#iamvietnamese

[kristinballey]

Nay bị hỏi có thật là người Việt Nam không vì giống người Trung Quốc hơn... #iamvietnamese https://www.instagram.com/p/B0qaXGAJRiG/?igshid=5x11tp1v8aeo

[lyrical-panda]

Late Asian Invasion Post! My name is Jessica. I'm Vietnamese-American, and I'm proud to have a Vietnamese name, Quyen.

[ryce]

If you have an issue with #AsianInvasion, send me a message personally and I will lay it down for you. I won’t waste everyone else’s time.

I am Vietnamese. I come from a family that is unsuccessful compared to the Asian stereotype, but I will tell you that we’ve all made it fucking work. My grandmother, without the help of my grandfather, and my mom, without the help of my father. My uncle, deaf aunt, and I identify with the LGBTQ community.

I was denied admission from over half the colleges and universities I applied to. I attended my last choice, in the city I was born and raised in. I failed to major in Engineering as I hoped I could, and I didn’t find my place in other majors, wasting almost two years of undergrad. I have it engraved in my mind that, as an Asian, I should have progressed beyond Calculus III, and that I should be graduating with a STEM degree. Well, I’m not. I’ll be graduating - an entire semester early - with a degree in Business and Organizational Management.

I’m tired of the small dick jokes. You sound dumb when you say, “ching chang chong” to me, because chances are high that that string of words makes no sense in any language. I’m not an object for you to fulfill your fetish. No, I don’t have high standardized test scores. I don’t hold my chopsticks in a very common way. I don’t have an Asian accent for you to mock, because an accent is nothing to mock in the first place. It’s unlikely that I know another Asian person that you may know, so refrain from asking. This is my identity and my heritage. I’m proud of the family I was raised by, and I’m proud to be friends with such a diverse group of people, and I’m proud to know I want to start my own diverse and experience-rich family one day.

[bbanghoseob]

#AsianInvasionDay featuring the loser yotea

I used old ones cause I don't take selfies that much... 

I grew up wanting to be pale because of my culture. So many people think we want to be white. Nah, from what my parents told me being pale means you're rich, staying inside don't have to do anything. If you're tan that means you're outside working. 

 I remember when I just moved here and people were fucking with me about not speaking English and bad accents. I was so close to punching some faces. Even though now I still have an accent but you know what fuck it fuck everyone. I'm fucking proud of myself. How many people that made fun of me can proudly say that English is their second language or they speak more than one language. Not that many... SO WHOSE THE WINNER HERE!

 I'm proud of myself that I made it this far.

[stevita]

same shirt, different day..

and to the crusty old man in my neighborhood who came up to me the other week without a shirt on to tell me I looked “exotic,” only to get all pissy when I looked him dead in the eye and told him “that’s not a compliment”...FUCK. YOU. #asianinvasion #iamvietnamese (well, half) #iamnotyourfetish

[muawi-api-youth-council-blog]

Hi guys, Mod C here. I'd like to share an excerpt from a project I am partaking in, which is the I Am Vietnamese project. 

Here displays my great confusion of the idea of "mixing" the two cultures I currently embrace. One being the one I assimilated to, and the other is my origin. 

Ba tells me to adjust yet hold true to where I’m originally from. Was he telling me to become an American yet stay Vietnamese inside? What did he mean? Ignoring the ideas he had dropped upon me, I went ahead and just did whatever. I just decided to become what I thought was more fun. Being American was much more enjoyable to me. It was a mistake, and I was wrong. I received lectures, scoldings, and don’t forget spankings. As I grew older I realized what Ba meant. Well, just because I asked him to explain. He said, “You can embrace the privilege and freedom of being American, but, you must never forget where you came from, and how much your parents had suffered to get you here,”  His explanation helped me understand a little more… yet I still find myself in situations where I don’t know whether to be more American or Vietnamese.

To be honest, this seems like a memoir instead of a short story haha. I hope you guys enjoyed my little excerpt and are able to seemingly relate. 

If you are Vietnamese and would like to participate in this wonderful project, please click here. :)

[cowrinse-blog]

Because once is never enough. #pho #foodporn #iamvietnamese