wy | 18 | she/them | nationality: Singaporean | ethnicity:Chinese (semi-taoist-atheist)
“Yellow”.
Yellow: happiness, brightness, sunflowers. Of course,Chinese people,
since I'm chinese but I'm aware this can be used torefer generally to
east Asians. Yellow - prosperity, Chinese New year deco, emperor's
robes.
I wouldn't be offended to being called yellow unlessit was purposely
being used as slang, my skin tone is very yellow andI'm proud of it.
There is a certain amount of racism and such beingfaced in America
and other non-asian countries, so I consider myselfvery lucky to stay in
a place with chinese/asian majority!
“Asian”.
Being asian: Asian is a very large umbrella to groupa good chunk of
the world under, but to me being asian is my heritage,family and how I
was brought up. Defining if someone is asian is difficult,since
especially nowadays, many people want to be more "white"(another
vague umbrella term) since that's what out societyseems to be more
acceptive of, not just in skin color but also in cultureand world views.
It's a shame that many people seem to be discardingtheir heritage and
I can't claim to have not done it, to an extent globalisationis inevitable
and thus the watering down of cultures would happen- this likely has
occured to every single culture and person.
To me, being born asian (asian parents) would meanthat physically and
genetically, you're Asian, but that's different frombeing culturally asian.
For example, being raised by non-asian parents wouldgive you
different values and culture, but genetically, you'restill asian. Does it
matter? Not really, we're all still human. Many asiansdiscriminate
against each other from different races and countriesand so on, which
sucks :< imo there's no defining thing to make someoneasian, if you
tick the box of genetics and culture, then who's stoppingyou from
calling yourself asian? TLDR; Asian = a person withparents from
Asia/are culturally asian, no matter which countryin asia they're from.
What brings Asians together: I think having a somewhatsimilar base to
come together helps us get along, especially for Asiansliving in
non-asian countries. It's a mix of morals, culturesand experience!
Ethnicity|part1.
Hmm! Proud, since it's my ethnicity, and I would sayit's something I
have an interest in - now, living in a very multiculturalsociety that
speaks english puts my culture on the backseat, soI would say it's not
something I'm too familiar with at times. An interestto learn more
about it in an engaging manner (ie. Not lists writtenby a poorly
researched intern living in kansas), perhaps throughmore social
interaction? Sometimes a bit embarrassed, being proudof it yet not
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