Refreshing comment and some good examples. Cool to hear not that many immediately go into full denial or uncomfortably-try-to-divert-conversation mode and shit like that.

As for that second last point, seen that book before but this one is much more impactful and better.

That last paragraph is basically just - for those other white guys - them mostly just unknowingly feeding you some of that "privilege" (at least in Anglosphere) as they'd likely not have listened had it not been another guy like them who's not a minority and looks like them etc. - reminds of that Tim Wise guy who talks nonstop on 'white privilege' a lot at colleges and has books about it yet the whole irony of it all that most just can't see is that they're really only listening to him about it cos he's white like them. Had it been a Black guy for example up there talking about 'white privilege' instead - most likely all the white guys would wail about it and go into full denial mode and/or try to leave promptly etc.

>Monahan said he had not known Taylor might be affiliated with a gang. He said Taylor is not Filipino; his mother is Korean.

>Ball said the gang was Yakuza, a name attached to Japan's criminal underworld.

yeah, Noh, don't be a Yakuzaboo

grim as fuck, admire your tenacity searching out these cases.

here's an additional source for research:

type "Gang Affiliation and Self-Esteem: The Effects of a Mixed-Heritage Identity" or "why is dad a fuck face" into https://search.crossref.org

then use https://sci-hub.ac and enter the DOI# for example 10.4135/9781452233840.n17


lol @ some dude in the amazon comments for the book that this chapter comes from:


> Astral Levine says:
>White Guilt causes millions of whites to claim they have Native American blood in them when forensic testing would prove other wise. Hey, even a family tree would. I feel like all those people collaborated to write this god awful book. A bunch of ethnically challenged Americans who so badly want to feel like they are not just plain old Anglo Saxon AMERICAN embarrassments. I especially admire the courage however, to add that one of the books they cited * (doesn't having a book filled with almost entirely one sentence citations from other books make any one else think twice about reading this... I can take one sentence from the Bible and throw it in anything and have it imply that it means what ever I put it in the context of...) is called "How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America" HAHAHAHA Jews aren't white? Really? You are not white author. Jews are Beige anyway.

>I read the book, New Faces, hoping for an intelligent look into the way people view themselves as being multiracial. "Dr." Loretta Winters appears to be one of the worst, most absent minded speakers on the subject. Her writting is horrible and I believe that she lied about having a Ph.D and about being Biracial. Her own psychological state of mind is clearly unstable and unhealthy and I think she needs to seek some counseling for playing this sick game on humanity. This is one of the worst looks at being multiracial. I found the book to be unclear and came off like a drunkards rambles. I pity the soul that ever come across this and her repetive, condescending overtones. I am multiracial and offended at how she writes that we are all the same.

>By Astral Levine
>Verified Purchase(What's this?)
>This review is from: The Elder Scrolls Online: Tales of Tamriel - Vol. I: The Land (Hardcover)
>Wow! Such a treat this book is - the art work is great and it makes a wonderful companion to my game. I would recommend for any Elder Scrolls fan or as a gift to one as well.

http://www.amazon.com/New-Faces-Changing-America-Multiracial/dp/0761923004


I've not read it but now i'm intrigued

I'm glad I took Spanish in HS, though I need to brush up on it. I feel a good command of verbs are the cornerstone to the latin languages, this book helped me a ton: https://www.amazon.com/Spanish-Verbs-CD-ROM-Audio-Verb/dp/0764197975

For "Asian males" who want to improve their English skills, here's a solution:

https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Exclusive-Hooked-Phonics-Complete/dp/1604991771

2nd thought. It's purely from a persuasion/copywriting perspective. I read this book a few years ago and one of the steps before writing is to imagine what opposition the reader could have before buying your product (or accepting your conclusion) and address it in the main text in descending order from most to least important.

For you I'd guess it's #1 establishing you are not a troll and not racist #2 establishing the facts that you proclaim are actually true

I would check out scholarly type books and articles as well as:

https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Mixed-Race-Multiracial-Post-Racial/dp/1138999466

https://www.amazon.com/Part-Asian-100-Hapa-Fulbeck/dp/0811849597

for hapa specific. Even reading on the internet about asian racism would probably be helpful.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hapas/comments/49j42u/its_just_a_joke_is_it_tho/

Read this thread I made about the incident.

If you don't mind me asking, are you white or asian? Feel free PMing me that answer.

Poor Relations: The Making of a Eurasian Community in British India, 1773-1833

https://www.amazon.com/Poor-Relations-Eurasian-Community-1773-1833/dp/0700704256

"The sixty years between 1773 and 1833 determined British paramountcy in India. Those years were formative too for British Eurasians. By the 1820s Eurasians were an identifiable and vocal community of significant numbers particularly in the main Presidency towns. They were valuable to the administration of government although barred in the main from higher office. The ambition of their educated elite was to be accepted as British subjects, not to be treated as native Indians, an ambition which was finally rejected in the 1830s."

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TLDR: Don't be a bootlicker...

