Western countries have the highest suicide rates and the highest depression rates. Western countries also have the highest rates of drug use/substance abuse. Most westerners that I've encountered are very superficial and also very arrogant and many have an exaggerated feeling of self-importance. Many westerners are also very delusional as they see themselves as the centre of the world and that their way of doing things is the only correct way. Don't even get me started on western family values which are complete garbage. Western countries have the highest divorce and infidelity rates. They also have the highest rates of single parent households. Westerners are also extremely materialistic and status obsessed, they practically worship money and for many of them, the more material wealth you acquire, the greater your value as a human being. These toxic aspects of western culture combined with the poor family values are why I believe so many westerners are the damaged and delusional individuals that they are. Anyone have similar thoughts or any other thoughts they would like to share with me on this rather multifaceted topic.

Post about anything on your mind. Questions that don't need their own thread, your plans for the weekend, showerthoughts, fun things, hobbies, rants. News relating to the Asian community. Activism. Etc.

I know this may not pertain to everyone even the ones in maybe norcal but I find it weird that so many latinos know about Chinese history and not exactly the positive side either.

I was born here and im in my 30s now, but ive heard both southern born latinos and northern born chicano latinos talk about certaim things about China or Chinese people such as the one child policy and what was done to newborns especially if they were female.

But the one ive heard of alot especially in a negative tone was always the "dog eating" stereotypes, in particular for some reason they know about the specific like the Yulin festival. This is such a small part of China anyways and ive heard that there are many dog and animal lovers who dont condone the festoval anyway

I think propaganda may have been spread from the long and brutal gang wars in the 80s to the early 2000s in the US, which probably created alot of anti asian sentiment especially with the ABZ, Wah Ching and VBZ gangs.

In one of my classes im taking my black professor was talking about affirmative action. She basically was stating to the class how since AA got rolled back Asian enrollment actually went down while black enrollment stayed the same. She was saying this is what happens when minorities try to side with white supremacy and although not explicitly said was basically saying Asians were stupid for pushing against it. Saying that Asians were the ones who actually benefitted from affirmative action. This was all said in a gloating manner.

Honestly I haven’t been paying attention to what’s been going on with AA and I hadn’t heard about this so I immediately looked it up. A quick google search told me that while her statement is true for a handful of colleges, Asian enrollment in elite schools has actually shot up across the board.

This whole thing has been bugging me and pissing me off that a professor can say cherry picked things to a class to make another group of people look bad to push their point of view. It’s so irritating that whenever Asian people seemingly try to stand up for themselves it’s viewed as upholding white supremacy. As if we’re white.

I remember enrolling for my undergrad and feeling deflated knowing fully well that my grades/personality are looked at in a weird racist lens. If I do well, I’m most likely going to get pathologized thinking that it’s because I’m some no personality having non feeling robot. If I don’t do well, I don’t meet the extreme criteria needed for Asians to get in. Honestly I feel like a lot of us went through that and it’s disappointing that someone who’s supposed to be an educator is perpetuating racism in the name of fighting against racism. I just find it so ironic.

So my boss knows fully well that I’m Vietnamese and he randomly asks if I’m gonna dress up for Halloween and then suggests that I should dress up as a Chinese and then says “there probably wouldn’t be any difference anyway right?” He usually makes these jokes to make the people around him laugh and usually it works, but this time the 2 people that were in the room with me did not laugh and I just told him “I’m not even Chinese but whatever” and he just laughs it off and he seems to have completely ignored what I said again

https://wa.onenation.org.au/events

Just disappointed to see this stuff happening. For those unaware, Pauline Hanson and her party are known for their anti-immigration views. More recently, this has been directed against people from Islamic countries; however, she was notoriously anti-Asian around the late 90s to the early 2000s and actually used her maiden speech to Australian parliament to decry Asian immigration and evoke Yellow peril ("Australia is being swamped by Asians" and words to that effect).

I just find it surprising and sad that an Asian person is actually hosting this racist woman and her party. I've sent them a message telling them this; but doubt that I'll receive a response.

China is seen as the biggest enemy in the US and Canada.

I think our golden age as Asians was pre-2016/2019, when China was seen as a land of opportunity and K-Pop was becoming increasingly popular. Now, the Korean Wave seems to be on a low, but more importantly for many Americans, China is associated with being THE enemy, just as the Soviet Union was.

For these past 2 years, we’ve been lucky that Russia/Ukraine, and then Israel/Palestine, and the election have taken up all the headlines, and yet the constant barrage of negative news (sometimes even propaganda) is present on all American and Canadian mainstream media.

