From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
Subject: Re: Asian <> Asian-American
Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 02:08:59 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.004435.11125@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
ajh@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Alan Hu) writes:
>...
>Hmm, maybe I'm not receiving all the articles, but the only vicious prejudiced
>contempt I see is Dwight's vicious prejudiced contempt for Chinese culture.

Prejudiced for the sake of prejudice?  No.
Prejudiced in favor of the facts?  Yes, I stand accused.

>...  Some of us have studied
>Asian languages or culture and history in college, but that's IT.
>CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE IS NOT GENETIC.

But Mr. Hu, Chinese-cu morons don't understand that simple fact.
They think that ethnicity = culture.  In other words, Chinese-cu
twits think like rednecks, Klansmen, and Nazis.

>In every sense of the
>word, we are red-blooded, full-bodied, real, live, honest-to-God
>AMERICANS, with ALL the rights and responsibilities thereunto appertaining.
>Yet, from the moment of our birth, we are told, thanks to our genes,
>that we are second-rate foreigners who don't belong here, that we're
>worthless, that we're not REAL Americans.

Yeah, but Mr. Hu should at least understand the ignorance of those
rednecks.  Those idiots are only reiterating what Chinese-cu assholes
keep saying.

They keep telling certain Asian-Americans that their real mother land is,
of all places, some outhouse called China.  Hell, if that doesn't steam
you up, nothing well.

China is nothing more than some alien nation with which many Asian-Americans
want _no_ connection whatsoever.  Asian-Americans _stand_ _up_ _and_ _CHEER_
when America beats the _CRAP_ out of the athletic teams from China, etc.
in the Olympics.

>We bust our buns trying to
>carve out a piece of existence in the only country we know, trying to
>fit in, trying to establish our lives here, only to be constantly reminded 
>that with a quick change in political wind, we can get our jobs taken away,
>our homes burned, and ourselves beaten to death, just because of our genes.
>And then we turn around and a bunch of Asians kick us in the face for
>being banana-Twinkie-hollow-bamboo-worthless-sellout-scum-traitors-who-
>can't-even-speak-Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese/Tagalog/etc.

That last sentence probably doesn't apply except in the case of the first
cultural group:  Chinese-cu culture.

>
>It hurts.

Don't let it get to you, Mr. Hu.

I understand that you've admitted to being of Chinese-ge ancestry.
If any of those Chinese-cu twits start playing psycho. games with you
by suggesting indirectly that you should be a bit more Chinese, then
I suggest the following.

(1) Look the assholes straight in the eye.
(2) State, "I am an American.  I believe in those Western values that
    are totally alien to your savage mentalities.  I am proud of what
    I believe.  I am proud of being an American."
(3) Then say, "Could you spare a match and a quarter?  I need the match
    to ignite the flag of China, which helps to start the fire in
    my fireplace on those cold winter nights when I think that I am much
    more fortunate than those Chinese children suffering under 
    the yoke of Chinese society.  I need the quarter to call the
    immigration and naturalization service so that they can kick your
    butt back to the 'mother land' that you love so much more than the USA."

>....  We are trying to help you; we are trying to help
>ourselves; we are trying to help everyone's children.  Please don't fight us.

Come on.  Let's be realistic.  "They" won't understand.

Remember.  We're talking about Chinese-cu culture, where such noble
thoughts are beyond comprehension.

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