Dare To Ask Talk And News About Our Differences
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I don’t believe it so much is a lack of interest in being American, as it is being proud of your ethnic heritage. I am Korean-American – half Korean/half American – a lot of Americans make the mistake of thinking everyone who is American is ‘caucasian.’ I don’t think you realize how annoying it is to meet someone for the first time, for say a job interview or whatnot, and have them sit and look at you, until you finally mention your ethnic upbringing and they go ‘Oh! That’s it! I was wondering what you were! I could tell you were something!’ I mean, what does that mean? ‘I could tell you were something’? um, I’m just a human. We do write it that way (‘Other ethinicity’-American) b/c people ask. If you could accept the fact that I was American, no questions asked, that’d be fine, but most people can’t. Oh and American-Korean just doesn’t have that nice ring to it!
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Name : Missy, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Korean-American, Age : 22, City : Honolulu, State : HI, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,‘Gook’ comes from the Korean word for the Korean people ‘han-guk,’ – the dimwitted military men didn’t catch the ‘han’ and it became the derogatory ‘gook.’
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Name : Missy, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Korean-American, Age : 22, City : Honolulu, State : HI, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,It’s because we’re all talking about you, you know b/c we REALLY give a shit about you. Generally our translated conversations go something like this: ‘Quick talk Korean now, here comes stupid white person.’ ‘oh, are you serious? haha – now he doesn’t know what were are saying and we can talk about him!’ ‘yeah that guy sucks, what a douche!’ So you see now that you know that all the Asians are talking about you, I hope you feel more at peace with yourself.
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Name : Missy, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Korean-American, Age : 22, City : Honolulu, State : HI, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,Growing up Asian-American in mid-west America, and listening to barrages of stupid, ignorant questions over the years has pretty much shown me that most Americans are ignorant of any other race/culture/religion outside thier own. Everyone who isn’t an ‘American-born, God-fearing christian caucasian’ gets lumped into the column of ‘everything else.’ It’s so sad that we live in this ‘Great’ ‘powerful’ nation, but the people are some of the most ignorant and uncultured.
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Name : Missy, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Korean-American, Age : 22, City : Honolulu, State : HI, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,
