[ SECRET POST #2936 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2936 ⌋

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Re: Do you have friends of a different ethnicity then your own?

[nyxelestia]

I've heard. I remember once, years ago, having to mediate some Brits and Yanks arguing about...I don't even remember what, but I do remember needing to step in and tell everyone, "You do realize that 'Asian' means 'South Asians (Indians and Pakistani)' in the UK, but 'East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans)' in the US, right?" Everyone was incredibly flabbergasted to realize that their default assumption of what an 'Asian' was, was so different (In America, you'd specify South Asian, whereas in the UK, you'd specify East Asian - apparently, no one was specifying in this argument, which I think was about cultural appropriation, and I apparently shut down most of the argument just by explaining that).

My mom and I usually lived close to major Asian immigrant and Indian immigrant communities, though never quite in. My mom never really invested in making me hang out with people just because they are Indian, which is good because I'm not a big fan of Indians who are too...cultural, I guess is the word? I'm not sure how to explain it. I get along okay with the ones my age who aren't THAT deeply entrenched in Indian culture, but the ones who I actually befriended were the ones who basically were interested in breaking away or from Indian culture. That sounds really bad, but mostly it's a byproduct of Indian cultural expectations of women (which is basically being exceedingly demure and perpetually ashamed of yourself - I wish I were exaggerating, but this is really it).