#chinese american things

[ternaryflower53]

gotta say, as a chinese american person, seeing people claim jews aren't oppressed because they're wealthier/more educated than other demographics is fucking wild

y'all, being a model minority does not actually mean that those people are "basically white" or that they don't face discrimination. it's not true for (east) asian people and it's not true for jewish people

#chinese american things #antisemitism

[peridot-tears]

Honestly, the most offensive thing about that post was that there wasn't a single Kevin.

#iykyk #chinese american things #and the maples i guess #tears falling like peridots

[kirby-the-gorb]

#kirby #daily kirby #my art #digital #hal laboratory #nintendo #my wife and my partner said I can go to the fancy korean bakery nearby and pick out lots of snacks #*and* it's right next to a taiwanese grocery store that probably has a lunar new year candy I've been idly looking for for like. 20 years. #not a joke btw #one year we celebrated lunar new year in school because blah blah white people school with like 2 chinese kids #it was meant as like a cultural exchange thing but it feels very tokenizing in retrospect #but Anyway #there was one specific sweet they brought that I've been wanting more of Ever Since and I'm pretty sure it was candied lotus seeds #but I only pinned that down for relative certain like. this month #and we mostly shop at american korean and japanese groceries #so I had one one time over 20 years ago #and haven't seen them since. #until jessica kellgren-fozard's recent video with her wife about lunar new year traditions #and I was like 'oh dang I probably can actually just look that up now huh' #cuz I remember the shape very distinctly #and I've been kind of looking for it since before I was on the internet lol #so it genuinely didn't occur to me that I might be able to look it up. #point being - a brief break in The Horrors for Snack Excitement :)

[nickysfacts]

Space Buns are so cute and give us such a doll like look, regardless if were in 2d or 3d!💜

🇨🇳🇯🇵🇺🇸

#history #space buns #odango #shuang ya ji #hairstyle #chinese history #anime #manga #art #united states #japanese history #girly things #girly aesthetic #coquette #dollete style #china #american history #just girly things #soft girl #90s #anime style #animation #femininity #pop culture #1990s #cultural exchange #nickys facts

[quotidianish]

More antics of the blu mercs! Didn’t expect such a warm reception to these silly little headcanons at first, and I’m working up the motivation to finish the rest of the team (failing)

some sillies..

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #Chinese ppl are fond of Mexican mariachi music but know fuck all about Latinamerica as a whole.. #Hence me so pls tell me if anything’s awry here #Anyway #blu soldier and blu demo have an odd North American thing going on. #North American bonding ritual where they have gay sex #Also Canadians from Nova Scotia have an irish/Scottish esque accent #tf2 fanart #tf2 soldier #tf2 sniper #tf2 spy #tf2 demoman #quotidianish #tf2 au #art

[star-ocean-peahen]

AMERICAN. BORN. CHINESE.

I'VE ONLY SEEN EPISODE ONE AND I LOVE THIS SHOW ALREADY 😭 I FEEL SO SEEN

WEI-CHEN HAS THE EXACT SAME HAIR AS MY BROTHER

THEY HAD GAI LAN ON THE TABLE AND A JAR THAT I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS BUT I'VE SEEN IT IN OUR FRIDGE MY ENTIRE LIFE

WEI-CHEN'S LUNCHBOX IS EXACTLY LIKE WHAT MY FRIEND IN MIDDLE SCHOOL USED TO HAVE

HIS WATER BOTTLE IS THE SAME TYPE MY DAD USED (and that slightly tanned white plastic idk if this is even accurate but MAJOR CHINESE VIBES)

THE REMOTE WAS COVERED IN PLASTIC WRAP (MY GRANDMA DOES THAT!!!!!! USING PLASTIC WRAP ON RANDOM HOUSEHOLD OBJECTS!!!!!!)

THEY SAID AIYA. I SAY AIYA ALL THE TIME. I'VE EVEN SAID IT HERE.

MONKEY!! LOOKS AMAZING!! GUANYIN!! LOOKS AMAZING!! THE MUSIC IS BEAUTIFUL THE CHOREOGRAPHY IS BEAUTIFUL

AND THE WAY THE WRITE THE TEENAGERS IS THE FIRST ACCURATE REPRESENTATION OF HOW TEENAGERS BEHAVE THAT I'VE SEEN EVER??? LIKE YES TEENAGERS DO CARE THEY AREN'T CRUEL DOUCHEBAGS BY NATURE THEY CARE THEY JUST DON'T KNOW JACK ABOUT EXPRESSING EMPATHY

EVERY AWKWARD HONEST THING JIN SAID AND DID RESONATED SO HARD WITH ME BECAUSE THAT!! IS HOW TEENAGERS BEHAVE!! THEY REALLY SAID "TEENAGERS ARE HUMAN AND THAT MEANS THEY CAN MAKE HURTFUL DECISIONS WITH GOOD INTENT AND THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY'RE DOOMED TO BE CRUEL PEOPLE!!!!!"

