Monday, August 2
Where do you come from ?
But to assume where a person is from based solely on how "Chinese" or "English" or "Southern" she looks, is like declaring where a sausage is imported from by the "redness" of it. It could easily make a hilarious joke.
Somewhere someone wrote a piece where a "China wife" was the one of the central figures. Writer assumed her to be from China coz he thought she looked "Chinese" enough. In the same breath, writer wrote how, since she was from China and currently in a foreign land (i.e. his country), she must be some mail-order bride or a betrothed woman forced upon the man, a.k.a the "wuss" in his story.
The writer simply gushed out all that based on, guess what, the observations that the lady did not wait for the husband before tucking into her food and her supposed ungracefulness in consuming her food.
Is that considered almost baseless or what. One might even be tempted think that some China woman once ruined the writer's life or refused to give him head after he paid for it.
By the time I finished scanning the little piece, I was almost sure that either the writer is a dumb bell or an extremely uneducated racist. But the writer happens to be a Chinese too (but not from China) and a diploma holder, so that it may seem like the initial impressions of why the writer might thought of her that way may be more accurate than is thought.
Of course, anyone could write anything on his / her own site but I sure wouldn't want to be caught dead in my posts making a whole lot of condemning or boasting about half baked stuff. But then again I am only speaking for myself.
Realizing that sometimes baseless personal attacks-cum-mocking sessions do backfire ... on oneself.
You know how you could sometimes guess where a person is from from her appearance, accent, clothing or the way she carries herself.
But to assume where a person is from based solely on how "Chinese" or "English" or "Southern" she looks, is like declaring where a sausage is imported from by the "redness" of it. It could easily make a hilarious joke.
Somewhere someone wrote a piece where a "China wife" was the one of the central figures. Writer assumed her to be from China coz he thought she looked "Chinese" enough. In the same breath, writer wrote how, since she was from China and currently in a foreign land (i.e. his country), she must be some mail-order bride or a betrothed woman forced upon the man, a.k.a the "wuss" in his story.
"... most of them (the china females) had very little education when they uprooted from their rural and undeveloped homeland to come live in Singapore for a multitude of reasons."
" ... plainly obvious that there was no love between them"
"... married him for the Singapore's equivalent of a "green card" to upgrade to a better life in a better environment."
"... did the poor loser marry the shrew for the sake of having a descendant"
"... did the shrew marry that loser just because in that sad, ugly mug of his was written the route to a potential amelioration of her life?"
The writer simply gushed out all that based on, guess what, the observations that the lady did not wait for the husband before tucking into her food and her supposed ungracefulness in consuming her food.
Is that considered almost baseless or what. One might even be tempted think that some China woman once ruined the writer's life or refused to give him head after he paid for it.
By the time I finished scanning the little piece, I was almost sure that either the writer is a dumb bell or an extremely uneducated racist. But the writer happens to be a Chinese too (but not from China) and a diploma holder, so that it may seem like the initial impressions of why the writer might thought of her that way may be more accurate than is thought.
Of course, anyone could write anything on his / her own site but I sure wouldn't want to be caught dead in my posts making a whole lot of condemning or boasting about half baked stuff. But then again I am only speaking for myself.
Realizing that sometimes baseless personal attacks-cum-mocking sessions do backfire ... on oneself.
1 Comments:
i am not chinese, but i am close. i am a korean. now, the writing you are referring to may be difficult for you to understand, but as for myself, i think it is obvious what is going on.
the writer is attacking this particular women in an attempt to distance himself from her. he does not want say... white people to look at him in same light as her. main difference in his mind being that he is better educated, have better manners, have more money, and able to assimilate to white society better than her. which in his mind makes all the difference.
so, you may ask, why such hatred for his people? by distancing himself from her, he is also placing himself closer to white society, which he feels is more civilized society. all of this stems from one central idea, ethnocentrism.
he, no doubt, grew up in a white society where foreigners, especially say asians, are considered to be less desireables. it is a shame, but it is what happens to people who try to please others, rather than himself. i realize this may be difficult for you to fully embrace, but similar things happen when a poor child ends up in a rich society. that child often have to abandon and persecute his past life to be accepted. all he wanted was to be accepted by the same people who have made fun of him all along. this is the sad part of our society and human psyche. if only we could live in love and peace without ever having to attack one another to feel part of something...
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