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ANNOYANCES OF
ASIAN AMERICAN LIFE
(Updated Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008, 05:25:44 PM to reflect the 100 most recent valid responses.)

Which of the following is the most annoying occurrence to which Asian Americans are routinely subjected?
Being told you speak English well | 21%
Being asked where you're from, originally | 28%
Having (non-Asian) strangers address you with phrases in Asian languages | 23%
Being subjected to offensive media portrayals of Asians | 28%

Which of the following is the most common way in which racial hostility has been expressed toward you?
Hostile words spoken to your face | 9%
Hostile remarks to others within earshot | 41%
Slurs or taunts shouted from a distance | 17%
Spreading of malicious gossip about you | 6%
Pointedly excluding you from a conversation or event | 27%

In your experience what types of persons are most likely to show hostility toward Asians?
People with low educational levels | 24%
People from social backwaters | 17%
People insecure about their own places in society | 28%
People envious of Asian success | 11%
People with little contact with other ethnicities | 19%

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"Nobody in Europe practices human sacrifice.The most violent Europeans are those ideologically related to the KKK."

rare stuff,

Perhaps, nobody in Europe practices human sacrifices in modern times. But, there is no doubt that in the past, human sacrifice were the craze among pagans in Western Europe/the West.

The connection you made to the KKK is interesting, and new: the KKK represent a continuation of the West's perverse relationship with human sacrifices.
Asian Machiavelli    Thursday, July 04, 2002 at 10:22:00 (PDT)
rare stuff,

What does my comment have to do with "annoyances of AA life"? Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..........................absolutely nothing, But I wasn't asking you was I Mr.Know-it-all??????
If I'm not mistaken I believe I was asking "Anti-Pagan" not "rare stuff"

Aztec Warrior    Wednesday, July 03, 2002 at 20:20:26 (PDT)
rare stuff,

That is just too weird. You should move into a college town where there will more people like you to further pursue this weirdness in a more positive manner.
AC Dropout    Wednesday, July 03, 2002 at 12:21:21 (PDT)
AC Dropout,

regarding religion I have to improvise everything, be sparing, appear inconspicuous etc.
I've lived too long outside any Asian community. So I'm too odd, now,to get integrated ever into any community.

To go into the details: I'm heathen, don't accept any god or higher being, try to get superhuman skills and try to watch out for spirits daily and nightly. My most remarkable spiritual experience is that chastity seems to be very important for my spiritual purposes. I'm especially interested in Asian occultism because I suppose that it fits to the capabilities of my race.
rare stuff    Monday, July 01, 2002 at 12:55:17 (PDT)
Actually not in Europe..human sacrifices occurred in the southern United States and I am old enough to tell you about it...for documentation read Oscar Patterson's book...Rituals in Blood, where parts of a lynched person's body were cut off as souvenir's.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/p/patterson-rituals.html
African American    Monday, July 01, 2002 at 12:34:06 (PDT)
rare stuff,

So what religion do you believe in to statisfy your religious need.

Don't tell me you've joined the Fa Lun Gong society.
AC Dropout    Monday, July 01, 2002 at 10:21:37 (PDT)
Aztec Warrior,

that guy "Anti-Pagan" made bad joke. Nobody in Europe practices human sacrifice.The most violent Europeans are those ideologically related to the KKK. Furthermore there are some self-designed neo-pagans (e.g. Satanists) who only claim to do so.The people are too impatient to get their emotions under control,nowadays.-What has your comment to do with "Annoyances of Asian American life"?!
rare stuff    Sunday, June 30, 2002 at 14:50:04 (PDT)
Anti-Pagan, that's pretty intresting.
What kind of human-sacrifice is making a "comeback" in Europe?
Aztec Warrior!    Friday, June 28, 2002 at 22:57:38 (PDT)
AC Dropout,

I mean the religious side of Asian culture. It is often overlooked in the technocratic society. Since the days of colonialization in Asia many cults have died out but those people whose temperaments need the ancient cultic activities tend to suffer. Think of Wayne Lo who gunned down some fellow students because he had problems with the Christianity of his parents and didn't know how to express his temperament in a religious context.

There are also people who are superficially Sinicized (like myself) and don't have that positive connection to Chinese tradition.These people have still religious needs which cannot be satified by the commonly available stuff.

I blame the upper class people because I view it as my duty not to forget that I myself am "poor". It is negative identification in contrast to those Christians who reitinerate day in day out how "beautiful" their god's creation would be etc. -I dislike the monopoly of Christian thoughts in the media and I think that this one-sidedness of the media is partly caused by the Asian upper-class people who don't support non-Christian heathen stuff for Asians.
rare stuff    Friday, June 28, 2002 at 15:20:07 (PDT)
rare stuff,

What do you mean by restoring asian culture? I didn't know it was destroyed in America. It still developing in my opinion. Do you mean reinvesting in the Mother Country like China, ROC, etc.

Elite asains...There has always been a social economic divide in Asia and in USA culture. It is nothing new. Perhaps in your location there is an influx of asians in your area and the stratification of the social group is becoming more apparent.

Most asians that immigrated here rejected communism and the classless society already.
AC Dropout    Friday, June 28, 2002 at 06:25:04 (PDT)
Anti-Pagan,

I ensure you that the German and Baltic NEO-pagans are softies like you. I've lived there and can say from my own experiences that they do mix with Christians.
Don't confuse serious heathens with neo-pagans.(That both would be same is an annoying prejudice.)
rare stuff    Thursday, June 27, 2002 at 14:37:50 (PDT)

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