Wait, y’all believe in the moon?

racism isn’t humor tho

In the end, are you any less frugal than your parents?

I mean they make so much money with their investments that its kinda silly to be so cheapskate on these things.

Literally had like text messages that she wants to present in a civil lawsuit and the phone was so laggy and it looks like it’s about to fail at any time… and still refused to buy a new phone afterwards (so you wont have a random malfunction and lose your evidence when you need it the most)

Literally refused to buy a dash cam until I keep insisting… like literally for their own good, “what if something happens?” I asked them, then they get mad for suggesting the idea that a car accident… something that happens all the time… could happen and they need a dash cam for evidence… I mean they literally got lightly rear-ended before… and it totaled the car… they didn’t have a dash cam back then, but luckily insurance automatically sided against the other side because its a rear-end collision.

Literally so frugal that they don’t wanna spend money on CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTORS… like we didn’t have that for like nearly a decade of living in the house… (eventually got them)

It’s not that they can’t afford it. Its they feel like everything is a waste.

Also the entire basement is filled with random stuff… like other people’s abandoned items… and we never even use it… hoarding so much shit lol…

This comment is clearly biased

User Display Name is “VeryFrugal”, of course you’re siding with the frugal parents

/j

I call myself “Chinese American” because I was born in China and I can speak Cantonese, Mandarin, and can read basic Chinese.

Especially online because otherwise people just be white defaultist and assume you’re white. And I wanna be unique (while sharing the common national identity as an American).

I feel better about myself being unique.

Its also about self-esteem… I mean I get “jokes” thown at me all the time for being Asian looking… might as well just lean into it… embrace it…

I’m less likely to get assaulted when my parents drive me somewhere vs having to take public transport.

I’m Asian American and I still have anxiety about the post-covid racism.

xD

Tbf I’m too addicted to the internet, idk if I can survive the withdrawl without it…

Like maybe if the gods gave me an indestructible phone (cuz these things only normally last like 5 years tops) with internet access (like a magical wormhole beaming the signals across realms)… sure… I can do a magical fantasy world and watch anime in my personal time…

?

I guess I’m dead lol

Depression is gonna go downhill if civillization collapses, I rather just reincarnate pls, to somewhere NOT EARTH, Type 3 Alien Civilization pls.

I got something better than theory: History

You’ll also be more likely to treat people who speak a different language as people rather than things.

Conversely, I sort of have a superiority complex because I’m bilingual, so I sort of¹ silengly judge Chinese Diaspora that cant read Chinese and Speak either Cantonese or Mandarin.

(¹Not that much, like I don’t treat them any worse, I just a “I have more linguistic knowledge than you 😏” moment, and silently “patting myself on the back”)

When I first came to the US, I got discriminated upon by ABCs (American-Born Chinese) for not speaking English… (like do they expect me to know a language the moment I step off a plane? the fuck?)… so that’s probably why I think the way I do.

Even my cousins, who were born in and grew up in the US, didn’t wanna talk to me… like I could just feel the silent treatment and like were so cold to me.

I remembers the kids in school that I “vibed” with the most were Cantonese-speakers.

Didn’t feel like I could confidently talk to ABCs, like its just couldn’t really “vibe” with them until like more than 4 years of learning English… Like even when I already grasped the basics 1/2 years in… I still didn’t feel like I’ve mastered it…

Honestly it’s sort of a ego thing.

Every time I wanna kms, I remind myself that I’m bilingual and most people only know one language, so I just put off the thoughts. Cuz my next incarnation, I might not have this opportunity to be bilingual again. (My knowledge of Chinese isn’t actually that good, but its better than most ABCs, who can’t even read basic characters)

I’m 1.5 Gen immigrant to the US and idek Cantonese/Chinese volcabulary outside of basics, like 2nd grade level words, so I’m probably gonna be speaking a weird Canto-glish to my future children, or maybe just English only 🤷‍♂️

I even struggle to talk to my parents lol

I’ve almost never been in a situation where speaking Spanish was gamechanging…

So yea they’ve been teaching Spanish for like 2 years in middle school, never retained much except basics like uno dos tres cuatro cingco seis… and me llama pizza, and me no hablo espanol…

since I never got to use it outside of class

But yes I agree, its cool to have another language, but then it again you just lose it anyways since you never have the opportunity to use it, most people will never use it.