THIS SHOW IS STEEPED IN THINGS FROM ME AND MY FAMILY AND MY COMMUNITY

IM GOING TO FUCKING CRY THIS SHOW IS SO AWESOME

#with the way it's going i really don't think theyre planning on doing the thing the graphic novel did and have a twelve year old kiss #his bestie's girlfriend #also hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the weeb swag #american born chinese

[whilomm]

hey does tumblr know about the controversy surrounding the trend of aircraft pilots meowing.

#buzzy #assigned catgirl on guard #uhhh the controversy isnt super long its mostly that it clogs up the frequencies and is annoying apparentlt #but if u say 'hey stop that' they just meow more #which sounds funny but also like its on emergency frequencies and shit #(bc emergency frequencies are rarely used so it ends up being a lotta nonsense) #or st like that #still its funny to hear a chinese navy ATC (?) meow at a very stern sounding american airforce pilot #anyway. just know theyre meowing up in the skies #or were idk if its still a thing #airplanes #aviation #meowviation

[camillekaze]

Wow not even ten minutes into American Born Chinese and I’m crying about Jin hearing his parents and his fractured translation of what they’re saying

#shut up camille #american born chinese #love aapi winning and getting the love and attention they deserve #but it is making me confront all the things about growing up that I don’t want to face

[obessivedork]

Ada: maybe I should turn my personality off

Me (And my sole survivor): Absolutely NOT 😭😭😭🖤🖤🖤

#I will hand it to bethany esda for making that entire section getting to the mechanist OG fallout levels of fucked up in the right way #GOD. MARTA PROBABLY KNEW SOME OF THOSE PRISONERS #I feel like at some point she has to just. stop and hurl because what the FUCK. She KNEW things were fucked up. She DID. #Of course she did! But idk... I think she had this little bubble of 'well they wouldn't do this shit to their OWN citizens #this is JUST because we're Canadian and we're resisting occupation. Except Chinese americans obviously they're treated like shit too.' #and to have that burst for realsies by this quest? She's gonna have a long smoke and think by the ocean after this quest methinks #Not like. in game but cannonically to me she does #fallout #fallout 4 #fo4 #Ada is a sweetheart but I'm playing a stealth build so. Sorry you gotta go queen ily <3 <- does not gaf about companion perks

[aro-culture-is]

Fandom aro culture is wanting to be obnoxious about your arospec headcanons but the idea of anyone coming after you for them makes you want to scream

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#citnamora #aro culture is #aro #aromantic #actually aro #actually aromantic #ask #mod alexander #honestly i just don't understand getting mad at ppl for hcs #it's literally just. having fun with ur blorbos??? #and it's so easy to just. follow the old YKINMKATO (kink tomato) type of policy with anything (not just kink) #(for those who may not know: Your Kink Is Not My Kink And That's Okay) #(meaning: you like your thing - and it's not for me! - and that's fine.) #(this is not a moral failing. this is not a personality flaw. this is just called 'we are not the exact same person.') #also especially with queer headcannons like???? bruh. #if we're totally real 90+% of gender/orientation types of hcs are self projection #and mayyyyybe 10% have more textual evidence if i'm super generous #and even then!!! look. people are COMPLICATED. we are not some sort of monolithic group. we have interconnected identities #what reads to one person as 'oh that's a Bi person behavior' is entirely informed by their specific interactions with bi-ness #and - for example - white american culture around bi-ness is almost certainly not the same as han chinese culture around bi-ness

[transgender-battlekukku]

remember when archie sonic made the echidnas british colonizers and not only were n*zi echidnas introduced but the guys they were actively being racist against (the dingoes) were portrayed as pissy bad guys, "appropriated" the echidna's technology (despite the echidnas themselves appropriated their land) because they "couldn't create technology of their own" and also more n*zi caricatures too

and then the spirit of one of their colonizers banished them to desert superhell

#literally everytime they dealt with native cultures the archie writers fucked up SO BAD #like the cat country with a modern portuguese name stereotypically mesoamerican aesthetics and an egyptian queen #OR THE FACT THAT THEY MOVED THE WOLF PACK #WHO WERE CLEARLY MEANT TO BE NORTH AMERICAN NATIVES #TO SOUTH AMERICA #BEVAUSE AMERICAN NATIVES ARE ALL THE SAME FUCKING THING APPARENTLY #and when they showed pachacamac it was soooo clear that he was redesigned by white people #that wasnt pachacamac that was patchacamack #or when they made the journey to the west adaptation #and thought it would be a good fucking idea to mix chinese and japanese cultures as the same fucking thing #i like pre sgw archie but those kinds of things make it SO HARD to stomach it through... #sth #archie sonic #in this house we hate ken penders #text post

