I Am Not Your Asian Stereotype | Canwen Xu | TEDxBoise
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Published 2016-04-29
Canwen Xu's slogan for life is “Canwen can win.” Born in Nanjing, China, she moved to the United States when she was two years old, and since then has lived in some of the whitest states in the country, including North Dakota, South Dakota and Idaho. A senior at Timberline High School, Canwen is passionate about politics, and is the national membership director and Idaho state director for the Young Democrats High School Caucus. Also a programmer, she started an all-girls computer science workshop called Code For Fun and received National Runner-Up in the 2014 NCWIT Aspirations in Computing competition.
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All Comments (21)
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"Your Asian?" "Yes" "So you Chinese" "No, Im Korean" "Ohhhhh I get it, Kon'nichiwa!"
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"a little bit american, a little bit chinese, and a whole lot of both." my favorite line
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“are you chinese?” “yes i am, i dont eat dogs, cats, or bats. and no i do not have the coronavirus”
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“What grade did u get?” “An A.” “Of course you did, you’re smart.” “No, I studied.” “But you’re smart, so you didn’t have to.” “But I really did have to take the time to study.” “I wish I was Asian and smart.” No you don’t.
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"U Asian?" "Yes" Where u from?" "India" "Dats not Asian" "WTF
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"Your Asian?" "Yes" "So your Chinese, japanese or korean?" "No, I'm Russian" "What??"
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"I went to China last month" "Oh cool!! Which part of China you went to?" "Singapore!!!!" "WTF"
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You forgot about the ones that ask you " Do you speak Asian?"
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"Do you speak asianese?" Me: what the fu-
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“are you chinese or asian?” me: what
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"you're asian ?" "yes i am" "so you chinese, korean or japanese ? "im malaysian" "ouh indonesia ?" "forget abt it im not asian, i came from pluto"
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"Hey do you speak Chinese?" "Yep i'm from China" "Cool, can you translate my Japanese game?"
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"I rejected my Chinese identity...and I become more confidence" - damn, that hurts
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Youtube traveller: Hey guys, I just came to korea!! Bgm: Chinese traditional music 😐
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she is 18? WOW ! she sounded much older , so mature , well spoken . She is going to be a very strong and comfortble with herself for every year that goes by.
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When you can relate so much that it hurts
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"SO, you're Asian?" "Wow, so cool! I love K pop" "Well I'm not Korean, I'm Chinese" "Oh Ik ik, you guys eat..." "Lemme finish, I don't eat bats, dogs, pangolins or mice, I don't know your other Chinese friends, Chinese is completely different from Japanese and Korean and I don't speak Cantonese. My face ages just like everybody else's, Kimchi is not Chinese, I'm from Shanghai, I'm not suffering from any poverty. My parents don't force me to study, I hate maths, and Chinese characters are not drawing. Btw, I don't have coronavirus." "ummm, I just wanted to say that, you guys invented sushis don't you?" "......TAT"
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"Are you Chinese?" "No. I'm Vietnamese" "But you look just like Chinese" :) Not to mention countless times people talk to me in Chinese.
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What I about to say is true, no joking. I am 100% Chinese, I hate math, when I was in China, my math is the worst in my class, from elementary to high school. After I came to Canada for university, my math is the best in class.... This is real. The math in the university in Canada is easier than Chinese middle school....
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“So are you mixed?” “Yeah!” “What Asians are mixed?” “Vietnamese,Chinese and Cambodian” “So where are you from?” “I was born in China but was raised in Cambodia” “So do you know ____?he’s a friend of mine and he is from China too” “No I don’t but which part of China is he from?” “Seoul” “..........”
