Prejudices and Stereotypes
Ok, I'm just sick of this now. Can anyone tell me what is so wrong with listening or being interested in something that is not of the same culture as yourself. I really don't know if this applies to anyone else but it certainly applies to me. I'm a African-American teenage girl and I am very interested in Asian things(music, t.v., language,people), basically everything. I really don't see what the problem with this is but everyone else always seems to have something to say, now there is only so many times people can say things and i can ignore them before it starts to bother me. People have always made comments about me, supposedly because i'm not "Black" enough, now can someone please tell me what exactly "black" is so i can get myself that way<---sarcasm. Now the whole thing with Asian things, I listen to alot of Korean and Japanese music and that's what's playing in my CD player at the moment, people will come up to me and go, what are you listening to, automatically I tell them music, they listen then the next thing I get is a look and the same question over and over again do you understand, no i don't understand but I am trying to learn, that's what I tell them, then I get another look and it just pisses me off. Seriously are people so based in stereotypes that they believe the only music that black people listen to is rap and R&b. i really hate when people do that it just feels like a blow to my pride every time. I try to not let it bother me, but ther's only so many times. I'm just so upset over this, i mean this is the 21st century people really need to get out of their stereotyped ways.