#who seem to see me as some kind of american neutered of all chinese culture & i get so frustrated | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

rangerdew · 1 year ago

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sometimes i grapple with the fact that as someone who grew up as a westerner and primarily speaks english i can never disentangle myself from orientalism and thereby the gap between myself and my culture but then i remember that i will never have whatever white people into animanga have going on

#bruh with love to some fof the ppl ive seen on here..u cannot be normal about japanese people #anyway this is literally my least favorite trait abt myself mostly bc when i'm hanging out with my family and family friends #they could literally not care less like i am their family and as 'chinese' as they come. & then i just think of all the ppl i met in colleg #who seem to see me as some kind of american neutered of all chinese culture & i get so frustrated #like it feels like my family is getting caught up in all these false constructs of identity #but its impossible not to care about it when your whole life youre constantly being judged on how close to your culture you are #weird stuff

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