emilynghiem
Constitutionalist / Universalist
Hi Kajune: The more you interact with different people, you will find this is universal, and expressed as in many diverse ways as there are people on the planet! In other words, each of us has our own version of what is "racist or biased" whether we are doing that or someone else is doing it to us.
Each of us is going to project OUR associations and expectations by nature of how we learn by comparisons.
This is human nature. So welcome to humanity!
Everyone does this but in different ways. If you think Asians aren't as racist, you just haven't heard the complaints.
Some even argue that Asians are the worst racists/supremacists of all, they just hide it better!
If you really want to know why this is so much more pronounced in American/Western culture, look at our media.
Look at our ways of communication and free speech. We have more freedom to say and do, so of course we
are going to project more outwardly. We speak our minds, even if that means sticking our feet in our mouths!
Other cultures that are not into all this individual freedom of expression may suppress and keep their thoughts
where we don't see this spoken, published or promoted OPENLY.
so even THAT is a Western bias because of our culture.
I found out the hard way my parents, both Asian or Vietnamese Buddhists, carry as much karma or garbage and pass that down, "projecting" their ways of life, as any OTHER parents do!
Just because you don't see as much mental illness and dysfuncational family garbage "in public" with Asian families
doesn't mean it isn't real or happening.
In America, everyone's garbage is aired out in the open, online, on TV, in public.
So we are just more OPEN about expressing and projecting our BS because we have that freedom.
We have a media that makes money off complaining, insult comedy, dark humor, etc.
So of course we are going to invite that kind of expression if we reward it.
Everyone projects, because that's how we learn from interacting in different environments with different people.
We just have different ways of expressing it. But the mental and spiritual process is the same.
All humanity goes through this learning curve. We all make mistakes in judgment and assume things based on our own experiences, which we "associate" or project onto people we think are part of THAT group. All humans do this.
And yes, you can call it racism or bigotry when it gets negative, hateful or judgmental.
All people judge by comparing with others. Until we learn how to forgive and correct the conflicts that bother us.
Each of us is going to project OUR associations and expectations by nature of how we learn by comparisons.
This is human nature. So welcome to humanity!
Everyone does this but in different ways. If you think Asians aren't as racist, you just haven't heard the complaints.
Some even argue that Asians are the worst racists/supremacists of all, they just hide it better!
If you really want to know why this is so much more pronounced in American/Western culture, look at our media.
Look at our ways of communication and free speech. We have more freedom to say and do, so of course we
are going to project more outwardly. We speak our minds, even if that means sticking our feet in our mouths!
Other cultures that are not into all this individual freedom of expression may suppress and keep their thoughts
where we don't see this spoken, published or promoted OPENLY.
so even THAT is a Western bias because of our culture.
I found out the hard way my parents, both Asian or Vietnamese Buddhists, carry as much karma or garbage and pass that down, "projecting" their ways of life, as any OTHER parents do!
Just because you don't see as much mental illness and dysfuncational family garbage "in public" with Asian families
doesn't mean it isn't real or happening.
In America, everyone's garbage is aired out in the open, online, on TV, in public.
So we are just more OPEN about expressing and projecting our BS because we have that freedom.
We have a media that makes money off complaining, insult comedy, dark humor, etc.
So of course we are going to invite that kind of expression if we reward it.
Everyone projects, because that's how we learn from interacting in different environments with different people.
We just have different ways of expressing it. But the mental and spiritual process is the same.
All humanity goes through this learning curve. We all make mistakes in judgment and assume things based on our own experiences, which we "associate" or project onto people we think are part of THAT group. All humans do this.
And yes, you can call it racism or bigotry when it gets negative, hateful or judgmental.
All people judge by comparing with others. Until we learn how to forgive and correct the conflicts that bother us.
I wonder why many westerners especially from america insist that Anime characters are based on westerners.
When I was growing up on Speed Racer cartoons, I did not understand these were based on Asian artists, characters, models etc. I didn't know the difference.
Looking back, it is obvious they are Asian Anime type characters.
If Americans tend to look at things from a Western viewpoint that is just the process
of making sense of information using one's own familiar knowledge and background.
No big deal, just figure it out and no problem.
Christians also project views of how Christianity should be taught, and may be shocked when
other cultures and countries practice it differently. Buddhism is different in each country or culture that adopts it.
So of course with media and language and any form of music, art,communication,
this is going to be PERCEIVED and processed differently depending on the cultural context of the person or group. How is that any big shocker?
No because Asians never claim westerners making their cartoon/western characters based on Asians, it is just westerners especially from u.s.a who go on claiming things based on them, why is that?
No, the claims that Asians make about Americans would be from THEIR viewpoint and culture, not ours.
* Thich Nhat Hanh noticed that the Western culture is about DOING while the Eastern is about BEING.
* I have friends from India who question why do Americans rush to dump their Elderly parents into nursing homes,
while their culture is to adopt and take care of the Elderly parents in the children's homes, the same way the
parents had brought them up as children in their homes. While Americans have laws against child labor and abuse
that other countries don't seem to have established yet and let child military, labor, trafficking, sex sales and slavery go on.
* My mother questions why does Western Christianity emphasize depending on Jesus or God outside of yourself to save you, when the Eastern Buddhism focuses on making sure you are disciplined and spiritually minded and balanced within your own responsibility that you can control. Others will say why are the Tibetan Buddhists allowing violence and oppression to go on by being "so passive" it is dangerous; why does everyone always rely on Americans to invoke authority of law and justice in the world, depend on the West to act as police while complaining about it at the same time and not doing anything.
* Western culture emphasizes individual responsibility for one's own success, but comes across as competitive and selfish; while the Eastern emphasis on family honor and identify before one's own name can backfire and take away from the individual ability to act apart from a consensus and approval of others.
Do you see how there are differences in cultural values that even shape the question being asked?
It seems to me you are taking a Western biased question and trying to project that back on Asians saying why aren't they projecting the same way?
Simple, their way of projecting is going to be biased by their culture, not ours.
So of course it will come out different. So you answer your own question by posing it.
Here's a whole thread of art by a Chinese artist who attempts to bring this out:
Six Brilliant Illustrations of Chinese and Western Cultural Differences - The Atlantic
I also have a pair of spoofs I did on this series -- see links added below:
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I think it is more of because that their parents teach them to have a racist believe that westerners are superior so that it cause them to believe that any other race must look bow down and look up to them, as a result this cause them to think that when other races are making something especially which become popular world wide such as Anime then it have to be based on them.