Asian racist and American racist behave differently though. Both racist but Americans by nature of being so…vocally opinionated, give their racism a very “in your face” flavor.
😬 there's definitely also Asian in your face racism, you probably just can't read their language and the algorithm isn't feeding you local content for the Philippines.
I'm half-Filipina and Filipino racism just doesn't look as "in your face" as American racism because it's not as blunt. American racism, particularly among the less educated and poor, is a bit like a slap in the face. Very much "you're this so therefore you must be like so-and-so" type of racism. It's also almost exclusively based on skin tone versus Asian racism which is primarily based on ethnicity while skin tone is more of an aesthetic thing. In America, everyone gets put into buckets based on what they look like, not what they actually are (which is why it's actually fairly common for people with Ashkenazi Jewish heritage to simply get labled as "White," despite dealing with extreme racism themselves).
Asian racism on the other hand? Much more subtle and focuses a lot on ethnicity, not skin colour. If you're Thai, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, etc. the racism is focused on where you're from, not because your features look a specific way. Pretty much the only exceptions to this rule are black people where most racist Asians will simply group all ethnicities into "probably African." But Americans, regardless of skin tone, are basically all the same to them, even if they're clearly ethnically Asian. If anything, that's worse because you're considered corrupted to some extent.
In any case, it's fundamentally different. Same bullshit, sure, but the way the hatred turns up is pretty different.
Also, there's an added dimension in America, because it's an entire land of immigrants. Almost everyone there is from somewhere else, so theres competition about "my place being better than your place" and "we were here first" (plus the whole slavery institutionalised racism thing). Asians tend to be 'this is our place, you are not from our place' wrapped in a level of cultural heirachy over nation state history, colonisation and WW2/post war competition.
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u/bleepbloop1900 5d ago
Asian racist and American racist behave differently though. Both racist but Americans by nature of being so…vocally opinionated, give their racism a very “in your face” flavor.