We're 5%. I'm not expecting representation, nor do I care. I'd rather cultivate strong values to succeed in American society. Blacks have massive overrepresentation, but have massive cultural issues. LGBT are massively overrepresentated, but have massive issues as well.
Let success bring the spotlight. Jeremy Lin got hype for putting up the numbers when it counted, even though he fell off later. I would be massively embarrassed if he was a a mediocre player like Kapernick whose sole claim to fame was his skin color. Justin Lin got his big break doing F&F3 after doing a few independent films. He got to do more blockbuster F&F films plus a Star Trek film. Do such a good job that they can't ignore you. That's the right way, not whining about the world being unfair. That doesn't bring respect.
Maybe they have their own opinion that racism didn't keep them from doing what they wanted. It doesn't have to be the end-all issue. And the bamboo ceiling is bunk. Look at all the Asian CEOs, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, AMD. Asians in many prominent positions of government and military as well. Interim ICE director is Vietnamese. We have a rear admiral in the Navy who is Vietnamese. We have a two star general in the Army who is Vietnamese. You think they let white people have these positions in Asia, especially if they were foreign born like these men were? Come on man. The only ceiling here is the one that you imagine.
I'm of Vietnamese descent, my parents were born in Vietnam and escaped to the US after South Vietnam fell. The thing is what you said, the "asian community" really only exists as a construct of Asian Americans. It's not an idea held by immigrants. Best thing is that you do well as an individual and cultivate the same positive attitudes among your local community.
it's much easier to keep a smaller community healthy and make it respectable than to try and force the rest of society to give you respect. If you try and demand it, you won't get respect, you'll get pity. Stay humble and work hard. It'll come in time, the same way it did for Japanese Americans.
Will there be people who mistake Chinese for Vietnamese or Japanese for Korean? Sure. But I couldn't tell a Scotsman, Irishman, Welshman, or Englishman apart either. And all would be upset if I said they were the same.
We're 5%. I'm not expecting representation, nor do I care. I'd rather cultivate strong values to succeed in American society. Blacks have massive overrepresentation, but have massive cultural issues. LGBT are massively overrepresentated, but have massive issues as well.
Let success bring the spotlight. Jeremy Lin got hype for putting up the numbers when it counted, even though he fell off later. I would be massively embarrassed if he was a a mediocre player like Kapernick whose sole claim to fame was his skin color. Justin Lin got his big break doing F&F3 after doing a few independent films. He got to do more blockbuster F&F films plus a Star Trek film. Do such a good job that they can't ignore you. That's the right way, not whining about the world being unfair. That doesn't bring respect.
Maybe they have their own opinion that racism didn't keep them from doing what they wanted. It doesn't have to be the end-all issue. And the bamboo ceiling is bunk. Look at all the Asian CEOs, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, AMD. Asians in many prominent positions of government and military as well. Interim ICE director is Vietnamese. We have a rear admiral in the Navy who is Vietnamese. We have a two star general in the Army who is Vietnamese. You think they let white people have these positions in Asia, especially if they were foreign born like these men were? Come on man. The only ceiling here is the one that you imagine.
I'm of Vietnamese descent, my parents were born in Vietnam and escaped to the US after South Vietnam fell. The thing is what you said, the "asian community" really only exists as a construct of Asian Americans. It's not an idea held by immigrants. Best thing is that you do well as an individual and cultivate the same positive attitudes among your local community.
it's much easier to keep a smaller community healthy and make it respectable than to try and force the rest of society to give you respect. If you try and demand it, you won't get respect, you'll get pity. Stay humble and work hard. It'll come in time, the same way it did for Japanese Americans.
Will there be people who mistake Chinese for Vietnamese or Japanese for Korean? Sure. But I couldn't tell a Scotsman, Irishman, Welshman, or Englishman apart either. And all would be upset if I said they were the same.