<p>I hate it when asians are like, OMIGOD!! kristen kruek, she’s like, HALF ASIAN!!!</p>
<p>Kristen kruek, when asked in an interview if she connected with her one-half asian roots, paused for the longest time and then said she was so proud to be “canadian,” whatver that meant (totally avoided the question) She has also implied that she only dated white men, again from another interview.</p>
<p>Jack Burton: All I know is that this Lo Pan character comes out of thin air in the middle of a goddamn alley while his buddies are flying around on wires cutting everybody to shreds while he just STANDS there waiting for me to drive my truck straight through him with LIGHT coming out of his mouth!</p>
<p>Jack Burton: We really shook the pillars of heaven, didn’t we, Wang?</p>
<p>Jack Burton: What’s in the flask, Egg? Magic potion?
Egg Shen: Yeah.
Jack Burton: Thought so, good. What do we do, drink it?
Egg Shen: Yeah!
Jack Burton: Good, thought so.</p>
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Hey, sorry I misunderstood you. What I thought you were saying was that Chinese-asians are smarter than whites but koreans or any other asian ethnicities are dumber than whites.</p>
<p>I don’t think Asian kids are smarter than American kids, it’s just that they’re tormented and beaten into academic overachievement by their parents. I’d be pulling a 98% average too if I knew that anything less would mean a week in the hospital.</p>
<p>My roommate gets threatened and yelled at by his parents for getting a 98%. But my mothers parents were the same way to her and her sisters and we are white.</p>
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<p>This is what I understand:</p>
<p>It is generally assumed that the parents of Asian students are usually more strict with grades than most other parents, as the above post represents (I also understand that there are exceptions to every rule, so please don’t jump at my throat about this!). Hopefully, it’s not as extreme as the above post…</p>
<p>What this means is simple: Asians are under more pressure from their parents to get high grades, so they try harder, and earn better grades as a result. This is why most people think that Asians are smarter than all of us. They are simply pushed harder than all of us, so as a result, they try harder than all of us.</p>
<p>This is what I don’t understand:</p>
<p>Asians (at least some of them) are getting upset because other people are saying that they are smarter than everyone else. Now, I’m not one to judge, but if someone told me that I was smarter than everyone else, I would pat myself on the back and feel good about it! But hey, thats just me…</p>
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<p>Would you feel good if people generalized your ethnic group as “boring” or “a 1,000,000 of the same person”?</p>
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<p>I think you misunderstood my general point. I never said anything about asians being boring or ‘not unique’; In fact, thats the kind of thing that I would find offensive (said to any racial group). I am simply implying that its a little bizzare in my opinion if someone gets upset because other people view that person as smart, even if they mean it in a collective sense.</p>
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<p>Thanks for the elaboration. Sorry if if I misunderstood you.</p>
<p>If someone viewed me as smart, then I would certainly not feel bad. I would smile and say thank you to that person.</p>
<p>But, if such a perception is applied collectively, it becomes a stereotype, even it was well-intentioned. There are people who don’t fit, and the perception marginalizes them. A similar example is saying “All Blacks are good at basketball.” Of course, some are, but are all?</p>
<p>I remember a coach caught some flak last year because he said that the reason why his team wasn’t performing well because he did not have many black students. Of course, this statement could be interpreted as a positive statement. The coach was implying that blacks are stellar athletes! Instead, the coach was called out as “racist.”</p>
<p>Why is it that he was called out for being a racist, but people who generalize about Asians as “2400 SAT drones” aren’t?</p>
<p>That’s my point.</p>
<p>“all generalizations are false”</p>
<p>I see your point; I guess that once the public gets a stereotype concerning an ethnic group into their minds (even if it’s a positive one), they might get jealous, and may even try to come up with some bad ones, just to ‘level the playing field’. This probably happesns to any group thats perceived to ‘have an edge’…</p>
<p>All the Asians I know stereotype themselves.
“I know an 87% isn’t really failing, but I’m Asian!”
“What? You beat an Asian on that test??”
“I got a 2290…typical Asian SAT score…”
“I met this Asian girl who liked English and history…that’s messed up…”</p>
<p>^^all quotes from my (manyy) Asian friends.</p>
<p>I wanted to edit my last post, but I can’t. So, I add this to it:</p>
<p>If I were to say that all scientists are geniuses, would anyone really complain?</p>
<p>As a white person, I ask, why are asians (or any group for that matter) so afraid of fitting into a stereotype? Who cares what the white people think?</p>
<p>It’s not that Asians are upset at stereotyped as being smart. They are rightfully upset that they are stereotyped as only being smart. There’s more to life than having brains.</p>
<p>Right. But people shouldn’t be ashamed of being smart.</p>
<p>Here’s my take on it. You have to understand that “smart” is a pretty general word. There are different kinds of smart…for example, being “book smart” isn’t really much of a compliment, as it implies that that’s the extent of your intelligence. Try this example:</p>
<p>Person A is captain of varsity football, is student council president, is an award-winning writer for the literary magazine, and gets straight A’s. You’d definitely call him smart.</p>
<p>Person B is a member of his science bowl and academic teams, president of the chess club, does independent science research, and gets straight A’s. You’d call him smart too.</p>
<p>Imagine that you went to school with both of these people and personally knew them both well. You would then definitely be able to tell the difference between their types of “smartness.” While a common set of words could be used to describe them - intelligent, brilliant, sharp - Person B seems to lean towards adjectives like “nerdy” and “unsocial”. </p>
<p>I think what Asians dislike is automatically being characterized as Person B.</p>
<p>Throught the wording, implications, and narrow-mindedness of her first post, I think JadeLi is a racist the likes of whom I’ve often encountered throughout my life.</p>
<p>Growing up in the Bay Area, I went to a private high school that was 80% Asian and presently attend a university that is about 45% Asian. I’m white. While I’ve seen a very limited amount of racism from whites towards Asians, I’ve seen A LOT of racism from Asians towards whites, especially in high school.</p>
<p>Some Asians have even gone so far as to tell me that they don’t want to associate with any white people, because they hate/are afraid of them. Granted, this is extreme, but I have yet to see any similar outliers among whites. </p>
<p>Focus: My personal experience has shown that Asians are more racist towards whites than vice versa. Discuss.</p>
<p>Edit: I should mention that my experience has been limited to upscale areas of the Bay Area and LA. Obviously, I have no clue what it’s like in rural or Southern America, or in lower middle class situations. </p>
<p>I would imagine there would probably be more racism from whites towards towards all minority groups, including Asians, but again, I have no personal experience there.</p>
<p>I can’t say I’ve experienced what the above poster has, but I wouldn’t be surprised at all this happened.</p>