I Am Not Your Asian Stereotype | Canwen Xu | TEDxBoise
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Publicado 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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"Your Asian?" "Yes" "So you Chinese" "No, Im Korean" "Ohhhhh I get it, Kon'nichiwa!"
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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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"Your Asian?" "Yes" "So your Chinese, japanese or korean?" "No, I'm Russian" "What??"
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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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"U Asian?" "Yes" Where u from?" "India" "Dats not Asian" "WTF
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“are you chinese or asian?” me: 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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"Do you speak asianese?" Me: what the fu-
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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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You forgot about the ones that ask you " Do you speak Asian?"
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Youtube traveller: Hey guys, I just came to korea!! Bgm: Chinese traditional music 😐
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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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When you can relate so much that it hurts
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"I rejected my Chinese identity...and I become more confidence" - damn, that hurts
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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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”Where are you from?” “USA” “Where are your parents from?” “USA” “???” *adopted Asian*✌🏼
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I also hate it when someone ask me where I'm from, but I just slap the answer straight to their face: I'm from earth
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I love this! When teacher talks about racism, it is often referred to darker skin beautiful people who certainly deserve the right to receive the equal behaviors as others, but Asian are often always excluded when racial discriminations and racism problems are discussed probably because of lighter skin than other minorities. However, Asians many times do get treated differently and feel uncomfortable listening to stereotypical jokes.
