Asians discriminating Asians
Hello my lovelies!
The title of the blogpost maybe will make you think "What?" but yeah, let me explain.
I was walking in the city today, stopping by at The Body Shop to buy a lipstick (got one in a really pretty coral shade^^) and as I left the shop, two girls walked past me. They were Asians - Koreas to be exactly - and they gave me that look. You know, that look when someone is looking down on you. Yes, exactly that one. Now, don't get me wrong, I know that not all Koreans are like that (why do I have to mention that all the time? Right because I will get bashed immediately for generalizing) but tI don't want to talk about Koreans only, no, I want to talk Asians in generally.
I noticed this a lot, and I don't know if it is just me, but when I got to Thailand/China/Hong Kong, I sometimes get so strange gazes, not only from girls but also from some guys but the majority still are the girls. As an Asian, I am not really that "typical" Asian many Europeans, Americans etc have in mind; yes, I am short but other than that I am not ridiculously thin, like many of the people I know like to think of Asians and it is a cliché which actually is true.
My body type is more on the curvy side and my hips and and shoulders are a bit wider because I played tennis for quite a while. Besides that (and this is coming from my friends) I have - I quote - "Arsch in der Hose" which basically means that I have an .
In Germany, I have a pretty mucn enviable body type and skin color, which is actually like Kai's skin color when he doesn't have any make up on; so it's more like... honey colored... or skin color with golden untertone? Whatever XD
Anyways, many of my friends envy me because I don't look like a pale ghost in winter and I can practically can wear everything in every color. That with the wearing everything is actually because I am Asian but whatevs^^
If I go back to Thailand though, I mostly get that "Duuh" look from many girls, mostly because I have that strange skin color and they call me "fat", which not at all and I am not dark but I am not "white" either and I give a crap about being "white".
When they hear me talking like that, their gazes go from this ">.>" to "O___O"
Everyone of you probably know that pale skin color trend hgoing on in nearly every Asian country and that double eyelid craze and being super skinny.
Yes, I am not super pale, I am not super skinny and I have natural double eyelids but I am calling bull on all those things because what the freaking heck?
I, as an Asian myself, get discriminated because I don't fit in that "Asian ideal".
Luckily, in Thailand it isn't that severe as in Hong Kong/China and probably in Korea and Japan, but Korean especially. Two friends of mine are in Korea right now, one a bit chubbier and one half African-American. Both of them already got badmouthed and bullied because of their skin color and body type.
What the freaking heck?
This is just wrong and embarrassing.
There are different kinds of racism and diskrimination and this definitely belongs to it.
It's just sad to see that Asians bash other Asians (Koreans bash south-east Asians for not being "white" enough, Indians, Japanese people; Japanese people bash Koreans, Chinese people etc etc etc.) Of course, sometimes it has to do with the history of said countries but I get the impression that this has more to do with the inferior complex asians have towards the western countries.
On the other hand, so many Asians who live here in Germany are so damn arrogant that it is annoying and pathetic.
In the end, no one can win in this.
This is all my experience and of course I also had positive experiences but most of the times I get discriminating remarks from other Asians for already said reasons.
I would like to hear your opinion on this or your experience and so on.
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