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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It isn't "teasing' per se, but for a member of a majority group to point out or highlight the "otherness" of a minority for no reason other than simply to draw attention to the otherness of that person serves only to make the minority person feel very keenly the fact that he or she is somehow different.  It is a very uncomfortable feeling to be on the receiving end.  Also, it makes you feel that the speaker is not seeing you as an individual human, but as a stereotype -- that is, "we" people. by mere virtue of the fact that we all  happen to come from the same enormous and very diverse continent, all share the same traits.  This is not true.  [b]Cambodians or Hmong are not the same as Chinese or Koreans,[/b] and have not had the same experiences in this country.  Indeed, you should take some time to educate yourself about the history of Asians in American and the myth of the model minority.  [b]I am Yonsei, fourth generation Japanese American.[/b]  My family has been here generations longer than my white husband's, whose still living grandfather immigrated here illegally from Sweden across the Canadian border when he was a child.  Yet my husband is viewed as a "real" American with "real" American values, and I, because of the color of my skin and hair and the shape of my eyes, am regularly treated as some kind of a foreigner -- seen only as some kind of a caricature, if you will.  To continually receive the message that "you people all are good at math, play violin, etc. etc. etc." is very frustrating and it makes me angry because it demonstrates to me time and again that people have no idea who I am and are wholly ignorant of the history of this country.  Whether we came here in the 1850s to build the transcontinental railroad or immigrated last year, we are "real" Americans and should be  treated as such, not mocked and called "them," as in "if you can't beat them, then join them."  Like we are some alien species of being instead of regular everyday Americans.

If you want to remain stubbornly ignorant, be my guest, but you will be called out and judged, and deservedly so.[/quote]

it means squat which country they're from; the point is if they all share the same values towards sports. to me, the answer is a resounding yes. and you can't deny it differs from that of white Americans.[/quote]

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