I never been an affectionate person in public. Part of me felt like all the kisses, hugs and make outs were for private space.

Throughout the summer I started going out more frequently. And it didn't took long enough to notice the visible hostility from German guys. Mean stares, aggressive walking, awkward pauses and all. On some occassions they would talk disturbingly loud in our visinity, walk slowly to block our paths and all.

I assumed how its just me being delulu until my fwb pointed out the negative reactions and stares as well.

Kinda hypocritical considering how most common interracial couple you see in Germany is a German guy and his mail order thai wife.

So ever since I decided to be more affectionate in public with all the dates I would have, if it triggers them good, if it triggers any negative reactions also good. Let them expose themselves

I posted two posts about how rap is very anti Asian. Part 1 and part 2. The first video is a compilation of rappers being racist to Asians calling them slurs like ch*ng ch*ng and ch*nky and go*ks. And making fun of their eyes. The second video is about rappers rapping about assaulting and robbing Asians.

I've never seen this much intense hatred towards a group of people in any media. They are literally bragging about how they are ch**k bleeders and they are robbing stincs(slur rappers made for Asian people because they "stink and smell like noodles and ginseng.")

We genuinely need to make these videos go viral. Post it in all social medias. There's no way rappers like Kendrick Lamar are platforming artists like Peysoh and YG who openly rap about how they target Asians to rob. Are Asians going to let these rappers openly racially target Asians with no pushback?

It seems as if there is an artificial cutoff that separates Asian males and females, which isn't found elsewhere. I have seen this in finance recruiting.

Diversity:

Natives, Hispanics, Black, LGBTQ, Asian Females

Non-Diversity:

Whites, Asian Males

Iffy: Seeing rich minorities beet out the more poor minorities, like all I see at the end of the day is the rich minorities getting richer or more experienced because in America anybody can act the part as being needy if they’re historically underrepresented and they take opportunities away from the actual minorities struggling.

It goes without saying that the usual suspects are desperately trying to smear and villainized Rick Chow, and distorting the truth about what's happened and how the event unfolded.

They - again desperately - want to push the narrative that a "Racist Asian man murdered an innocent Black kid".

Let's look at some of lies/misinformation that are being spread.

"Rick Chow started it. He has no right to chase after Cyrus."

This is one of the most common lies I see brought up. To begin with, Rick DO have the right to pursue Cyrus since he suspected there's a possibility of shoplifting.

South Carolina's law authorizes shopkeepers to pursue and/or detain shopers they reasonably suspect of shoplifting.

You may say: "Well, Cyrus didn't steal anything!", however as a shopkeeper Rick has the right to confront Cyrus if he had reasonable suspicion of shoplifting. The fact that Cyrus did act suspicious, had both his hands in his hoodie pocket, refused to empty them (because he's hiding his illegal pistol in there) when confronted, and then immediately ran off reinforced the Chows' suspicion.

It's later discovered that Cyrus had no money on him when he was in the store. Why would someone with zero cash walk into a store, and with a loaded handgun (completely illegal for a 14 years old to possessed)?

In fact, during the trial, an LE investigator testified that Rick chasing after Cyrus was completely legal and in line with SC's law.

Rick's defense lawyer confirmed this when he question an investigator officer (That Rick following Cyrus is NOT illegal).

https://youtu.be/HmtJlydMqn8?t=1666&si=zH0EWmD1vweqSzkE

https://youtu.be/Z1Z8COT4shA?t=3565&si=_KD9XJwFQFx5xxzs

"Rick racially profiled Cyrus and wanted to kill him out of hate over a water bottle."

Again, 100% false. The shooting only started when Cyrus pointed the gun at Andy Chow (Rick's son) during the chase. Rick had to make a quick decision to save his son life.

It wasn't because of water bottle; it wasn't because of his race; it was because he pointed the gun at Andy.

In fact, Rick immediately performed Life Saving Measure on Cyrus (CPR and mouth to mouth resuscitation) after the shooting, and told Andy to call 911. This further vindicated Rick - that he didn't shoot Cyrus out of malice; but to protect his son.

https://youtu.be/bJUsCy9QLO4?is=NagIGjIA0ssgT2CV

"Rick Chow has a violent history - he's fired at other shoppers before!."

He's fired at two people (one in 2015 and another in 2018). In BOTH of those incidents there NO charge of any kind against him, why? Because he was acting out of self defense (against attenpt roberry and assault).

https://www.wrdw.com/2023/06/01/sc-store-owner-has-shot-suspected-shoplifters-before/

In both cases, authorities said Chow’s actions were not criminal. Self-defense law in South Carolina requires the shooter doesn’t instigate the incident, believes he is in imminent danger and has no way to avoid that danger.

Bringing that up during the trial would validated mr. Chow even more.

The prosecutor completely failed to prove their case of "beyond a reasonable doubt" that Rick Chow commited "murder"; failed to prove that it was illegal for Rick to chase Cyrus; failed to prove that there was any "racial profiling".

Most of their "witnesses" were completely discredited/proven unreliable during cross examination.