There's also this manhwa "Soul to Seoul"

https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Seoul-Vol-Ji-Eun-Kim/dp/1595323120

>A modern-day manga Jungle Fever for teens

>Kai feels discriminated against by the Korean side of his family because he is not full-blooded Korean; he is half Korean and half Caucasian. Even though everyone is against him, Kai decides to date a Korean girl. He also takes comfort in his friend Spike, who is half African-American and half Korean. The sparks fly when Kai's malicious cousin from Korea comes to the U.S. to study and lives with Kai's family. Will Kai's mixed-blood begin to boil?

Its about angry hapas who feel discriminated against. Its supposed to be set in Harlem, which I think is silly, since the writer really doesn't seem to know much about Harlem's or America's culture. I tried reading it, its not all that good, and I couldn't finish the first volume.

The Warriors and the Bankers

Associated interview

And they weren't really just German knights. Many were French, and from all over Europe. The Templars consolidated during the Crusades.

But I'm done wasting my time with your lazy rebuttals. You only shit on an American cable channel, which on the balance, has many pretty good shows, and admittedly some questionable ones. But what is duly noted here is that you readily come to the defense (although inadequately) of anything that challenges the safe notions of white patriarchy.

Are you stalking my posts you naughty boy?

In case you missed it, "There's no need to genocide anyone".
The Japanese aren't putting Ainu into camps, and if they did identify as Ainu, they are Japanese and are treated like Japanese(if their Hokkaido accent can even be understood).

> literally the exact same volk

Nope

Here's some more for you since you brought up Hitler.

I see, I haven't really read any actual books on the subject of being hapa/asian in the US. But I remember vividly during middle school, I stumbled upon this comic book in the library. It is surprising mature for a children's book and deals with identity, self-hate, racism, bullying, emasculation of Asian men, which I think hapa males can relate as well.

There is a name for this. Actually there are quite a few names for this mental condition: internalized oppression, internalized white supremacy, colonial mentality, self loathing, etc. Internalized oppression is basically Stockholm syndrome with race added into it. The white man oppressed you so hard so brutal that you began to develop emotional attachment to him.


Just watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkpUyB2xgTM&t=72s


Check out this book if you have time. It's written by a clinical psychologist
https://www.amazon.com/Internalized-Oppression-Psychology-Marginalized-Groups/dp/0826199259

This. That one (of like the three hapa-specific books) When Half is Whole covered an incident very similar to this w/ an Okinawan Hapa talking to the author (also hapa), and he's just soooo mesmerized with coming to America, finding dad, and finally being free of being ostracized in Okinawa... and ofc, felt bad for him in it, but it was just too ironic that he didn't see his own grass-is-greener mentality when he's dreaming of finding a foreign soldier who abandoned him. His mom is way more on point with this.

Go ask COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW. You mean to tell me you're a better judge of the facts than them?

The facts of Tiananmen have been known for a long time.

The Myth of Tiananmen : Columbia Journalism Review

http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_myth_of_tiananmen.php?page=all

Here's more inconvenient facts, this sick gov has done this shit non stop. making up lies.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/a-timeline-of-cia-atrocities/5348804

http://www.amazon.com/Overthrow-Americas-Century-Regime-Change/dp/0805082409/

The Real War on Reality - The New York Times:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/the-real-war-on-reality/?_r=1

 

The facts and history are unassailable. You have no leg to stand on. Don't reply. I will ignore you. I am sure you will pretend to have "won" but my sources speak for themselves.

As far as I know, this is correct. There is research to suggest that children who are exposed to pets, dirt, germs are healthier and less likely to have allergies. I read a book on this a few years ago, it's a fairly interesting topic - Good Germs, Bad Germs.
Though in the case of a train floor, completely agree - disgusting.

The thing is the moment they see Tan's picture on the back of the book, they know that it was due to her insecurities of being ugly.

On another note, my school did not offer the book, but we did read this other one also written by a AF called Falling Leaves: https://www.amazon.com/Falling-Leaves-Unwanted-Chinese-Daughter/dp/0767903579

This one actually describes the author's Asian stepmother as being cruel.

Read a book by an anthropologist Marvin Harris call Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches: The Riddle of Culture. I don't recall everything from the book, but the main thesis was that human have a set pattern of behavior. I highly recommend his books to everyone. I truly believe his books does better job of explain life and reality than, say, Jordan Peterson's book 12 Rules for Life.

Limited Resources and War:

>Tribal warfare among the inhabitants of Papua New Guinea tend to occur roughly every 20 to 30 years, and evidences strongly suggested that it revolves around the raising of pigs because pigs is the only valued commodity.
>
>Starting out with two tribes coexisting peacefully. Both tribes raise pigs and have children. It takes roughly 20 years to raise a child to become a capable adult, and it takes the same amount of time and resources to raise a pig to adulthood. Within that twenty year period, the people and the pigs experience a gradual population growth, so eventually, someone will encroach on another tribe's territories. Pig or two could have been stolen or a strayed pig went and ate the other tribe's crops. A tribe member encroach into the other tribe's hunting and farming grounds. Extra inter-tribal marital affairs occurs, and of course, some accusation of witchcraft for deceases. For whatever reasons one tribe accuses the other for their misfortunes, the underlying problem is that population growth put a strain on limited resources. Eventually, the problem reaches a breaking point, and the tribes go to war. The war kill off a good numbers of young men and women, enough for each tribe to contemplate their loses. After awhile, the tribes make peace, slaughter half of their pigs in celebration. With half of the young men and women dead and half of the pigs slaughtered, the demand on the resources also reduced, and the cycle starts again.

