what \"asian\" means to you
 

i was at my cardroom late at night last weekend and i sit on a 8/16 game waiting for another game. my seat is next to a middle aged, white guy, regular who sees in there a lot. we chat a little, nothing out of the ordinary. i start goofing off, splash some chips around a start jokingly calling myself, "CRAZIAN!" (crazy+asian, ldo). hes played with me before and knows i'm not the normal Lagtard asian. his response is, "you're not asian, all i see a MN whiteboy."

This is not the first time i've got this and won't be the last time. i laughed it off, but it used to brother me in the past. now that i'm older (3o but i don't look like it) i realize that others' views of me is based on thier own perceptions and beliefs on what an asian guy should look/ act like.

I know i'm american and i'm glad i live in the US because it have given me many oppertunities that my home land could never. in my heart i'm asian (i was born in cambodia btw). i love asian food, try to cook asian food, take off my shoes, get pissed when others don't take of thier shoes, speak cambodian (not fluent) and know a little bit of various other asian languages, traveled to korea/taiwan/ cambodia/singapore/japan.

an example my whiteboyness: a while ago i was seeing this asian girl and we were eating tofu and she asked me, "do you know what tofu is?" wtf, i'm such i white boy i don't know what tofu is?!? [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img] i love tufo btw?

I know most the the people in this forum are white, so i ask you what would make you think an asian guy is "white washed?" how is an "asian" guy supposed to act like?

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1. only speak your native language. if you are going to speak english, make it broken.

2. since you are khmer, learn kick boxing.

that is a start

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1. only speak your native language. if you are going to speak engrish, make it broken.

2. since you are khmer, learn kick boxing.

that is a start

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fyp.

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I don't know but I've been on the receiving end of comments akin to the dude's "MN whiteboy" comment (I'm a NYer born and bred, Japanese by blood) which prompted me to scream "Imma cutchoo!!" and whip out my katana. But seriously, I didn't know how I should react to it. I wasn't offended, but mainly because I didn't actually know what they meant by their statement, and I wasn't about to start a whole big discussion on the issue so I ended up reacting as you did, just laughing it off. So yeah, good question. I'm curious as to how others will reply.

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I suggest you try to be a human being. I don't try to be white, why should you try to be asian?

Re: what \"asian\" means to you
 

Only hot women who will have sex with me.

(Note: must live in Asia.)

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Cambodian? You should definitely be laggy. What happened to you [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]. Were you raised by wolves?

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My only thought on this thread is that I'm way more asian than my asian friends kyleb and GoT because I know more about the cuisine of their culture than they do. The only thing Asian about them is their affection for dice.

To be serious:

I think your avg stereotype of an Asian differs a ton between gambling culture (crazy degen lag) and the rest of US culture (quiet smart, math, may own corner market).

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I suggest you try to be a human being. I don't try to be white, why should you try to be asian?

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i'm not trying to be asian, i'm just me? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] what i was asking is, what white people think asians should be/ act like.

kick boxing (Muay Thai) is thai not khmer btw.

edit: my family doesn't own a restuarant or corner market:(

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