Daily Bruin viewpoint:stereotype asian

[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

In today's daily bruin, Jen Du wrote about the stereotype of the "crazy loud asian girl" and the "white wash ged asian girl" while I found her viewpoint funny and could totally relate I often wonder why these stereotypes exists significantly toward asian girls not just asians in general. I admit that I too use the stereotype generalizations while describing a person to someone else. But how do these things come about. In the article Jen made a good point about the requirements that fit being asian and at what point does an asian person become white or white washed. Being born in America, I don't see how an asian person can be totally asian and not influenced by the culture around us. Of course we are going to be Americanized.. we were born in America. So the whole saying "you are an ABC" from our parents or older relatives doesn't make sense. Of course we are abc, we were born in america and we are chinese. It is implied to be a bad thing but why? Just because generally americans or Caucasian familes tend to be less strict than traditional Chinese or East Asian families? How is that bad? I think that being an ABC and having strict guidelines without liencey only causes a child to go wild in their college years. I think all of us asians born in america are white washed it is impossible to live in a country for 18 years and not to adapt to its culture. Another thing that always striked my mind was.. if our parents didn't want us to become americanized then why go through all the trouble of coming here. ( to get away from the communist.. duHhH) so i guess the opportunity cost of leaving communism behind and searching for a capitalist country which allows many freedoms is having children that aren't traditional or at least totally traditional. Even though I think I am pretty traditional I still consider myself pretty americanized with all my Abercrombie clothes..
oh and another thought just crossed my mind the whole im asian just not azn. hehe thats a funny topic to consider talking about also.

[Anonymous]

this is interesting, though i'd like to argue it from the male pov.
with the asian friends i had during high school, we believed that being 'azn' was not only 1. possible in long-had been US residents and 2. in male asians as well but also 3. in white individuals (i kid you not).
maybe its just an orange county thing, but at least in my high school, it was a reality:
what did this exactly mean. i admit that the post above sums up the being azn in the female perspective; i myself never realized that in some social settings, being white-washed and such was a term that applied extensively to females. to my own biases, i always perceived the opposite. i myself, consider myself in being labeled a 'white washed' asian...
most 'azn' guys are relatively quiet (not shy, they do it on purpose to be cool), have a solemn gangsta expression, talk in a 'korean' dialect, congregate in boba tea houses, and pump up the basses in their cars while driving. also there's the other less gangster branch of azns who watch anime intensively, play blizzard computer games, and listening to japanese music. playing starcraft/warcraft is seen as being quite azn; but can you really blame that stereotype in developing? korean has a 24/7 starcraft channel on television... -.-
then there are the white-washed asians. i myself am labeled (as a jk among friends) one of white washed asians. key reasons might include violation of the above. i myself, had a few key traits that made them think so : 1. my taste in 'white music' and playing the guitar (being an 'emo' kid), 2. my choice in owning a pair of converse shoes ('white' shoes) and 3. constantly ridiculing gundam as a waste of time. (absolutely abhorred my azn friends). =X
the last group that i'll quickly mentioned are the white azns. i myself have met a couple. sometimes they dye their hair black. most of the time you will find them hanging out with a group of azns. they also enjoy boba (tapioca) and watch anime extensively themselves.
i noticed that it almost seems that i'm ADMITTING that male asian stereotypes are a reality. maybe i did somewhat, but remember that it might have applied only in my high school setting. also there are the clearly incorrect male azn stereotypes; instead of referring to the images above, many commonly mistakenly assume that speaking in fob (referring to chinglish dialect) is the factor that determines whether or not you are 'azn'. after reading the explanations above, this is clearly just an unfounded, misconception =I
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