Love is Blind is a fairly diverse show but what do you think of their Asian representation?

Love Is Blind Season 4 Diversity Matrix

As a gay Asian, I feel like I can relate to both genders from a certain lens. Most of my educated female friends said they would not "lower" their lifestyle to support a man who makes significantly less than them.

Honestly, I always find most men to financially support their wives who make less than them. These men tend to be happy.

As a gay man, at first, I wouldn't mind supporting my partner, but when I think about what the women say, it infuriates me. If you don't support me when you are well off, then I do not need to support you. This is a double standards and not fair to men.

My parents, who emigrated from India to the United States, both worked as farmers to provide me with a brighter future and opportunities they never had. However, they were disappointed to learn of the various challenges I have encountered, despite their best efforts. As a bisexual individual coping with mental illness, I found myself feeling isolated, as my family’s conservative beliefs and immigrant work ethic did not lend themselves to discussing these topics openly. I yearned for the day when I could fearlessly introduce myself as “Ria Patel”, embracing all facets of my identity without the fear of judgement or rejection. But my fears proved unfounded when my parents embraced me with open arms and encouraged me to seek help for my mental illlness, recognizing that living in America could offer hope and the promise of a better future. Thus, I sought out treatment and learned that I was suffering from Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Depression-diagnoses that both confirmed and alleviated my struggles. Receiving my diagnosis brought me to tears, not from sadness, but from validation. The Indian community had made me feel like my mental health struggles were a form of madness, but the diagnosis showed that I had a treatable condition. With renewed purpose, I sought help through therapy and medication, which helped me reclaim my well-being. Yet the question always remained, why am I the only Indian that grappled with these challenges? But I wasn’t the only one. I was one of the few willing to openly discuss the topic. To address this lack of dialogue and raise awareness in South Asian communities, I founded a non-profit organization called Project Shakti. Project Shakti aims to combat the stigma surrounding mental health in South Asian cultures, which stems from a lack of knowledge and understanding about mental illness. Many people in these cultures may not recognize warning signs or may be hesitant to seek help due to misconceptions about mental health being a sign of weakness or shame. As part of Project Shakti's mission to promote engaging mental health education, I established a Redbubble account offering merchandise that promotes awareness of mental illness and a donation page supporting the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Our organization's blog offers multiple perspectives on mental health to combat isolation, while the PS Story podcast shares a teenager's unique perspective on coping with mental illness. Additionally, we are launching a children's book that emphasizes the importance of accepting mental illness at any age. Project Shakti's message of embracing individuality and acceptance deeply resonates with my experiences of navigating the challenges of being diagnosed. I hope to contribute to a community that empowers individuals to celebrate diversity and embrace their unique identities. Because that to me is embracing the American dream.

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I go to a sports club and there are some people who are of Asian descent and they make racist comments to each other. I am not understanding why this is happening. I am White (Eastern European settler to North America) so I wonder if my presence is making them think this is a good idea. Since I can’t imagine why they would do that if it was only their ethnic group.

I relate to this since I faced racism for my ethnic group in the workplace from White (English settler to North America) people. I would sometimes feed into the comments to be liked but among my own ethic group we knew the jokes were stupid and racist and fake so it didn’t make sense to make them.

I want to call them out on it since I also sensed a few of them were voicing discomfort but it was all jokingly too. Like “stooooop” or “I wish to report a hate crime”. I feel it isn’t my place to tell them to stop if I am white but at the same time I myself am also uncomfortable. Like I am trying to unlearn racism I want to be anti-racist yet here they are regurgitating the same racist things. I also feel bad for them since something happened for them to internalize that this is okay. I can’t imagine this feeling good. Like no one is born thinking their eyes are too small. That’s only in reference to if we think double eye lid eye are somehow “default”.

We are looking for donations to help fund our trip to play in a baseball tournament in the Korean American National Sports Festival in New York this summer. Here is the website if you guys are interested to learn about it. https://www.ny23.org/en

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Thank you for your time and really appreciate it!

I am reading this https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8DN49SV

I am seeing the aspect of culture playing a role in how Asians would be going about resolving conflict. The workplace in question is the military. I am wondering what kinds of suggestions you would have in terms of what could make reporting misconduct concerns easier on people socialized in the Asian culture?

On pages 22-24 it explains some aspects that I would like to include into the culturally sensitive analysis