united. but defined.

there's always stuff that happens that i think i should blog about but i forget. this is one of them.

so maybe a month ago i was at my boyfriend's school with his fraternity brothers while they played soccer. as we walked through the campus we passed by a group of probably filipino students sitting in a cirle eatting their lunch on the grass. i'm only assuming they're filipino because they looked at me, like they thought i was someone they were expecting. maybe they were meeting up to work on a group project or something, i'm not sure. but there they were, sitting on the grass. and one of my boyfriend's frat brothers is playing with the soccer ball and says "i wonder what would happen if i just run over there and say (then he starts talking in what he thought was an asian accent) 'hi there! what are you eating today?'" i think he was trying to mimic a chinese accent. he also bowed. *rolls eyes*

i guess i got a little offended because the students on the grass were defintely not chinese. it made me think of how people generalize asians as "all the same." we are not all the same.

thinking about the pop show and our idea of unity and collaboration, i think people get the wrong idea. by united, we don't mean that we're all the same. united, yes. but defined as well. we are all different kinds of asian americans with different beliefs and experiences. we all have different opinions. we are all different. but yes, we are all asian. and i guess that's where we're united, but not generalized. we don't all have the same habits or tastes in music. we don't all eat the same food or dress the same.

my boyfriend's frat brother that made the stupid asian accent is kind of stupid anyway. so i didn't take it all that seriously. but it was something to think about.

-Donna ;)