Isn't it scary to know that despite the fact that we think we have free-will, mother-nature dictates on the grander scheme of things. People fight for various reasons, but at the end of the day, it's nothing more than mother-nature trying to balance things out.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~hist32/Hist33/chin%20Racist%20Love.pdf

Frank Chin is vilified in the current AAPI canon, despite being the first Asian American to get a play produced in the US. Though you can't even find any of his work for free (pirated) on the internet. They say his work (he wrote alot of short stories) are misogynistic, etc etc. This essay was written in the early 70's, so alot of the references might be lost on you, but the message is one that I think is very prevalent and unfortunately forgotten.

He also wrote a novel, he's a pretty funny writer, and it's not a very long read.
https://www.amazon.com/Donald-Duk-Frank-Chin/dp/0918273838
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Duk


This is more general, about colonialism, which pretains more to Malcolm X, "Who taught you to hate yourself" etc etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_and_Imperialism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism_(book)

Basically outlines how european cultures were able to justify their exploitation of asian/african/carribean/etc etc cultures. Painting the other's culture as inferior, portraying the males as either savage barbarians or effeminate perverts, and the women as repressed, oppressed, and waiting for the liberation of the west.

Naturally, books are long, here's some articles, you might have read them before, I dunno.

http://nymag.com/news/features/asian-americans-2011-5/

Basically talks about the bamboo ceiling also asian american passivity.

http://www.east-west-dichotomy.com/the-violent-cult-of-america-and-why-asians-should-quit/

Here's a study about the colonialized mentality of asian females:

https://books.google.com/books?id=d_oOCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT596&lpg=PT596&dq=When+respondents+mimic+the+racialised+gender+stereotypes+perpetuated+in+the+larger+racist+society,+Asian+masculinity+is+constructed+as+the+opposite+of+white+masculinity+it+is+the+%E2%80%98other%E2%80%99+against+which+white+masculinity+is+defined+as&source=bl&ots=cLzhwDFq3h&sig=VlBFbprz9FJ5R_V8qO9a1njjg5k&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjX99zoxdHNAhXH34MKHb4EBhAQ6AEIIDAA#v=onepage&q=When%20respondents%20mimic%20the%20racialised%20gender%20stereotypes%20perpetuated%20in%20the%20larger%20racist%20society%2C%20Asian%20masculinity%20is%20constructed%20as%20the%20opposite%20of%20white%20masculinity%20it%20is%20the%20%E2%80%98other%E2%80%99%20against%20which%20white%20masculinity%20is%20defined%20as&f=false



Anyways, I wouldn't stick around here too long, it gets really depressing and will eat at you. It's very negative and toxic but think of /r/hapas as the malcolm x side of the coin on AAPI activism.

This is going to be a little wordy, but it's because the phrase internalized racism isn't a psychological term or diagnosis. It's a political term that comes from the 1970s Black Power movements and from Jewish literature. The American Black and Jewish experiences do not really parallel much of Chinese history.

I would add that it's not created but merely narrated by people like Amy Tan in the 1980s. Amy Tan was cut off from Chinese culture when her parents migrated and her parents had negative opinions of the revolution as well. They had a political refugee context for their mindset which changes the way someone views their ancestral country. Remember that the modern AAPI movement galvanized around the murder of Vincent Chin in the 1980s as well as the Japanese American reparations push, and that's when people started talking about issues.

The reason I don't think this was invented by AsAm activists is because I've heard the internalized racism discussion before. I've heard it from Jewish writers, and I've heard it from African American writers. One classic book about internalized racism is Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth, which is about a Jewish man avoiding Jewish women. Another one is The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.

Both of these do not take place in the context of an ethnic enclave, or within a non Western society, and they both take place in massively different historical contexts from modern Asia.

The issues that Jewish Americans and Black Americans faced in the 1950s and 60s (where most internalized racism narratives are written) were very different from what Asians face in Asia or Asian enclaves in 2016.

Remember in the 1950s the narrative for diversity was assimilation. Today it's multiculturalism and you're supposed to 'celebrate your identity'. In 1965, the US moved from a melting pot model to a mixed salad model.

The context in which Jewish women had a nose job in 1950s in suburbia is vastly different from Jewish women having a nose job in Israel / an enclave, or a Jewish woman having a nose job in 2016. The context in which Black women applied skin whitening cream in 1950 in the South is very different from the context in which African women apply skin whitening cream in Lagos in 2016.

This is because the narrative of assimilation in the US has changed - and a US narrative cannot even be applied completely to another country or culture.