Uncustomary Hiccups: 02.05

Bubbly Thoughts

HI EVERYONE! Sorry I haven’t posted in awhile, been very very busy Stephanie. A very very Bad Stephanie >< Not studying. So Here are my thoughts for the last bit of time. I promise to post more

So I was walking in Middle Earth the other day and I ran across this new product. The brand was called “Miso Pretty”. Now me, being the naïve shopeer that I am was like….oh well that’s kind of stupid. Cause Miso is a type of Japanese Soup and yet there was a little Chinese Asian girl on the box. So I continued shopping, looking further and it suddenly hit me. Yes, I am slow sometimes. If you sound it out is sounds like, Me so Pretty. Which makes me so angry. It’s a lame title and could the marketing branch of the corporation be just a tad bit more creative in their stupidity. If you see post below, “Angry Asian” you will understand why this makes me so angry. Not only that, but if you really think about it, If this issues was brought up, people would be like “Yaaaaaaaawn, not another PsuedoAsian product to product. My brother would like to add “White racist basterds” but I find that extreme and saddening cause it almost assumes that there is no hope for the white people. To which my brother would like to respond “There isn’t”. Ok back to the main program, commercial over.

So the Miso Pretty thing made me really angry. Like my language, like my culture is just for sale for the public. It’s not and if you are going to use, use it correctly and with knowledge of why you should do it a certain way. Don’t take the red and plaster it all over the place cause it’s sexy and that’s what Asians do right? WRONG! You know, one year my family had a Chinese new years get together with the neighbors, who are mainly white. And you know what? Some nice person got online and research what was acceptable to bring to such a party, it was nice cause it showed that they just might care. We had a lot of Tangerines to each for the next couple of weeks.

So, I am sitting on the airplane and thought came to my head. An Evil Though. You know how often I get those. I thought that I should print a sign and then post it all over the bschool saying:

Have you forgotten how to be a child?
Do you know how to enjoy the simple things in life, like joy?
No, you don’t you lost it some where along the line.
If you are looking to get it all back, call:
1-800- Checkifyouhaveaheart

Yeah….wouldn’t that be hilarious. Oh dear…I really want to do it. Well hopefully someone will stop me before I scar too many people …. MUAHAHAHHAA but then Stephen said I should call the number...do I hae no heart?

So I had another thought on the plane. So those little baby carrots you know….how are they peeled? They have to be done by machine, but it must be really hard cause you know…they are all sorts of different sizes and they somehow end up being all nice and round.

Posted by Steviek @ 02:10 | Link

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Angry Asian!

So I haven't posted in a long time. Here's my love for all of you. *smooch*

Happy Chinese New Year!! Hao Bao! Hao Bao! Ok so my Ping Ying isn't to great but, yeah give me the money.

This holiday, especially when I'm celebrating it without my family and stuff makes me a little uncomfortable. Because everyone else tries to get in on the celebration. But....

The bschool had this event for New Years where they had a dragon dance and free Chinese food. My teacher encouraged us to go and he did all of the following to do so 1) butchered the chinese language to wish us happy new year, even though he asked who could speak chinese in the class and 2) let us out early so that we could get in the free line.

I had to go up to the same room to heat my lunch and my wonderful section mates were all in line waiting for the great free chinese food. THE GREAT FREE AMERICANIZED CHINESE FOOD. And one guy was like come and join stephanie. You don't want to invite me when I'm angry. ANd I told him about hte americanization and how I wouldn't partake in it. He responded with something along the lines of, Stephanie you are a party pooper. I can't really remember what he said but honestly is that really important here? No! ;)

Yes, the truth comes out, Stephanie is a party pooper. And you know what? You would be one too if you had to see your culture ripped apart everyday and rearragned in the form that amuses everyone else. I see it tattooed on to the arms of people who have no idea what it means, I see it in the clothes that uses our "fabric patterns", I see it on Ambercrobmie shirts and all the look alikes. I see it everytime in a Chinese Resturant and don't you say it's how the owners try and make it who are chinese, but for the customers who expect to see gaudy red things all over the place, greasy fried food, msg, and FORTUNE COOKIES *See post below.

I see it every damn day when I look in the media and we have the geshia (which is Japanese incase you were confused), the submissive massage girl, and the wild supressed sex dragon. I see it when cartoons have slanty eyes and straw hats pointed hats on. I see it when Disney produced Mulan yet the army was wearing Japanese outfits. I see it when people see asians as thrifty, shy, and spys for other countries. I see it when people ask me questions about how we make our asian children so smart. I see it when people ask me why I take my shoes off when I enter a house. I see it when people tell me that people should be required to know english when they come to American. I see it when people are like, ohhhh China is the new emerging economy, we should learn chinese yet don't learn anything of the culture or customs. I see it when I don't want to. I see it when I hide. And I SEE it and it better damn well make me a party pooper!

So don't expect me to keep my opinion in, cause I've done it for way too long. And if it makes you uncomfortable when I bring it up, ask yourself why.

Posted by Steviek @ 10:02 | Link

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