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Interesting that nobody already pointed out how wrong conflating Asians with Chinese feels.

• bitxbitxbitcoin 4y ago
  Taiwanese American here, I came here to point it out.
• dheera 4y ago
  Chinese ⊂ Asian. I see no problem with the way it is worded. The article also only speaks to a subset of the Chinese community, so there's nothing inherently more "wrong" about saying "Asian" than "Chinese". There are people in China that don't enjoy the things mentioned in the article. So it's a generalization either way. But that's okay. It's one perspective, if you read it as such I think it's a useful perspective to open people up, and the article doesn't say anything damaging, it just says what a certain group of people enjoy doing. Sometimes I think people read into these words a bit too much. As an Asian myself I think often that political correctness is often overdone and that hinders the ability of the Asian and Asian-American communities to rise. Nobody says anything when white people make stereotypes that only apply to American white people or Western Europeans. Nobody says they're "conflating Americans with white people" and how wrong that is. They just let the information flow and append to the discourse. You might see a eastern European white person chip in and say how they celebrate something differently. Often I see in the Asian community that the response is to reject the article altogether, and I don't think that's helpful. If you have another different Asian perspective on what you enjoy doing on the weekends, write another blog post, please, and get it out there. Be constructive. More representation is always good. But complaining about one group sharing positive aspects of their culture just because they used the word "Asian" hurts the entire community more than it helps.