Comments on: Somehow, Someway, Google Came To The Conclusion That The “Make Me Asian” App Was A Bad Idea http://beijingcream.com/2013/01/google-came-to-the-conclusion-the-make-me-asian-app-was-a-bad-idea/ A Dollop of China Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:42:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: bag-o-dicks http://beijingcream.com/2013/01/google-came-to-the-conclusion-the-make-me-asian-app-was-a-bad-idea/#comment-216416 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 06:14:51 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=9284#comment-216416 The reason you don’t find “laowai” offensive is because of economic reasons. It’s a word that singles you out as socially advantaged. I don’t mind people stereotyping people from my country because it’s a first world country. American comedies often parody my country’s accent and, if done well, it’s funny just like Apu and the Shitty Wok guy are funny.

“Don’t be a dick” is true but a strawman. Nobody is arguing that we should all be dicks.

]]> By: SeaHorse http://beijingcream.com/2013/01/google-came-to-the-conclusion-the-make-me-asian-app-was-a-bad-idea/#comment-216415 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 05:40:45 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=9284#comment-216415 I can drink to that. Laowai doesn’t really have actual negative connotations on it. Laowai isn’t exactly ‘foreigner’ persay but outsider. It means a not-Chinese guy, like ANYWHERE. It doesn’t mean someone not from China, it doesn’t mean a foreigner in China, it doesn’t mean a white guy, it means anyone who can’t trace a family tree a couple generations back to China. This is why a person born overseas with Chinese ancestry is not a Laowai but a white person born in Hong Kong is.

]]> By: Jive madra http://beijingcream.com/2013/01/google-came-to-the-conclusion-the-make-me-asian-app-was-a-bad-idea/#comment-216410 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 04:21:49 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=9284#comment-216410 “Lao wai” is a term, it’s not a steretype… maybe I just don’t give a shit when I hear it, cos I never hear it used as derision (yet). As far as the app thing goes, people always say “don’t be so sensitive”. Yeah, well done.

Right. State your ethnicity and see how you feel when someone puts a sterotype on it. USA heads wouldn’t like the ones that non-USA heads could come up with.

Don’t be a dick.

]]> By: bag-o-dicks http://beijingcream.com/2013/01/google-came-to-the-conclusion-the-make-me-asian-app-was-a-bad-idea/#comment-216401 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 03:07:29 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=9284#comment-216401 Check this out:
http://www.progressive.org/mpbow062310.html

This Asian American complains of the following “stereotypes” of the Chinese ethnicity in Karate Kid 2:

We respect our elders
We are depicted as heroes
We’re the ones with self-discipline

Wow, you guys have it so bad! Just as well they didn’t have a Chinese kid graduate with a maths major and go on to have a quiet successful career and family life. This kind of “prejudice” and “double standards” have been foisted on you for too long!

]]> By: bag-o-dicks http://beijingcream.com/2013/01/google-came-to-the-conclusion-the-make-me-asian-app-was-a-bad-idea/#comment-216399 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 02:42:41 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=9284#comment-216399 The point is that this isn’t racism or prejudice or even stereotypes. How many times have you seen an Asian American being bullied about his Fu-Manchu mustache? It’s a non-existent stereotype.

All of the arguments against this app are begging the question. First off, you have to prove or present some kind of cogent argument that this is actually racism. Then and only then do you move on to the point that “racism is bad, mkay?”

]]> By: SeaHorse http://beijingcream.com/2013/01/google-came-to-the-conclusion-the-make-me-asian-app-was-a-bad-idea/#comment-216386 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:49:44 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=9284#comment-216386 Exactly my complaint. If someone calls us something we call them out for something but no one actually addresses the actual issue at hand. Really at the end of the day no matter where in the world you go there will be prejudice people and they will always defend their prejudice by saying “so and so also does this”

I’m saying if we want to believe ourselves better we should act like better people. We get upset the Chinese call people Laowais but we tell them they have no rights to be upset by Fu Manchu-esque depictions of their people because whatever?

It’s not okay for a Chinese person to spit on the floor. It’s not okay for a white person to spit on the floor either even if some other guy did it first.

]]> By: Chinese Netizen http://beijingcream.com/2013/01/google-came-to-the-conclusion-the-make-me-asian-app-was-a-bad-idea/#comment-216376 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 08:46:57 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=9284#comment-216376 Hey, I dun want no clazy sheep eaters slapping a fatwa on me!!

Anyone see the onrine comments my cuntrymen in China wrote about Condesleaza Rice when she went on an official visit to China a few years ago?

Agree that (insert ethnic group here)-Americans are oversensitive twats…

]]> By: Total Eclipse of the Twat http://beijingcream.com/2013/01/google-came-to-the-conclusion-the-make-me-asian-app-was-a-bad-idea/#comment-216368 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 05:55:16 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=9284#comment-216368 Why are westerners supposed to be better people? Or is that your prejudice? So it’s okay for Chinese to spit on the floor but if a white person does it it’s worse?

All groups are getting shit thrown at them. Either grow some thick skin or don’t surf that part of the web. But yeah, for some reason ‘white’ companies are more easily manipulated into removing so-called racist stuff. Tolerance and stuff, which apparently only goes one way. Muslims can call western society rotten and despicable, but god forbid you say anything about islam.

]]> By: Jason http://beijingcream.com/2013/01/google-came-to-the-conclusion-the-make-me-asian-app-was-a-bad-idea/#comment-216367 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 04:43:00 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=9284#comment-216367 @SeaHorse

Yep. Classic example: bag-o-dicks’ comment.

]]> By: SeaHorse http://beijingcream.com/2013/01/google-came-to-the-conclusion-the-make-me-asian-app-was-a-bad-idea/#comment-216360 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:12:18 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=9284#comment-216360 I am always shocked when people stand up to racism and prejudice by saying “said people we are being racist and prejudiced against us too!” or such and such group is being “over-sensitive.” As racist and prejudice as this may seem, but at one time in my life thought we westerners (assuming you guys are westerners) are suppose to be more educated and generally better people. But that does not seem to be the case.

]]> By: Chackie Jan http://beijingcream.com/2013/01/google-came-to-the-conclusion-the-make-me-asian-app-was-a-bad-idea/#comment-216351 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:42:40 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=9284#comment-216351 When are Chinese going to stop calling people in their home country ‘foreigners’. Talk about negative attitude. Or what about talk of ‘big nose’? Or ‘whitey’? Let’s petition on change.com! Oh, no wait, no need to be that whiney. Take it like a man.

]]> By: bag-o-dicks http://beijingcream.com/2013/01/google-came-to-the-conclusion-the-make-me-asian-app-was-a-bad-idea/#comment-216346 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:12:22 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=9284#comment-216346 The main stereotype I hold about Asian Americans is how unbelievably over-sensitive they are. As an example: this.

]]> By: Chinese Netizen http://beijingcream.com/2013/01/google-came-to-the-conclusion-the-make-me-asian-app-was-a-bad-idea/#comment-216334 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:51:30 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=9284#comment-216334 Velly sirry!! But honestly…I can’t even grow a “Fu Manchu” ‘stache!

]]> By: Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, 2nd Baronet http://beijingcream.com/2013/01/google-came-to-the-conclusion-the-make-me-asian-app-was-a-bad-idea/#comment-216330 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:10:30 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=9284#comment-216330 Disrike!

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