i'm partly asian, so i think i have the right to say this.

everyone's got their online user names for whatever their favorite weblog site, email site, or instant messenger program is. these "user names" normally represent something interesting about the person, or a hobby, or, well, it doesn't matter what they represent. i'm gonna focus on one thing.

what's with all these asian folk going around making their names have, in some way, shape, or form, the word "asian" in it? i'm sorry, but it pisses me off.

"AZN PRIDE!!!1 lol roxor ;)"

jackasses.

it's terrible. you can have pride in the fact that you're asian, i guess, but don't mistake your own pride for the fact that someone else gives a shit. believe me, i certainly don't.

...i hate it even more when the word "asian" makes it into a user name for a site where you clearly have a picture displayed of yourself. sorry, but of course you're fucking asian. look at your own damn picture. you don't have to tell us. we fucking know already.

the sense of pride that i have in being asian is pretty minimal... you don't see white or black people going around going "white pride" or "black pride." get the hell over yourselves. you sound like fucking nazis.

don't mistake this for a racist blog; i'm asian as well. i don't include it in every activity i partake in, however. come on guys... you're making all the good ones look bad...

all this blogging has made me hungry... does anyone have the number to a good chinese take-out?

cheers,
sank

I get what you're saying.

What I don't get is how being asian has become popular. I'm in h.s. and everyone is going around saying "I'm asian!" when they're clearly not. I don't see any asians going "I'm white!" or "I'm black!".

I'm not racist, either, and I don't find "azn" in usernames annoying. I just don't get how 'popular' things (like the 'azn') become 'popular' or ok.
*sigh*
» Silver-dot- on 2006-08-29 07:15:06

Oh, and I love the tooting flute one, too. ^-^
» Silver-dot- on 2006-08-29 07:16:19

it really is annoying...
i have a friend that's like that, she has a website and it seems like every other word she writes is "asian". i admit, i used "azn" in my screen name (because 'asian' wouldn't fit), but i can honestly say that it's the only time i ever have. she even goes on to say, in surveys, that everything she does must be asian, her boyfriend must be asian, she couldn't live if she wasn't asian, asians are greater than everyone else, and the whole time i think to myself, "shut up!" i mean, it's good to be proud and all, but sometimes it seems like it's almost to the point of supremacy, i'm not kidding.

the worst part is, my school seems to think everybody that's asian is automatically cool (since we're only about 5% of the student body) so even if you don't go around flaunting that you're asian, someone else is gonna point and say it.
this is one of the best things i've read in a while in terms of blogs, actually. =]
» hikarixgaki on 2006-08-29 10:00:00

Perhaps I'm just old now...but I always thought that whole "asian/azn pride" mantra was a fleeting hs trend. :)
» little-b on 2006-08-30 08:54:38

btw, i know a number for some kickass chinese food...but they don't deliver to anywhere outside the 10 mile radius of syracuse, ny. :(
» little-b on 2006-08-30 08:55:47

Racism
You sir, are the most racist man I have ever met. Says me, goddamnit.
» Dikshit (24.121.25.173) on 2006-08-31 11:29:49

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