What does it mean to be/act Asian?

Happy Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage month!!!

 

This one is another biggie. Asians who are they and what does it mean to act Asian?

For starters Asians come from many countries all with different cultures. Yes, some of them have similarities, but they are different cultures nontheless. When People think of Asian they rarely think about Indians or Iraqis for example.

I have a friend from Korea that explains that the Korean-American culture is very different from the Korean culture and that she would not consired them Koreans, ‘they are Americans’, she says.

Asian and Asian-Americans can be of Filipino, Japanese, Indonesian, Chinese, Indian descent and more, why lump them all together prentending like they are all the same, when they are not.

Here is a map that showes all the countries that comprise the Asian continent.

 

   Here are some Asian stereotypes, Please contribute your own:

• Asians are smart, specially in math ans science.
• they don’t speak English
• they are all foreigners. People with Asian features are often asked where are they from, just because they have Asian features, they are assumed from elsewhere.
• Shy and modest, but at the same time
• Overly sexual (Geisha)
• They all have dry cleaning business or restaurant
• for Idians, they are taking all tech jobs
• they all practive martial arts
• Asians are all Chinese

As I said in my latest post I don’t know what it means to act Asian (well I am not) but I learned that there are lables for those minorities that “act White”, Oreo cookie for African Americans, Coconut for Latinos and Twinkies for Asians…here is the proof