Small anecdote: I wasn’t aware of how bad this was, until I was on a tour in Hawai’i. It was a small tour group of older white Americans, everyone was really pleasant, and nice. But, one of the couples I was talking with during lunch did the “where are your parents from?” thing (which I don’t mind), and then proceeded to ask many kind of questions with talking points from like CNN or the BBC.

The discussion was nice and respectful, and the gentleman gave me his business card when the tour ended. But, this showed me two things, one I will always be associated with China and its actions, and two the “interest” or enmity towards China has exploded since COVID. A few years ago, no one even cared about China, but now, your average boomer is hooked on anti-China news.

In the coming years, as China-America competition worsens, I’m worried for the safety of Asian Americans (especially Chinese, but also the whole community as we’ve seen during COVID hate crimes). Those who live in enclaves might not have felt it yet, but I fear it’s coming. I’m not trying to fear monger, everyone should make up their own opinion. Russians have the luxury that they aren’t POC, but we are. This might get ugly :/

Tony Hinchcliffe racially insulting prior Comedian

We've been on this guy for years.

He called an Asian comedian "filthy little fucking chink". Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nuBByt8nZU .

Past Threads we've had on him.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/na42oz/stand_up_comedian_tony_hinchcliffe_said_filthy/

https://www.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/nbxjbv/tony_hinchcliffe_dropped_by_agents_for/

https://www.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/w9dis9/peng_dang_talks_standup_racist_tony_hinchcliffe/

https://www.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/olsebs/has_tony_hinchcliffe_apologised_for_being_racist/

https://www.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/ofll1e/tony_hinchcliffe_racist_standup_against_chinese/

https://www.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/naijn8/you_all_seen_this_shit_can_we_report_his_pages/

He made news in the Trump event by badmouthing Puerto Rico, but he's a serial racist, and just shows you what kind of people Trump's people are by inviting him as the opening speaker.

https://x.com/kangminjlee/status/1850738176471474385

I'm against slurs obviously as a matter of principle, but this is definitely an exception..

Johnny Somali + camera man in Korea

Can anyone translate?

Why does the female getting in the way?

What is the term to describe Asian looking to protect Somali?

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I checked out his post/comment history, and it seems, according to ChatGPT, the guy is speaking Portuguese with the Porta-Algerian dialect.

Hello,

I read about a group that supports African Americans who wish to move back to Africa. They provide relocation assistance and community introductions.
Homepage - RepatriatetoGhana.com

Is there any group like this for Asians in North America who is tired of the racism and who want to move back to Asia (HK, Singapore etc.)?

A community of like-minded people would be so helpful.

Hello, everyone!

I’m excited about the possibility of moving to a lovely little apartment in NYC’s Chinatown. The affordable groceries, delicious restaurants, and central location were big factors in my decision. However, after applying and putting down a deposit, I started to wonder if I’d be welcomed in the neighborhood. I deeply respect Chinatown’s history as a safe haven for the Chinese community and understand the desire to preserve its cultural space.

For example, I’ve always wanted to practice tai chi, drawn to the clarity, balance, and power it brings. While checking out the area, I found a traditional instructor nearby & would love to join, but I’m unsure if I would be welcomed and is it respectful.

I grew up in a diverse area and have always appreciated and felt comfortable around different cultures, including many Asian backgrounds. I’m hoping to be a respectful and positive presence in Chinatown and would love any recommendations on how I can support local businesses and integrate respectfully.

As someone who has faced discrimination, I don’t want to feel or cause discomfort. I’d love to hear any honest thoughts or advice.

Thank you for your time and insight!

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Just received this. Bro, do you really think an insult affects me?

Over my last few years (mainly lurking) on this subreddit, I've learned there are a few people who really like branding this subreddit as a bunch of "MRAzn's". This includes Celeste Ng, Reappropriate, and Frankie Huang.

I noticed that none of those 3 has posted on Twitter since July / August last summer. What gives? They can't find anything to blame on those dastardly mythical MRAzns anymore? They decided all of the problems in America are due to Bigfoot and Count Chocula, and not MRAzns?

My speculative theory is the real reason they all stopped tweeting is: Gaza. It may sound farfetched, but hear me out. All of Twitter is aflame with either (IMO righteous) indignation over the ongoing genocide in Gaza, or people angrily defending said genocide. What's this have to do with the AZnidentity haters?