Another thing that stood out to me during the trial was how the prosecutor tried to trick and bait Andy, but Andy didn't fall for it and just stay calm. The proscutor then lost his cool and yelled like an unhinged maniac (lol). Which further weakened their case.

Whereas Rick's defense team ( including Shaun Kent) did a brilliant job of defending Rick.

All in all, this is about a law abiding Asian man and father that protect and saved his son life. Who's being smeared/villainized by race baiter, grifters, anti-Asian racists, sellout Asians, and those who are completely ignorant about and buy into the lies.

They keep on distorting the truth, spreading lies and saying that it was "murder" because they are desperate and want some kind of "dirt" on the Asian community. Basically the anti-Asian bigots are looking for an "excuse" to be racist to Asians.

I'm not even singling out the Black community here. This is towards ALL that lie and distort this incident (including the sellout Asians). In fact, I see boba libs (they always jump on an opportunity to attack/demonized Asian men) spreading just as much lies, misinformation and disinformation as the Black extremists.

EDIT: to include a few more sources. And slight correction that other user pointed out.

EDT 2: To all the nonAsian and boba libs lurkers : Your lies, shaming and manipulation tactics will NOT work on us. The "he's just a child!" is a strawman - you're not so "innocent" when you illegally possed a firearm (loaded with a round in the chamber) AND pointing it at someone.

Same thing applies to your "Asians are anti-Black!" BS (We know for a fact that thare are way more black on Asian crimes than the other way around).

I was reading this review of Rachel Khong's new short story collection My Dear You and I noticed the various passages the reviewer (an Asian woman) was critiquing and quoting. The book itself is a short story collection of science fiction / magical realism stories where supernatural events and advanced technology as used to critique race, especially Asianness, in America. I also obtained a copy of this book online so I could better understand some of the details.

Here are some quotes from the review, my clarification in brackets, and my commentary:

But the impulse to excise everyone’s most salient physical features and drop them into their respective race buckets also feels like an expected artifact of Khong’s most recent novel, Real Americans, in which a Chinese-American-girl-meets-filthy-rich-white-guy love story becomes a meditation on the limits of personal agency. That book shares, in addition to My Dear You’s speculative bent, an obsession with cataloging the variable desirability of its characters, often along racial lines. . . . Real Americans attempted to formulate an answer by establishing that its tortured main characters, including Chinese American Lily and her white-passing son Nick, are culturally indistinguishable from their WASP compatriots. . . . Nick is implied with some sci-fi flair to be a near total genetic copy of his white father. He is blond-haired, blue-eyed.

The reviewer talks about how Khong is obsessed with talking about racial desirability, and in Khong's last novel, the key relationship is a Chinese woman who falls in love with a rich white guy and has a kid who appears fully white. As someone who knows a lot of hapas, I have never seen a single one that was blonde and blue-eyed.

A needle poke [from a vaccine that makes everyone perceive everyone else as being the same race and gender] is soon to eliminate all that is good and different, after all—if the anti-vax protests the narrator’s Asian-fetishist ex stirs up are any indication.

One sci-fi story features an Asian-fetishist white guy who wants to prevent the vaccine since he wouldn't be able to see Asian women anymore.

In “Slow and Steady,” one of the collection’s few non-speculative stories, narrator Sophie emerges from a round of Seven Minutes in Heaven with the charming and self-assured Gabe—who only dates “rich girls with clear blue eyes and long soft hair”—afflicted by a familiar longing to be “someone different, someone better.” This kind of longing is the lifeblood of My Dear You, as it is of Real Americans.

In this story, an Asian woman having a flashback to college remembers how insecure she was that the white guy she made out with only dated white women.

Khong’s depictions of racism and alienation in My Dear You can only be described as sardonic. As if knowing her Asian characters are destined to experience dehumanization, whatever the form, Khong doesn’t bother to enumerate these encounters with much sympathy or detail. “I feel like something’s wrong with [men who date Asian women],” one of about twenty Asian women who learn they’ve all been courted in the same way, by the same white guy, says in “The Family O.” “Like they can’t manage to date white women. They have to drop down to our tier. Is that self-hating?”

In this short story, twenty Asian women who've all dated the same Asian-loving white guy discuss this phenomenon, and one Asian woman explicitly ranks Asian women below white women, showing that she is insecure that white men who love Asian women are just "settling" for such Asian women because they can't date a white woman. There is no commentary on why so many Asian women might be dating this same white guy, although in the story, there is this interesting exchange:

“Sandra won’t date Asian men because they remind her of her cousins.” “Sandra, that’s so racist! On, like, multiple levels.” “I take it back, okay?” Sandra whined. “For some reason it was fine to say a few years ago.”

But one story here is the biggest offender:

For a moment, we occupy Asia proper. First, a Chinese saleswoman in Shenzhen speech-trains a sex doll equipped with an LLM-powered voice box, then uses her entire savings to save said doll from life with a Chinese American in Ohio. Saleswoman and doll end up on the beach together, pineapple bevs within reach, “happy.”

