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yuiyoshida

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7. But hey, Asia is a huge place

Reply to Feeling the Bern (Reply #6)

Mon May 23, 2016, 05:32 PM

May 2016

lots of room to park your car though! The thing is I am not bothered by being known as Asian in the USA. There are so many of us... I mean its better than being called other names... (racist insults) and we don't really fit into other groups... we're not white...black, Hispanic... we have things in common like eating Rice and Noodles...but we don't want to be called "Rice Eaters"..everyone eats rice.. at one time or another.
So.. until someone comes up with a better term...(Its nice for me to be known as Japanese-American, but since the average person can't tell where we are from... or where our ancestors came from...) Asian is fine.

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Being Asian [View all] yuiyoshida May 2016 OP

Bravo to both Person 2713 May 2016 #1

Thank you for sharing this perspective! Do you know comedian Helen Hong's work? NewImproved Deal May 2016 #2

Roflmao! yuiyoshida May 2016 #4

I can't stand that phrase Asian. Where in Asia are we talking? Feeling the Bern May 2016 #3

Fine, just don't call us yuiyoshida May 2016 #5

And again, my wife is a Han Chinese national from Jiangsu Feeling the Bern May 2016 #6

But hey, Asia is a huge place yuiyoshida May 2016 #7

K&R, thx yui dae May 2016 #8

YW! yuiyoshida May 2016 #9