Well, a lot of Asian women are married to Jewish men. Our 3 favorite boba Libs are either involved with Jewish men, or probably have tons of friends who are married to Jewish men. It's easy for them to spread racist lies about Asian men, but the moment they might say something bad about Israel's ongoing genocide? Ohhhhh shit, then they aren't getting invited to the Stein-Chang housewarming party anymore, and they can't have that! Plus maybe Soros won't bother funding Reappropriate anymore after something like that!

At the same time, right now Twitter expects everyone to have an opinion on what's happening in Gaza. And the vast majority of feminists on college campuses are bravely supporting the people of Palestine (often in the face of state sponsored violence). In fact, when I look at videos and photos of the protests, the majority of protestors seem to be young women. It's not a stretch to imagine these women are proud feminists.

So now our boba liberal friends see themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place: if they don't vocally support Palestine, they will be unaligned with the current generation of young feminists, their own feminist bona fide will be revealed to be flimsy, and everyone will see they cared less about feminist causes than about shitting on Asian men. On the other hand, if they support Palestine too vocally, they will lose funding, and more importantly, the Stein-Chang family will no longer invite them to parties (hmmmph! How rude!).

What's a boba liberal stuck between a rock and a hard place to do? Stop tweeting completely, maybe blame it on Elon turning X.com too right wing or something, and pray that the Gaza situation gets out of the headlines.

Next time you interact with a boba lib (on X.com or IRL), really push them for their thoughts on the Israel-Palestine issue. Push them for their thoughts on BRICS and how it's a great demonstration of POC unity. Ask them about how racism against Asians might be correlated with the difficulties the US is facing with the TSMC factory in Arizona. Watch them squirm and retreat, just like the boba libs I mentioned have retreated from Twitter. It is wise to keep track of these major changes in the world. If nothing else, geopolitics is the boba libs' kryptonite.

https://imnews.imbc.com/replay/2024/nwtoday/article/6650379_36523.html

This is from MBC, which is one of the biggest broadcasting stations in Korea.

I am so glad that they're blasting this asshole on national TV.

Hopefully Korea will now punish foreigners as much as the locals when they go around doing shit like this. Too many Americans here have been unpunished or barely any despite causing chaos to the locals. Especially US G.I.s (fuck them. Sorry not sorry).

White Americans in Asia demand even police obey them in Asia.

I've witnessed this entitled behavior in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Philippines & Thailand.

Recently watched video of some douchebag named Johnny Somali.

The cause is simple to understand, fairly certain it will worsen after US election whichever way it goes. How better should Asians in Asia handle?

I'm curious about Pan-Asian diaspora in North America, immigrant families from the 60s. The sun is setting for your grandparents, parents, or your generation. Beyond how you self-identify, are your attitudes shifting away from your ethnic communities, loved ones, elders and ancestors? How do you stay connected? How did they express their virtues and values and how do you want to remember them and express yours?

My inquiry began when I discovered a document from an Indian court displaying a portion of my father's family tree on paper that was about to crumble. My father and I started a fond in a provincial Archive in Canada as a 60s immigrant family. Donating personal records of his experiences as a post-colonial Asian immigrant in Canada, his memoirs, letters, activities, photographs, home movies, there is a treasure trove of stories and first hand accounts that I have not heard anywhere else and it fills the gap in the documentation of private records of South Asian diaspora. The one part of his life though that was starkly absent was how his story was to end. He avoided it completely. No will, no estate plan and no personal instruction for where his ashes should be scattered or what his views are on the afterlife. Looking back, his parents and grandparents were the same way though they were ritual practitioners. I can trace them back genetically, culturally, and historically but not in terms of personal values and virtues. They were truth seekers. The ellipses is liberating and fills me with curiosity for the kind of attitudes and situations people face.

My first impression of BRICS was that it seemed like a ineffectual social club.

Not too long ago, they had a meeting on creating a BRICS currency. I checked 10 years ago, they had a meeting on the exact same subject, and the details were almost identical. They accomplished nothing in those 10 years!

I wondered if 10 years from now, they would hold another meeting to create a currency that's clearly going nowhere.

Origin Story

The origin story of BRICS is a bit absurd. Goldman Sachs wrote a report in 2001 referencing the likely fast-growing nations around the world in the future. It was originally called BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China).

BRIC was coined in 2001 by Goldman, the organization didn't form until 8 years later (!) - as if someone woke up one day and was like, let's actually form an organization based on someone's convenient acronym in a financial report from several years ago. In 2010, South Africa joined- making BRIC -> BRICS.

To go from a moniker in a financial report to a real organization trying to do things together is a bit surreal.

