少数派的感受

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  • sophieyamapi
    2021-06-13
    If the indebted Asian immigrant thinks they owe their life to America, the child thinks they owe their livelihood to their parents for their suffering. Indebtedness is not the same thing as gratitude.
  • sophieyamapi
    2021-06-13
    a tight animal alertness
  • sophieyamapi
    2021-06-13
    We have been cowed by the lie that we have it good. We keep our heads down and work hard, believing that our diligence will reward us with our dignity, but our diligence will only make us disappear. By not speaking up, we perpetuate the myth that our shame is caused by our repressive culture and the country we fled, whereas America has given us nothing but opportunity.
  • sophieyamapi
    2021-06-13
    Like ugly feelings (like envy, irritation, and boredom), minor feelings are "non-cathartic states of emotion" with "a remarkable capacity for duration."Minor feelings occur when American optimism is enforced upon you, which contradicts your own racialized reality, thereby creating a static of cognitive dissonance. You are told, "Things are so much better," while you think, Things are the same. You are told, "Asian Americans are so successful," while you feel like a failure. This optimism sets up false expectations that increase these feelings of dysphoria. When minor feelings are finally externalized, they are interpreted as hostile, ungrateful, jealous, depressing and belligerent, affects ascribed to racialized behavior that whites consider out of line. Our feelings are overreactions ...
  • Erin伊然
    2020-09-08
    we must free ourselves of our conditional existence.
  • Erin伊然
    2020-09-08
    Minor feelings occur when American optimism is enforced upon you, which contradicts your own racialized reality, thereby creating a static of cognitive dissonance....Our feelings are overreactions because our lived experiences of structural inequity are not commensurate with their deluded reality.
  • Kezi
    2020-07-12
    I sometimes avoid reading a news story when the victim is Asian because I don’t want to pay attention to the fact that no one else is paying attention. I don’t want to care that no one else cares because I don’t want to be left stranded in my rage.
  • momo
    2024-08-11
    相反,他们无法察觉到作为种族类别的白色,而我却可以。但最近,我在怀疑,我那总注意到白色空间的习惯是否妨碍了我享受其他的事物。显然,我成了一个不停指出现状是怎样而它应该是怎样的泼妇。在若泽·萨拉马戈(JoséSaramago)的小说《失明症漫记》(Blindness)中,当角色失明,人们的视线并不是变暗,而是变白,仿佛他们“睁着眼睛坠入了乳白色的海洋”。无论走到哪里,我都看到白色。我感觉到它的阴谋。我知道我的大脑都被白色沾染,仿佛它被医用X射线墨水染过。这个污渍让我不停地用自己的生活和其他生活做对比。
  • momo
    2024-08-11
    高10到13倍。事实上,种族间的收入差距只会越来越大。30年前,一个黑人家庭的资产中位数有6800美元,但现在,只有1700美元,而一个白人家庭的中位数从之前的10。2万美元上升到了现在的11。68万美元。学者琳达·马丁·阿尔科夫(LindaMartín Alcoff)写道,资源的囤积如此不平衡,以至于白人的种族课题实际上是一种寡头政治。
  • momo
    2024-08-11
    2011年,学者塞缪尔·R。萨默斯(Samuel R。Sommers)和迈克尔·l。诺顿(Michael I。。Norton)做了项调查,发现每当白人报道中针对黑人的偏见在减少时,他们就会报道针对白人的偏见在增加,仿佛他们认为种族主义是一场零和游戏,用美国前司法部长杰夫·塞申斯(Jeff Ses--sions)的评论概括起来就是:针对你少一点就意味着针对我多一点。在这项研究进行期间,美国白人实际上认为,针对白人的偏见比针对黑人的偏见是更大的社会问题。他们相信这一点,即便事实上,只有一任总统不是白人,历史上90%的议员也是白人,而白人的平均净资产比非白人要
  • momo
    2024-08-11
    我们被普遍认为如此有成就,如此遵守法律,我们将消失在这个国家失忆的迷雾中。我们不会成为权力,而会被权力吞噬;我们不会分享白人的权力,而会成为剥削我们祖先的白人意识形态的走狗。
  • momo
    2024-08-11
    有很多文学作品讲述自我憎恶的犹太人和非裔美国人,但关于自我憎恶的亚裔却没有足够的表述。种族性的自我憎恶是指你用白人看你的方式看自己,这样你就把你变成了自己最糟糕的敌人。你唯一的防御就是对自己严苛,这成了强迫症,因此,把自己逼到绝境也成了一种安慰。你不喜欢自己的长相和声音,认为自己的亚洲五官模糊不清,就好像上帝刚开始捏制你的五官就抛弃了你。你讨厌房间里有这么多亚裔。是谁让这些亚裔进来的?你在心中怒吼。你没有和其他亚裔团结起来,在他们周围时,你反而觉得更加卑微,自身的边界不再清晰,你和他们凝结成了一群人。我相信从我这一代开始,自我憎恶的亚裔正在逐渐消失,但这也取决于我在哪里。在我教课的萨拉·劳伦斯学院,有很凶猛的学生一她们才华横溢,掌控自己的命运,参与政治。在这里,我就会想,感谢上帝,这才是我们需要的2.0版
  • momo
    2024-08-11
    在大众的想象中,亚裔美国人居于模糊的炼狱般的地位:肤色不够白,也不够黑;不被非裔美国人信任,而白人只有在利用我们压制黑人的时候才不会忽视我们。我们是服务行业的工蚁,是企业的忠诚员工。我们是会啃数学难题的中层经理,让企业运转的轮子保持润滑,却从不会得到晋升,因为我们没有一张适合做领导的“脸”。我们无法满足。他们觉得我们缺乏内心力量。
  • momo
    2024-08-11
    1965年美国废除移民禁令,这让我父亲看到了机会。那时候,亚洲只有某些专业人士才能获得去美国的签证,比如医生、工程师和机械师。顺便说一下,这个筛选的过程就是整个模范少数族裔骗术的开端:美国政府只允许教育程度最高、技术能力最强的亚洲人进入,然后把他们的成功归功于自己。看到没!谁都可以追逐美国梦!他们会这么形容一位医生,而他来到美国前就已经是医生了。
  • 2021-04-01
    I can tell you I have attracted all kinds of wild, vituperative behavior from white people because I never play the role of compliant Asian woman. Sharma’s experiences enrage me but they don’t surprise me. But because we know we won’t be believed, we don’t quite believe it ourselves. So we blame ourselves for being too outspoken or too proud or too ambitious.