kotaline:
ourlightsinvain:
kotaline:
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i remember my second-grade classmates making fun of the hanbok on my korean “culture doll” i made as a school project where we had to make dolls representing our backgrounds. i glanced enviously at the british ones.
that’s the fucking thing, isn’t it, because you remember that shit, and all the asian jokes your fucking friends and classmates make pile up and then, THEN you have the anglophile phase because being asian is opening yourself up to mockery simply by being asian, and when you get over it and look back, you realize one of the reasons why you had it and you just feel kind of queasy and sick. but if you tell anybody, even people you know and like, there’s a 90 percent chance you’re gonna get told that you’re being overdramatic or overreacting, or making shit up that wasn’t there, making shit up about your own feelings and experiences.
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of microaggressions. :\ I’m really sorry you had to go through that. I’m really sorry any of us had to go through that. And then you hit the point in your teens when all of a sudden all the cool kids are eating the Pocky they made fun of you for bringing to school as a child and you have a hard time explaining why you snort cynically at many of your white friends’ participation in Well-Meaning Fandom Diversity and… yeah. I’ve got nothing deep or insightful to add here, just: that sucks. I see you and I hear you. I know it’s true.
Yeah, some other people have commented with their own experiences. I’m just going to post them without commentary. Explaining these things to Well-Meaning Friends is especially exhausting, because they are trying, and you know they’re trying, but sometimes you just want to tell them to shut the fuck up because you’ve had enough about hearing how your taking them to a pho restaurant or whatever “expands their horizons” or how they’ve microanaylzed the diversity in Thing You Both Like because they just don’t get it, not really, and you have no way of explaining it to them without sounding like an ass.
lol yeah. Their clueless John Cho gifsets and meta. The innocent way they marvel the first time they see dolsot bibimbap and report back to their friends like a wide-eyed young anthropologist on their first field mission. It’s not even malicious, it’s just… wearisome. And impossible to explain.
kotaline:
ourlightsinvain replied to your
post: sometimes when i encounter people on the internet…
i remember my second-grade classmates making fun of the hanbok on my korean “culture doll” i made as a school project where we had to make dolls representing our backgrounds. i glanced enviously at the british ones.
that’s the fucking thing, isn’t it, because you remember that shit, and all the asian jokes your fucking friends and classmates make pile up and then, THEN you have the anglophile phase because being asian is opening yourself up to mockery simply by being asian, and when you get over it and look back, you realize one of the reasons why you had it and you just feel kind of queasy and sick. but if you tell anybody, even people you know and like, there’s a 90 percent chance you’re gonna get told that you’re being overdramatic or overreacting, or making shit up that wasn’t there, making shit up about your own feelings and experiences.
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of microaggressions. :\ I’m really sorry you had to go through that. I’m really sorry any of us had to go through that. And then you hit the point in your teens when all of a sudden all the cool kids are eating the Pocky they made fun of you for bringing to school as a child and you have a hard time explaining why you snort cynically at many of your white friends’ participation in Well-Meaning Fandom Diversity and… yeah. I’ve got nothing deep or insightful to add here, just: that sucks. I see you and I hear you. I know it’s true.
Grumbling
zenaldehyde:
troisroyaumes:
Randomly stumbled across a post that made the claim that a lot of East Asian languages stemmed from the same language and shared cognates, just like European Romance languages! This post was specifically a critical response to the Cho Chang video that made the mistake of assuming “Cho” and “Chang” are only family names in Korean. Funny how both things trigger my “someone is Wrong on the Internet!” response.
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Tangential personal note: my surname is neither the Korean 조 (duh, ‘cos I’m not Korean) nor the Chinese 趙, but 曹, pronounced Chao in Mandarin. (曹操的曹, as we used to say in Chinese school!)
I assume it’s been transliterated as Cho because that is how you pronounce it in Hakka — but I do not know because I do not speak or understand Hakka, despite being Hakka on both sides of the family. (Peranakan Hokkien 4eva!)
handsomeasians:
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I cannot better Wikipedia’s description of Handsome Asian Ko Un.
Ko Un is a South Korean poet. His works have been translated and published in more than 15 countries and he has been imprisoned many times.
#koreankidproblems
“Young [Surname] has added you to [some LinkedIn thing you don’t check]”
- *frysquint* not sure if mom, uncle, other uncle, or aunt
- the fact that your relatives add you on LinkedIn, not Facebook
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