What is going on Now with Brics

BRICS has created:

* New Development Bank (NDB): Established to provide funding for infrastructure and sustainable development projects. The NDB aims to create an alternative to the World Bank and IMF. $10B contributed, $40B callable.

* Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA): A financial safety net for member countries to provide liquidity during economic crises, totaling $200 billion. This appears to be on an as-needed basis, and China has committed to about 40% of it.

BRICS recently had a conference and expanded to 9 members (bold, newly added)-

1. Brazil
2. Russia
3. India
4. China
5. South Africa
6. UAE
7. Iran
8. Egypt
9. Ethiopia

And added 13 partner member

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Apparently a lot of other countries have expressed interest in joining BRIC....

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The role of BRICS appears to be to offer alternatives to the Western-dominated global organizations like the IMF and World Bank, especially in terms of finance; perhaps without directly challenging or confronting the organizations.

Some members have talked about their alternatives serving the purpose of reforming Western organizations.

I've wondered aloud about the Transatlantic Alliance, 5 Eyes, and NATO. If Democracy is underpinning these alliances, why is the world's largest democracy, India not part of them?

Or are these alliances based on something else?

Brics does not appear to be anything like the former USSR's Warsaw Pact. It is an informal group, an opportunity for the nations to meet and collaborate.

I went to college at Binghamton University during the late 2000s/early 2010s, and it was an unusually hostile environment towards Asians. It wasn't really the violence that was bad, but the psychological attacks and manipulation. I've read about the Bay Area, which has a reputation online for being racist to Asians despite their large population, and I noticed similarities. There seems to be a lot of Asians who are passionate in attacking their own community.

Sadly, at Binghamton it was often Asians themselves who were responsible for Asian hate. They were supposed to be "smart". Many came from specialized schools in NYC, and would go on to have high paying careers. However, for a bunch of supposedly intelligent people, they were easily manipulated and lacked common sense. The trashy locals were direct and obvious, but the white students were more of a factor as they constantly used divide and conquer tactics. This led to Asians fighting each other while others laughed at them. The arguments for why certain or all Asians should suffer were creative and bizarre. However, they were convincing enough to deceive many Asian students.

Too many used mental gymnastics type excuses when anti-Asian incidents occurred. When someone from my past school got his head bashed by a bat in a road-rage hate crime and the attacker got zero prison time, the Asians students argued it was the victim's fault for getting out of the car. When I got into some drama with racist students, the president of the Korean-American Student Association didn't want to pursue it. He claimed it was my fault because I should have gotten eye surgery. As for the Jeremy Lin ESPN "chink the armor" incident, almost nobody recognized it as racism and were enraged that I brought it up. There's countless other examples I could go on about.

One of the Asian frats had a white guy. He would constantly talk bad about Asian males in front of his "brothers". He literally walked around with groups of different Asian girls every week. He was extremely popular among them, and known to hookup with entire Asian sororities.

It was the native Asians who were more likely to stand up against racism. In fact, many of them were amused at how submissive some of the Asian-Americans were. However, there were plenty of exceptions. Some native Asians chose the submissive way, and some Asian-Americans fought back.

There were attempts to shame Asian guys for any reason. I heard that Asian guys shouldn't be muscular or athletic because it's toxic and they should be punished for the past. Of course, they didn't say the same for whites or blacks. When some Asian students found out that I used to fight as a teen for defending myself against racists, they labeled me as violent and the aggressor. When discussing incidents in NYC such as Asians defending themselves from blacks in Bayside High, many were furious that the Asians were being "violent". The worst cases were when some of them admitted to being submissive, and in their twisted mind were proud to identify as so because that's "Asian culture".

Recently just went through my old playlist from middle school and it was filled with so much niche YouTube artists and tumblr music (lol). Something about those shitty music lyric videos reaches into my emo/rebellious 11-12 year old heart. Kind of crazy looking back at how Asians dominated early internet culture. I was just wondering if anyone has songs/memories they want to share from back in the day. Some things I used to listen to, "My L-O-V-E"- the League, "You were my everything" - Aviation, "Bottom Dollar" - D-Pryde, "Nobody Will Love You Like I Do" - Stevie Hoang, "Broken Yet Holding On" - Roni Tran.

Twitter link

https://x.com/BrentScher/status/1850164642108092804

Imgur link if you can't see it on Twitter

https://imgur.com/a/WjfYQau

Thoughts?

Checkout this nasty private message I received, probably in response to my Asmongold post from a week ago.

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