IAmAFish.org - Ethnicity Archives

Ethnicity Archives

(June 05, 2006) Being Billingual Messes With Your Mind

Sometimes I feel like every other person I am surrounded by in public is speaking Korean. And, maybe it's because they think no one can understand their conversations, but they are extremely annoying. I am constantly rolling my eyes and thinking, Another Korean person? Maybe it's just because I'm used...

(May 18, 2006) Unaffirmative Action

In one of my classes this term, we are reading Iris Young's Justice and the Politics of Difference. Long story short, Young is a strong feminist who defines oppression and begins by describing oppressed groups within society and ways they are oppressed. You either read this book and agree wholeheartedly...

(July 14, 2005) Truer words I have not heard...

I swear if expectations were like skyscrapers, the tallest in the world would all be Asian....

(May 26, 2005) Thoughts on Being Interracial, Edited by an Interracial

This term I took the class Ethnic Studies 233, Contemporary Issues and Cultures in Asian America. We examined the current situations and issues faced by Asian Pacific Americans and their creative work and cultures. I took the specific interest of researching interracial couples and biracial children. I was able to...

(May 08, 2005) The Incomprehensible "Oh"

As any person of Asian descent has experienced in America... You get asked "What you are" all the time. I really doubt it happens to Caucasians very often, because you already know the answer is probably "I dunno." Somehow I don't see anyone asking a Black-American what he is, because,...

(November 16, 2004) Asian girls are SO exotic!

I can totally pick up dudes in Korean. Sometimes it works on guys that don't even understand Korean. Because I sound so hot, doncchaknow. Me: "Ah jeek ahn chee het nee?" ("Are you drunk yet?") Me: "Ani? Gurum Chingu eesuh?" ("No? Then do you have any friends?") JUST KIDDING! I'm...

(October 20, 2004) Alis volat Propriis[1]

"So, are you, like, Mexinese?" "Hmm, no. I'd say more like Koreican." Mexican Dad. Korean Mom. Odd combination. It gives me the heartless drive to work myself to death, but the caring combination to love all things. Either way you mix it, it's so intense, the last thing you want...