I Am Not Your Asian Stereotype | Canwen Xu | TEDxBoise

I’m Japanese. I think the most biggest Japanese stereotype is “anime”. People tend to image that Japanese people know and watch all anime but that is actually not the case!

You need to know what you want to be free from stereotypes. Doing everything against people's expectations only throws you into another box. As long as what you want to do and what youre doing are fully justified you're uniquely you

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Her: I Am Not Your Asian Stereotype!
Also her: -_-

its been said, once, before, and i will have to say it again!

I'm Japanese, but I've never worn a kimono in my life. I've never made sushi at home. I have never learned karate. Even so, I am truly born and raised in Japan. Asian stereotypes are created images.

What puzzles me is why Asians vote liberal. They have all the trappings of a Conservative.

'Racism' will always be a problem...because 'bean brains' like this keep on talking about it!!!

Alot of AbCs don't get this while growing up, it is just not possible to be white. It is technically impossible. Be yourself, and folks will like you. Fobs r much more successful today than most ABCs. The reason is simple, they are comfortable of who they are. If you wanna become successful, you need to be you.

Let's be drop-dead gorgeous !! Then they wont care my race!!

the man: where are u from
me: how do i look?
the man: i think u are Asian but look like not Chinese, South Korea, Japanese, Philippina.....Ummmm....Uzbekistan
me:?!?!?!?!?!

I bet her husband is white 😅

she's a spie

アジアの純真

It seems that I have many friends who are Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and other Asian individuals, and some of them have what could be considered typical Asian features in their appearance.

Great speech, but we Asians really have to stop perpetuating the myth that where are you from is an offensive questions. It’s NOT. Be proud of your origins, own your identity, share it proudly.

If she went to Japan or Korea she would receive 1000% more hate and discrimination than she ever has in America. A lot of restaurants and stores in these countries still have signs that say "No Chinese Allowed." Chinese kids that grow up in Korean schools get bullied and beaten up for being different. So yes, she is soft and over dramatic for being offended just by being asked where she is from. USA is a great country to immigrate to for any race or nationality.

日本に住んでる日本人やから普段は意識した事ないけど、海外旅行したら世界のどんな人種よりも差別されてるっていつも感じる

でも世界は所詮そんな物だから大丈夫。
私も無意識のうちに誰かを差別しているかもしれない

I appreciate being in an environments where I can listen her speech. I’m relieved hear that her speech. By the way, I push myself to talk about that. I am a Japanese living in Japan. Similarity things often happen among japanese in my neighborhood. Actually, I don’t like cooked rice. If I say I can’t eat cooked rice to Japanese around me. They say the same “Do you hate rice even though you are a Japanese? Why not?“ and they always have a puzzled looking face. That is why I used be cannot confide my trouble to others. I apologize my bad English. Thank you for reading.

Funny thing Asians are exactly the same or even more radical on stereotypes...

Our country is not divided by race; it is divided by the politicians

Very interesting issue.

An Iranian acquaintance complained that there were 48 countries in Asia alone, but only China, South Korea, and Japan were always mentioned

From the perspective of Westerners, there are only three countries in Asia

So, she liked math, but pretended that she didn't😅

I remained married to my Shanghai, PRC wife for 29 years until she passed away in July 2022. My knowledge of Chinese culture and language (although Wo bu su zhong guo hua. I do not speak Chinese) leads me to believe that Canwen Xu's name has been Americanized. In Chinese language, the family name is placed first, meaning that her family name is Xu and her family identifying name is Can Wen. Xu Can Wen is her Chinese name.
She will carry her family name with her, if married in that part of Asia, to the end of life since women are not required to take her husband's family name. However, their children' family name will be that of their father's name, meaning that Xu Chan Wen's family name does not match her mother's.

In contrast to the above, and prior to our marriage, my wife's name was Sun Ping Cheng. (Her family name was Sun but her mother's name was 'Yao' Yue Feng, Yao being her father's family name)..Since Ping now lives in a Western nation, in this case the USA, we agreed that it would be wiser for her to take my family name, West, and place it at the end; thus, Ping Cheng West.

