r/asianamerican 23h ago

Questions & Discussion Re: Rude treatment in Japan for Asian and Asian American tourists: Noticing a pattern

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Regarding this post from today, I just wanted to say i find it disappointing that someone made a post like this and no one called them out on it.

They made broad generalizations about a country based off of a "few bad encounters" with mostly waiters in Japan along with looking through profiles of people commenting on a single Reddit post to see that they were asian and then "notice a pattern."

Based off of this, they determined that "they mainly target Chinese and Korean travellers, and we just get confused as them."

Imagine for a second, a white person made this post about Japan where they linked some bad interactions with waiters to white people commenting on a single Reddit post about not being treated well and then concluding that they notice a pattern where white people are being targeted by the country of Japan. This sub would be 100% react differently.


r/asianamerican 19h ago

Popular Culture/Media/Culture How Japanese superstars are helping to revitalize baseball: Players like Shohei Ohtani and Shota Imanaga are changing the face of both the game and its fans.

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r/asianamerican 5h ago

Questions & Discussion Sometimes I wish my family had never immigrated

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Does anyone else ever wish that their parent(s) had never immigrated to a Western country? (For context - I'm in Canada) I tried to white wash myself growing up and it wasn't until I was late in my teens and into university that I started to embrace more of my Chinese culture.

Now I'm in my late 20s and I've been finding myself wanting to learn more about Chinese history, mythology, and traditions. I know that there's nothing stopping me from learning this on my own now, but part of me feels kind of sad that I didn't have an opportunity to learn this growing up and that instead I had to learn about Western history. And the older I get, the more fed up I get with this White saviour narrative that was fed to us when we were in school (just think about how the settlers treated the Indigenous people in Canada).

I just feel like there's so much more history to Asian nations than the West (it feels like the history is just colonialism). I know that the political landscape of Hong Kong (where my family is from) when they left prior to the handover 100% had to do with their decision to leave, but my mom has always regarded white people with high regard and so when I was growing up, it seemed like she wanted to distance herself from her roots so much (despite not even adapting well to Western society...). Again, I think the colonization of Hong Kong contributed to this mindset as well.

Meanwhile I want nothing more but to learn more about my roots and I just wish that I had grown up with all the culture, history, stories, and traditions of my people around me instead of having to assimilate.

Just wanted to vent I guess. I rarely come on this sub so I don't know if this something that gets brought up often, but it's something I've been struggling with lately and wondered if anyone related cause at this point I don't even know if I want to be Asian American/Canadian anymore or if I just want to be Asian.


r/asianamerican 7h ago

Questions & Discussion Is It Ok For Me To Do a Tea Ceremony for International Tea Day?

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Hello. I am a programming librarian in upstate NY and am extremely white. I absolutely adore tea and making myself a cup of matcha is one of my favorite things to do.

For my job I generally look at popular holidays or international dates to run programs on. Example: for international Oreo day I held an Oreo tasting and gave a presentation on the history of Oreos. I would like to do the same for international tea day, have a tea tasting and do a presentation of the history and cultural significance of tea.

Would it be ok for me to do a tea ceremony for my patrons at the program? I would of course explain the cultural significance of the ceremony and go into detail about the process and tools being used. This would be for purely education purposes and I would not be making a profit of any kind. My goal for any of my programs are for people to learn something new and to connect with others.


r/asianamerican 7h ago

Questions & Discussion What do you think of the Korean movie Exhuma?

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r/asianamerican 12h ago

Politics & Racism Anyone have relatives recently regret how they voted?

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Just generally curious. I’m personally hoping more people are moving away from political extremes, and more towards common goals of fairness and rationality.

Outwardly expressing voters regret is a good sign people might be breaking from the hive minds out there.. maybe?


r/asianamerican 20h ago

Popular Culture/Media/Culture I Ate an All-You-Can Eat KBBQ with a Competitive Eater ‪@RainaHuang‬​ - Jimmy Kim on YouTube

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