Post by eldertree on Oct 18, 2016 16:52:30 GMT
What bothers me is people invalidating our identities and discrediting our voices or implying that we are not "fully" an ethnicity. As if diasporic or overseas people aren’t "fully" an Asian ethnicity, as if we don’t have a right to talk about issues that affect us.
People police identities for personal leverage in discussions and debates, to try to shut them up. But it's interesting when this is done because if I am to talk about racism against Chinese, who are you going to believe (i.e. who has more credibility on such issues): (a) somebody who has been living as an ethnic minority in a non-Chinese majority society, or (b) somebody who is an ethnic majority in a Chinese society, and has never even experienced racism? Governments adopting affirmative action policies for ethnic minorities is not an example of "racism" by the way.
So for me, I find it very telling when somebody who has never experienced racism wants me to shut up on topics and issues concerning racism, microaggressions, cultural appropriation, and the stigmatisation against my ethnicity, as if they selfishly want people to consult them FIRST on issues regarding racism or anti-Chinese sentimenets (when they have zero personal experiences on it?). Like excuse me it is NOT YOUR PLACE to act like your opinion or views on racism is more important when you have no experiences on it; you have been living as a Chinese in a Chinese society for your entire life.
And what also really bothers me is the gross pandering to these types. People including overseas and diasporic Asians seem to readily accept Asia-Asians as authoritative voices that we should confer ultimate arbiter status to. As if they should be the ones to dictate YOUR experiences, YOUR perceptions, and YOUR identities.
Remember: YOU are the one living in a White Western society as an ethnic minority, and NOT THEM.
People police identities for personal leverage in discussions and debates, to try to shut them up. But it's interesting when this is done because if I am to talk about racism against Chinese, who are you going to believe (i.e. who has more credibility on such issues): (a) somebody who has been living as an ethnic minority in a non-Chinese majority society, or (b) somebody who is an ethnic majority in a Chinese society, and has never even experienced racism? Governments adopting affirmative action policies for ethnic minorities is not an example of "racism" by the way.
So for me, I find it very telling when somebody who has never experienced racism wants me to shut up on topics and issues concerning racism, microaggressions, cultural appropriation, and the stigmatisation against my ethnicity, as if they selfishly want people to consult them FIRST on issues regarding racism or anti-Chinese sentimenets (when they have zero personal experiences on it?). Like excuse me it is NOT YOUR PLACE to act like your opinion or views on racism is more important when you have no experiences on it; you have been living as a Chinese in a Chinese society for your entire life.
And what also really bothers me is the gross pandering to these types. People including overseas and diasporic Asians seem to readily accept Asia-Asians as authoritative voices that we should confer ultimate arbiter status to. As if they should be the ones to dictate YOUR experiences, YOUR perceptions, and YOUR identities.
Remember: YOU are the one living in a White Western society as an ethnic minority, and NOT THEM.
