Comments on: Don’t disrespect me because I’m Asian!

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By: Hybridboy

Hybridboy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:36:14 +0000

David, your words echo my heart. It’s about time someone spoke up about this. Even in Korea, whites are privileged and so immune to that privilege. Observing the racial dynamics as an Asian American in Asia is certainly an eye-opening experience.

By: jenni

jenni — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:40:13 +0000

absolutely agree with you here. i think the bigger problem isn’t that i found the material as funny (because I didn’t), it just didn’t faze me at all. i’m really starting to wonder why it didn’t or if it really should.

whichever way, it’s making me think… and that’s always good.

can’t wait to see you!

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By: Dancelikedavid

Dancelikedavid — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:58:28 +0000

I appreciate your ability to step into the shoes of all perspectives in this. It is so easy to become embittered toward ignorant peoples when what is really needed is education in a graceful way. By exercising your voice, all can be more reconciled than if only silence spoke.

By: Steve Orris

Steve Orris — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:06:43 +0000

I am white. I grew up in a community that was 98% white and a church that was 100% white. I didn’t know any better.
My parents never said one bad word about any other culture or color of people. But through lack of familiarity with people who are different from me I have no clue how they perceive things.
It is so refreshing to hear your perspective on issues like this. You define and describe for me a part of my education that has been lacking for too long.
Jesus was not white; but for many people, “Christianity” is white. It is hard to separate religion from the culture we grow up in. Therefore we think that to “do religion” the “right” way is to do it our way. That is so wrong.
God has created a variety of people with various backgrounds and cultures. By understanding each other more we learn more about the God who created us.
One of the biggest surprises many will get in heaven is to find out who else is there.

By: RL

RL — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:37:02 +0000

I didn’t catch the whole reason for the offense, so I briefly scanned the book. I still don’t know if the content was offensive inside the cover, but I can certainly see how ninjas on the front of a book that is not about ninjas is tasteless and offensive.

I appreciate you talking about this issue and sharing your heart. I think sometimes it’s easy for people to not see a different culture than their own because they are only used to experiencing what is normal to them. And so people miss out on the beauty of what is different.

It’s not easy to understand differences and then embrace them. This is likely true for both race and class.

Do you think your experience as an Asian-American and some of the examples you wrote about helps you to more readily understand other cultures and be compassionate to some of the plights people face?

Thanks, Dave.

By: Lovelee Brown

Lovelee Brown — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:22:36 +0000

woa p. Dave, looks like you are pretty darn popular here.

Race of course is a pretty hot issue, as americans its one of our big fat elephants that we don’t like to acknowledge but once provoked does seem to make a lot of noise. I totally agree, asian americans haven’t really made a voice for themselves despite their long history in this country, countless acts of social discrimination, laws against miscegenation, immigration ect… but I have an inkling that the reason behind this pacifist may be two fold. Though I hate to make generalizations, unlike the west, the east is more communally focused rather than looking to appease the desires of the individual and if one upset “asian” stands up for him/herself well that just causes the whole group to lose face and honor. Second and maybe not as compelling is the status/stigma/stereotype of asians as model minorities. Perhaps one reason we are considered “model” is because well, we don’t cause much grief for the ruling majority. I could be way off but thoughts are thoughts.

Anyways I’m glad that you think I’m eloquent, I personally do not think I am and had to take a lot of time to reflect how I felt and use appropriate (or rather civilized) vocabulary to write that specific post. I think a very strange part of me actually invites being challenged and controversy but the reason I didn’t confront the individuals in my specific post was because one individual was a faculty member, and the other two were students who I felt took a lot from my personal presentation. But of course I tried to be anonymous in the off chance that someone from school might read it, which they usually don’t since I don’t really have any followers haha :)

By: Dean Mayeda

Dean Mayeda — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:27:06 +0000

Next time you are in Torrance, look me up, email or DM me and I’ll take you out to lunch.

Dean