| Dear Elaine, In your case, I don't understand myself how you think Chinese people are being racist towards you if you look Chinese to them? China is a homogenous nation, what do you expect? It's not like people have different nations written all over their face. Besides how many times have you heard all asians look alike? How does that in itself equate to racism? Infact, as a Chinese American myself, I've found just about every East Asian in USA will off the bat assume you are one of their own, just based upon looks. Koreans always start speaking korean to me, and Japanese speak Japanese to me. Funny thing is, it's the Chinese disapora who don't make assumptions and will use english first. So right there, it shows me the difference between China and overseas Chinese is that the latter are used to A LOT more diversity in the outside world which influences their perceptions (bear in mind, confusions are taken in consideration when not in a Chinatown/Koreatown/Japantown where it would be obvious to assume). Another analogy would be the many African Americans in USA, who have white ancestry, are still regarded as blacks even amongst themselves. If they look black, they seem to identify themselves as such. That's not racism itself, is it? |
Discrimination Against Foreigners in Shanghai?