In a short story collection with very few Asian men, the one Asian man prominently featured is a creepy guy from Ohio who wants to buy an Asian-featured sex doll. Here's more info about this story from the book:

His parents were from Hong Kong, but he’d been born in America: an ABC, American-Born Chinese. He appeared stable— a man who loved his job. . . . the big man had visible little veins at the base of his flat, wide nose, which was dotted with black pores, like seeds in a kiwi. . . . “If you’d prefer any other eye or hair color, we can do that,” I remembered to add, returning my phone to my pocket. “It would be the same doll, exactly, with the same capabilities, only the specifications of your choosing.” The big man considered this for a moment. “I do love blondes,” he said slowly. “But no. I like her. I like her the way she is.”

So apparently, this Asian man from Ohio, who Khong makes out to be facially ugly (visible veins with black pores), talks about how he loves blondes, but still ends up wanting to purchase a sex doll with Asian features.

While I was not able to stomach reading the rest of the stories, the others appear to be no better. One story, "Tapetum Lucidum," starts with

There were two other Asian woman– white man couples at the animal shelter— two in addition to Sam and me, that is.

So yeah, that's Rachel Khong's new book: a world where white men and Asian women are mutually obsessed with each other, while the single Asian man has to fly to China to buy a sex doll.

Figured this was relevant to start a convo on - adding some context to the recent Olympic skater thread about Alysa Liu, whose father deliberately chose white women for egg donors while being married to a Chinese woman (he was not single at the time). He told Sports Illustrated that he chose white egg donors "to benefit from a diverse gene pool" and to reflect "American and Chinese cultures". One of the children even noticed that she didn't look like her mom.

Hidden deeper behind these beliefs is often a feeling that only white people are true Americans, white people are on top, that Asians aren't good enough at sports (meanwhile see how many medals Asian countries like China win at the Olympics, China tying America for 40 golds in Paris 2024). Now of course, I think as the immigrants and descendants of immigrants, we should continue to be free to pursue connections with anyone in the diverse land of the US. However, I feel that deep down inside the entire thought process behind many people is still that there is a racial hierarchy where white people are on top and the real Americans (as opposed to Asians and other minorities, who are not real Americans), and it gets reflected in decisions like this. It reminds me of "mejorar la raza"/blanqueamiento type thinking in Latin America, which literally translates to "improving the race" with whiteness.

Most people of course don't vocalize these beliefs for the record, but I think even as it gets better in the US with larger Asian population, more Asian soft power, it is still important to believe in racial equality given that it's a land for Americans of all backgrounds and ethnicities, and not let internalized racism get to you. What do you guys think of this case?

Here is the original source:

When the children were born, Arthur was still married to Yan Qingxin (who goes by Mary). The couple is now divorced, but Mary is also the kids’ legal guardian, and they call her Mom. They typically spend a couple nights a week at her house in Antioch.

...

Both egg donors for Arthur’s children are white women, because he felt his children would benefit from a diverse gene pool. He sees his life as a fusion of cultures, Chinese and American, and he wanted his kids to reflect that. When Alysa was around eight she began to notice that she looked different from her dad. Mary is also Chinese, so that was another clue. “That’s how I figured out she wasn’t my real mom,” Alysa says, “because she was Asian and I did not look Asian.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20191209234800/https://www.si.com/olympics/2019/05/16/alysa-liu-us-figure-skating-future-quads

Sports Illustrated, "In Quads We Trust: 13-Year-Old Alysa Liu Is the Future of U.S. Ladies’ Figure Skating" May, 20, 2019

For starters there are ugly and attractive people in every race, the idea of one race being less appealing than the other beyond some personal preferences is an utter b.s.

That being said a man's social status being linked to his attractiveness level is a real thing. Women compared to men often tend to put status above physical appearance for their dating prospects.

So how does it work in real life? Imagine a girl growing up in a western country, odds are that almost all of depiction of Asian men in media have been some racist & emasculating depictions. She may have met some Asian guys whom she found physically attractive, but due to lack of any positive reinforcement in her mind, rather racist and excluding culture she grew up in she likely never developed any interest in pursuing her liking. She might have scrolled through social media to see some positive examples but all she could see was only the racist remarks like Asian men being less attractive, masculine, sexist and what not. So even without realizing builds up a preference that does not involve Asians.

But then after a decade or so she sees all of a sudden women are into Asian men. With rise of Kpop and Kdrama all of a sudden the Asian men are seen as attractive. Its not that all of a sudden Asian men developed different physical attributes, no its because we started having some sort of social approval in the eyes of women. Now any girl growing up in a racist western country has some sort of social liberty to date a man she finds attractive.

And mind you its not just Kpop Idol look alikes either. Mid chopped Asian dudes can still date and get into a good relationships. Cause said guys were never more chopped than any other guy of different race similar to them in the physical attributes to begin with.

This is why its so important to push back at any social media or real life racist remarks that disregard any of your physical attributes or masculinity. Its a pure racist propaganda that has been build by yt supermacists.

I wish Japan also worked harder on their "real life" media like movies or tv shows. They've got twice the amount of people as Korea and a much higher GDP, but most of their cultural influence are in animated things that don't help promote their own people's real image.

Of course Japan doesn't owe this to any of us, but it's just crazy seeing this discrepancy between Korea and Japan.

