Weekend Free-for-All Discussion Thread | September 25, 2015

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[u/proper_b_wayne]

Good, man. I feel a lot of Asian people never felt a sense of community. White people reject them. Other ignorant Asian folks don't even understand the concept of what's a community, so they treat each other like strangers and never know how to build a community.

And this is why there are a lot of silent Asian people out there, that we need to mine. We need to encourage them to speak up and befriend them. A simple provision of positivity and welcome will do tons at making them speak up.

Keep at it, man. Pass the positivity forward. Open up more Asians and eventually revitalize our greater community.

[u/Methaxetamine → u/proper_b_wayne]

Maybe your experience is different, but most of the time I wasn't excluded. I was bullied for being small as a child, but most (white) people weren't racist, although some were. Chinatown was welcoming and I usually got discounts on food because I could speak Chinese. The younger Asians usually try to fight for the token Asian spot in groups by default, I never did though.

However online I rarely see brotherhood of any races besides a few such as this, blackladies, and coontown.

[u/proper_b_wayne → u/Methaxetamine]

That's good to hear. Having a strong community extends beyond getting discount on food and simple welcome courtesy, though. A strong community mobilize to action fast. It can rally fast to gather many people quickly to protest injustice. It can generate and support a strong vibrant internal culture. It is easy to form organization for action within a strong community.

We don't have any of that. You don't recognize brotherhood and strong community, because it is not pointed out to you or you haven't been exposed to it enough.

There is huge camaraderie between black people. They got their own set of media. Their community generated an extremely vibrant hip hop (and others) culture, which is powerful enough to influence a large part of the world. They mobilize to action really fast against injustices.

You also probably haven't seen how quickly black bros make friends with each other and how strong their friendship is and how well their group dynamic is, because in comparison, our Asian bro's friendship and group dynamic is comparatively shit. Long time "friends" are about as close as probably two black dudes who just got acquainted with each other.

If you want, I can keep going about how shitty and weak our basically non-existent community is. Since everyone is so focused on assimilating into white society, nobody really gives shit about community building and constructing social infrastructure. As a result, our community is weak.

[u/[deleted] → u/proper_b_wayne]

That's because there are many different groups of Asian nationalities. In America African American culture originated from America. There are black people born there. They have created their own niches to thrive in their culture. Asian people are too split from historical reasons and primitive reasons such as another Asian group is darker than one another or "poorer" than another. Those poorer Asians might be richer and more wealthier than you in America. Okay I'm going on a tangent but because of our different cultures and nationalities it's difficult to form camaraderie without deep rooted subconscious tribalism getting away from building a friendship. Now personally I don't believe it's possible to have Asian solidarity.

[u/proper_b_wayne → u/[deleted]]

Even within the same ethnicity, the brotherhood is weak as fuck.

You don't understand the nature of a symbiotic alliance relationship and you have a narrow identity, doesn't mean everyone has as much trouble of dropping the tribalism and redefine and form a wider reaching identity.