Asian Phobia + hate crimes is starting SMH

Slowpoke, your my bro. I would never want to offend you. I recall you being Indian, right? You aren't specifically Asian at least. This is more frustrating because it affects Everyone". I like Chinese culture and history but that shouldn't mean I can't be massively disappointed with them when the opportunity arisen. Every race has flaws and those flaws should never extend outside the race.

It's racially insensitive. All it does is encourage more xenophobia against people of Asian descent.

Sorry, I wasn't talking about you, I was thinking about real life.

First time I met an East Asian person was when I was around 9/10. She was a guest speaker at my school around the time of the SARS epedemic. At this point in my life I never experienced any racism myself despite being the only non-white kid in class, so I would say my school was very accepting. But a kid went up to the Asian lady and said "Hey, I can speak Chinese!" made a squinting face with his hands and said "Ching Chong Ching Chong" and every kid was laughing (not me).

In high school too (late 2000s), my school had people from every background but 70% I would say were either East Asian or White. There wasn't any outward racism, but I do remember Asians usually sat in the front of class and white kids liked to sit in the back. Not everyone followed this arrangement but this was largely true. And some Asian kids, they were born in Canada and don't get along with the "Fobs" who were born in Asia and have more in common with the white kids. But when they sat in the back of the class they would get mistreated sometimes, no one would talk to them or they wouldn't be allowed to sit in the "prime" seats like the ones against the wall or beside the window.

And there was a general contempt for fobs too. Hey, I admit, I was a part of that and probably enabled some of it, a lot of their behaviour was embarrassing. But I still liked talking to immigrants and making friends with them, a lot of them especially East Asians are very hard working and studious. The other kids I felt like didn't appreciate this aspect and just relentlessly made fun of them, without acknowledging their good sides.

If something does indeed come from China I don’t see why I can’t be called “Chinese”. It is what it is. However, people of Asian descent do not deserve to be in harms way because of it.

Ime Asians receive a different type of racism than black people do.

I think the reason why he’s calling it that is because he’s still butthurt that some people in China were blaming it on American soldiers.