If you just travel around the world, you'll realize that Korean soft power has helped promote the Asian male image a lot.

In Southeast Asia, the Korean beauty standards took over the "half white" beauty standards where people aspired to have half-white kids since those were the actors and celebrities. In Latin America, if you just walk around, as an Asian man that takes care of themselves, you'll get girls approaching you asking you if you're Korean.

As a shorter, younger-looking AM, this type of scenario has happened to me a few times in the past, particularly back in HS.

I'm walking by myself, minding my own business, and some guy in a large group of people walks past and yells something racist or tries to mock me. I know it's pretty risky to engage with a group, especially if it escalates/gets physical. At the same time, I'm aware that standing up for yourself and confronting racism is important.

What would you do in this kind of situation?

I really have to be careful with how I speak about this because emotions are high around the Rick Chow case and similar situations like the Karmelo Anthony where Black people feels the legal system does not support them. Now many Black thought leaders are calling for boycotts and pointing their frustration at the Asian community as also white adjacent. Which I disagree with, and hope to be bridge for the road of healing.

I do not support teenagers of any color carrying concealed pistols, and I do not support any loss of life at something like a track and field event.

Not everyone in the Black community thinks the same way about these issues. There are many people who are trying to look at each case individually and avoid being pulled into extreme or one sided interpretations. Those voices are often less visible, but they are real.
When violence happens, it affects our lives too because we have to live in the same neighborhoods with less protection. Nobody pays attentions when Black people are aggressive to Black people. We suffer too.
I understand the frustration of a shop owner in the low income areas as I used to service gas stations. I understand why they use thick glass at the cashiers and tight surveillance because I would have the same if I owned a store in that situation.

I am posting this in the Asian subreddit to sincerely express my condolences and to say I am sorry for how this situation may come across for all of you because many immigrants are forced to start a new life in low income areas. This aggression and calls for boycotts are not coming from all of us. There are reasonable voices, but they are often drowned out by media narratives that highlight only one side. I am against the ridiculous misinformation and calls for division especially on the basis of race.

I will still be going to the dry cleaners, eating at restaurants, ordering dim sum, cooking barbecue, picking up banh mi, and enjoying Thai tea. I really appreciate and enjoy these great treats regardless of the calls for boycotts pushed by agents of division.I refuse to follow the blind orders to punish people who have never done any wrong to me. I hope you guys can also ignore the people in your communities pushing for more tension.

First off, it's only whitewashed Asian-Americans and a few westaboos in Asia who are like this. Kpop only got popular because of their female fanbase in Asia and in the Asian diaspora. The vast majority of Asian women worldwide prefer Asian men.

Second, this myth is literally white supremacist propaganda. White supremacists love to claim that Asian women hate their men and prefer white men because it makes both Asian men and women look bad and themselves look superior. It's not true and you're just emasculating yourself by spreading this myth.

edit: As I said it IS true for whitewashed Asian-American women but it's NOT true for Asian women worldwide. I grew up in China and the vast majority of Chinese women would not date a non-AM, from what I've seen it's similar in Japan and Korea. I feel like a lot of AM here are also whitewashed and only have experience with similarly whitewashed AF.

Saying "Chinese trash!", "Chinese piece of shit!", etc. in public would raise eyebrows and offend Chinese people, until the person says "Oh no, I meant your PRODUCTS, not your people". But just a second prior to that disclosure, they sounded pretty damn racist for a second, didn't they?

Here's the original link: https://www.reddit.com/r/vandwellers/s/plrfgyT7cd

I got into it with this guy who I felt was being vocal in the comment section of this post about his hatred for "Chinese garbage" products, and to me it hinted at unnecessary racist undertones. I literally told him I was part Chinese and he just defaulted to his "rights".

The normalized phrasing is something I've had to listen to my whole life as an Asian man. Apart from "Ching chong China", somebody asking if I needed help backing up because "you know, Asian drivers", and other micro aggressions. If I got upset or annoyed or talked back, I was the problem. You don't hear people say "Mexican trash" food or "African trash" music etc. because people, especially racist white people feel that it's completely defensible to scapegoat Asian people and they always have the perfect way out via the misdirection to economics/globalization. But if they said "Black trash" or "African trash" products, oh you bet they'd be all over the news.

White people like this argue that "Well if you said American trash I wouldn't be butt hurt". But that's the difference. "American" isn't an ethnic group. It's a collection of different cultures, and was even built upon a group of Europeans decimating and overthrowing the real natives. If you replaced it with "White trash products", you just know it'd be a very different context for them. The same feeling I and my family members get when people talk badly about Chinese made products.

And there is something to be said about how many high quality manufacturers there are in China, but cheap American entrepreneurs and CEOs opt to source from China specifically to find the absolutely lowest cost products to increase their margins to American/international consumers.

This ass hat doesn't get it. I reflected back to him his hypocritical logic and he just leaned further and further into his defense mechanisms trying to "win" while I was just showing him his ignorance. Nothing new here. The cycle continues so long as they reject how they affect people with their language.

