One time, I was hanging with my best friend and she heard two girls talking shit about us in Korean, so she went up to them and told them she understood them. they look scared shitless and then speedwalked away
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Asian-GAF: We're all the same, like Stormtroopers |OT| |AT|
- Thread starter Cybit
- Start date
One time, I was hanging with my best friend and she heard two girls talking shit about us in Korean, so she went up to them and told them she understood them. they look scared shitless and then speedwalked away
BLOODED_hands
Member
It's funny yet dumb at the same time. Funny because you understood everything they said and dumb because, well, why would you be talking shit about other people around you? Your incident makes it worst for them because they were in earshot distance!
I've done my fair share of shit talking other Asians and non-Asians. I don't usually talk any shit anymore because it's childish, and only leads to inane situations.
Yeah, there were these customers from HK apparently chatting shit about the food at Benhihana throughout the meal and the chef told me at the end he said something in Cantonese at the end (SA Asian dude).
To be honest, my partner and I like to chat shit in English when in Tokyo so I understand why people do it.
To be honest, my partner and I like to chat shit in English when in Tokyo so I understand why people do it.
Why are you working with Sarah Palin?
The mischievous side of me wonders if this was all an elaborate psyholcogical trick Backslash Bunny played on you to get YOU to pay.....
Where the hell were you camping?
I'm in Vancouver, BC... plenty of Asians and other non-white people go camping and hiking around these parts.
I've never done the pretend that you don't speak unaccented fluent English before but I have thought of it... I think it would be a lot of fun! A good opportunity has yet to present itself to me.... Or, more accurately, I have yet to recognize a good opportunity.
I used to know a guy who had some fun with this. He was from Hong Kong, and, despite coming over here at the age of 10, his English was flawless and had no accent whatsoever, not even a British one (It's Hong Kong...) After he graduated with his teaching degree he manage to land himself a position teaching at a local high school. On Day 1 he introduces himself in front of the class, speaking with a heavy Cantonese accent. He could see the "aww shit, really?!" looks on the faces of some of his students - keep in mind that most of these students are not White, and about half of them are Asian, albeit Canadian born Asians. But slowly and gradually his fades away the Cantonese accent as he speaks... Different students pick up on it at different times and he told me that their WTF reactions were hilarious.
My grandmother's cousin is a Vietnamese woman who married into a Hoa (Vietnamese but ethnic Chinese, and culturally VERY Chinese) family, so she learned to speak Cantonese fluently.
One day the 2 of them went shopping for groceries in Chinatown. One of the store's cashiers says to her co-worker, "Watch out for those two! They are Vietnamese, so they might try to steal." They bring up their purchases up to the cashier and my grandmother's cousin speaks to the cashier in perfect Cantonese.
The look on that cashier's face.... LOL!
He's just...he lives very happily in his suburb and never comes down to the Big Scary City.
Other conversations:
"My suburb has the best Chinese food! Goofalo, where can you go to get Chinese food this awesome in the Big City?"
"Well, we have a Chinatown...so that is where I go."
What year is it hehehe.
BLOODED_hands
Member
That's the weird part..... I live in one of the states right below Canada, Minnesota. We live in the Twin Cities, our camping spot was about 1.5 miles away from the Twin Cities..... The locals (besides the store clerks) were polite and went on their way.
The looks and the two incidents I mentioned earlier are truly baffling.
Lol.... It was damn hard for us to make rice while camping. It was, for some of the group, our first time actually camping and not staying in a cabin so you can imagine how unprepared we were 😂
Since anyone can be Chinese -- I can reclaim that 1/8th 23andme refused to pick up on and will wear traditional Chinese clothes.
qualifications:
-- can use chopsticks since age of 7
-- childhood spent with half Chinese family
-- went to Chinese college
-- worked in and near Chinatown
-- helped zeemumu out-Asian bsb
-- bonus: can say nigga and nei ge
Accept me.
qualifications:
-- can use chopsticks since age of 7
-- childhood spent with half Chinese family
-- went to Chinese college
-- worked in and near Chinatown
-- helped zeemumu out-Asian bsb
-- bonus: can say nigga and nei ge
Accept me.
Gully State
Member
I mean as an Asian American I don't think any of us really identify 100% as culturally or even nationally American nor does the major population at large accept us fully as American
That's awfully romantic
Septimus Prime
Member
Honestly, for me, the author's opinion doesn't really bother me, and I even agree to the extent that perception of nationality shouldn't be as restrictive as it is. Maybe it's because I haven't read most of the posts in that thread (or even read the article thoroughly) that I feel this way, though.
On another note, and PMPs in here? I'm studying the material now, and I think the materials are some of the dumbest things I've ever read. Like, they are complicated for the sake of being complicated, and the way things are arranged, it's like they purposely chose the worst way to present the material. It's like jargon on top of jargon, and most of it just explains basic concepts in real life.
My favorite is that a lot of the study materials start off by just giving you a shitload of equations to memorize without telling you what the fuck they are even for or why you might want to know them. It's the best way to make easy math hard and confusing.
On another note, and PMPs in here? I'm studying the material now, and I think the materials are some of the dumbest things I've ever read. Like, they are complicated for the sake of being complicated, and the way things are arranged, it's like they purposely chose the worst way to present the material. It's like jargon on top of jargon, and most of it just explains basic concepts in real life.
My favorite is that a lot of the study materials start off by just giving you a shitload of equations to memorize without telling you what the fuck they are even for or why you might want to know them. It's the best way to make easy math hard and confusing.
Septimus Prime
Member
Yeah, that's stupid. I'm often the only person wearing random, videogame-inspired Woot shirts. I guess that makes me more a gamer than anyone else.
