Not exactly an answer but:

No joke, when I was 8 years old, my family left the China for the first time and then I saw some food item in a store in the Korean airport costing something like 15,000 of a currency, I was like holy shit are all foreigners this rich?

Then my dad told me its just a different currency, its actually just equivalent to something like $10 美金 “American Money” (USD)…

Which I also didn’t understand what it meant, before that incident, the Chinese Yuan / Renminbi was the only thing I knew of…

So for a while, its was just the adult’s weird magic numbers to me lol…

I think some people just never left their country before and never learned about stuff, maybe their parents are also ignorant and never taught them anything.

And the English Language Defaultism probably arises from it being widely taught and so many countries use it like Canada, UK, Australia… and lot of the colonized countries still retained it like India… and its the probably most commonly taught languahe in non-anglosphere countries… So, some English-speaking people just made a false assumption about the world…

Technically not a rule lol

actually not legal to interrogate people that long

Japanese Legal System have joined the chat

(Also South Korea and China… 👀)

I mean, let’s say the person said something like: “It wasn’t me, they [framed me / they got the wrong person / etc…]”

I mean people do get wrongfully convicted… but who do you believe? The courts, or this person claiming innocence who might actually be telling the truth (but you can’t really verify it)? That’s the crux of this problem.

For that I’m gonna need to make a WeChat account…

Might need to use a separate phone for opsec purposes 👀 (you know why)

Feels like too much of a hassle… and like its not like I feel safe to just speak freely…

Mom and older brother is going back to visit (like right now), and mom told me to not send her any political stuff or she’ll block me…

Like I’m just so used to how things work in the west, I’m gonna have to run every sentence through my brain like can I actually say this and not get them in trouble

looked up the phone number of someone I used to know before we moved to opposite ends of the country

Your comment reminds of… like… I just realized I haven’t really directly talked to my aunts or cousins in China for…

well the entire time I’ve been in the US… like nearly 2 decades

idk why, I never really felt an attachment… don’t have much memories of them, I was only 8 when my family left…

Now it feels too awkward to suddenly call them…

I ordered from Pizzahut’s website and they just sent it to doordash…

I think I remember once Dominos (not sure if I remember correctly) was busy so instead of sending their regular delivery driver, they just sent it to doordash to complete the delivery… 🤷‍♂️

Everything is doordash now

Chinese restaurants

Ramen places

Literally everything

Edit: Also even BESTBUY uses Doordash now… (do not order electronics delivery through bestbuy, even if you use their website, they will still send it to doordash)

Too late, I think the entire neighborhood might already know us as “Oh, it’s THAT family that always have arguments in the house”

The thing is, we’re East Asian so this just further reinforce their “Asian strict parenting” stereotype in their minds 💀

(or perhaps nobody cares that much since they’ve already expected this much yelling due to that stereotype)

Lol, I thought the walls were more noise-isolating…

unfortunately, Bose did not make these walls

Like I don’t hear neighbors often unless I really put my ears close to the wall outlet and hear their tv on the other side…

The only time I heard it when the parent was yelling at their kid next door…

their intents if they worked for the government

“You can’t shoot me, I’m still a child at heart, that’d be a war crime!”

I actually had a teacher that pointed out the 13th amendment prison exemption.

She was also a black muslim, as in actually wearing a hijab. (the point of this being that it was diverse af and not just white teachers)

Also focused a lot on COINTELPRO and the spying on civil right leaders that type of stuff.

And the Jim Crow stuff, sharecropping… etc…

Also that the emancipation proclamation itself probably did not free any enslaved people, since they only applied to rebelling states, which would obviously ignore it.

(Philly btw… my school was rated so bad btw… like 2/10 on the greatschool .org thing lots of fightings and stuff, the point being that its not some rich neighborhood)

But they taught almost nothing about Asian Americans… :(

Just a brief mention and that’s all, probably why racism towards Asian Americans are still so common and still socially acceptable… :(

Booo, fr🤮nch. I rather have it be Mandarin-Chinese so I don’t have to learn more stuff xD

As a Chinese American, I don’t find it offensive. I mean at this point I kinda just embraced my background, I mean I still have a Chinese name as my legal name and I still speak Cantonese and Mandarin (with very basic fluency tho)

Unless you say it like: “Oh, your English is very good! Where are you from?” and the person clearly has a native-accent 🙄 (don’t do it like this)

(hasn’t happened yet, usually people are either much more overt like using racial slurs, or just not display racism at all)

I think you should just ask something like: “What is your ancestral background?” more direct and IMO sounds a lot better. But I think the context is key, you need to feel the vibe in the room is good before you ask that, don’t just walk up to someone and ask that as the first question.

But I was born in China, so I am technically speaking not “from” here, but if you are in the US and ask an Asian person born and grew up in the US that question, they might not like it. You should probably frame it like: “Hey I’m just curious, what is your ancestral background?”

No joke, Chinese dramas almost always portray the Emperor as benevolent, any problem is just because of the evil eunichs, evil sons wanting to steal the throne away from the good kindhearted benevolent son and rightful heir; or it’s the evil couping relatives, generals, or the many wives scheming, etc… that are causing problems in the Empire… The Emperor is never at fault… 🤦‍♂️

IQ =/= EQ

My mom got robbed in broad daylight and they took nearly $1000 from her… (okay idk why the fuck she was carrying so much cash, but that’s whole another story)

She was literally on the way to the bank…

Then again, we are Asian American and non-Asians in America loves to target us… and obviously cops don’t give a fuck.

We need to bring back the rooftop Koreans to patrol the streets, police is useless

Tbf you’re more likely to get robbed by random people in broad daylight than encountering a cop that will civil asset forfeiture you, so its just bad idea to have lots of cash regardless of country.

lmfao…

that was like nearly 2 decades ago, yea I got scared eventually and went back home… I still have that mental image of being in that plaza and walking towards the direction of home, and saw mom with a bunch of cops just looking around, then my mom saw me

it was before my family emigrated, when we were in Guangzhou, China

My mom later told me there was (allegedly) a lot of kidnappings in China and I could’ve gotten kidnapped… 👀

A baby might not be able to, but 6 year old me ran away from home when my older brother was chasing me around the apartment and I felt scared and like… I just ran for the door…

was outside wandaring for hours…

scariest day of my life…

(mom called the police and they were just searching the neighborhood)

Relevent clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiH3tZoNgmE