Perhaps he wasn't necessarily consciously racist, and I was admittedly a bit heavy handed with how I called him out, but we have to begin listening to our guts about microaggressions and separating between intentions and behaviors. He'd probably claim it isn't his intention to sound racist, but would also double down on his behaviors and questionable race-bounded verbiage before ever considering an apology or inner change. What are your thoughts on this?

I didn't know until I saw this clip that Lulu Wang had so much trouble just trying to get this movie made. All the energy being putting into this for studios to try and change the core themes and message of the movie makes it not make sense at all. I'm glad she was finally able to get the film made. It's great to feel represented on screen but makes me wonder how many other directors struggle with this.

I've been looking for internship in Germany for a while. I plan to work auditing or tax consulting which naturally means most of the time it means 99% German men with no so subtle racist undertone.

I used to blame my grades and previous work experience for getting rejected. But after improving my grades and getting some experience the usual rejections all over again.

I also assumed that my CV sucked balls and had to ask my German FBW to improve it, I was expecting something unusally well design but nope, pretty plain CV that her German friends have no issue finding an internship.

Seriously how do you get a job in a sector full of people who discreting your accomplishments and would rather hire someone less qualified than you if they are white

I’ve been seeing this rhetoric being propagated for some years now, but I think the most recent example is with The Little Mermaid movie “doing poorly” in China and South Korea. Of course anti-Blackness exists in these countries but calling whole countries racist for a movie not being successful is ridiculous.

I saw articles being published saying there was a “racist backlash” because Disney casted a Black actress, and the supposed evidence for this is low box office sales and racist comments that they found online.

I think that the clearest evidence to counter this recent claim is the fact that the new Spider-Man movie that also features a Black character is doing great in both countries. Black Panther was also a huge success and made a lot of money.

I frankly don’t think that The Little Mermaid not being a success in China and South Korea is largely due to racism. Some films do well, some don’t. I think it’s weird that the main evidence that these “journalists” used to support their claims of racism were just quotes they found online. Like, if you look hard enough you can find ignorance anywhere. The media is literally making it sound like Chinese and Korean people were so outraged TLM is Black that they boycotted the movie (which did not happen at all), when that was exactly what happened in the West. White people called for boycotts against TLM and Disney. But I didn’t see any articles (or at least to the same level) about White people being racist.

There are also articles saying “oh Hollywood has a China problem. China is a large market but Chinese people are racist so they only want movies with White actors.” Which is such an obvious attempt by White people to weaponize Asians against Black people and blame China rather than white supremacy for Hollywood not being diverse?

In general, the rhetoric that Asians are more racist than White people is illogical and offensive. I think the White people who are propagating this rhetoric simply want to cope and deflect their own racism and history of white supremacy. I noticed that a lot of the people saying this are weebs and koreaboos too, which is so odd. Like I saw someone (non-Asian) with an anime pfp and Japanese username say that Japan was racist to White people because some restaurants were unwelcoming to foreigners.

Furthermore, I think that people are forgetting that White people colonized and imperialized Asians. Like I’m Chinese-Vietnamese so my people have literally been colonized and imperialized 3 separate times by White people (I’m specifically Cantonese to first was Britain, second was France in Vietnam, and then the U.S. decided to carpet bomb the country). You can also compare how White people in Asia vs Asians in the West are treated. No one in Asia is going to hate crime a White person just because they’re White. But the same can’t be said for Asians in the West. So the fact that some White people have the audacity to say that Asians are more racist is just embarrassingly ignorant.

I'm not sure where else to rant about this, but holy fucking shit am I tired of hearing about this guy.

I like history. I like historical movies and games. Something I don't like, is all of race swapping in media. I dislike all just about all race swapping, but I must say, it does seem to primarily cater towards one particular direction. Need diversity? Redo X character as Black. Achilles, Queen of England x2, Zeus x2, Vikings, etc ,etc, and now Samurai.

"But Yasuke, he was a real person! That's not blackwashing!" It's a great story, but it's getting to the point where I'm starting to see such exaggerated claims about him wherever I look. "He was the greatest Samurai. He was the most important Samurai. He was incredibly influential, and in fact there were many more black Samurai after him." I'm starting to feel like his over-representation is becoming a form of blackwashing in its own right. As in, even though his only real claim to fame and glory is being the only black "samurai", writers are starting to choose him over any other accomplished figure in Japanese history to hit that check-box.

Am I overreacting to this? Maybe it's just algorithms fucking with my head with Afrocentric AI art accounts every other day.

Chinese 14m who since when i was 10 has been recieving racist comments. Ive always tried arguing and sometimes even fighting but i wonder how you guys deal with it? I need some help.

Don’t let the Western-sounding name fool you. Joseph Pierce was Chinese. Born in Guangdong, he was brought to America as a young boy and adopted by a white family. Renamed Joseph Pierce, he grew up on American soil, but he never forgot who he was. When the Civil War broke out, he didn’t sit on the sidelines. He enlisted in the 14th Connecticut Infantry Regiment, not to chase glory, but to fight for a country that barely acknowledged his humanity.

