@andr413 said:
I heard from my friends who live and study college at USA. While they're walking at the downtown, they often get insulted by nigga and white people at the street, for ex. wow that's an asian guy, cing cong cing cong, make a small eye gesture, etc. Do they learn about etiquette or just about sh1t? Seriously, Nigga and white are very racist to Asian. Literally. From what I heard from my friends at there, most of them are basically retarded, meanwhile, Asian people are smart, rich and high intelligent. No wonder Asian stereotypical for being smart people is very real. Actually asian people are not that smart and rich, they're just more diligent than you guys, and people who study at USA usually are either get scholarship or rich.
But actually race is one of many parts why people become racist. I heard from some articles that white people tend to be more racist than other races. It is actually their mindset, people with global mindset will view others as an advantage to take opportunities to develop themselves to become better. For ex, get information about technology from western, current global political issues, economic issues, tolerate each other, etc. But I don't see that happen to most of American people.
NO OFFENSE...
Maybe you contribute to your own problems at that age? When I first arrived to Washington University in St. Louis to attend class, I was the only African American appearing student in a dorm pod with Asian students. I guess they knew each other well. There were about 4 rooms in one apartment. I had just arrived, no one greeted me, even though I didn't know where I should settle myself, and I had to ask which room was mines; they acted surprised that I was even speaking to them and pointed me to the empty room. This behavior left me puzzled, as I'd just completed the course to earn my BS degree in chemistry and physics and I was there in a dual degree program for mechanical engineering and biochemistry. The whole time I was there in that dorm space, no one ever tried to make me feel welcome, they blasted music all the time, and played video games all the time; even though I asked them to lower the music, it always went back up. I can remember asking them to turn the music down once, when one of them told me "you cut the act now", in reference to the way I spoke; I have a speech impediment; my efforts to reach out to them to see if we could get on friendly terms were rebuffed. Aside from making me feel unwelcome and ostracized, I got the feeling that it was being done because they assumed that I was stupid and they were smart, so I was not worthy to be in their social sphere; they lived by the negative stereotypes of African Americans and were not willing to know me better; whenever an opportunity presented itself, they would patronize me, if they communicated at all; but, I do remember on one occasion, when I was alone with one of them, after several weeks, I was invited to play a video game with him, but I said no thanks, because I wasn't into video games anymore, I had to study, and the way I would be treated when the rest of his buddies arrived. So, eventually, I got permission to move into an apartment midway through my second semester there, citing loud music as my reason for wanting to leave.
This was the same treatment I got from the Asian students on campus, in general. They assumed negative stereotypes onto me and were generally arrogant and uninterested in establishing interpersonal bonds. I tried initiating social interactions with one student from Malaysia, because we were both dual degree students. I came and sat with him nearly everyday during lunch and tried talking to him, but he was usually short with me, but I kept doing it for so long because he would sometimes talk with me; but, when I stop and interactions stopped, he never reciprocated my kindness by sitting with me when I was sitting alone. I wasn't use to this, as it was so different from my experience at my prior college.
The professors were similarly distant. So, being treated liked I didn't belong there by pretty much everyone by the implication that I was too stupid may have had a little to do with why I left on academic probation. I was having my own problems, one which severely took away from my studies, but feeling ostracized over my appearance made life there very uncomfortable the whole time. This similarly happened at work, after I had to file an EEOC complaint, but I had a chip on my shoulder by then.
As to why Caucasian Americas are treating Asian Americans in such a way, who knows, but it appears that treating African Americans as being unworthy of your time does not help with interpersonal relations. Perhaps you may want to consider asking how your Asian friends behave towards African Americans and others on those occasions where interpersonal relations are important; do your friends try to be friendly towards African Americans? Or, maybe you can tell me of some type of cultural taboo I violated? However, I current go to a seafood restaurant owned by Asians near where I stay in Alabama and I've had them behave friendly toward me, but, is it only because I'm a customer?
On the other hand, when I was attending my internship and had to stay in a similar apartment arrangement with Caucasians, we all interacted and connected, although the usual conflicts occurred now and than, such as who would cook first or who was not cleaning up behind themselves; thus, I wonder if there were cultural cues I didn't know about Asians, but, Asians seem to be generally arrogant and overly competitive in such a way that only other Asians can understand. Bur, to people of other races, this comes across as arrogance and arrogance is not always a good quality in the United States, especially in interpersonal relations with other races, especially in cases where everyone thinks we're too stupid to do anything; that's extremely annoying to African Americans and will always only be greeted with hostility.
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