Asian Culture Discussion Thread

[titanium tea]

I remember seeing a documentary that included a segment about this reality webseries that was basically an asian kardashians, about youngish rich/wealthy asian women in vancouver...it mentioned something about vancouver having one of the largest Asian populations outside of asia, that definitely would create a different dynamic, especially if/when accompanied by economic influence; any/every group that can consolidate a good measure of affluent members can & usually does exert this type of 'privilege' if that is what we're calling it

curious about the questioning of 'asian-ness' though, is this more of a cultural intergenerational thing, i.e. older asians raised outside of western countries vs younger asians raised in western countries or is it intragenerational where even those asians who are younger and in the same age group are of the opinion that there are some set of behaviors that makes one asian?

Def a young old dynamic at play regarding the "asian ness"...

It is like how my white mom and dad used to make fun of me for liking rap in 1989. Thats a parents just dont understand thing.

Id hope that was all that is taking place.

If it is happening between the youth, that would have to mean that there is a large group of immigrants that dont really care about canada or its way of life and are even mildly disgusted by it and here just to profit.

That's a sad prospect. 

I have an afghan friend who had to go home after his visa for school expired here.

The dude was in tears, thanking canada and its people for saving his life. He so much wanted to be a Canadian, it broke my heart.

Made me realize what I take for granted.  I told him he deserved to be here more than me.

So I dont really want to think about the youth to youth thing. 

Im gonna assume it's generational for my own mental health.

 

[slighted]

Good topic about identity.

My family escaped a war-torn, Communist country and made their way here to the US. Folks sometimes ask us if we ever miss/would want to move back to the home country and we always hit them with this face:

We had everything taken from us in the homeland, nearly died getting to the US, and started all over again here. We built up from the bottom, made $$$, contributed to our community, and are finally seeing the fruits of our labor.

So do we take it for granted? Nah, America may have its problems, but we fought hard to make things happen. We love America for the opportunity it represented and are very grateful.

 

[mycoldyourdone]

Wow....Asian privilege in the states sounds way different than asian privilege in Vancouver.

I remember seeing a documentary that included a segment about this reality webseries that was basically an asian kardashians, about youngish rich/wealthy asian women in vancouver...it mentioned something about vancouver having one of the largest Asian populations outside of asia, that definitely would create a different dynamic, especially if/when accompanied by economic influence; any/every group that can consolidate a good measure of affluent members can & usually does exert this type of 'privilege' if that is what we're calling it

curious about the questioning of 'asian-ness' though, is this more of a cultural intergenerational thing, i.e. older asians raised outside of western countries vs younger asians raised in western countries or is it intragenerational where even those asians who are younger and in the same age group are of the opinion that there are some set of behaviors that makes one asian?

Probably one of these....I've lived in Vancouver. Its called Hongcouver for a reason.

its like 8 out 10 cars there are BMWs or Mercs

And youll constantly see/hear Ferraris and Lambos with learner plates. Its the rich kids from China.

 

[krazy]

What's you guys take on spirituality? How about your parents?

Parents are Catholic, also went Sunday school for 8 years along with my siblings. Have cousins who are Buddhist. My nephews have not picked up on religion however, since their dad is agnostic or atheist (family is Buddhist tho)

I'm a firm believer that you can believe what you want. I read up on other religions, for example I'm reading a book called Siddartha by Hermann Hesse. I go to church every now and then but I haven't made it a point to go every Sunday. I probably should tho..

One thing that may affect my viewpoint is getting married in the church. I'm still single, but in the future, I won't make anyone change their religion to marry.

 

[W)taps]

 
Good topic about identity.

My family escaped a war-torn, Communist country and made their way here to the US. Folks sometimes ask us if we ever miss/would want to move back to the home country and we always hit them with this face:

We had everything taken from us in the homeland, nearly died getting to the US, and started all over again here. We built up from the bottom, made $$$, contributed to our community, and are finally seeing the fruits of our labor.

So do we take it for granted? Nah, America may have its problems, but we fought hard to make things happen. We love America for the opportunity it represented and are very grateful.

China is much different than what it was during the mid 1900s. But it still has problems regarding personal liberties.

 

[EddieDoyers]

Wow....Asian privilege in the states sounds way different than asian privilege in Vancouver.

I remember seeing a documentary that included a segment about this reality webseries that was basically an asian kardashians, about youngish rich/wealthy asian women in vancouver...it mentioned something about vancouver having one of the largest Asian populations outside of asia, that definitely would create a different dynamic, especially if/when accompanied by economic influence; any/every group that can consolidate a good measure of affluent members can & usually does exert this type of 'privilege' if that is what we're calling it

curious about the questioning of 'asian-ness' though, is this more of a cultural intergenerational thing, i.e. older asians raised outside of western countries vs younger asians raised in western countries or is it intragenerational where even those asians who are younger and in the same age group are of the opinion that there are some set of behaviors that makes one asian?

Probably one of these....I've lived in Vancouver. Its called Hongcouver for a reason.

its like 8 out 10 cars there are BMWs or Mercs

And youll constantly see/hear Ferraris and Lambos with learner plates. Its the rich kids from China.