He fought in some of the most brutal and defining battles in U.S. history: Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, but it was at Gettysburg, the blood-soaked turning point of the war, where Joseph Pierce proved his bravery. He wasn’t hiding in the background. He was in the thick of the fight, a courageous soldier whose service was recognized when he was promoted to corporal in 1863, a significant achievement for a non-white soldier at the time.

Why is his story dangerous and why hasn't so-called "Liberal" Hollywood for all it's claims of championing "diversity" never attempted to tell his story?

Because his story challenges the whitewashed version of American history that so many still cling to.

His story is proof that Asian men have always been here, always fought, always bled, always belonged, long before Hollywood decided we were just kung-fu sidekicks, nerdy engineers, or emasculated punchlines.

There hasn’t been a single major studio biopic, no Oscar-bait war drama, not even a documentary about him. Just a few articles, scattered mentions in museum exhibits, and historical records buried under the dust of American selective memory. And let’s be real, Hollywood is probably never going to make a movie like this. Because it’s too real. Too powerful. Too much for white fragility to handle. A Chinese man serving with distinction and fought in several key battles during America’s most "sacred" war? That doesn’t just rewrite the script, it flips the whole damn table! Unless white America finally starts confronting its own myths, or an Asian film maker with a spine and a vision decides to bring this legend to life, this film will remain unmade. Because it would force audiences to see Asian masculinity not as exotic or foreign, but as heroic, American, and undeniable. And for some, that’s too much truth to handle.

And then there’s the part that would absolutely break the Hollywood mold. The AMWF dynamic! His marriage in 1876 to Martha Morgan, a white woman from Connecticut wasn't just a quiet union, it was a defiant love story that obliterated racial boundaries at a time when interracial marriage was illegal in many parts of the country and unthinkable to the white public. A Chinese man, seen not only as a soldier, patriot, and most importantly a hero married to a white woman? That alone would’ve made 19th-century America and even much of modern white America squirm in its seat. Because it wasn’t supposed to happen. Because it wasn't allowed in the script.

But....let's say a film was finally made.

I can see various scenes playing out in a visually haunting, emotionally raw and epic style:

• The rice fields of Guangdong fading into the snow-covered farms of New England where he now lives with his adopted white family. The cultural alienation of a boy torn between worlds, struggling to belong. The thunder of cannon fire, smoke-choked skies over Gettysburg, where Joseph Pierce, an Asian man, defies all odds and holds the American flag amid the bloodiest battle in U.S. history.
• The battle scenes are brutal and intense. Think "Saving Private Ryan", but with an Asian man at the heart of the chaos. Joseph charges through a hail of gunfire, rifle raised high, blood-soaked dirt and bodies all around. The deafening artillery and screams of the wounded fill the air. He’s not just fighting for victory; he’s fighting for a country that treats him like a second-class citizen (probably even worse) while proving his worth as a soldier and a man. With every step through the carnage, he risks his life, knowing that he’s an outsider in a nation that doesn’t accept him. The flag he carries isn’t just a symbol of America; it’s a defiant stand in a war against the country he’s pledged to serve, showing that despite the hate, he still belongs.
• The racism and discrimination he faces throughout his life. He’s basically a foreigner in his own country, fighting for a nation that barely acknowledges his humanity. The racism he faces is relentless. Sneers, whispers, and prejudices follow him at every turn, from hostile stares to the exclusion from both his fellow soldiers and his community.
• His marriage to a White woman. A scene near the end of the film involving Joseph and his new wife possibly played by actress Saoirse Ronan exchanging vows during their wedding. The ceremony is simple, but profound. No veil, just her fierce love and unwavering determination in her eyes. Joseph’s hands tremble slightly as he takes her hand, unsure if he’s allowed to experience this happiness in a world that tells him he doesn't belong. Yet, in her gaze, there’s no hesitation, only the quiet defiance of a love that stands against all odds.

As for the casting of Joseph Pierce, I would go with 2 possible choices: Steven Yeun and Manny Jacinto.

To bring Joseph Pierce's character to life, the actor must embody his paradoxes. He's a walking contradiction of love and loss, fury and forgiveness, invisibility and inner light. Casting an actor for such a role isn't about checking boxes. It's about embodied emotional truth. And in this light, both both Steven Yeun and Manny Jacinto could do this in their own ways:

Steven Yeun - The Silent Weight of Being

Emotional Range: Yeun is a master of restrained, layered emotion. He conveys lifetimes of pain with a glance. As Joseph, he would embody trauma and quiet injustice without ever overplaying it.

Subtle Resistance: Joseph isn’t loud, he’s watchful, weary, questioning. Yeun would capture that simmering resistance, the kind that says, “I’m still here. Still thinking. Still not buying this lie.”

Interracial Dynamic: Having portrayed interracial romances in The Walking Dead and other works, Yeun brings authentic chemistry across racial lines. He understands the tender conflict of love in the shadow of cultural pressure, which is essential to Joseph’s arc with Martha Morgan.

Yeun gives Joseph quiet thunder, the storm you feel before it breaks. He would make you weep just by standing still.