It's the Project Management Professional certification. It would be kind of like the CPA, but for managers. There's only one test, though, but you need a shitload of experience to be able to take it, do it's a quick way to prove that you have the EXP.
I don't really have time to study. I have some materials on my phone, so I read some here and there, and I do an online class for an hour or two per night, after everyone else is in bed.
Gully State
Member
I wonder what period of traditional Chinese clothing he's speaking of.... since he's a scholar the guy probably goes to conferences with a full on traditional silk robe and has his coins tied around his neck..
I did think it was a little odd that you kept turning to talk to an empty chair...
You had Act carry on an entire conversation with an empty car seat.
He doesn't have the guts to go full eunuch.
Seductivpancakes
Member
Been reading that dumb thread slowly all morning. Before I read each post, I'm left wondering is the casual racism going to pop here or nah.
I take more of an issue the fact that this scholar felt the need to vocalize his opinion the way he does. I actually do agree with some of his points because I see myself coming across the same issues of having to defend my status as a born American when some question my nationality. I won't challenge him by saying he's not Chinese. In fact I will say he is Chinese.
But when you say you're the only one dressed in traditional garbs when no one else is then I question how much you romanticize your culture. Nobody likes a try hard.
Gully State
Member
Nationality wise, sure I agree he should be Chinese...but his definition of what it means to be Chinese is so goddamn simplistic and superficial. I dress more traditionally and practice Confucianism? wtf....
YesNOnoNOYes
Member
Dude out-china other Chinese people.
Wannabe level: MAX OUT
Wannabe level: MAX OUT
Seductivpancakes
Member
If he out Chineses the Chinese, does that make us Chinese, the wannabes?
It's the version of the argument we make about wanting to be seen as American but just coated in thick white privilege.
Septimus Prime
Member
Yeah, but see, I wear American clothes all the time.
YesNOnoNOYes
Member
Yeah but NOT ONLY I wear Australian clothes all the time, OTHER Australians are not even wearing them Australians clothes anymore.
Sooooooooooooooo...
Also I am more into the Australian philoso-religion than Australians themselves!
Sooooooooooo......
Sooooooooooooooo...
Also I am more into the Australian philoso-religion than Australians themselves!
Double
Most weeaboos try to be Japanese though.
For proof just go in any thread where China is painted negatively, as an aggressor in a dispute, or is the butt of a joke and watch them all pile shit and spew racist or borderline stuff. Especially if Japan also features in the topic.
I don't have an issue with his struggle for the most part and I sympathise somewhat, but his argument really unwinds when he talks about wearing traditional garb to a conference. That just shows you're completely out of touch with modern Chinese culture since it's no longer normal to do that. Understanding appropriateness is pretty important.
Anyway, the major difference with the writer and someone identifying as American or Australian is that there are three ways to be Chinese: culturally (as he self-identifies), as a nationality (which he isn't there yet), and ethnically (which is impossible for him). I know it sucks for him, but a lot of people will take the ethnic component into consideration. Unfortunately, that's a major factor in countries that are mostly ethnically homogenous - people equate ethnicity with nationality.
Conversely, to be American or Australian, there's only a cultural or nationality component because most of the population would fail if the term only applies to Native Americans or Indigenous Australians.
So for me, I call myself Australian - that's my nationality and the majority of my cultural identity, but also Chinese - that's my ethnicity but also a major part of my cultural identity. If anyone disagrees about the Australian part because I'm not white, I tell them to fuck right off, because frankly, it's Un-Australian to think that way.
YesNOnoNOYes
Member
omg hiro is in aussie like me???
* ___ *
where is hiroro
(im in melbourne, its so cold this week wtf)
* ___ *
where is hiroro
(im in melbourne, its so cold this week wtf)
Im in Sydney LOL
As someone living on the other side of the Tasman this is where I'm at too.
YesNOnoNOYes
Member
Southern hemisphere unite \o/
IAmtheFMan
Member
Today with a patient I saw in consultation in the hospital.
Me: Hi I'm Dr. (my name). I'm one of the neurologists, and your doctor wanted me to come by and see you.
Him: Hi. I'm a big fan of Godzilla.
Me:... okay!
Casual racism at its finest. He also apparently said some sexist shit to my resident too.
Me: Hi I'm Dr. (my name). I'm one of the neurologists, and your doctor wanted me to come by and see you.
Him: Hi. I'm a big fan of Godzilla.
Me:... okay!
Casual racism at its finest. He also apparently said some sexist shit to my resident too.
IAmtheFMan
Member
^- WTF lol.
Is this one of those cases when you can say racists have mental disorders
Not this time unfortunately. He was just an asshole.
BLOODED_hands
Member
Did you remind him of the good lord Cthulhu or the other dark lord, Spaghetti Monster?
YesNOnoNOYes
Member
Hey Ynnny when I go to Australia will you have dinner with us
Of course!
AND I WILL PAY FOR IT, TOO >:3
No. I insist.
Septimus Prime
Member
What about me, when/if I go to Australia?
Evangelists don't read the Bible, silly.
YesNOnoNOYes
Member
First we will vote for Lunch or No Lunch on D1. Then nearing the end of day, we will scramble to pay for the bill.
I foresee it.
How many of you guys are Canadian, anyways? My branch of the family is basically the only part that lives in America, everyone else is in Canada (Toronto and some rural areas)
Every time I want to go to Pacific mall in Toronto none of my cousins want to go because it's no longer fun for them to gawk at stuff there >.>
Every time I want to go to Pacific mall in Toronto none of my cousins want to go because it's no longer fun for them to gawk at stuff there >.>
Sup.