Mmmmmm dont you love being taiwanese but so many people are like, oh are you chinese?? Japanese??? Wait isnt taiwan a part of china?? Whatever yall look the same?? Ever had someone ask if you put soy fucking sauce in your rice bc youre eastern asian, “i thought thats what asian people do!!!” Okay but bitch what part of fucking asia are you talking about????
Oh wow i love asian girl.. OK BITCH BUT NO BC THAT IS SO PROBLEMATIC ON SO MANY LEVELS LIKE HONESTLY smh so many pissin me off with their narrow minded views, and like i try to educate them on eastern asian culture and then theyre like “but itsnt it like this??” Like were you even fucking listening??
“Omg if youre asian you totally watch anime!!! What do you think of naruto??” Like the fuck?? Dont assume all asian people watch anime, and like what part of fucking asia are you reffering to???
And also ive had so many people ask me if ive eaten cats abd i cant describe how fucking pissed this makes me and how much i was the smack the fucking disrespect out of ur face,
and like when i see other people disrespect their parents (its normally white people if im being real) like? Do you have no respect for the people who gave birth to you, and sacraficed so much of their like to put you in priority???
Also i get so mad when i see so many fucking white washed movies, like why is it that fucking hollywood makes eastern asian people either the fucking villian or the old man who teaches the white person gongfu like??? Wow ok thanks, why cant we have a japanese person play a role thats ment for a japanese person??? Like in memoirs of a geisha its a korean/chinese person that plays the main girl, and like white people are like wow!!! This is so progressive!!! But its really not bc it teaches people that it’s ok to assume that japanese/chinese/korean/taiwanese/etc all look the same, but WE FUCKING DONT
and the whole thing with wow let me wear this kimono!!! Im so hipp and cultured!! #cochella!! Omg florals!!! This makes me so mad bc my grandparents lived when taiwan was under japanese rule, and kimonos are used for cerimonial purposes, and like??? This is defacing japaness fucking culture and im so heated about peoples ignorace and lack of ability to apolojize and educate themselves about it
if some bitch thinks its okay to just say every eastern asian person is chinese you smack that bitch and educate them on how fucking hard it is!!! And how there is no asian representation in most media, and you tell them its not okay to mash so many cultures together and to call it fucking “asian culture”
and honestly, im glad that there is a blacklivesmatter movement, and there is so much of poc rep in tumblr community, but out of it, there is rarely any of western/eastern asian cultures, plus the differences between them, and BASICALLY I NEED MORE REPRESENTATION OF DIFFERENT POC CULTURES bc it honestly sucks growing up and the only movie i related to was mulan, and she was chinese, and i was taiwanese. I grew up wanting blue eyes, and curly hair. I grew up in a white childhood. I lost my representaion, so even today i can barely even speak to my relatives, and it makes me so sad.
I grew up with kids my age asking me what ching chong means in chinese. I had people ask my why i dont wear a kimono to school. Ive had people ask me if i bind my feet. Ive had people ask me if i eat cats for breakfast. I had people ask me if i draw with a yellow highlighter on my skin, whether or not it will show up. Ive had someone yell at me to go back to china to work in a sweatshop. I had someone randomly ask me if i could teach them karate. I had someone tell me that chinese and taiwanese are the same thing. And some people are so naive that i want to cry.
