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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had a neighbor who was pale skinned, blond hair, blue eyed. Father was japenese and mom was [b]American[/b]. Her daughter (whose dad was American) looked far more mixed.

Genes are funny. [/quote]

What do you mean by "American"? I am ethnically Chinese and 100% "American." American does NOT equal white. [/quote]

So many people trying to start arguments on this thread instead of sticking to the original question![/quote]

NP.  It's a casually racist thing to say -- to imply that people of Asian ethnic origin are somehow not [b]really[/b] American.  note that when speaking of people of ?German, Scottish, Dutch heritage, you don't call them "German" or "Scottish" the way PP called her neighbor's father"Japanese."  You say they are of German descent.  You don't call into question their status as Americans.

PP was correct to call the other poster on it.  And you, PP, are offensive in dismissing the racism.

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My naturalized citizen Asian immigrant husband often uses "american" as a synonym for "white", as in, "we should hang out with this guy i know from work, his wife is american too!" I'll let him know that you are VERY offended by this and that in order to avoid being a traitor to his race he should actually take pains to describe everyone by their original ethnic origins instead  :roll:

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NP here. Please do pass this along to your naturalized immigrant (redundant to say immigrant, if you've said naturalized already) husband. Let him know it contributes to the "othering" of Asians as people who can't truly be American.

Signed, also a naturalized Asian. [/quote]

LOLOLOLOL!

New poster here. My Asian DH who became a citizen about a decade ago also calls white people "Americans" in the same way. Exactly the same way as PP -- "Oh, his wife is American like you!"

Maybe, PP, [i]just maybe[/i], you are overly sensitive and it's not some huge, nefarious "othering" conspiracy.

DH went to Oxford and is an attorney, though, so he doesn't have any inferiority complexes about his race... like you seem to have?[/quote]

No, your Asian DH is betraying his own sense that he's not really "American."  Quite understandable for someone who's only been naturalized 10 years.

Asian Americans whose families have been here for generations, were born here, or naturalized when very young have grown up having to fighting accusations that we are not really American, so it's part of our experience of racism in America and a sensitive topic.  NB:  Have you ever heard of Manzanar?

Obviously, you know everything about race and Asian Americans because you are "married to one."   And WTF does going to Oxford and being an attorney have anything to do with race? You're implying that those of us who disagree with you must be uneducated, poor scum?  You sound like a complete idiot.

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