Hey, folks! Kiyoki here. It's 2:46 a.m. right now and I wanted to vent my thoughts out somewhere that I feel the most comfortable talking about this. What I'm about to say is mainly based an my opinion and aspects not trying to say this is everyone's thoughts.
I came across an article of a sort on Asians. For me, I remembered something because of the article. There was this boy and he had ridiculed me before in elementary, pointing out that I had a 'flat asian face', calling me a pancake. I've never been insulted because of my ethnical physical appearance before. That moment shocked me and I became conscious of myself....for like 10 SECONDS. Hah! That little jerk could never bring me down.
Then, it happened again. I was in middle school this time. I had recently gotten blonde hair and I still do have blonde hair because it's a style choice . But anyways, I was in my classroom during a short breaktime, and this guy came up behind me and he was with his 'friends'. And he said to me.
" Why'd you dye your hair yellow? Are you trying to be more white?"
And he was the same kid from elementary school! I didn't know whether he had a grudge on me or on Asians but he'd do that asian eyes thing in class and he was just a plain idiot. And the 'more' in his sentence was what made me angry. What was 'white' about me? I'm pale because I'm very anemic in the sun as well as it was a desirable asian trend.
And he made it seem like I should be offended because I was asian. And I wish that I was able to retort back to him like that but I was so confused at that moment that I didn't know what to do.
But now, I don't care. Asians brought amazing things to this world!...But next time, I see that f****r, I'm kicking in his balls.