There's this asian american who seems to be a bit of a rude person and uncapable of feeling emotion at times

Question

i thought most asians were stereotyped as being stable and proper.Is what i described(the disorder this guy has)a result of childhood and environmental factors?

Answer 1

why not ignore him and get on with your life
all races sexes and colours get grumpy

Answer 2

There are no ethic monopolies on rudeness. All groups, cultures, creeds and races have rude people that are counted among them.

When you say Asian you are lumping quite a few very disparate groups together Chinese culture really has little in common with Philipino culture for example. Most Indonesians are Muslim but very few other Asian nations have many Muslims. Japan has a culture and standard of living on par with the US while Thailand struggles with desperate poverty. Vietmese and Cambodians often quickly lose touch with their heritage once in a Western nation while Chinese often create a distinct sub culture.

Nor are all Asians ethnically Asian. Besides the Philipinos and Samoans there are quite a few European descended Asians from Hong Kong, Sinagpore, etc. So even as an ethnic group that's not really a good description. To most many non-Asians there is little difference ethnically from Japanese, Korean, Chinese and SE Asian. To Asians and folks that know enough Asians there is a big difference. More distinct than the difference between say German and Italian. Even to most people somebody from Indonesia does not resemble a person from Japan very much.

I think the stereotype you are talking about is the Chinese culture that has been transplanted in the US, or perhaps Japanese culture. Both cultures are very polite cultures. However many Chinese and Japanese descended Americans are just that, Americans. They have fient traces of the culture of their ancestors. Other than that they are like anybody else here. When you deal with most other Asian cultures, they tend to assimilate much faster, though many Phiipeno's often gravitate toward Hispanic subgroups.

No way to tell why the guy is rude. He could have been raised in NY where rudeness is valued and encouraged. He could be anti-social or maybe the guy just don't like you and is very polite with other people. Rudeness itself is not a disorder. Nor is a symtom of any major disorder.

Answer 3

the childhood of the individual may be a slight factor but we must not overlook the fact that everyone in society has been labeled whether we like it or not. This individual just took the bridge and nuked it by turning the other cheek when someone said asians are stable. He may just understand that the labels we put on people don't mean jack**** when it comes to the real person.

Answer 4

I really don't see what his being Asian American has to do with anything. Anyone can be rude... and anyone can have a bad day. Perhaps he's got some issues going on in his personal life that you're unaware of. And by the way... stereotypes are just b.s. that are thought up by ignorant people.

Answer 5

Most stereotypical behavior of rudeness for any race for that matter is of nurture factor. So, it's not a question of genetics but environmental factor or poor upbringing. Some Asian-American men especially Cantonese men are rude and mean. They belong to the lower class and lack proper education. Normally, higher level of education and social class in society tend to smack more of good breeding. and development of good manners and etiquette; common courtesy and kind consideration for the feelings of others.

Answer 6

Someones race doesn't define how they will act.
That's like saying you can predict the behavior of someone based on their hair color. Its just another genetic trait.
Disorders and such are caused by a lot of things, sometimes determined by hormones, chemicals, brain chemistry, and sometimes caused by abuse or a bad environment.
Focus less on stereotypes and you'll have a better time understanding people.

Answer 7

Your thoughts are 'mixed' because of the fact they're actual, genuine thoughts. If this youthful woman grow to be consistently as rude to you as you assert, and he or she grow to be on no account 'advantageous' or 'complimentary' to you, then the 'rudeness' you had in direction of her grow to be truly the terrific element you're able to desire to do ... you refused to talk or renowned her existance in any way after the 1st 'curt' greeting. sturdy for you. Now what you're able to desire to do is 'get previous this' as though this man or woman lives on the different facet of the galaxy, and go returned to being the 'generic advantageous man or woman' you're ... and after this do no longer say something to her, merely look by her ... yet be merely as friendly as you in many situations are to truly everyone else, and you'd be high quality ... they're going to such as you yet you will 'no longer see her' so her 'backbiting criticisms' won't be able to injury you from now on.

Answer 8

Asia is a big continent !
17,333,732 square miles with its highest point being 29,028 feet above sea level, and its lowest point 1,312 feet below sea level. It contains about 40 different countries, and consequently many cultures, sub-cultures, races, religions, etc.

It is home to people with high cheekbones and narrow eyes who practically live on horseback in some of the remotest places on earth, and also is home to some of the most densely packed cities containing a mass of darker skinned people with larger noses who burn their deceased on an open pyre and stick fish-hooks through their cheeks on days of national importance. Asia also contains the centres of the most modern technology and financial importance.

It's impossible to stereotype people like that.

All these "Asian American", "Afro American", and other expressions are nothing more than a politically correct way of being able to refer to somebody (respectively) as having narrow eyes, straight black hair, small flat noses, and an off-white complexion, or black-skinned with wider noses than "caucasians", naturally curly black hair, and having had great-grandparents who were forcefully brought to your shores as slaves.

If you really wanted to take this ridiculous stereotype and politically correct way of pidgeon-holing people by their outward appearance, you would then have to star using categories such as Japano-American, Chino-American, Indo-American, etc.

Would it then be safe to assume that most Japano-Americans wold be highly motivated and faithful employees with solid family values who all sent their kids to violin classes? What a load of utter nonsense that would be.

People are people, that's all. If they are born and raised in the US and have families with origins from another country than the US, then they are just the same as all the Jewish population, your Phadraig McTierney's whose parents emigrated from Ireland during the potato famine, your cCallum MacDonalds who emigrated from Scotland when the English landlords burned their houses down, and all the other people that make up the huge and cosmopolitan population of the United States.

OK, so certain cultural standards, beliefs, and values are passed on from generation to generation such that there can still be something persisting of these peoples' family heritage and background, but environmental factors can affect anyone, regardless of what culture they are derived from historically.

Perhaps you think I've been rude here? What would be your perception of "British" people in general terms? I'm British, but there are a great many cultures and historical backgrounds in the people living in the 4 countries that make up the British Isles. I'm Scottish, but I don't know if I'm from a long line of violent Vikings who plundered these shores from Scandinavia and Denmark, or if I have a French or Irish blood-line. Who cares!

When you go on holiday to another country, don't you always see the worst representations of other countries' inhabitants. I'm sorry to have to say this, but from the white-skinned Americans I have bumped into while on holiday in various other countries, they have been the loudest, most argumentative, and rude people I have met. It would be easy for me to return home with the completely wrong conception that all Americans were like that, but the good news is I'm fully aware that there is no such thing as a true stereotypical representation based on where a person comes from (historically or present day).

Maybe your rude person only APPEARS to be incapable of feeling emotions, but inside he/she may be completely the opposite. People can put up a fascade to disguise their true selves for a great many reasons, and perhaps you should explore this person a bit more by deliberately engaging him/her with interesting conversation guaranteed to reveal some of that person's real qualities.

Anyway, who says that rudeness and lack of emotion is a "disorder"?
What is considered "stable and proper" by you may not be regarded as "stable and proper" to someone from an Amish community who thinks you are too emotional and loud.

Personally I would make it my mission to get this person to smile and politely respond when you say good morning 5 times a week. maybe tell him/her a heart-rending storry and see if it can crack the hardened exterior to the point of tears.

It takes all kinds, or the world would be a very boring place.

Answer 9

I think you have guessed right .May be this guy has some of his childhood insecurities or may be he is from a broken home etc. Tis is one of the important factor to shapeup your behavior and your personality.

Answer 10

So you are concerned with stereotypes? Niiiice.