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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-08-04 03:45 pm

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Re: Petty Grudges You've Held Since Childhood

(Anonymous) 2012-08-04 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm Asian and as a child I grew up in a mostly white community, like I was the only Asian girl in my class and the only other Asian kids at the school were my siblings. I hated a lot of the really ignorant shit people would ask me ("Do you eat dogs?" "Is it true Chinese people name their kids by banging pots and pans together?" etc.) but something that stuck out in my head was in first grade a girl asked me why my eyes were so small. I didn't know how to reply, and I was also super confused because I didn't think my eyes were that small. I don't have the stereotypical "Asian" eyes, so obviously, that girl asked out of sheer ignorance that Asians have tiny eyes when not all of them do. I KNOW! We were kids, but it still pisses me off when I think about it.

Oh, right, the BOYS in my neighborhood were total assholes to my family. Once, right before we moved away, they took a baseball bat and knocked out our mailbox. Fucking assholes. I'm glad I never saw any of them after I moved away.

In middle school, my family had gone on a camping trip with family friends and family. After a long hike up the mountain we were all getting rides on trucks with a few of the guys who took their trucks up. The first truck had so many people on there that it didn't fit me or my ten year old brother, so we went onto the truck of my best friend's brother, and it was just me and him in the back. As my brother and I drove past the truck full of people, I kind of gloated and said, "Ahh so much space in this truck!" and my mom said, "Look, the truck with the two fat pigs," and everyone laughed. We drove away since my best friend's brother's car was better suited for the uneven dirt road than the other truck. I just remember being really fucking hurt. I mean, nothing new that my mom was calling me a fat pig in front of her friends because I was a size 12 whilst most of their kids were size 2 or smaller (LOL Asians), but it doesn't lessen the embarrassment.

And, not really childhood, but as a teenager, I lived nearby my parents' friends. We all call each other relatives though we're not really related, so yeah...my "aunties" for reasons I still don't know why were hell bent on talking shit about me. They said I was a lesbian because I didn't have a boyfriend (I didn't care, but it sucked that my mom believed them and acted like it would be the most terrible thing if I was one). They made fun of the clothes I wore, and they still held onto the fact that I wasn't stick thin and had big boobs. Yeah, so I still hate those fucking older bitches even though I'm in my twenties now. I think about it...these ladies who were probably twice my age with children of their own around my age, picking on me as if they were in high school with me...geez, man. If I ever have kids, I hope I don't do that.

Re: Petty Grudges You've Held Since Childhood

(Anonymous) 2012-08-04 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
So for some reason that I do not understand, casual racism against east Asian people was really common at my school. I have no clue why, since at this stage I don't remember there being any Asian students at my school (I grew up in a really goddamn white town) so it wasn't directed at anyone in particular but, like, for a while pulling your eyes up to 'look Chinese' was the height of comedy. I was thinking about this lately and I feel bad for joining in with it from time to time.
I guess what I am trying to say is: I'm sorry, we honestly didn't know what we were saying. D:

Re: Petty Grudges You've Held Since Childhood

(Anonymous) 2012-08-04 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I know it's not the same thing, but I lived in a mostly puertorican neighbor, and god. They would boot in my back door with a basketball, and housing blamed us! Egged our windows constantly, and when someone new moved in next to us, they would spit at us/wouldn't let us use our own front door. "Use the back white bitch" I was just a kid. So glad I moved from that awful place. :/

Re: Petty Grudges You've Held Since Childhood

(Anonymous) 2012-08-05 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Shit. There's something about *adults* picking on *children* that just riles me up so much. People should fucking know better than that. I'm sorry, anon.