Recently John Oliver aired a new segment yesterday on Asian Americans.
Curious what everyone's thoughts are here:
So Asian American. Tends to be generally (statistically) associated with higher-intelligent Asians, typically from countries like South Korea, China, Japan, etc... But as of late, people seem to be trying to dip their toes into it with this whole "AAPI" or "Asian American Pacific Islander" movement. To which I say, they were never apart of the general term of "Asians" when growing up. Seems they want to inject themselves as of late, and Oliver's point is that it screws up the statistics because when accounting for pacific islanders and other random places, they statistically aren't the Asian stereotypes of in higher education - having a college degree, higher income, etc...
Okay? So what do you want to do? This is actually very similar with blacks - because things like South African and Nigerian immigrants get lumped together with anyone who is black - and they are statistically shown to have higher income with higher employment, education, etc...
He goes over how in the beginning people were referring to them as "orientals" - and how they fought for the term "Asian American". Now it looks like this cis-gendered white male is seeming to tell them that their term "Asian American" is now out of date.
He then tops it off with this hilarious statement - with no real facts or reasoning, but it merely suggests that as if Whites have control of Asians. He then goes on to suggest that we put asians in a bucket of "model citizens" and say to black people "Why don't you act like those immigrants?" Which is hilarious wrong, not factual, and completely uneducated.
Plenty of more hilarious statements in here - and plenty of statements from an old white guy telling other people how oppressed they are. This is probably as insulting as it gets. Honestly, his ultimate message is all over the place, is he just looking for get rid of the term "Asian Americans" because it's TOO inclusive?
Probably the most hilarious thing that Oliver obviously doesn't talk about - since he always wants to play racial-tip-toeing games - he fails to mention the BLARRINGLY obvious fact that Russia is an Asia country as well. For some reason, idiots just want to continue to gloss over this - probably because their entire point in having this discussion isn't really based on facts, logic, or reasoning - but rather because they want another topic to talk about in the world of "How are you being oppressed today, <insert brown/black skin color> fellow?"
Curious what everyone's thoughts are here:
So Asian American. Tends to be generally (statistically) associated with higher-intelligent Asians, typically from countries like South Korea, China, Japan, etc... But as of late, people seem to be trying to dip their toes into it with this whole "AAPI" or "Asian American Pacific Islander" movement. To which I say, they were never apart of the general term of "Asians" when growing up. Seems they want to inject themselves as of late, and Oliver's point is that it screws up the statistics because when accounting for pacific islanders and other random places, they statistically aren't the Asian stereotypes of in higher education - having a college degree, higher income, etc...
Okay? So what do you want to do? This is actually very similar with blacks - because things like South African and Nigerian immigrants get lumped together with anyone who is black - and they are statistically shown to have higher income with higher employment, education, etc...
He goes over how in the beginning people were referring to them as "orientals" - and how they fought for the term "Asian American". Now it looks like this cis-gendered white male is seeming to tell them that their term "Asian American" is now out of date.
He then tops it off with this hilarious statement - with no real facts or reasoning, but it merely suggests that as if Whites have control of Asians. He then goes on to suggest that we put asians in a bucket of "model citizens" and say to black people "Why don't you act like those immigrants?" Which is hilarious wrong, not factual, and completely uneducated.
Plenty of more hilarious statements in here - and plenty of statements from an old white guy telling other people how oppressed they are. This is probably as insulting as it gets. Honestly, his ultimate message is all over the place, is he just looking for get rid of the term "Asian Americans" because it's TOO inclusive?
Probably the most hilarious thing that Oliver obviously doesn't talk about - since he always wants to play racial-tip-toeing games - he fails to mention the BLARRINGLY obvious fact that Russia is an Asia country as well. For some reason, idiots just want to continue to gloss over this - probably because their entire point in having this discussion isn't really based on facts, logic, or reasoning - but rather because they want another topic to talk about in the world of "How are you being oppressed today, <insert brown/black skin color> fellow?"