• GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    she said "Well... I mean... he's not interested in asian girls. You wouldn't want to date an asian guy, would you?"

    At first I was completely baffled by this because I thought it was a Chinese guy being spoken about.

    But even without that, there are so many layers of assumption in that that it's hard to know where to start. Maybe with "Is there no difference between a Chinese native and a fully integrated Chinese diaspora in America?" Like, maybe that seems like a worse place to start than the gender aspect, but if you unpack the diaspora part the inevitable axiom it's based on is of a racial essentialism that transcends culture.

    Unless she literally just means facial features or something, in which case it's stupid to lump even all Chinese people together, let alone "Asians", but some whites are just fucking obsessed with epicanthic folds I guess. Like, I can understand if there's a correlation between an ethnicity and facial features you don't prefer, but there is much more variance within these groups than between them, so there usually needs to be some serious "unconscious" racism to just say "Yeah, Han people are all ugly to me, that's a blanket 'no' to any of them as a partner".