最近常常聽到孩子們把「Asian」這個詞掛在嘴邊,「You are so Asian.」「That's very Asian.」於是虛心向他們請教他們所說的這個「Asian」到底有何含義。他們讓我看了一段youtube視頻,是一個中國孩子製作的。裡面解釋了「Asian」一詞對他們的意義。我覺得很有意思,同時也讓我看到了孩子們眼中的我們的形象。我請兒子把視頻記錄下來,放到這裡與大家分享,雖然有些說法很片面,不很正確,但我覺得對我們做父母的也是一種提醒。
You know you're Asian
....when your teacher yells at you to wake up, when you weren't asleep. (因為眼睛太小)
....when you know a martial art.
....when the waiter asks you:"What would you like to drink today, sir?", you say "Water",because it's free.
....when random white people keep staring at your tests.
....when you're born knowing 2 language.
....when you tink dis sound normal.(中國人說英語的口音)
....when you think Panda Express is American food.
....when you can brag about the scars you got ...for getting a B.
....when you like to read ahead in calcilus.
....when you know how to play piano...and a string instrument (most likely the violin).
....when your last name is one syllable, or rhymes with yoshi.
....when all your movies,
music, and programs are illegal, but your parents are proud that you save money.
....when you own a rice cooker, and you use it everyday
....when you dominate your friends at DDR
....when you're majoring in medicine or law, because your parents told you to
....when people at the DMV refuse to give you a licengse,for safety precautions
....when white people run away from you on the road
....when you get excited to go to Costco.(因為免費品嘗)
....when you think one dollar is a lot of money.
....when you can say: 「I don』t think he』s Chinese, I think he』s Korean,」and be right.
....when English is your worst grade.
....when you eat spaghetti with chopsticks.
....when you think that anything that costs money…isn』t worth it.
....when you can』t go out on school nights
....when a 2200 on your SAT is a failure.
....when your dream colleges include Harvard, Yale, MIT and Stanford.
....when you start preparing to go to college in jr. high school.
....when summer break is a chance for you to get ahead of the other kids in school.
....when you talk behind white people in your home language.
....when your parents don』t say:」you』re very lucky, just think about those kids in Africal』,they say:」when I was your age...」
....when you think American phones are ugly.
....when you think MADE IN USA is actually a big turnoff.
....when you still own your pokeman cards, with hopes of selling them for a profit.
....when you』re terrible at football.
....when you are never going to become president of the USA.
....when you think white people are racist.
....when you're extreamely skinny.