Also its about a person’s will

I remember school used to make me read boring shakespeare shit or the oddyssey, yeah I just can’t… soooo boring

Same logic with language learning…

Honestly I have more chances of using Chinese (I’m ethnic Chinese living near a lot of Asians) than using Spanish… so yea there’s that

And an average non-Asian that never goes to Chinese restaurants probably don’t need to learn any extra languages at all.

Also a lot of countries teach English because its a lingua franca so I think English speakers just expects others to be able to communicate anyways and so theres a less of an incentive to learn anyways.

Oh btw my high school does requires two credits (aka: two years) of learning a foreign language…

So guess what:

I chose the easy way out and just picked Chinese since I already knew it from two years of school in China 😎 (you can boo me all you want but who wouldn’t just do this for an easy A?)

They actually put me in Spanish at first but all the kids (I know its “high school” but people still act like “kids” so I’m gonna use that word) were misbehaving that I was just like why not just switch to Chinese, a language I already knew LOL

I’m glad I did make the switch, so comfy there lol, literally everyone behaved better (cuz no mishaving kid is gonna choose the hardest language, they’d probably be trying to change out of that class)

Edit: Went to school in Brooklyn, NYC for elementary, never got spanish class, then for middle school and high school it was Philadelphia, PA, and it was Philly that I had Spanish classes for two years in middle school.

Edit 2: Also I’d like to add: Learning a language later on as you get older plus the lack of immersion… for like a one hour class 5 days a week for two school years… yea that’s nearly impossible.

I’m lucky to come to the US as an 8 year old so I had that advantage of learning English. My dad never really learned English, still a non-citizen… 👀

My mom did, but still struggles to express things

So I sort of have a weird language barrier with parents…

took the twin to put up for adoption

Lol my mom used to tell me how doctors / medical staff in China were sketchy af and sometimes they trafficked children… a problem fueled by One Child Policy and fertility issues and society’s obsessive desire to have children and especially a “male heir” to “carry on the bloodline”, so my mom told me stories about how “oh X person in Y province found that his parents arent his real parents and the hospital trafficked him and sold him…”

Idk why mom keep telling me these stories, terrified me as a kid…

Sometimes I wonder if I am even the real biological child of my parents… 🤔

She ate the other one.

You’re lucky she didn’t eat you lol

Flowers in the Attic 2: IRL Boogaloo

“A man who never eats pork bun is never a whole man”

-Sleeping Dogs, a Pro-Cannibalism game

Cuz I’m one of them and I’m just curious lol.

One of the things I notice a lot is microaggressions.

I hear the “Do you speak english?” question get asked a lot… which is mildly annoys me once I recognize the implications… cuz I’ve been in the US since I was 8 basically close to a native born IMO, so that kinda made think like: if I was white they probably wouldn’t have asked that right?…

I mean I don’t really get that offended, there are a lot of Asian immigrants… so they probably have a statistical bias in their mental image…

Literally 2 days ago I had an appointment for my depression and the… I guess a therapist (cuz not licensed to write medications so not a “psychaitrist”)… a white male… was like “Do you speak English?”…

I was just like… 🙄

(Its fine tho, vibes were okay)

so I was just wondering what sterotypes people have…

Ngl I assumed “latin america” was just a synonym for “south america” before I looked it up just now.

So… I know I might be wrong but my mental image is just: spanish speaking + developing countries, and a vibe like the portrayal of Mexico in the media

I mean when you don’t have much info, the only thing thats sticks in your mind is just mass media depictions, and honestly I don’t know too much about them.

As of the people? Please excuse me for the streotyping but the “Machismo” thing comes to mind… again its probably because the media portrayals that got stuck in my mind.

I don’t view people as any better or worse, I as an immigrant and minority have faced racism and xenophobia, and having grown up in an environment of diversity and multiculturalism, I’ve learned to be more accepting.

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