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Not sure if I will get down-voted with this opinion, blamed for turning a blind eye for a social issue. But I grew up in Asia (I am Asian). My ethnicity is als
by christiansakai 7y ago
Not sure if I will get down-voted with this opinion, blamed for turning a blind eye for a social issue.
But I grew up in Asia (I am Asian). My ethnicity is also a minority there. I came to the US 10 years ago, and had some cultural shock regarding racial and diversity issues.
First, my jokes were mostly offensive to people here. We grew up making jokes about marital status and body image. We told people things like "you're so fat, you need to lose weight", and "why are you still single?" and no one was ever offended. Little did I know that things are different here.
But, the second one was quite surprising. I had a conversation to a female friend. She was telling me that she wanted to go to a business school. I asked why business school, and her another female friend immediately intervened and answered angrily "oh why not? because she is female?" and I was like "what just happened?" because I was confused. That was one instance, and there were other instances where I was accused of "mansplaining". I had to google what that keyword was because I thought I encountered a new English word that I didn't know that I need to add to my vocabulary.
Also during my conversation with (mostly Asian) friends here , they sometimes brought the topic of "Bamboo Ceiling" and I was honestly didn't know what was that about until I googled it.
To be honest (and this is where I think I would be down-voted), I've never experienced such a thing called "Bamboo Ceiling" or I have to be white to be successful (well, the definition of successful varies between people) and I just go on with my life as usual, thinking that such ceiling is just some imaginary ceiling made by my (mostly Asian) friends.
But I do aware of the impact of diversity programs against Asians. We're dime a dozen lol.