Generality:“Yellow”. 165
Anonymous | nationality: Australian | ethnicity: Chinese
“Yellow”.
i associate the term “yellow” with mostly negativethings. often it’s
been used to make me feel less pure than my whitefriends, or
unnaturally coloured (i’ve been called a highlighterbefore ). it’s
definitely not a term i want to reclaim, but i canunderstand why other
people would (in the same vein as black people wishingto use black as
a descriptor again).
to be honest “yellow” only seems to apply to eastasians, and since
asians come in a range of skin tones, pretty inaccurate.i find personally
even east asians are more of a brown tone than yellow;especially bc it
covers parts like south and southeast asians better.it also serves to
humanise us a bit more i think ??
“Asian”.
I believe genetics defines being asian. no matterhow immersed a white
person could be in asian culture, no matter if theywere born and raised
in an asian country: they're still white.
genetics is also the reason asians have monolids,wider noses, etc. and
we're oppressed for it. in a way, it's brought ustogether: with a
suffering other poc can understand, but not entirelyrelate to. generally
we're discriminated against for slightly differentthings, i think.
Ethnicity|part1.
chinese, communist, disconnected ר
i used to be really proud of my ethnicity, maybe evenpatriotic, but with
everything that’s been brought to light recently +just growing up in
general, i’ve realised i probably shouldn’t make mywhole personality a
china stan account. i assimilated very quickly intowhite culture as a
child, and when you can’t even speak your mother tongueit’s pretty
embarrassing.
it’s also caused me to be accused, whether lightheartedlyor genuinely,
to be a communist spy or a dog/cat eater, etc. sometimesi wish i could
be white or japanese or filipino so i wouldn’t haveto deal with it; but at
the same time there are thousands of years of cultureto be proud of,
and i really do want to reconnect with it someday.
Ethnicity|part2.
i think my perception of my ethnicity is definitelyrooted in me, it’s not
something i can change; easily or not. even if i,like, get plastic surgery
or move out and stop celebrating chinese holidaysand practicing
chinese customs, it’s still a part of me. i realiseconstantly wanting to
change something i can’t is probably very detrimentalto myself in the
long run.
the other part is i suppose what growing up in a westerncountry that
was severely and openly racist until very recently,has impacted on me.
more innocuously is the cultural assimilation as thearea i live in is
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