destroy media’s idea of asian girls being petite, pale-skinned waifs with bobbed hair and blunt bangs who are either the quiet fighter or a submissive giggly teen
destroy the fetishizing and infantilizing of asian girls
but at the same time appreciate asian girls who are like that, but appreciate them for themselves and not for some weird stereotypical fetish whatsit exoticism.
Allow Asian girls to be themselves at all costs.
EAST ASIAN! EAST ASIAN GIRLS! CAN EAST ASIAN WOMEN PLEASE STOP ACTING AS IF THEY ARE ALL OF ASIA AND ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO ARE ASIAN??!?!?
I agree with all things posted above, except that it is meant for EAST ASIAN GIRLS. South Asian women have a different set of stereotypes to deal with, as do Southeast Asian women, both sets having many different subsets and corresponding stereotypes too. I am just tired of East Asian women being the stand in for all Asian women and acting as if their struggles are the same for all Asian women, especially when East Asian are often complicit in stereotyping and discriminating against the darker skinned South and Southeast Asian women.
Manchester Dogs home was set on fire tonight by some sick individual. Over 40 dogs have already died and over 150 dogs have nowhere to go. They need as much support at possible. Please reblog this and donate if you can, so that the dogs that survived the fire can be cared for.
reasons why halloween is the best holiday:
- you are not obliged to visit your relatives
- you are not obliged to get gifts for anyone
- people will give you candy for absolutely no reason other than halloween
- its the only day when its socially acceptable to go out in public dressed like a penguin
i only made this post in the hopes that someone would reblog it with the caption “don’t fahrenhate” and you’ve all disappointed me greatly
I’ve got all sorts of headcanons for how they interacted with one another in the beginning and they all kill me inside every day
Ugh, why the shit does that have to turn into a race thing? Why does EVERYTHING have to turn into a race thing?
because white people have made sure that everything is about race
as proved by the fact that when you say explorer, you think of a bunch of white guys walking the world and discovering it ~exotic wonders~ even though Zheng He travelled through Asia, to the Middle East, and even East Africa. But you’d likely never heard of him before.
Same reason you never heard of Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, an Arab traveller who, as early as the 10th century, went to the Volga area for diplomatic reasons. He wrote about it, much as Marco Polo would do later for his own travels, and is one of our sources on what viking were like (and by all accounts, he wrote about them more accurately than western scholars of the same period did)
Oh, or Ibn Battuta who travelled throughout Africa long before europeans did, and even went to Europe himself.
And that’s just some example of Muslim medieval travel writers
Everything is about race because white people keep telling everyone that their race is the only one who every got anything done.
Turns out we primarily teach the history of our own country in, well, our own country. What a shocker.
You may not be aware of it, but in other parts of the world, we’re also taught that Columbus was THE adventurer, that Marco Polo’s adventures were what made it to the history books and were the only ones making noise about. Western European fairytales and legends absolutely saturated the bookshelves and TV specials, and were touted as somehow being more fantastic than whatever set of lore we had here in our part of the world (Asia, for myself).
In a world that’s becoming more and more interconnected, with more and more discoveries being made (especially in regards to history), I would think, perhaps optmistically, that there’d be more of a spotlight on other major historical players and their discoveries/accomplishments. Hell, we’re STILL seeing whitewashed depictions of Romans, still seeing the erasure of people of color in Europe, still downplaying the accomplishments of many non-European civilzations that, without their discoveries and inventions, we wouldn’t be enjoying a lot of modern comforts.
I get that if you’re in America, you’re gonna learn about American history. But it’s hella jacked up that a lot of kids in Malaysia are able to recognize George Washington than they do with their own leaders and sultans.