fic - Glee - The Asian Community
Title: The Asian Community
Author: virdant
Length: 360 words; super-short
Rating: PG
Genre: Gen
Pairing: None, really.
Summary: She doesn't know yet that here Filipinos and Chinese are the same, are not-White, and not-Black and not-Mexican. They're all the same, and they stick together.
Warning: Spoilers for 2x01. Racism.
Content Critique Level: No Holds Barred
Notes: There are several racist comments made in this story. Said comments are meant to showcase a typical mindset, and is not necessarily the viewpoint of the author.
The Asian Community
Mike Chang's mother has nothing good to say about the Corazon family, but Mike's used to that. His mother will call the Corazon's dirty Filipinos mucking up the world, but then she'll invite them to their home for dinner, and the table will be set out with rice bowls full of steaming rice and chopsticks next to them-not the disposal kind from the Panda Express for when they have Mike's non-Asian friends over, but the nice ones. The ones that Mike's mother washes by hand.
(After the Corazon's have left, his mother will lament the fact that the new foreign exchange student is Filipino and not Chinese-from Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, even Singapore: those distinctions are less important in America.)
It's the Chinese way. He thinks that's racisim, but he doesn't bother trying to question his parents, his grandparents, the culture in his blood. There are few enough Asians in Ohio-if this was California, they could get away with never associating with the Corazon's, but this is Ohio, and even Filipinos are better than White Ghosts.
His grandmother's words. Not his.
So when he gets a call saying that Sunshine Corazon's being picked on by a gang in a crackhouse, he barely pauses to curse the fact that he has to pick up a dirty Filipino before he's starting his engine and calling Tina to tell her the news.
“Who did this to you?” he asks Sunshine Corazon, and Tina crouches next to him.
“Rachel Berry,” Sunshine says after coaxing. She doesn't know yet that here Filipinos and Chinese are the same, are not-White, and not-Black and not-Mexican. They're all the same, and they stick together.
Tina curses. “White Ghost,” she spits in Cantonese-one of the few phrases that all of the Chinese in Lima share-and Mike wants to remind her that Rachel is from Glee, that she couldn't have, that it had to have been somebody else.
But he can't. He has nothing good to say about Rachel beyond superficial comments about her voice or her dancing or her theatricality.
“Here, let's go home,” he finally says, and Tina takes Sunshine's hand in hers.
End
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Author: virdant
Length: 360 words; super-short
Rating: PG
Genre: Gen
Pairing: None, really.
Summary: She doesn't know yet that here Filipinos and Chinese are the same, are not-White, and not-Black and not-Mexican. They're all the same, and they stick together.
Warning: Spoilers for 2x01. Racism.
Content Critique Level: No Holds Barred
Notes: There are several racist comments made in this story. Said comments are meant to showcase a typical mindset, and is not necessarily the viewpoint of the author.
The Asian Community
Mike Chang's mother has nothing good to say about the Corazon family, but Mike's used to that. His mother will call the Corazon's dirty Filipinos mucking up the world, but then she'll invite them to their home for dinner, and the table will be set out with rice bowls full of steaming rice and chopsticks next to them-not the disposal kind from the Panda Express for when they have Mike's non-Asian friends over, but the nice ones. The ones that Mike's mother washes by hand.
(After the Corazon's have left, his mother will lament the fact that the new foreign exchange student is Filipino and not Chinese-from Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, even Singapore: those distinctions are less important in America.)
It's the Chinese way. He thinks that's racisim, but he doesn't bother trying to question his parents, his grandparents, the culture in his blood. There are few enough Asians in Ohio-if this was California, they could get away with never associating with the Corazon's, but this is Ohio, and even Filipinos are better than White Ghosts.
His grandmother's words. Not his.
So when he gets a call saying that Sunshine Corazon's being picked on by a gang in a crackhouse, he barely pauses to curse the fact that he has to pick up a dirty Filipino before he's starting his engine and calling Tina to tell her the news.
“Who did this to you?” he asks Sunshine Corazon, and Tina crouches next to him.
“Rachel Berry,” Sunshine says after coaxing. She doesn't know yet that here Filipinos and Chinese are the same, are not-White, and not-Black and not-Mexican. They're all the same, and they stick together.
Tina curses. “White Ghost,” she spits in Cantonese-one of the few phrases that all of the Chinese in Lima share-and Mike wants to remind her that Rachel is from Glee, that she couldn't have, that it had to have been somebody else.
But he can't. He has nothing good to say about Rachel beyond superficial comments about her voice or her dancing or her theatricality.
“Here, let's go home,” he finally says, and Tina takes Sunshine's hand in hers.
End
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