What is all this racist remarks or questions all about?

Question

Why do some Americans say that Asians, Blacks and others try to "act white", and yet they want the Mexicans to assimilate and speak English. No matter what we do, it's wrong. What is going on?

Answer 1

Asians acting white, is when you go to a Chinese food place and the waiter is all friendly and kidding around like he is a cool white guy, when all along he can't even speak English and you don't know what the f*ck he is talking about.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

I love chinese food. Dim Sum. Have you had dim sum. Its cantonese chinese food, whereas generally what you get in a Chinese food restaraunt is Mandarin.

If you don't care about this question, like me, and just happened to get an appetite buzz off of the term Asian, then go out to a nice Chinese food place and see if they serve Dim Sum.

Sesame balls (a deep fried sweet potato covered in sesame seeds and with one of several different fillings) . . .
. . . OH MY GOD!!! THAT IS SO GOOD!!!!

Answer 2

In my experience assimilated Asians see very little prejudice from Whites, but do experience a great deal from some other ethnic groups. Asians where I've lived and worked fit right in.

Second everybody no matter who you are will experience prejudice in this country. I've even been told I'm not White enough because of my Irish heritage. Irish being non-WASP/non-Northern European, Thus not White enough LOL. I've had Hispanics and Blacks make racist remarks or in Gov/Job/Housing situations deny me services because of my color. I've been shot at for being the wrong race before. I've had long hair most of my life so I get the police gestapo thing. Even once coming home from a biz trip dressed in office formal clothing from the meeting I got a dozen guns pointed in my face while they ransacked my luggage then after checking my ID seeing I was local the DEA just walked off without explanation or even an apology.

The fact is that people are people. One idiot of an ethnic group does not make them all like that. It's only when you start being your ethnic group over American that you are suddenly living a stereotype and forced into some rather tight rules. You lose your personal idenity and trade it for your ethnic idenity. A sad way to live in my opinion. I am Draciron not White, I happen to be White, but that's an accident of genetics. I am Draciron not Irish/German-American. I can't speak Galic or German. Have never been to either country. I'm American, my ancestors happened ot come from those countries. I am proud of my heritage but it's not really relivent in day to day life. It is not my idenity. Only my heritage.

So in short your doing nothing wrong. Racism is on the upswing in my opinion because of the fragmentation caused by the hyphenated American syndrome. Once somebody becames something-American they are less American and more the something. This causes a heightened awareness of race. Instead of seeing you, they see your race first. The majority of people so far are not this way in this country. Don't let a few people bother you like that. Just be yourself. You are dewdropinn not Asian, Hispanic, White, Black, whatever. Anybody who doesn't take the time to get to know dewdropinn is the one losing out in my opinion.

Answer 3

The technical term is ethnocentrism. It's very common. It's difficult for some people to look at a situation from any viewpoint other than their own.

They see someone conforming (maybe) to fit into his surroundings, and that may send up a red flag that they are mimicing the "white" folk - which feeds their ethnocentrism. And as for wanting them to speak English - they say it's to make it easier to communicate, but it's really just something to blame them for. I have heard people in America say, in the same sentence, that "Mexican's take all our jobs" and "Mexicans are lazy and don't do anything." Can they do both? Nope, not really - but you can't convince them of this.

Unfortunately, ethnocentrism is always going to be around - we just have to keep working to educate our youth so that the numbers of people who are more aware of the situations we now facing will continue to multiply.

Answer 4

Stop caring what other people say and just do what you do in everyday life. Just think of how much negative energy (that has nothing to do with you) gets in your head because you're so preoccupied with what everybody else thinks? You're fine being the way you are. Anybody from a foreign land that wants to be successful in the States has to learn the language eventually. And as far as acting white, that's just what inferior insecure unconfident people say to throw others into a label. I'm Asian, and as far as I'm concerned, I've got it better than most "whites" because I have the benefit of two cultures and I'm proud of who I am. Anybody that says I'm acting white would have to be a stranger because the people who know me wouldn't think of such an idiotic term.

Answer 5

If someone wants to be American, speak English, no matter what race they are. It IS the national language.

Answer 6

Think of America not as a melting pot but a salad. You retain your identity, but add to the overall value of a nation.

Still, it would be nice to speak English, the native tongue of your new mother country, eh?

Answer 7

Racism refers to various belief systems maintaining that humans can be separated into various groups based on physical attributes and that these groupings determine or influence cultural or individual achievement or the essential value of human beings.

The word "racism" itself appeared in the 1930s, both in the English language and in French. This can lead to hostility against individuals based on a perceived or ascribed "race". Racism often includes the belief that people of different races differ in aptitudes and abilities, such as intelligence, physical prowess, or virtue. Most individuals who use the concept of racial categories believe that different races can be placed on a ranked, hierarchical scale. By definition one who practices racism is known as a racist.

W.E.B. DuBois argued that racialism is the belief that differences between the races exist, be they biological, social, psychological, or in the realm of the soul. He then went on to argue that racism is using this belief to push forward the argument that one's particular race is superior to the others.

Racism can more narrowly refer to a system of oppression, such as institutional racism that is based on ideas that one race is superior to other races. Organizations and institutions that practice racism discriminate against and marginalize a class of people who share a common racial designation. The term "racism" is usually applied to the dominant group in a society, because it is that group which has the means to oppress others, but readily applies to any individual or group(s), regardless of social status or dominance.

Since the last quarter of the twentieth century, there have been few in developed nations who describe themselves as racist, which has become a pejorative term, so that identification of a group or person as racist is nearly always controversial. A number of international treaties have sought to end racism. The United Nations uses a definition of racial discrimination laid out in the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and adopted in 1966:

...any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, color, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life..
The European Union has a wide definition on factors that can but must not be reasons for discrimination: "Article 21 of the charter prohibits discrimination on any ground such as sex, race, color, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation and also discrimination on the grounds of nationality."[1]

Answer 8

nothing to do with anything, did u even read your question! if you want to live in a country at least have the decency to learn the language, that's not racism that's common sense- only in america!

and i am pro immigration

Answer 9

this question violates the conditions and guidelines under section "b" and the terms and conditions too.please read your guidelines my friend or you will knock yourself off the board no matter what your beliefs.x

Answer 10

People always want to be right, but trying to be so can be contradictory when people is as confused as it is now.