Asian Parents Frenzy

marvin100
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 03:05:54 +0000

Agreed, @Jliu32472 – as I wrote earlier, “Asian” is a pretty pointless term and using it as shorthand for “East Asian” also elides enormous cultural differences. Interestingly, Asians in Asia don’t see themselves as Asian but as Chinese, or Koreans, or Taiwanese (or Pakistani, or Indian, or Indonesian…), and only when they find themselves in the West are they suddenly conflated and absorbed into this larger, artificial category. Reminds me of the intro of Edward Said’s Orientalism…