vraisetzen:

a friendly reminder that microaggressions against asians can also look like this:

• pretending to gag at asian food
• pretending to be weirded out by asian customs and cultures
• excusing cultural appropriation (often through ignoring the stories of asians who have been mocked for wearing their ethnic dress while praising a white person for doing so)
• not trying to learn how to pronounce an asian person’s ethnic name correctly, or asking, “can i call you by something else?”
• adopting an asian name for the ~aesthetic~
• using the words “oriental” and “exotic” to describe asian people, particular asian women
• ignoring the experiences and stories of south, southeast, and central asians
• making sweeping assumptions about asian countries (including their political, historical and cultural landscape)
• treating the entire asian community as a monolith and ignoring the fact that the experiences of asian nationals are remarkably different from the asian diaspora/migrant community
• co-opting asian aesthetics into creative media without acknowledging their history