#iamnotafetish

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–Asian invasionnnnnn–

Hey I’m Kayo and I’m a Chinese girl, born in Japan, living in France :)

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I’m sick of people saying “that’s just because you’re Asian” when I excel at something. I’m sick of people assuming my parents are super strict and conservative when they’ve never even met them. I’m sick of people telling me I don’t act like a “real Asian” because I’m lazy and disorganized.

I’m tired of strangers trying be funny and imitate us by making slanted eyes and “ching chong” noises. I’m tired of movies depicting a geeky, shy Asian nerd with strict parents that lack knowledge in western culture, and mixes up their “R”s and “L”s. I’m tired of porn blogs who only post asian women follow me or reblog my selfies. I am not a fetish.

Can we please stop generalizing the Asian population and making false assumptions based on inaccurate stereotypes?

Anyway I’m in love with all the faces in the #AsianInvasion tag 😍

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#AsianInvasion

#IAmAChinese living in Malaysia, a multiracial, multicultural country in Southeast Asia. I’ve lived all my life surrounded by other asians that are just like me so I’ve never had to personally deal with racism, but it hurts me to see other asians go through all those racist shit, and seeing asians in general being steroetyped or have their identity stripped away from them.

As a Chinese, i feel like the biggest thing East Asians face is being grouped together as the same thing, usually as Chinese, just because China takes up a big part of East Asia. We are not the same. We are Chinese, Japanese, Korean etc, not “ching chong” or whatever shit you call us. We have very distinct cultures, although they may be similar in some aspects, but “similar” does not mean “the same thing”. Please #StopStereotyping.

Things are probably worse for asians who aren’t east asians though. People don’t even believe they are asians when they say they are, because apparently the only asians are east asians. Southeast Asia, South Asia, Western Asia, Central Asia and North Asia are all also part of Asia, and the people from these regions are as much asians as east asians are. #StopIdentityErasure.

For some reason, people think we are all the same and can be put together in one group. We are not all yellow-skin. Not all of us have tiny eyes. We do not speak “ching chong”. We are not good at maths or nerdy in general just because we are asians. We are not “exotic”. We are not terrorists. We are not all maids. We do not all eat dogs or snakes or grasshoppers. We are our own people so #StopStereotyping.

Asians are also often fetishized. I am not a sexual object for you to fetishize. I am not a sexual preference. I do not like being objectified, exotified or hypersexualized. It’s not fun when people only see me as a stereotype of my race and not as an individual. I am much more than just my race. #IAmNotAFetish.

You mock and ridicule us for following our culture and religion, yet you steal it away from us and claim it as your own when it’s “in trend” and deemed “quirky “and “unique”. You make fun of us when we wear our traditional clothes but it’s ok if you wear it. You get all disgusted when we eat our traditional or cultural food, going all “ew” and calling it gross, but when you eat it it’s “exotic”. Please stop this because #MyCultureIsNotYourCostume

Please #StopStereotyping and #StopIdentityErasure, and please respect me as a person because #IAmNotAFetish and #MyCultureIsNotYourCostume. I am an Asian, #IAmChinese, and I am proud of it. #AsianInvasion

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For #AsianInvasion I wanted to participate to share my story of some of the struggles I faced such as racism, misrepresentation of my people, and more. I am going to break it down so I don’t make this too long.

First of all I am Japanese, and I was born and raised in the USA. I have dealt with stereotypes and have been a target for racist jokes and insults for most my life. To this day I don’t tell people that I am Japanese because of the many unknown reactions that I might get from people. I have people obsess over me, and I have others hate me. Liking someone just for their race only is just as bad as hating someone for their race, but that’s just my opinion on the thought.

Another struggle I faced growing up was body image. Every girl has gone through some body image issue at some point or another, but I went through a minor eating disorder at 13 up until 21. Seeing the American media portraying thin models and then seeing thin Japanese girls I felt like I was not good enough. I am not the thinnest girl, but I am at my lightest in years. I continue to workout to become healthy and strong. I still get insecure about my body from time to time, but I still try to love myself for who I am.

I am in a better state than I have been in a very long time. I am currently in a relationship with a Hmong man (currently long distance because he is in the USMC and will be deployed right after he comes back from training in Cali). I am almost done with my first year in nursing school, and I am slowly building up my confidence and self-esteem. It’s a process, but I am slowly reaching my life long goals and I hope to continue to get better.

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Asian Invasion: S. Korean

Thought I would join this because hey, why not. Just a touch of what my life of being Korean was like until now. Maybe it can help shed some light on what /some/ Asians had or have to deal with. 

Through elementary school, I got teased a lot. From the way I look, to my tradition and culture, to anything that made me “different” from the other kids. I was bullied a lot. People made fun of my name “Kyung” because it was hard to say, something so /Asian/. So many kids would do the thing where they pulled at their eyes or screamed “ching chong!” at me. I went to school in the heart of Detroit... The only Asian at my school. I was different. There were no differences between Chinese, Japanese, Korean, anything. I was automatically referred to as the Chinese girl. I started to hate my name and the way I look, even the way I spoke.

Through middle school, kids started to learn that I was different in a special and rare way because there were no other Asians around. They learned about fetishes, something called “yellow fever”. So I got racial comments and slurs thrown at me. Boys would say, “I never had Korean pussy before” or “Asian girls are so tight”. Stupid stuff like that. The harassment turned into sexual harassment. I learned to ignore those kind of comments and started to hit the boys, to protect myself. I accepted things though, that fetishes and weird shit like that existed.

Through high school, it was slightly different. People would say that they liked my name, or say I’m “exotic”. Still, a lot of people would stereotype me or like me just for being Korean or whatnot. That was surprising. It was either I was liked for being Korean or I was hated for it. It wasn’t once when I heard “I hate Asians”. I received more... respect(?) though. People were interested in the fact that I was born in Guam and was raised in America. I appreciated myself and my culture a bit more around this time, but I didn’t fit in with the other Koreans. I was too American-ized so I had no Asian friends. Stereotypes didn’t fit me either. I was kinda lost.

I’m 23 and even now I still get racial slurs thrown at me, I still get teased or bullied or looked down upon just because of who I am. It’s kind of ridiculous. At work I get customers who look at me and think that I don’t know English, that I’m somehow inferior to them. It’s really disgusting and lately I have been doing my best to prove them wrong. I hate it when people get angry at my mother or my brother-in-law because their English is broken. It flares me up and I always jump into their defense and harshly talk the other person down. Or I get ridiculous questions such as, “So.. Are you South Korean or North Korean? What is North Korea like?” Idiots.

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did someone say asian invasion thanks

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