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I am getting sick of people judging me at school because of my race.

I am Asian, they already think that I am too smart for my own good, and that I’m not pretty enough. And as I have a strong interest for other cultures, people usually frown at me when I say I am learning Spanish. Is there any ideas of what I can say to these people who have these stereotypes of Asian people?

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vesy offline Verified User (8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 8 months ago (2 minutes after post)

frown at you? really? who!? What do they say?

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jvo_ offline Verified User (8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 8 months ago (4 minutes after post)

Well they’re like: You’re an Asian, you have better things to do like go do your homework blah blah blah and why are you trying to be someone else you aren’t? ==”

And then there’s the “admit it. You’re Asian. Stop trying to act cool like you are actually a caucasian. i was like WTF ==’

So yea these people are just basically saying Asians should keep to themselves.

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unsoshable offline Verified User (1 year, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Unknown Location | 8 months ago (5 minutes after post)

ignore them… or as I have seen vesy say to another, kill them with kindness. laugh with them and be the better person.

PPL are lame no matter who you are, what you look like, or what skin color you have.

I am a white male with lots of tattoos and a really short hair cut, yet ppl think I am white suppremist. So far from the truth. I dont care what others think of me, as the ones that are close to me, know the best.

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jmfan5289 offline Verified User (8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 4 #
An Unknown Location | 8 months ago (9 minutes after post)

I’m Korean and White.

I got the same crap. I should be smart and be a good girl. I should go to church and have a million family members. I should want to be a doctor automatically ..

I basically did what unsoshable said…killed them with kindness and let them see me for who I really was.

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jmfan5289 offline Verified User (8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 4 #
An Unknown Location | 8 months ago (10 minutes after post)

So I didn’t finish that post lol…accidentally hit send…basically my advice is to just go with the flow. Let them think what they want or if it really bothers you..stand up for yourself and REALLY surprise them. Either way, you can come out on top.

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vesy offline Verified User (8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 8 months ago (11 minutes after post)

yes yes isn’t this world just cruel. Well here’s some advice. And I now know exactly what you are talking about. During highschool, even now, many guys felt that they could “ball us up” and beat us in basketball all the time since my friends and I were asian. But we always beat them. sad. It felt good. But the one thing you need to do is keep your cool and just smile when something like that is said. The reason they do this is fear. They are the ones that are trying to be cool. (regardless of race) Learn to use their negativety into motivation to do better. Like when someone says something stupid like that “you’re asian stop trying to be cool.” i would just play it light and respond by saying something like… “ew, don’t say that, and laugh” and usually they either shut up and laugh with you and realize their demise. Kill them with kindsness also. When i’m faced with people that look down on me, especially in sports, I act with good sportsmanship so they have nothing against you. if they do, it’s their loss and they look stupid and naive in front of everyone else.

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Barbyman offline Verified User (2 years, 5 months) Long Term User Shouts: 5 #
An Unknown Location | 8 months ago (1 hour, 52 minutes after post)

I am German and they called me Nazi, Jew Killer and other nice not politically correct names .Just Ignore these Types .Most of them will end up on Welfare.telling you there bad Life story,but spend there moneys on Booze and Gambling,waiting for handout s from the Government.LOOSERS….

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jvo_ offline Verified User (8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 8 months ago (2 hours, 3 minutes after post)

Barbyman wrote:
I am German and they called me Nazi, Jew Killer and other nice not politically correct names .Just Ignore these Types .Most of them will end up on Welfare.telling you there bad Life story,but spend there moneys on Booze and Gambling,waiting for handout s from the Government.LOOSERS….

How can they say that about Germans? I actually quite like them (:

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Barbyman offline Verified User (2 years, 5 months) Long Term User Shouts: 5 #
An Unknown Location | 7 months, 4 weeks ago (15 hours, 29 minutes after post)

Oh thank you jvo ,for that you can listen to some of my music on barbyman.com

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