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Dat Phreakin' Amazing!
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| Viet_Huy wrote: | | jennyko72 wrote: | | Viet_Huy wrote: |
before i let ya'll go on yer honey moon..... i'll tell you my side of the story
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:lol: I thought we were all going to the island, but if it's our honeymoon, you may want to stay home...
On a more serious note in response to your cousins:
It's just as sad when people deny their own heritage and culture. We should ebrace each other for our similarities AND our differences. Now, I wouldn't necessarily blame the media, though. There are many Vietnamese that are proud of their heritage. Like you. The media had no affect on you. Why? Strong family culture? Strong community culture? I can't answer that. But there is a reason that you and your cousins have differing views. We have to hold ourselves, our families, our communities responsible for our children's upbringing. We need to teach pride and at the same time, we need to teach tolerance.
(And no, I am not running for President, I occasionally just go off on tangents...) If we blame the media, what are we proving? That Media is raising our children. Interaction, people, interaction. |
lol get a lil crowded wouldnt it? how bout we just colonize on mars or the moon.
well media brings diversity but not everyone is really getting and equal share. my cousins have one point i do agree with. they tell me "If you ask a white man to guess what ethnic you are, he would probably say Chinese, Japanese, Korean" most shows on tv have at least 2 asian people on it but they are usually Chinese or Japanese or Korean. There is nothing wrong with those countries but they are getting too public. One of the things that make me mad the most about the media is that they refer to Lunar New Years as Chinese New Years and Im thinking... "What?! Did everyone else just get cut off?" Those countries i mentioned should also be mad because if an asian gang goes and kills a bunch of people, everyone looks at the asian gang as the Chinese gang or the japanese gang, or etc. last but not least, we were doing geography when we came across an asian market. some kid yells out "Look Chinese food". I recognized that it was not a chinese resturant but a Loa one so i told her. "What's the difference?" she said.... that just made my day.
because of media lots of people think all asians are the same. mainly because of our eyes. they say "You're all the same because you all look the same and talk the same" well they wouldn't noe if we talked the same if they dont know our language. an asian guy could come to canada and see a french guy talking and an american talking in 2 different languages and guess what? they sound the same. its because we know our language that we can tell the difference. if asians look the same, white people look the same, blacks look the same, browns look the same. one group i feel kinda badly for are the brown people (saying brown because we refer to the yellow people as asians) because now they are all a terrorist because of how much we judge people by stereotype |
here's to stupid idiot. incase he miscounted the threads and went to the last one. if you want to read the response of this post, go to page 2. TWO. the number that comes after 1 and before 3. |
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