[heartrender6]

WHERE ARE THE JINWEI SHIPPERS AT

#jinwei #I WILL MAKE THIS A THING I SWEAR TO GOD #american born chinese #a better ship name would be 卫生纸 but maybe too niche 💀 #bishangzoy

[gentil-minou]

God that last post is so fucking frustrating because Asians experience so many microaggressions for names especially when you live in a non Asian country and it's the worst thing. Because names MEAN something and in Asian cultures the mean a whole lot they're about history and extend so far back. They have deep and complex meanings that vary from country to country. And people make fun of them or mispronounce them and continue to do so or ask "can I call you -whitename- instead" like it's a nickname that's cute no fuck off, or like how sometimes we have multiple names because we have to or we have to make up a name cause we think we need to or even consider changing our own name to something dumb like Betty because the incredible culturally significant and beautiful name we have ends up bringing us nothing but pain because it's just another way to ostracize and bully and exclude us. That we have to make ourselves palletable to white folks because "wow you're so pretty and foreign I wish I had your eyes/hair/skin" but "your name is hard to say can I call you this instead"

It's disgusting, and if you find you disagree then you need to stop fetishizing us and learn some Goddamn empathy and respect or go read your dumb white vampire book or your stupid hoover lady and leave our spaces alone

#bushy rants #god im so pissed the name thing has always bothered me and personally harmed me for literal years of my life and continues to today #people suck #also as an fyi im not chinese nor part of the diaspora im pakistani american but the way westerners treat asian names is the worst #its so easy to learn about the history and complicated identity that surrounds the chinese diaspora i really recommend people learn more

[skyeventide]

no but like Blasphemous as a videogame is incredible not just because the gothic-gore-religious aesthetic and lore primordially fucks, but also because it really demonstrates how good fantasy can be even without basing it on generally english-germanic inspirations, and I'm saying this as a Tolkien fan so it's not like I have a problem with that per se.

#obviously there's other things that manage the same thing successfully #like the entirety of south american magical realism #but it's good that a team from (iirc) spain #didn't go grab something foreign to achieve that #like anyone can slap in a chinese dragon for non-germanic fantasy #but they didn't and I appreciate that #personal #Blasphemous

[earthyorangeaid]

I watched American Born Chinese because the few posts I did find about it were mostly positive and I ended up really loving it! The story telling is very good and the characters are all extremely engaging. The show really does feel like a labor of love by everyone who was a part of it.

I know there’s criticism because of how different it is from the source material but… I honestly don’t care about any of that. No I never read the graphic novel, but I’ve heard negative things about it too, and just generally speaking I’m not a person who usually cares for tv media to be EXACTLY like the media it came from. Sometimes, it’s nice to see characters I love in a new story I haven’t already seen, and I think ABC was made with so much love and consideration and passion for the topics it DID want to handle, and has allowed itself to be something totally it’s own.

I hope this show can push past the usual wave of negativity that’s often pointed at minority lead and created media and find it’s audience, I’m really disappointed by how little visibility it seems to be getting at the moment because I think this show deserves a chance to tell its story all the way through

#also I want to see what happens in the potential season 2 #are there things that aren’t super clear and I don’t quite understand? yes #like the ending with Jin #I have no idea what’s going on… but it seems like neither does any of the characters! so that’s OKAY #we don’t always have to have a clear answer to everything in media that’s supposed to be part of the journey too #that’s another criticism I’ve been seeing… y’all the type of people to ask the person next to you at the movie what’s going on half way thru #just ENJOY it just relax and take it all in and let it wash over you #you can question everything the second or third time around just #it’s cool it’s okay #american born chinese #Disney American born Chinese #ABC #Disney abc

[999-roses]

unpacking 'sinophone' and its sinophobic roots

so. it never occurred to me to just type "sino diaspora" into google before.

and google is like "oi!! you meant sinophone yeah? here's wikipedia on sinophone" and here's like the other top results

I'm squinting. What the hell do you academics have against diaspora using the term diaspora?? I click.

inb4 this whole rant: I have no qualms with using sinophone as a language-family-use descriptor (like sinophone media), but coming from academia or as an academic field unto itself. but. the literature about wanting to use it as a demographics thing & separate it from "chineseness". just. looook if anyone knows that they're no longer like this let me know. with what im seeing, im having a bad faith moment

so... this is the academic that's hard pushed the term for sinophone.

