Adapting to American culture as a Chinese student

Re:Adapting to American culture as a Chinese student by klagermkii on Sunday November 27, 2016 @06:51AM (#13048745)

I think a lot of it comes from the modern definition of racism involving power + prejudice. As a group Chinese people appear to be relatively successful in society (certainly in tech) and so sit slightly higher up the power scale than black people do. So if a white person makes a negative comment it's going to appear as societally "punching down" much further if it targets a black person vs a Chinese person.

Basically it seems worse if you reinforce stereotypes against a group that is already struggling.

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Re:Adapting to American culture as a Chinese student by SturgeonsLaw on Sunday November 27, 2016 @09:06AM (#13049177)

That's not the "modern" definition of racism, that's an arbitrary modification that only exists in academia and is used to justify racism against whites and sexism against men.

Whether you're punching up or down, racism and sexism are ugly and disgusting, regardless of what Bidel-Pavda[0] and her ilk would claim.

[0] http://wetasphalt.com/content/why-racism-prejudice-power-wro...

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Re:Adapting to American culture as a Chinese student by webmaven on Sunday November 27, 2016 @10:56AM (#13049754)

Look, you're complaining against the fact that 'racism' is more narrowly defined than just gender discrimination and requires privilege to enforce/reinforce the latter for it to be considered the former. How hard is it really to adjust to a more finicky definition?

Or are you denying that when backed up by a prevalent privilege (or an inverse stereotype), all other things being equal, discrimination becomes more damaging (and harder to withstand)?

No one is denying that plain discrimination is still ugly, after all.

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