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humanodon  ·  4380 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What kind of Asian are you?

Sometimes when I see something ridiculous in public, I like to stage-whisper, "white people . . ." while ruefully shaking my head or rolling my eyes. I like doing it especially if it's not a white person causing the commotion.





thenewgreen  ·  4380 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Your sense of humor reminds me of my brothers. He likes to say "I blame the ___" in random situations and fills in the blank with a different ethnic group. It can be funny because it almost always has zero relevance to race or ethnicity. For example, let's say we are going to a restaurant for lunch and when we arrive at the restaurant it is closed. I'll walk back to the car and say sorry, they're closed for lunch and he will say "I blame the Jews". Lately, it's been the Asians.

humanodon  ·  4380 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, considering that Asians comprise most of the world's population, your brother is bound to be right at some point. However, as an Asian person, I feel obligated to inform you that the Asian thing to do would be to blame the Chinese or the Japanese.

thenewgreen  ·  4380 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think it works as far as humor goes because it points out the ridiculousness of blaming an entire ethnicity for anything, yet alone something so trivial as a restaurant being closed. But I'll see to it that he starts blaming the "Chinese" :-)