Annoyances of Asian American Life | Asian American Poll

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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"I think for a WF married to an AM to take on his last name is a wonderful and brave thing to do. Brave because you'll have to put up with questioning looks, confusion, for the rest of your life."

White females who have taken on your AM's last name:

Have you experienced the annoyance of other Caucasians creating problems for you, because they misidentify as an Asian? For example, have you called about cable service over the phone, and the person at the other end knows you only by your last name, and you find out that a problem develops in carrying out service, presumably because you are tagged as Asian?

Here are other areas in which other Caucasians may be creating problems due to "race" (ironically, you are Caucasian, but over the phone, in written correspondence, etc. the person at the other end can't tell your "race"):

* telephone service
* csr rental
* hotel accomodations, etc.

I'm curious about your experiences in that respect, and how you handled each situation.

Annoyances Related to an Asian Name Saturday, July 13, 2002 at 12:18:08 (PDT)

"...is gay";
"...you ASS...".

-here you get some facts back:

people like you are either sado-masochists or hedonists, otherwise you would not engage in such trash talk about human sacrifice and insult people criticizing your anti-culture.

"Damn, look at that post...":

so that's the only argument you can find. There are no facts which would support your statements.
you are the gay of this forum Saturday, July 13, 2002 at 08:50:48 (PDT)

aztec warrior's interest in human sacrifice is just sick. if you want to commit a crime you should go to a psychologist or better straight into prison.
just the truth Friday, July 12, 2002 at 05:58:06 (PDT)

"rare stuff is gay",

for what reason do you assume me to be gay?-In certain locations your head could end up kicked around by a soccer player for such statements. (-That doesn't mean that I would deny such things could happen to my head, too, if the location fitted.)
rare stuff Thursday, July 11, 2002 at 15:21:40 (PDT)

Hey rare stuff,

When and where did I ever say or imply that I am a satanist, gay or even a teenager? I merely made a simple, factual, statement.

Damn, look at that post, you ASSume too much.
rare stuff is gay Wednesday, July 10, 2002 at 22:19:16 (PDT)

"Human sacrifice in Finland"?
-Who says that?!-
I guess you're another gay teenage Satanist who thinks collecting news from uncommon incidents in Europe would be something "spiritual".

Satanists have nearly all of their practices from gay Asian sources (Tantra, Devi cult among some other gay cults). It would be ridiculous if these people claimed to have performed any (human) sacrifice ever in their lives because you must first possess a thing before you can sacrifice it. Obviously, these people cannot possess the things when the spirits of the things possess them by the same time.
-Real human sacrifice without gay attitudes begins where Asia begins, in Turkey and beyond the Urals.- Only non-spiritual people don't know the difference between a stolen object, a robbed object and an object which is possessed.
If Satanism had the power of cults like Voodoo or Mau Mau they would be more established in the underground of their societies.-But factually it's just a fashion,like wearing a moustache or like Goth movement.

So long Europe was just a tiny appendage of Asia, culturally this still the case, they have extinguished their own roots
and now they claim "Aryan" superhumans would have build up the big cultures of Asia. I want to know that most religious stuff is just copied from Asian sources and has then been perverted through the ages.
rare stuff Sunday, July 07, 2002 at 23:23:50 (PDT)

MLK,

They are a cult banned from China in 1997. They take their members money and ask them to burn themselves in the street.

They believe that rudimentary Kung Fu and mediation will lead to enlightenment.
AC dropout Sunday, July 07, 2002 at 17:51:00 (PDT)

"The KKK was wrought from America and America only."

It was actually founded by Nathaniel Bedford Forrest, who murdered blacks at Fort Pillow. They have named streets and schools after this war criminal down south. Only in the Southern United States that they consider war criminals and other gangsters such as Stonewall Jackson, heroes by waving their confederate flag which is more revered in some of those communites than the Stars and Stripes....and then they wonder why blacks demand reparations.

Historian Sunday, July 07, 2002 at 13:48:00 (PDT)

Even though it hasn't happened to me in years, someone said to me "hey, you speak pretty good English" a month ago. I was only slightly offended cuz it was some poor white guy asking for change, plus it was a constant in my childhood. But my girl was very offended by it. Still, I'd have to say that "where are you from?" is more annoying.

This doesn't have anything to do with the current conversations, but I never answered this poll before, so I'm just putting in 2 cents.

LM Sunday, July 07, 2002 at 01:22:05 (PDT)

Aztec Warrior,

Human sacrifice is alive and well in rural Finland.
rare stuff is gay Saturday, July 06, 2002 at 21:41:45 (PDT)

Asian Machiavelli,

It's wrong to say that the KKK 'represent a continuation of the West's (Europe) perverse continuation with human sacrifices'.

Human sacrifice as practised by the Western Europeans (eg Druids etc) was performed out of deference to their gods! And only respected members of tribes/communities would be offered for sacrifice to the gods. The unfortunate person being sacrificed would have seen it as an honour, that he should be chosen to appease the gods. I fail to see what is so perverse in this context!

The KKK, conversely, perform their 'human sacrifices' out of pure savagery. That's all that can be said about it - and for an apparently 'civilised' country (the only developed nation to still use the death penalty) is this hardly surprising?

Any linkage between modern-day KKK savagery, and ancient European rituals is wrong. There is no connection between the two whatsoever. The KKK was wrought from America and America only.
Bob the Builder Saturday, July 06, 2002 at 07:51:28 (PDT)

AC

What in heck is a Fa Lun Gong Society?
MLK Friday, July 05, 2002 at 21:54:25 (PDT)

Asian Machiavelli,

I just wanted to point out that I wouldn't count KKK related practices as relevant sacrifices for anything. My opinion is that Christian syncretism has took part in perverting the attitudes of certain "cults" from/in Europe.
rare stuff Friday, July 05, 2002 at 13:05:33 (PDT)

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