I personally won't tell you which moderator this was.
But point is, you lot should have a good think of what other people think of you.
Oh you think we haven't? Maybe we should all sit down and think about ourselves. Because it turns out that the world is a lonely place and people don't think about you as much, or judge you as much, as you might think, they're busy thinking about their own circumstances.
No, condemning people and forcing your own standards are not going to make people think you are morally supreme. (Unless you really are acting towards the same standard you want from people)
It will only make you sound even more stingy and more like a hypocrite.
Cool, but then you follow up by saying that it's normal for asians to impose judgements on non-asians, and hold them as representatives of their race. But races aren't homogenous, no one body speaks for an entire group. It's a ridiculous expectation and it might even make people uncomfortable. I don't like america or many customs of americans, thus when I travel, I know it makes me uncomfortable when people treat me a certain way because of my citizenship or skin color.
Most Asians believe that each individual should have the responsibility to maintain the reputation of his/ her own racial group, myself included.
If you are offended by what I have said, you should tell me that you are offended, instead of forcing your morals on me.
Like I said above, the demand of reputation maintenance, and authenticity, is an imposition of a morality.
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I personally do NOT agree that stereotyping equates to racism.
It is not racist.
This is my stance after talking to this moderator. I'm not going to be submissive towards Americans. Asia is losing its traditions and culture because too many people were being submissive towards white people's values, and I shouldn't have been one of them.
I shouldn't have thought I was wrong.
Ok, even if stereotypes don't equate to racism, they are still primarily negative in that they lead to a false cognitive mapping of the world. It turns out that stereotypes aren't always the case in every context. For example:
Most Asians believe that each individual should have the responsibility to maintain the reputation of his/ her own racial group, myself included.
This explains the low crime rate of Asians in foreign countries.
And if you plan to travel to Asia, (actually, European countries as well, especially France!!)
be prepared that people ARE going to analyze you and form an impression of your country due to your actions.
There's a fairly good reason why British people and French people do not tend to like Americans.
(Yes, most British people do stereotype people too. No they are not racists. They have friends from more diverse backgrounds than you lot)
Enough said.
1. I know of plenty of asian gangs in the places I grew up in california. Guess that wasn't a helpful stereotype in my context
2. When I went to china with my
family of white people, I definitely felt like I was treated differently at times because I was obviously foreign, but not in Shanghai or Hong-Kong, in those places American/white tourists were normal. When I went to Lìjiāng and Tibet, however, we were the only non-chinese people in the area, as far as I could tell, and so it was pretty obvious that we would be get extra attention in those areas. Again your stereotypes fail to be true in context.
3. When I went to Serbia, Bulgaria, Bosnia by
myself, I got almost no attention as a foreigner, and I mostly interacted with other foreigners. I was never regarded as an american, by the friends I made, since I stressed that I was from california. Since californians have stereotypes too, and well-known, this is quite an easy distinction to make and thus avoid the stigma of being american, which btw is not that bad at all in my experiences. I mostly made friends with british tourists who were staying in the same hostels, turns out we get along great, especially since I follow english football and read the news from the manchester guardian. turns out brits do like americans if they can connect through their shared interests/experiences.
I don't care how unpopular this post is going to be.
True facts usually hurt anyway.
yah ur just oh so so edgy jynx, people dont how to respond.
stereotypes=/=racism, stereotypes are still, by their very nature misleading, just like anything out of context. Which is why it isn't interesting or informative to discuss stereotypes except to contextualize them rather than affirm their truth.