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guids,

Bowing is only chapter 1. We still need to clear up chopsticks, eye gestures, the asian driving stereotype, and being good at math.

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It's racist that you didn't just call you and your girlfriend 100% Asian in your post. 100% Oriental would have also been acceptable, but all the detail you put is just there to confuse us white folk and that's racist.

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guids,

Bowing is only chapter 1. We still need to clear up chopsticks, eye gestures, the asian driving stereotype, and being good at math.

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being loud, wearing too much cologne, greasiness, and guinea charm......take that.



what about asian women...are they just mediocre at math or what?

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I thought this was pretty funny.

My girl and I were sitting at Cost-co enjoying our 1.50 polish dogs and a churro. I'm 1/2 Chinese and 1/2 Japanese. She's 3/4 chinese 1/4 Cambodian. Anyway, this dude sits down next to us and looks over and says "Hey, do you guys speak Asian?" I give him a sort of "what the hell did you just ask me?" look. As soon as the words escaped his lips he reeled back and said "I mean, do you speak any Asian languages?"

So, should I be offended? Would anyone ever go up to a random black guy and ask him if he speaks Africa?

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Why do you feel the need to mention that? How is that relevant to the story?

It seems to me that you are the one showing signs of racism in this story.

As an example, if there was a man working behind the counter of a Blockbuster and he happened to be black, how would this be any different from saying, "I was standing on line waiting for the black employee working behind the counter to call me up"?

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I thought this was pretty funny.

My girl and I were sitting at Cost-co enjoying our 1.50 polish dogs and a churro. I'm 1/2 Chinese and 1/2 Japanese. She's 3/4 chinese 1/4 Cambodian. Anyway, this dude sits down next to us and looks over and says "Hey, do you guys speak Asian?" I give him a sort of "what the hell did you just ask me?" look. As soon as the words escaped his lips he reeled back and said "I mean, do you speak any Asian languages?"

So, should I be offended? Would anyone ever go up to a random black guy and ask him if he speaks Africa?

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So what's the answer to his question? Do you speak Oriental?

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I thought this was pretty funny.

My girl and I were sitting at Cost-co enjoying our 1.50 polish dogs and a churro. I'm 1/2 Chinese and 1/2 Japanese. She's 3/4 chinese 1/4 Cambodian. Anyway, this dude sits down next to us and looks over and says "Hey, do you guys speak Asian?" I give him a sort of "what the hell did you just ask me?" look. As soon as the words escaped his lips he reeled back and said "I mean, do you speak any Asian languages?"

So, should I be offended? Would anyone ever go up to a random black guy and ask him if he speaks Africa?

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Why do you feel the need to mention that? How is that relevant to the story?

It seems to me that you are the one showing signs of racism in this story.

As an example, if there was a man working behind the counter of a Blockbuster and he happened to be black, how would this be any different from saying, "I was standing on line waiting for the black employee working behind the counter to call me up"?

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There is a great black dong/lisa lapinelli joke here, I just dont know what it is yet.

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guids,

Bowing is only chapter 1. We still need to clear up chopsticks, eye gestures, the asian driving stereotype, and being good at math.

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being loud, wearing too much cologne, greasiness, and guinea charm......take that.



what about asian women...are they just mediocre at math or what?

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In Math Team in Massachusetts, you are split into groups of five, the top five are in group one, the next best five are in group two and so on. Group one was three asian males, one white male (me! brag ldo), and one asian female. Group two was two asian females, one white male, and two asian males. Group three was one asian female and four white males. My school was >90% white fwiw.

So clearly, the hierarchy is asian male > asian female > white male >>>>>>>>>>>>&g t;>>>>>> everyone else. That is to say, asian females are still excellent at math. It's just men are better than women.

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"Cost-co"

In American we don't use a -.

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1/2 Chinese and 1/2 Japanese douchebag gets offended at NON-Racist conversation starter

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You should not be offended by this at all imo. It is a little rude, but not that bad.