Being wary of Asian spaces (or how malignant Asians deters unity and progress)

I joined reddit couple weeks ago. (I was doing some essays for my class, and my friend told me reddit can be one of the good website to get the idea for political views )

Anyways, I think you should keep doing it as I read your previous post, because you are supporting the Asian community and you may change a lot people's view for Asian dudes.

Here is my personal story, I'm 21 years old Asian dude, I have been living in Dallas Texas for 7 years now. I live in the parkland area, and majority are white and latino. I was the only Asian kid in the high school (not until senior year), and I got a lot racist comments. But things changed ever since I started play sports in my high school. I joined the basketball varsity team in Freshman year, and then I found out I love swimming more than basketball so I spent rest of my 3 years in the swimming team and swimming club.

When I was in the basketball team I got people call my Yao Ming, or jeremy lin all the time(I not tall just 6 feet compare to my most teammates who are average 6 feet 2 above.). But I was pretty good at basketball, for the first game I still remember I got 20 points out of 76. Ever since that I noticed people treat me with more respect and started talk to me like a normal human being lol.

After the Freshman year more and more people know me(I guess part of the reason was I was dating one of the cheerleaders in my high school ), but I wasn't acting pretentious or something like that. At that time a lot people ask me if the stereotypes for Asian dudes are true. I always told them those stereotypes for Asian dudes are completely pullcrap, and explain them why they are not true. I always told my friends: " yall need some brain cells when yall saw the stupid news about Asian country or Asian dudes on the YouTube."

During senior year of my high school I was officer helper for MWF, which just show the new student around. There were two Asian dudes transfer from another high school as Sophomore , and I show them around as usual. They asked me if this school is pretty racist or not, I told them most of them are. I still remember they said : " well, I guess we may just may need suck it up." It's pretty sad to heard that, but it turns out they didn't get as many racist comments as I had. By almost the end of my senior year, they told me there were a lot kids in the school thought they are good at sports and ask them if they know me.. I was like what the hack......

I'm NOT here to bragging the "changes" I have made in my high school, but I would say it makes me happy when I saw them get treat as equally as the other people.

I think you should continue do the things that you are been doing, and you should be proud of what you do.

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