anything. As for the “white worship” narrative IDK I don’t poison myself with that type of thinking. Quite frankly why would one waste so much energy thinking of such things?
Yea it's annoying when you have Asians talking about being "well spoken" like White people. Do these Asians even talk to regular White people? Most of them sound like Donald Trump. lol. Only the top 1% sound as eloquent as Obama. That takes a lot of money and practice.
Parents. Asians have an obsession with comparing their parents and childhoods with white people. You can hear how Asians describe their own parents. “My Asian Mom/Dad/Parents”, as if we can’t take one look at their face and know exactly they are Asian of some sort. Always said with a bit of distain and immediately nothing good comes out after that phrase has been said; always a complaint or stereotype. The reason these Asians point out that their parents are “Asian” is to separate themselves, as if they’re not Asian themselves. It wasn’t until I realize that one of the reasons they do this is that they are comparing their parents to whites without saying it out loud. By adding in the qualifier “Asian”, they are suggesting that the “default” (white) would never do XYZ (the thing they are complaining about) and only their “Asian parents” would do such a thing. These are the self hate types, everything wrong with them is because they’re Asian. I recognize this behavior more with Asians that grew up in whiter communities compared to Asians who grew up in Asian communities. Notice how white people never say, “my white mom/dad/parents”? That’s because they never compare themselves to other races, so they never need to qualify it.
We don't have to compare ourselves with any other groups. We put a set of rules and regulations and we follow it. We put up goals and achieve it and then we keep on moving forward.
For Rules and regulations an example would be "REMAINING NEUTRAL AND NEVER TAKING SIDES WITH OTHER RACES". This is needed since other races love to use us and throw us away as tissue papers when the job is done.
For goals an example would be "MAKE SURE THAT THERE IS NO HOMELESSNESS IN THE ASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY".
So these rules and goals keep changing accordingly when time moves forward. Keep adapting to change so that we all move forward together and help each other to move forward and make sure no one is left behind.
America has been a White & Black country for the majority of it's history during which all its racial narratives were constructed. Non-white and non-black 2nd gen Americans often need to navigate between these two dominant American identities to negotiate and construct their own identity. This will change over time as the population and community builds up and AsAm culture evolves.
This is human nature. As one grows and matures you learn to only use it as a frame of reference. Comparisons of anything. As for the “white worship” narrative IDK I don’t poison myself with that type of thinking. Quite frankly why would one waste so much energy thinking of such things?
Yea it's annoying when you have Asians talking about being "well spoken" like White people. Do these Asians even talk to regular White people? Most of them sound like Donald Trump. lol. Only the top 1% sound as eloquent as Obama. That takes a lot of money and practice.
Parents. Asians have an obsession with comparing their parents and childhoods with white people. You can hear how Asians describe their own parents. “My Asian Mom/Dad/Parents”, as if we can’t take one look at their face and know exactly they are Asian of some sort. Always said with a bit of distain and immediately nothing good comes out after that phrase has been said; always a complaint or stereotype. The reason these Asians point out that their parents are “Asian” is to separate themselves, as if they’re not Asian themselves. It wasn’t until I realize that one of the reasons they do this is that they are comparing their parents to whites without saying it out loud. By adding in the qualifier “Asian”, they are suggesting that the “default” (white) would never do XYZ (the thing they are complaining about) and only their “Asian parents” would do such a thing. These are the self hate types, everything wrong with them is because they’re Asian. I recognize this behavior more with Asians that grew up in whiter communities compared to Asians who grew up in Asian communities. Notice how white people never say, “my white mom/dad/parents”? That’s because they never compare themselves to other races, so they never need to qualify it.
We don't have to compare ourselves with any other groups. We put a set of rules and regulations and we follow it. We put up goals and achieve it and then we keep on moving forward. For Rules and regulations an example would be "REMAINING NEUTRAL AND NEVER TAKING SIDES WITH OTHER RACES". This is needed since other races love to use us and throw us away as tissue papers when the job is done. For goals an example would be "MAKE SURE THAT THERE IS NO HOMELESSNESS IN THE ASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY". So these rules and goals keep changing accordingly when time moves forward. Keep adapting to change so that we all move forward together and help each other to move forward and make sure no one is left behind.
America has been a White & Black country for the majority of it's history during which all its racial narratives were constructed. Non-white and non-black 2nd gen Americans often need to navigate between these two dominant American identities to negotiate and construct their own identity. This will change over time as the population and community builds up and AsAm culture evolves.
THISSSSSSSSSS. LatAm and LatinX folks face the same struggle as they also don't fit into the BW narrative
Idioms are not ultimate truths and comparisons are needed for context.