• anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    This seems wild to me. So they seem some guy using chopsticks and they’re like “git him, oh wait hold on…raw fish: Japanese, fried rice: Chinese. Wait what did Ruth say about noodles… Flat noodle, Chinese foodle, noodles in broth or round, go get that clown.”

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      Lol you’d be surprised. Sometimes it doesn’t even come from a bad place.

      My ex (ages ago) wanted to understand and support my culture better, so she went out and watched Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift.

      Likkeeeee I appreciate the effort but bruuuhh I’m Filipino. Wtf.

      Some people just grow up thinking “Asian is Asian”.

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        My ex (ages ago) wanted to understand and support my culture better, so she went out and watched Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift.

        Likkeeeee I appreciate the effort but bruuuhh I’m Filipino. Wtf.

        That’s almost impressive. Multi-level fuck-up.

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      The absurdity of racism is all the more exposed when what an arbitrary social construct it is is highlighted. Throw the Japanese-Americans in internment camps and forbid them from serving the military with white people - but praise Chinese-Americans as allies against Imperialism™ and let them serve as officers in non-segregated units with white folk.

      I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s great that WW2-era white America got over its anti-Chinese racism for ten seconds, but it would have been a nice bonus had it not been just another extension of racism’s arbitrary nature.