of course but statistically most asians live in a select few major cities on the west or east coast. This is true across all Asian-american nationalities. You have outliers living in the midwest, south, etc.. but they tend to be very rare. I happened to have lived in both the south and the west coast before. I know what it's like across these culturally varied U.S. regions....But how is it expressed? What actually happens? In what way do people treat you disrespectfully?
I don't normally talk in depth about these issues because I realize how pointless it is on the internet but i'm surprised you come across as being so naive about it. I've had guys randomly try to pick fights with me before (years ago) while minding my own business. People driving by have yelled slurs out the window...ie. chink, gook, etc.. It's not unusual to get really poor service in restaurants and other places such as people serving white patrons first or generally acting disinterested or rude when you are ordering.
Does this happen _all_ the time? No but it happens frequently enough outside of areas with a large asian population. I'm pretty well traveled around the U.S. and have been to many many states. Overall, i'd say people are just not very friendly towards asian men, there's even some actual contempt there in some cases.
I fully and totally believe you. I just wanted to compare it to the white a white person gets treated in some Asian countries. Overall. it seems that in Asian they have a love hate relationship or look up/look down relationship with white men, in the US, it is scorn/indifference relationship with Asian men.
I do think Filipinos get treated differently because a lot of them look more Hispanic than Asian. Not all of them live in California. Many are dispersed around the country. They still love America and Americans and are very proud of being "Americans". They talk proud, have a ghetto black walk and you rarely see them complain. Well, I don't know. You know better.
I think a lot of Filipinos are happy to be anywhere outside the Philippines...especially the women. It's just a culture that borrows a lot of its identity from America. It's basically still a colony so when you say that a lot of Filipinos seem really proud to be American i'm not surprised about this at all. However, I have met and talked with a lot of Filipino Americans who also express the racial issues living in the U.S. they have had the same experiences i've had. Some are more or less open to talk about it depending on who the listener is.[/quote]
Interesting. I see Filipino Americans and many walk around with chests puffed up, swaggering like ghetto blacks and all have grins on their faces. At least the ones I met. They look as happy as larks!
I understand and it makes sense too. But most of all, I think it is not the dismissing that they are afraid of, it is people telling them to Go Home!Ladislav, another thing.. a lot of minorities probably won't talk openly about these things with "white" Americans. The reason why is because it's usually automatically dismissed or the responses are kind of like the ones you are giving me now..sort of dismissive or disbelieving in most cases. It's pretty annoying which is why I tend not to focus on it much outside of people who have experienced similar things.
No , seriously I was not dismissing it at all. I just wanted to know what actually goes on if one 'wears' and Asian body among Anglos. Because I know the experience of wearing my body among ( S.) East Asians. Dismissing and disbelieving happens also in cases when a white guy living in Asia starts complaining about people not wanting to rent an apartment to him, girls not wanting to date him and jeers and slurs thrown his way daily such and mocking body language, puffed up chests, eyes rolled up as well as people barking back in broken English- when you speak THEIR language to them, wild-eyed or shuddering away from him as if he had leprosy.
The locals will be embarrassed, change topic, or attribute it to language problem- "they cant speak English". And the expats will deny it- "NEVER happened to me", they will say, " People here LOVE ME. And if it happens to YOU, it is because YOU are the asshole!"
There is also a section of population that finds a white person exotic and interesting and girls who want to date you out of interest. In any case, it is impossible for any E/SE/Asians to treat a white person as an equal. Ever.
One of American teachers at my college in Japan, a very nice lady was in Tokyo and she fell down on the subway there. There were people just yapping "Gaijin Gaijin" with the same wild eyed expressions like the saw the she-devil her-self, and then not one person helped her up. Not one man.
In moments like that I actually catch myself approving of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and happy about the tsunami and nuclear accidents. What kind of nation is that!?
In Eastern Europe or any Arab country this would be unthinkable. People would come to your help no matter who you are.
But we have gone off on a tangent.