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don't understand why people are so upset about the media repeatedly mentioning seung-hui cho's ethnicity. of course the media is going to keep repeating he's korean; he's not white. same thing would've happened if he was any other minority. even if his race was never mentioned, all you have to do is take one look at him, and it's pretty obvious he ain't white. someone explain to me why everyone's all pissy about it, because i just don't get it. i don't care how diverse america gets or how much awareness training sessions are conducted, racism, prejudice, bigotry, etc. will NEVER GO AWAY. it's human instinct - people gravitate towards the familiar and reject what is not. i used to get really angry about people making snap judgments about me based on my race. i hated that people were surprised when i told them i majored in english or that i was born here or that i knew what apple pie was, blahblahblah. a few years ago i realized it was pointless - why should i care about what some ignorant prick thinks? his opinions of me don't define who i am - the only one that really matters at the end of the day is my opinion of myself. i'm not going to do anything to make myself "less asian" or "more white" or anything because of what some douchebag may or may not think of me. i'm just going to be myself, take it or leave it.
some people have commented they were shocked he was korean because "koreans are such hard-working, good citizens that never cause trouble!" the model minority myth doesn't allow any room for mental illness or extreme violence. it is a little embarrassing because he's a minority. most of america - and the world for that matter - formulates their opinions of people based on what they see on tv or movies because they're too lazy to do it on their own volition. who wants to be even remotely associated with a very sick guy that killed 30 some people in a crazy shooting spree and still somehow managed to find time to send pictures and a video of himself to nbc? still, i know that cho is an individual and in no way is he representative of the whole korean population, north or south, for you weirdos that always ask which side my parents are frm(to clarify, my dad's family is from the south, my mom's family from the north. can you see the axis of evil on my face, dubya?). that would be like saying michael jackson speaks for all black people or that all white girls are like britney spears. not true, right?
i don't know why anyone would be shocked at the backlash against asians because of what happened at virginia tech. we live in america, a country whose founding fathers gave the native americans blankets infested with disease to kill them off so they could steal their land and came up with prohibition and has a monkey as a president. i expect it, but i'm not going to change what i normally do because i don't want to be harassed. fuck that. life is too short to let some ignorant fool dictate how i live my life. i pity the fool that does!
some people have commented they were shocked he was korean because "koreans are such hard-working, good citizens that never cause trouble!" the model minority myth doesn't allow any room for mental illness or extreme violence. it is a little embarrassing because he's a minority. most of america - and the world for that matter - formulates their opinions of people based on what they see on tv or movies because they're too lazy to do it on their own volition. who wants to be even remotely associated with a very sick guy that killed 30 some people in a crazy shooting spree and still somehow managed to find time to send pictures and a video of himself to nbc? still, i know that cho is an individual and in no way is he representative of the whole korean population, north or south, for you weirdos that always ask which side my parents are frm(to clarify, my dad's family is from the south, my mom's family from the north. can you see the axis of evil on my face, dubya?). that would be like saying michael jackson speaks for all black people or that all white girls are like britney spears. not true, right?
i don't know why anyone would be shocked at the backlash against asians because of what happened at virginia tech. we live in america, a country whose founding fathers gave the native americans blankets infested with disease to kill them off so they could steal their land and came up with prohibition and has a monkey as a president. i expect it, but i'm not going to change what i normally do because i don't want to be harassed. fuck that. life is too short to let some ignorant fool dictate how i live my life. i pity the fool that does!