Goddamn
I actually see the same thing in Arcadia and San Marino out here in the SGV, rich young Asians buy up the homes and raise the property values around them
And some of these guys drive R8s, Rolls Royce, Mercedes AMG, Lambos, etc.
And you see these mfers at the boba shops just shooting the **** because they don't need to have a job
My folks is just happy with a Lexus

 

[slighted]

 
China is much different than what it was during the mid 1900s. But it still has problems regarding personal liberties.

Agreed, but I'm not Chinese.

 

[W)taps]

 
Agreed, but I'm not Chinese.

ahh my bad. For some reason I thought you wrote "war torn, Chinese Communist."

 

[RustyShackleford]

I assumed Slighted was from Laos

 

[ajcyt]

curious about the questioning of 'asian-ness' though, is this more of a cultural intergenerational thing, i.e. older asians raised outside of western countries vs younger asians raised in western countries or is it intragenerational where even those asians who are younger and in the same age group are of the opinion that there are some set of behaviors that makes one asian?

From what I got from my parents, relatives and friends who are immigrants, some people from back home view Westerners as spoiled because we didn't have to go through what they did living in poor countries.. regardless of generation. Playing ball at my local church as a teen, we definitely bumped heads with the immigrants in the same generation and the generations above us for absolutely no reason. I didn't realize until I was older that some of that resentment came from us being considered spoiled and sometimes they were right. I know people who would talk down on FOBs, I know people who get their native language tattooed on them without even knowing how to speak the language, and also people who disrespect their own culture in regards to food and customs for example. Sometimes the questioning of "asian-ness" isn't fully unwarranted but I'm only speaking from personal experience.

 

[EddieDoyers]

curious about the questioning of 'asian-ness' though, is this more of a cultural intergenerational thing, i.e. older asians raised outside of western countries vs younger asians raised in western countries or is it intragenerational where even those asians who are younger and in the same age group are of the opinion that there are some set of behaviors that makes one asian?

From what I got from my parents, relatives and friends who are immigrants, some people from back home view Westerners as spoiled because we didn't have to go through what they did living in poor countries.. regardless of generation. Playing ball at my local church as a teen, we definitely bumped heads with the immigrants in the same generation and the generations above us for absolutely no reason. I didn't realize until I was older that some of that resentment came from us being considered spoiled and sometimes they were right. I know people who would talk down on FOBs, I know people who get their native language tattooed on them without even knowing how to speak the language, and also people who disrespect their own culture in regards to food and customs for example. Sometimes the questioning of "asian-ness" isn't fully unwarranted but I'm only speaking from personal experience.

What's weird for me is that I get along with the poor FOBs more than the rich ones
And I'm born here

 

[onlyXXVIII]

^ same here. I've found that the ones more fortunate act too entitled for my liking. Also, they are too "clique-y," they only hang out with their "own kind."

 

[EddieDoyers]

^ same here. I've found that the ones more fortunate act too entitled for my liking. Also, they are too "clique-y," they only hang out with their "own kind."

for real
Like in one of my business classes, I met this darker than normal Taiwanese woman, and her English was pretty good for a FOB. She told me she worked at a boba shop, so I thought she was just trying to make it in America. Couple months later, I learn from her that she's actually got rich politician parents from Taiwan and she drove an Audi TT Usually I would think the more entitled ones would have less incentive to master English, but she was different. She actually dated a white guy during her time here too
She's a rare case though, she told me she doesn't like hanging out with the stereotypical rich FOBs as much because they tend to be fixated on just wasting money and not doing ish.

 

[tupac jordan]

^ You could've came up if you would've got with the ballin' fob lol.

 

[EddieDoyers]

^ You could've came up if you would've got with the ballin' fob lol.

Nah she only dated Taiwanese and white dudes
Can't slide right in because 1) I'm of only Chinese blood 2) my mandarin is almost non existent
Number 1 is the biggest thing
I'm sure you guys know how big the tension is between Taiwan and China

 

[tokes99]

Good topic about identity.

My family escaped a war-torn, Communist country and made their way here to the US. Folks sometimes ask us if we ever miss/would want to move back to the home country and we always hit them with this face:

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We had everything taken from us in the homeland, nearly died getting to the US, and started all over again here. We built up from the bottom, made $$$, contributed to our community, and are finally seeing the fruits of our labor.

So do we take it for granted? Nah, America may have its problems, but we fought hard to make things happen. We love America for the opportunity it represented and are very grateful.

where is your fam from? do you think if your homeland was in a better circumstance now or you had stacked enough to go back and live comfortably?

Wow....Asian privilege in the states sounds way different than asian privilege in Vancouver.

I remember seeing a documentary that included a segment about this reality webseries that was basically an asian kardashians, about youngish rich/wealthy asian women in vancouver...it mentioned something about vancouver having one of the largest Asian populations outside of asia, that definitely would create a different dynamic, especially if/when accompanied by economic influence; any/every group that can consolidate a good measure of affluent members can & usually does exert this type of 'privilege' if that is what we're calling it

curious about the questioning of 'asian-ness' though, is this more of a cultural intergenerational thing, i.e. older asians raised outside of western countries vs younger asians raised in western countries or is it intragenerational where even those asians who are younger and in the same age group are of the opinion that there are some set of behaviors that makes one asian?

