To tell you the truth, i really can't understand the mentality of white people
around me personally. In larger cities, there might be differences (i'm sure
there are), but the fact of the matter is, white people where i live don't
understand asiatics. When we did the Joy Kogawa poem in school last year
(it's the one that finishes off, "i prayed...that i could be white"), the
teacher had no idea how to approach it. To me, asians have adapted to western
society, but I do not believe that western society has adapted to greet us
fully.
The reason why me and my friend wanted to start a e-magazine based soley on
asians is because, the part of Canada we live is totally uni-cultural.
Schools, stores, libraries, cater completely to the whites. I take a WORLD
history course, but we do nothing concerning asians. I asked my teacher the
reason for this; he replied "your problem is you're living in cCanada.' I'm
not out to separate the races, but I strongly believe world unification has to
begin in a series of steps, the first of which is unification of the asian
communities. There is too much hatred between Koreans and Japanes, Chinese
and Japanese, etc..
I didn't see a lot of whites in Korea last year; I did come across a group of
women, probably wives of soldiers or soldiers themselves at a big Korean
market. They were talking with each other in English, so that the merchants
would not understand them. But I did; they were commenting on how Korean
shops are like "bargain basements" and how cheap the materials were, as well
as pking fun at the Korean language. Koreans are bigots too, but they have
been brainwashed by Hollywood, and they don't refer to themselves as being
understanding liberals, unlike the Americans, who act the same, but are
hypocrites.
People are created equal, but we are not treated equal.
kd