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I’m so sick and tired of Asians complaining about unfairness in America. When I look around my UMC neighborhood, Asians seem to be doing quite well. I wonder how well American students would fare in Asian schools or American workers in Asian corporations. Something tells me that it would be FAR worse for Americans in Asia than it is for Asians in America.[/quote]

Americans are treated very well in Asians countries. [/quote]

I’m a white American and experienced overt racism in Asia.[/quote]

White Americans are usually treated very well in Asian countries.
Maybe you didn't respect the local culture or something.

Asian countries like Korea/Japan/China tend to discriminate South East Asians.

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I’m the person you were asking if I respected the culture.  Very much so as learning the culture was the reason I went on the trip.  In one instance, we merely went into a restaurant and were told it was “not for people like us” and we had to leave.[/quote]

Discrimination in South Korea/Japan/India/wherever else in the world has no relevance here at all. The issue being discussed is about Americans being discriminated in America. [/quote]

Agreed but the quote in in response to a poster claiming that Americans would not be discriminated against in Asia.  It’s responsive to the post but the whole line of discussion is irrelevant to the issue (like so much on DCUM).[/quote]

It is kinda relevant. Though American treatment abroad doesn’t have anything to do with how American laws treat people in America, it does raise a cultural issue. Namely, immigrants to America expect to be treated better here than anywhere else in the world. Sometimes, this includes how they would be treated in their own country. As a point of personal reflection, it’s healthy for such people to consider the entitlement of their request. Literally, they are asking for their new country to treat them better than their country would treat them or their country would treat Americans. Pretty incredible when you think about it. [/quote]

Ok. this is making me insane. this whole discussion is not about immigrants. About about the people of Asian extraction who are AMERICANS. US citizens. They are simply asking to not be discriminated against based on their race. NOT THEIR CITIZENSHIP.

I get it. Asian Americans will always be "perpetual foreigners" because of the way that they look... even those who have been here for 3 or 4 generations, until they start intermarrying and their children look less Asian. But they are simply. not. immigrants. [/quote]

The vast majority of asian americans suing colleges for not getting in have Asian born and raised parents. [/quote]

Even if true, that does but make their kids immigrants! [/quote]

immigrants:
a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.
- definition by Oxford Languages

Another definition 
"an immigrant is a person living in a country other than that of his or her birth."

The kids were born in the US and not immigrants.

Ignorant fcuk

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