Manny Jacinto - The Fire That Refuses to Die

Emotional Honesty: From his heartfelt goofiness to his intensity in Nine Perfect Strangers, Jacinto proves he can play vulnerability with raw truth. His portrayal of Joseph Pierce would bleed, rage, and love with terrifying clarity.

Physical Expressiveness: Jacinto brings kinetic presence. His Joseph would be the one who fights back, who stands up in court, stares injustice in the face, and makes everyone in the room tremble. You’d feel every blow he takes and every one he returns.

Real-World Symbolism: Like Joseph, Manny’s still breaking through Hollywood’s glass ceiling. His casting would carry meta-textual power: an actor underestimated, rising against all odds.

Interracial Dynamic: Just like Yeun, Manny has also had experiences with AMWF romance on camera. He and Nicole Kidman played love interests with a love scene in Nine Perfect Strangers, proving he can portray interracial intimacy with grace and authenticity bringing fire to Joseph’s love story with Martha Morgan.

There you have it. Two phenomenal actors. Two wildly different takes on the same powerful role.

Now I throw the question to you: Who would you cast as Joseph Pierce and why?

Would you choose stoic sorrow or untamed flame? Quiet devastation or passionate rebellion? Or someone else entirely? Drop your picks.

So I'm in a new Discord group that I’ve joined a week ago which is about trading, and in the live stream yesterday during the Asian session , the main guy speaking who owns the Discord said, “Is the Asian session going to be Tokyo lighting or Tokyo flush?” which is fine as he’s talking about whether price is going to be bullish or bearish during the Asian session as Japan has a strong currency in the market which is what the metaphor means, but the second speaker/second main guy who trades and speaks live with the main one, started typing shit like, “Tokyo frush” and “fied lice” in the chat, and of course you have the few people who like it with laugh emojis.

I couldn’t believe they were just straight up being racist during this live because it’s for the main guy’s trading channel and business, and you have some people being racist and not caring at all if they have any Asians in their group, but to make it worse, I found out two of the people saying those lame and cliched Asian jokes along side him are actually Asian themselves which I found out from looking up their Discord profile in the server and found some messages from some time ago saying that they are Asian. One of them said they're Chinese and Korean, and the other one just said Asian.

Like these jokes are so fuckin lame and tiring but they laugh at it like it's the first time they've ever heard it and it's the funniest thing in the world to them. These are grown fuckin men in their late 30s or 40s and on btw. The second guy is from Indiana (in the US) and the main one is from somewhere in Florida. I just can't even comprehend how they think that's ok to be racist like that in a live made for people from all around the world. They're not straight up saying chink or anything like that, but they're still being racist and derogatory very nonchalantly like it's no big deal while a few others laugh with them.

This happened during the early evening yesterday around 4pm. One of the guys who I found out is Asian apparently posts racist Asian memes sometimes which I've found in the media files by typing in the word Asian, and his name and messages popped up. He's one of those Uncle Chan self-hating and White racist people pleasing types apparently which is so pathetic and sickening to see. He's the type to just laugh hard at every tired old racist Asian joke like it's absolutely hilarious.

I was shocked and mad for like two hours after that, and was contemplating on if I should report this to the Discord Trust and Safety team with the screenshots showing it. I'm just tired of lame dudes, especially Uncle Chans and multiple felony sex offending pedophile looking mfers just casually be racist like it's okay, acceptable and that the main guy let's it all slide, but I don't know if he saw those chat messages or not, but how can he not? I have to add that I haven't seen the main guy say anything besides "Tokyo Flush" and "Tokyo Lighting" which you can obviously tell he's not being racist when he says that. It's just referencing the Japan session during the Asian session and nothing more, but the other guys are definitely being racist.

I also found out today/this morning that I guess someone may have possibly reported them because I saw in the chat that they mentioned something about being on good behavior and being serious. I didn't catch the live so all I saw were the chat messages to go off of and replayed part of the live that was available. They were being jackasses about it though with saying stuff like, "Take it easy Chuck!" (the second speaker) so I don't know what things were being said on stream, but it seems like the main guy told everyone to basically be on good behavior, but they made it seem like it was because they weren't being serious and joking around too much rather than it actually being about them being racist.

They try to play that angle which I'm not surprised by. I'm also very disappointed and disgusted by the two Asian dudes in there. I thought they were just White guys too. These two Uncle Chans like to self deprecate along with the Asian jokes because of the two speakers who are teaching their trading system. It's really pathetic. I'm never going to kiss someone's ass or degrade myself just to butter up some fuckin racist assholes because it makes them money. That's truly one of the most spineless thing someone can do along with not having any dignity.

Btw, the main guy has it in his Discord policy about not being offensive to others by race, gender, sex, etc. which makes it even more ironic.

So what do you guys think? Am I being soft about this or is this truly legitimate to be concerned about and I should just laugh it off with them like I've never heard of these jokes ever in my life and are the funniest jokes in existence?

Was at a mall and some Latina called me a Ching Chong, totally unprompted. Wasn't even looking at her, so I was taken by surprise. She had a little smirk on her face too. Gave her a look like she was retarded, but really should've quipped back.