"crit on orientalism might be complicit for allowing Chinese intellectuals to call themselves victim under an 'unreflective' nationalism" & "but the flipside may be a new imperialism" yeah?? any more unsubstantiated claims???

What a joke!! Clearly only takes authority about Chinese history from western sources, like literally has the uncritical echo of "X country doesn't deserve territorial integrity" that literally fueled western imperialism, and not just of China. Treaty of Nanjing 1842 ringing no bells? Sigh. National sovereignty is the barest basis against overt imperialism where someone just comes over and declares where you live their colony!!! ... is this a test in how far can you stretch the definition of imperialism or colonization? lmfao, China invests in poverty-relieving measures like building houses and improving infrastructure out in Tibet, Guizhou, Xinjiang, and you have the audacity to call that colonizing?!? 我真无言了。

different article by the same person:

laughable to think that the Chinese state even bothers to think I exist, let alone talk to me about my diaspora status. (I was born in the US)

also, people are really out there saying 'diaspora has an end date' huh

here it is. here is the 'scholar' conflating American or western imperialism with things Big Bad Scary Red China does.

Clearly mixing up concepts of tributary system with colonialism, and acting like historically (other than Yuan era under Genghis) that ancient China/Chinese culture was expansionist, going around trying to conquer peoples and set up colonies. Admiral Zheng He would spit on you.

Comparing the spread of culture and language in Ancient China to the colonization and subjugation that the French/Belgium did in Africa, or the British Empire, or the Spanish and Portuguese in Latin America, is so blatantly dishonest. The indigenous people of Tibet, Inner Mongolia, and Xinjiang still speak their own languages and use their own scripts, and yes, they learn them in schools alongside the national language... which is Chinese!!! Yes the Hanyu writing system was adopted and adapted by many neighboring cultures in ancient times, but you literally don't examine WHY? The fluidity in its system: frequently non-Han peoples invented characters to suit their language, like there's even some Canto-specific characters that are in use today. Another reason that Chinese writing system was so popular was because two Sinitic language speakers who do not speak the same language could communicate through the same script. Yeah, Ancient Chinese scholars and dignitaries often had an insufferable elite-ness and superiority complex, but describing their attitude as subjugating and forcing other people to adopt their system? What a wildly malicious mischaracterisation!

just... mask off, gringo butt-licker.

Please. where is the "Chinese containment" policy? The white papers reaffirming what the international community agrees, what Taiwan historically agrees (tho Taiwan held that it was the true capital/head of all of China), that Taiwan is part of China?? I know this article was written back in 2010s but are you seriously comparing American weapons deals and boots on the ground with Chinese military exercises in Chinese territory that haven't harmed a single civilian? "critical" my ass!

gotta love the title of this one. yeah, I know it, I've seen it before. the Chinese or feminist binary, pick a side /s

but hey in this piece she admits she's ignorant and unobjective and out of her league sometimes?

edit: found this:

yeah that about seals it for me. anti"diaspora" sinophobe

#sino diaspora #diaspora #逆向种族分子 #long post #chen yells at clouds. more at 10 #sinophobia #sorry. personal rabbit hole. and taking things personally #we're committing ad hominem crimes today folks #sure chinese->lunar new year. im fine w that. but can you fucks stop trying to take away chineseness away from people who still ID as??? #this person is literally doing the western empire's work of laying ground for sinophobia #can't tell if this academic is a grifter or actually serious lmfao #as if american chinese diaspora don't call americans 老美 and call ourselves 老中. i mean yes i call myself 老美 when in china but hello?? #you cloak your 'expertise' in the lingua & clothes & rituals of western academics. just shake your colonized ass for white people more #reading this drivel makes me want to go into asian american studies & grab this and shake it around like a ragdoll. #but im reminded that western institutions and definitely academics unquestionably cite western sources w/o hesitation #but give anything coming out of China even just academics not anything gov related with skepticism. so it's probably a no-fly #yeah sure im a 'sinophone' but im also diaspora so fuck you. 你忘了你祖先你的族梗。你这个逆子找白人拜金去了。就你这样做榜样？让海外华裔立起来？丢死人。跟你的英文大白菜出卖同类吧 #fuck you for saying that diaspora's connection to their heritage & culture are currently being severed& should be severed & studied as such #like literally uncritical of how exactly that happens. why so many diaspora have internalized racism driving them to scrub themselves of #their asianness heck even chineseness. try to scrub it all away but you still got an asian face. so fuck you #didn't look into 'asian american studies' much before but if it's a lot like this... well. 🤨 #like this academic is so disconnected from our shared histories AHSIJIJDSIAJDAAAHAAHGGHGGG #+ my poasts #imperial core circus