{"id":31851,"date":"2011-12-17T23:28:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T03:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=31851"},"modified":"2020-06-28T23:28:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T03:28:19","slug":"so-am-i-chinese-or-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=31851","title":{"rendered":"So am I Chinese or Japanese?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d_CaZ4EAexQ?controls=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Now I&#8217;ve been assumed to be many different races in my life; Hispanic, <em>French<\/em>, <strong>black <\/strong>(yes, seriously), but this morning was a new one. Chinese or Japanese I can sort of get, but why black people don&#8217;t ever assume Korean as one of the first three options is completely beyond me. Stereotypically, Koreans are the ones who do all the grunt work of modern commerce &#8211; dry cleaning, manning the liquor stores, convenience stores, gas stations, delis; where they happen to serve black people on a regular basis! Chinese people seemingly solely work at Chinese restaurants or their respective areas&#8217; Chinese regions. Japanese people are fewer and further but are a lot like the Chinese, except there are lot more doing pretty high-tech, high-importance stuff, because the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rivervet.com\/images\/PearlHarbor\/PearlHarbor.jpg\">rest of the world seems to think the Japanese can do no wrong <\/a>and blows their culture like its shit don&#8217;t stink.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But I&#8217;m getting off the point. This morning, on a sunny beautiful Saturday afternoon, there&#8217;s a ring at the doorbell. Since I now assume all doorbell rings as a sign of casing the joint, I answer immediately. It&#8217;s two pleasant black women who are trying to spread the good word of Jesus Christ. I listen to their spiel for a few minutes, but then respectfully decline their literature, because I&#8217;m a soulless human being who doesn&#8217;t particularly care for organized religion. But before they leave, they ask me &#8220;where I&#8217;m from.&#8221; Since I know this is a pointless question, I tell them the truth &#8211; <strong>Virginia<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">&#8220;<em>Oh, well you look like my son in law. He&#8217;s <strong>half Laotian.<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">So now, I look like a cross between Dikembe Mutombo and Kahn Souphanousinphone. Wonderful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Secondly, I&#8217;m ashamed of these religious zealous. The ninth commandment states thou shalt not lie, but it seems like every single black person I meet who wishes to relate to me seems to have an Asian in-law, or they know an Asian closely, that they feel the need to tell me, as if I&#8217;ll suddenly allow them into my home or accept them more for disclosing this tidbit of information, which is as useful to me as an asshole on my elbow. I don&#8217;t go around bragging about the black friends I have in my life, why others feel the need to share their stories of the Asians they know is completely beyond me. Fuck that.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now I&#8217;ve been assumed to be many different races in my life; Hispanic, French, black (yes, seriously), but this morning was a new one. Chinese or Japanese I can sort of get, but why black people don&#8217;t ever assume Korean as one of the first three options is completely beyond me. Stereotypically, Koreans are the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=31851\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So am I Chinese or Japanese?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,90,15,89,49,46],"class_list":["post-31851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-hypocrisy","tag-og","tag-racism","tag-wtf","tag-zombieland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31852,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31851\/revisions\/31852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}