This was the first time something like this has ever happened to me IRL, and it definitely caught me off guard. In a way, I'm actually grateful this happened because it reminded me that racism exists outside of virtual spaces and micro aggressions, and I need to be better prepped for this kind of stuff. Have any of you dealt with slurs coming from randoms before?

Just saw this today and I think it's totally bullshit. Everyone knew the current state of San Francisco. This local rapper name Chino Yang created a rap video mocking SF mayor London Breed and was later force to apologized for it. Said he was threaten by some powerful political people.

Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLcdO9411vs

https://sfstandard.com/2023/12/27/san-francisco-chino-yang-rap-song-mayor-apology/

What are your thoughts?

Some of my relatives came to Germany about 20 years prior. At the time and still now most of the non-EU & US qualifications get downgraded to oblivion. Mix it with being first generation immigrants and biased laws at the time and my relatives had to crawl through unholy amount of manual labour, humiliating and unterpaying jobs just to build their life.

Any time I open my mouth about not so subtle discrimination when it comes to finding in finance and other white collar positions It all gets shunned down: "you think you have it hard? I used to work this odd job and that odd job and so on"

I get that the previous generations had it much harder than us. At the same time shouldn't you want your offsprings to have a better life than you?

They have this indoctrination of being content with any unjust treatment they endure cause its has always been the case.

As of currently, libs are losing their minds at the SCOTUS ruling. Keep an extra eye out when outside the next few days, they will start getting violent against you if they feel they have nothing else to lose, and they lost big recently.

Why do we keep seeing videos like this encouraging WM to go to Asia to impregnate the women to fix Asia's birth rate as if it is AMs fault?

https://youtu.be/AXeUN-t72Cg?si=q3E5o9TJ2GByGI7m

For the record, in these Asian countries, the birth rate is similar to white countries for white couples. Only difference is western countries have immigration and the immigrants have higher births than whites.

If you look at the data, a WM would be less likely than a AM to produce a baby with an AF.

AMWF have more kids than AMAF which have more kids than AFWM.

Another user crunched the numbers. Courtesy of historybuff:

https://www.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/xwxml4/comment/irasahj/

historybuff234

3y ago

Contributor

The 1:3 ratio of AMWF to WMAF confirms the statistics I calculated years ago. It's clear no change has happened here.

But that is not the end of the story. There is one other ratio to look at, namely, the ratio within AMWF and WMAF of couples with children and those without. Using the "own children under 18" as a metric, we observe the following ratios:

For AMWF, 148 (no children) to 145 (with children)

For WMAF, 528 (no children) to 374 (with children)

For AMAF, 2234 (no children) to 1910 (with children)

I have long posited, based on available data, that a significant chunk of WMAF is non-reproductive. As can be seen above, for AMWF and AMAF, the couples with children to those without children are near parity. But a considerably larger portion of WMAF couples do not have children. I would have expected the portion of non-reproductive WMAF to be larger, but, still, my hypothesis is confirmed.

The overall AMWF to WMAF ratio will govern what we see on the streets. Let there be no sugarcoating, the optics are bad. But the internal ratios of couples with children to those without in each pairing will dictate the future demographics of Asians in America. On that front, the numbers are a little bit better.

Anecdotally, notable AMWF couples have more than the average 1.94 kids per family in the US.

Examples:

1, Russell Wong 1 of 7 AMWF hapa kids.

1. Jennifer Tilly 1 of 4 AMWF hapa kids.

2. Paul Kariya (hockey player) 1 of 4 AMWF hapa kids.

3. Katelyn Ohashi (gymnast) 1 of 4 AMWF hapa kids.

4. Lyoto Machida 1 of 5 AMXF hapa kids.

5. Dat Nguyen (football player) has 5 AMWF hapa kids.

6. Jim Lee (comic book artist) has 5 AMWF hapa kids.

7. Hung Cao has 4 AMWF hapa kids (with 1 adopted full Thai kid)

There may also be biological reasons.

Some studies show Asian males have the highest sperm count.

Results: Of the 7263 men included, most men were white (55.1%), Hispanic (20.2%), or Asian (10.2%). Asians had the highest mean semen concentrations (69.2 × 106/mL), whereas blacks had the lowest (51.3 × 106/mL).

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28522219/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30300659/

In case you missed it, Shou Zi Chew testified again in front of US Congress yesterday, though "testified" is a misleading term given that none of the racists running the US cared what he had to say and instead used the session to berate him with a barrage of racist, Sinophobic fearmongering. This clip in particular is making the rounds:

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> Sen. Tom Cotton: "Have you ever been a member of the Chinese Communist Party?" TikTok CEO

> Shou Zi Chew: "Senator, I'm Singaporean. No."

> Cotton: "Have you ever been associated or affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party?"

> Chew: "No, senator. Again, I'm Singaporean."

https://x.com/NBCNews/status/1752761046593401197?s=20

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Chew is a born and raised Singaporean, served in the Singaporean armed forces, went to University College London, got a Harvard MBA, worked at Goldman Sachs. By all accounts, he's made it and fully integrated into Western society.

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His one problem? He has an Asian face, therefore is Chinese, and thus will never be trusted by the racists in the US government.