If you have any doubts about the above, please find a Mandarin (Pu Tong hua) speaking Chinese person and tell him/her this tory. I will, however, apologize for any misspellings of Chinese Pin Yin. I'm now a bit rusty.
Wo Heng gao xing tsing tao ni: "I am very happy to meet you"

Growing up in Japan as a Japanese, I never knew such stereotypes existed. The audience doesn't seem to be amused by her "joke". Are these stereotypes for Chinese Americans, not for Asians in general?

I'd love to know what company she is running today, 7 years later.

Real talk, neither am I.

I‘m born and grew up in japan and let me say this:
Lions don’t think that their Lions.
We asians, who live in Asia don’t think we’re asian. Asian only exist outside Asia and the definition and stereotypes also only function outside Asia.

They are 60 percent of the world’s population! I have respect for this and I think we need to really listen and respect this beautiful and wise culture. They are the leaders of the world with so much wisdom on health, and life style and everything has a rhythm to it. We could learn so much if we would actually listen and let go of horrible stereo types.

Come on we all can’t really bad drivers

Legendary

I’m a Japanese living in UK. I met a lot of people who say Ni-hao to me. At the first time, I felt that “I’m Japanese”, “Asian people don’t use same language, it’ s completely different.”…. But I realized that they are not discriminating me( of corse few people did have bad intentions), almost were friendly. They don’t realize what they don’t know it. Same here, I used to say hello when I met foreigner in Japan even though they were from France, Germany and Russia. I still can’t recognize where they’re from but just want to communicate and get along with them. It’s quite difficult for everyone not to have stereotype, but we need to recognize we are ignorance.

アメリカで暮らして事がないので、あなたの苦悩は分かりません。日本に住んでるのが一番です。

Everytime I had classes in my University and I see in the classroom somebody with asian ethnicity I ask him in Chinese "你是中国人还是日本人？". Or "你是韩国人还是日本人？. Also I say I'm german, and nobody had a problem with that question

Stereotypes exist because they are mostly true.

love this, and relate to it so much...thank you for your bravery in speaking such truth and shedding light on this!!

I mean many Asians are good at math because their parents force them to work hard💀

Good

This is beautiful but you're missing one tiny sing everyone has bias, and that is what she dealt with the most

proceeds to date only non-Asian men.

Hahahaha I love how much I can relate to her! She is so funny and insightful

Asians are taught not to challenge the status quo. Well, not me.

a connfident girl who i want to be

"You're Asian?"
"Yes, I can speak mandarin & English"
"you're Chinese?"
"Yes"
"So, China.....?"
"Nope, I am the Chinese from Malaysian, I am Malaysian and speak Mandarin 🤣"

NOW THEY ARE CONFUSED

I knew a couple of those things were true 😂. I play piano. I aspire to be a lawyer, so close. My favorite subject is Algebra II, I’m only in 9th grade, Calculus is later. My mom is definitely a tiger parent, I do like rice but it’s not my favorite, and my mom isn’t a very good driver, even she admits that 😅. Assuming people fit stereotypes is wrong, but things do become stereotypes for a reason and we don’t need to claim racism over mostly harmless stereotypes. I get what she’s saying, mostly, but she kind of contradicts herself a bit. Idk, though, I’ve grown up in Seattle not Iowa or something, so I guess my experience is different. And idk why the name thing bothers her? Our names have meanings, English/American names don’t. “Ashley” doesn’t mean anything. “Mei”, as it’s written for my name, means “Chinese plum”. People are just curious, it’s not a put down.

I wish more 18 year olds were this well spoken and informed

YEAH a very powerful and true speech! You speak right out of my heart, darling! ♥♥♥

This is an Excellent TESTIMONY, Baby Girl! We are Soooooooooh proud of you representing your Authenticity! One Love! Shalom! Namaste! 🌌🫀🎁🌚👏

you want to portray yourself as disenfranchise,to make a point about racism forgetting that culture has a lot to do with the way we are brought up,