Probably one of these....I've lived in Vancouver. Its called Hongcouver for a reason.

its like 8 out 10 cars there are BMWs or Mercs

And youll constantly see/hear Ferraris and Lambos with learner plates. Its the rich kids from China.

could have been, i remember was the creator/director saying how the show was popular because most chinese (both in china & abroad) hate watched it!

From what I got from my parents, relatives and friends who are immigrants, some people from back home view Westerners as spoiled because we didn't have to go through what they did living in poor countries.. regardless of generation. Playing ball at my local church as a teen, we definitely bumped heads with the immigrants in the same generation and the generations above us for absolutely no reason. I didn't realize until I was older that some of that resentment came from us being considered spoiled and sometimes they were right. I know people who would talk down on FOBs, I know people who get their native language tattooed on them without even knowing how to speak the language, and also people who disrespect their own culture in regards to food and customs for example. Sometimes the questioning of "asian-ness" isn't fully unwarranted but I'm only speaking from personal experience.

i suppose that isn't too out of the ordinary of a view for immigrants generally, does any of this type of thing go on amongst people born here?

^ You could've came up if you would've got with the ballin' fob lol.

Nah she only dated Taiwanese and white dudes
Can't slide right in because 1) I'm of only Chinese blood 2) my mandarin is almost non existent
Number 1 is the biggest thing
I'm sure you guys know how big the tension is between Taiwan and China

i had a taiwanese co-worker who would slickly talk down of chinese all the time, i got way too much enjoyment out of playing ignorant: "you're chinese right?" "historically taiwanese & chinese the same people" "taiwan is just a part china" she would almost explode...#goodtimes (to be clear, i understand there are real cultural, political & sovereign reasons taiwanese feel a way about china, but it was surprising to hear how nationalism easily morphs into an individual superiority complex...so sometimes i just could not resist trolling her a bit)

 

[EddieDoyers]

^ yup
I feel like it's the older folks that have that overall hate though, and it's for good reason
The younger generation is more liberal, but they know getting into a relationship with a Chinese person would be frowned upon by their parents
Personally never encountered a Taiwanese person around my age seriously slander my nationality, it's all jokes
But after all I'm technically American, just with a "yellow hue"

 

[titanium tea]

Literally got triggered hardcore 30 seconds into the first vid when the lady said " the chinese brought you good food and a better economy, what is there to complain about"

Ummm how about, if I was to buy my parents house in 1990 it would cost 87,000 $
Id need at least 870, 000$ today.

Bruh I went to Langley the other day and the traffic from all the white flighters was insane around Willowbrook mall.

 

[QU!K]

Bruh the housing market right now in Toronto and Vancouver because of the mostly mainland Chinese foreign buyers


Disgusting


Government had to introduce new laws and ****

Also I'm not a fan of mainland Chinese food

 

[alchemist iq]

Bruh the housing market right now in Toronto and Vancouver because of the mostly mainland Chinese foreign buyers


Disgusting


Government had to introduce new laws and ****

Also I'm not a fan of mainland Chinese food

Chinese secretly trying to take over the world

 

[illmatic34]

http://nextshark.com/reviews-bruce-lee-biopic-asians-pissed/

Thoughts?

 

[slighted]

http://nextshark.com/reviews-bruce-lee-biopic-asians-pissed/

Thoughts?

So they basically promoted this as a Bruce Lee film, but swerved by depicting him in a bad light while the white guy gets the W.

Hollywood gonna Hollywood

 

[titanium tea]

Bruh... I wasnt aware that " going out with white guys " was some kind of push from Hollywood. 

I just figured it happened in vancouver all the time due to the demographics.

I can definitely feel the resentment coming from people when we are out but again, its never from the young.

Plenty of asians harvest white yambs too.

I dont really claim other people in my race that i dont know, so everyone can do as they please.

As for Bruce Lee, the guy was a childhood hero of mine. When I dig through my closet I'll take some pics of my vhs collection 

 .

I cant remember the last movie about a topic I cared about not being a total disgrace, so I hold no hope for this.

Im a big fan of letting people do what they want but also a fan of keeping things true to the original. 

Much like I would protest the new ghostbusters, id do the same with this bruce lee film,  simply not watch it

 

[Fozz]

Bruh the housing market right now in Toronto and Vancouver because of the mostly mainland Chinese foreign buyers


Disgusting


Government had to introduce new laws and ****

Also I'm not a fan of mainland Chinese food

I read about this...My uncle lives in Vancouver and he told me about all the laws that passed and how it was hard to live out there due to the foreign buyers. Smh.

Is there a big difference in mainland chinese food?

 

[DCAllAfrican]

I love this thread. I learn so much from you dudes. I sit back and read.

Have always been obsessed with Japanese Culture thanks to Japanese Pro Wrestling and Samurai Pizza Cats

Keep it up