AA Attitude toward Hapas | Asian American Poll

AA ATTITUDE TOWARD HAPAS
(Updated Wednesday, Jan 22, 2025, 06:39:10 AM to reflect the 100 most recent valid responses.)

Assuming you are Asian American, which best describes your feeling toward Hapas (persons with one Asian parent)?
I find them more attractive than pure Asians. | 38%
I find them less attractive than pure Asians. | 11%
I find them equally attractive as other Asian Americans. | 13%
They put me off by seeming more white than Asian. | 28%
I am never quite sure how to relate to them. | 10%

Assuming you are a Hapa, which best describes your own feelings?
I am most comfortable with Asians. | 38%
I am most comfortable with Whites. | 33%
I am most comfortable around other Hapas. | 6%
I am equally comfortable with Asians and Whites. | 23%

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Half Chyna Doll,
Communication has been established. Well it's about time we talk. Yes, it's possible to see mutation to occur in a generation or two. The DNA encoded in your and my body are the blueprints of our features, personalities, behaviors, previous generations, and etc. These are stored in category of attributes. There are so many possibilties of iterating the genetic attributes to pair for the next generation. In other words, the posibilties are normal-distributed to the entire generations. The possibility is there, however we don't if it will occur on the next generation or 100 generations later. Possibility can be estimated with hypothesis testing, back-propagation method, ANN, and etc, but we are not here to discuss that. We can talk more about this if you would let me email you.
Young Wednesday, June 05, 2002 at 05:02:10 (PDT)

to: Malaysian-Eurasian Gal18

Heh...true the minagkabau put more importance on girls. Well since my dad married to my mom which are consider outsider, so we dont really follow the tradition anymore. You know that went a guy marry to a minagkabau girl they have to follow their suku right. My dad suku (which consider tribe) r called Tanah Data...

Im from Rembau anyway if your friend from there maybe we r related or something... Heh :P
mixed malay&chinese guy Wednesday, June 05, 2002 at 00:25:28 (PDT)

wtf??
are you kidding??!! Most Malay stock people are not mixed, chinese and indians like to think that most malays are mixed because chinese and indians want to feel more like they are native of malaysia when they are not. There are alot of Malays that are mixed but most are not. I think someone who is half white half malay has the right say they belong in malaysia, but half white half chinese or half white half indian people do not have the right to say they belonng in malaysia, they should accept the fact that they dont even belong in this part of the world (south east asia), and should thank god that they get to live in a country like malaysia.
Viva Melayu Tuesday, June 04, 2002 at 21:06:14 (PDT)

Half Chyna Doll,
Yeah, I guess every person in this world can't do anything to keep themselves from getting old. Hehe........you like pizza? I kind of like pizza but most of the time, I only eat Hawaiian pizza. Are pizza and burgers popular over here? Oh yeah, you bet. We have that everywhere hehe...US movie? that too......that's very popular and as for music, it's also popular. For example Linkin Park etc.
Malaysian-Eurasian Gal18 Tuesday, June 04, 2002 at 19:52:55 (PDT)

Half-Chyna Doll:
Nah, I need more practise in writing concisely. As for Malaysia, last time I was around, there was a trend of local rap groups doing English-language music (too phat, poetic ammo, etc.). don't know if such things are still popular. People like hollywood movies but sometimes the censors can get annoying. hard to keep up with what's going on these days cuz I don't have any relatives over there any more.

also I'm not sure how to get the words for "pear" and "tongue" confused. (then again, I'm not a native cantonese speaker, and I sound like a country boy to HK people). pear is supposed to be pronounced in the same way as "to separate" (i.e. the first word of "divorce"), but I think the colloquial pronunciation is a different tone (but the same sound). I'd call the tongue "siet tau", but that's just the formal word, didn't know there was another cantonese word for it. oh well, every dialect i learn ends up being useless anyway, I better just concentrate on improving my proficiency in Mandarin.
T.H. Lien Tuesday, June 04, 2002 at 15:14:33 (PDT)

To Jay and Half Chyna Doll,

I'm in L.A....I'll be heading to Hawaii for some fun....hehehehehe

A. Tuesday, June 04, 2002 at 15:01:29 (PDT)

Mixed Malay& Chinese guy,
yeah, I do agree that most Malays are not pure anymore coz there are some Chinese or Indian mixed in them or maybe even more diverse.So, that means your dad's Minagkabau? Are you from Negeri Sembilan then? I have a Eurasian friend whose mother is also a minagkabau and her dad's English. Minangkabau people put more importance on girls eh hehhehe......
Malaysian-Eurasian Gal18 Monday, June 03, 2002 at 20:49:10 (PDT)

Half Chyna Doll,
How did my parents met? Well, they were students studying in London and that's how they met. My dad was studying business administration and my mom was an art student. They met through friends and my dad used to tell my lots of stories about how they met in London and stuff like that. Actually, my mom didn't accept my dad at first coz she was with an Indian guy. But they didn't get along well and my mom decided to give my dad a chance hehe........then, she found out that my dad is a very interesting man to date and a guy who appreciates her alot. After they got married, they moved to Malaysia. Are there lots of caucasian in Malaysia? Not really. But in big cities yes coz there are alot of American, British, Dutch etc investors in Malaysia.Most of my Eurasian friends' dads are foreigners working in Malaysia :)
Malaysian-Eurasian Gal18 Monday, June 03, 2002 at 20:43:59 (PDT)

to malaysian eurasian gal18:
well u cant do anything to keep from getting old so y worry? i'm inherently vain, tho not as much as malaysian hapa. i just try to stay away from the sun n eat right. i cant resist pizza tho. random q time. is food like pizza n burgers popular in malaysia? how about US movie/music?

to TH Lien:
u speak so elegantly and put things simply. i admire that in a person. u said what i've been trying to say all along. ur conclusion is hilarious also. "Any comments? or blatant generalizations?". seriously, those are words to live by.

Half Chyna Doll Monday, June 03, 2002 at 18:48:05 (PDT)

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