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I'm Asian - are you? Personally, I am pretty tired of my race being weaponized against other racial minorities in the USA, and doubly sick of it being done by p
by potatolicious 12y ago
I'm Asian - are you? Personally, I am pretty tired of my race being weaponized against other racial minorities in the USA, and doubly sick of it being done by people who aren't even aware of the Asian-American experience.
The fact that Asians have "done well" in no way implies the lack of racism - and we face plenty of it ourselves, though certainly not to the same tune as blacks and hispanics in this country.
While we're not stereotyped as criminals or parasites, we are stereotyped as weak and single-minded. Asian-American representation in management (or even just technical leadership) is disproportionate to their representation in the rank and file as a result. We also suffer from a whole boatload of "positive" stereotypes that ultimately prove limiting as second- and third-generation Asian-Americans try to exceed the stereotypically associated roles for them.
Try talking to an Asian artist or musician and see how the "logical and good at math" stereotypes works for them.