[Lish24276]

ah hah! interesting question. i’m afraid there’s no such thing as an asian culture. at least, not a collective one that is practised by all asians. just as there are plenty of nations in the asia part of the world, there are as many cultures. i think what you mean by asian culture is a collection of values such as filial piety, hardworkingness, reticence etc that may be good and all, but not an accurate representation of all people in asia. that aside, what do we identify ourselves as? simple. i was born and bred in malaysia, hence i consider myself malaysian. yet i descended from chinese immigrants, and although am a minority race in my country, it is a significant percentage of the population. thus i am as chinese as i am malaysian. is that easy to comprehend? we all identify with the culture of the country that we reside in. however, cross immigration is a very common thing in south east asia (which, incidentally, contain all those countries you mentioned that you were confused with). we also identify very strongly with our racial background. how does that work out? through democracy, equal opportunity, and understanding. if i were to get together with a chinese-thai fellow, probably that wouldn’t be interracial. it’d definitely be inter-cultural though. if i were to marry a malay guy from my own community, it would be interracial, and perfectly acceptable. that’s not to say there won’t be opposition from the family, if they are staunchly again interracial marriages. these protests are mostly due to different religions, or different social-economic class, not race per se. remember, marriages in asia are not just about 2 people getting together, it’s a union of 2 families! i’m pretty lucky, in that my family has already gone through anything that could possibly shake them. marry into a muslim family? an aunt’s done that. declare myself gay? my cousin’s gay, and we all still love him. run off and marry a caucasian? 2 aunts have ‘been there, done that, have pretty eurasian kids now’. so i guess i’m lucky. many families might be more conservative though. hope this helps you

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Name : Lish24276, Gender : F, Race : Asian, Religion : Christian, Age : 20, City : KL, State : NA, Country : Malaysia, Occupation : student, Education level : High School Diploma, 

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