Way too much to say about this and not coherent enough, especially about HK and its current state, as well as its sh*tty treatment. Nope, separate thread for this one. (Didn't start one; not going to.)
And that without the fact that war atrocities in China barely garner a reaction. The same people who wring their hands at me over western wars seem puzzled as to why the rape if Nanjing was a big deal, or why Chinese should be anyway bothered that Japan still doesn't recognise adequately what it has done. The Indonesian riots some years back which saw mass violence and rape of the local Chinese population didn't even make american news.
Still:
Affirmative action actively locks out Asian people, or did in my. College days, dunno if it still does.
It still does. Whenever "affirmative action" takes place, what I see in Western-dominated cultures, is emphasis on every other minority, except Chinese; the latter is still marginalised, and pushed aside. Consider that many of the top law students in the States are Chinese, but yet, how many of these graduands make it to top management in the law firms they work for? The stats are around somewhere; article citation and all that. (And I can't find the article; might have been linked via my FB feed. Will try to find it again later.) (Btw, I'm not using the term "Asian" 'cos pet peeve and actual geographic plus ethnicity reasons.)
And my experience of the storm front crowd is sooo not acceptance.
Absolutely true. It's one of the major reasons that those Chinese people who want to and can, return to China / HK. (Economic reasons acknowledged, but not the point here.
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Asians are definitely regarded as lesser from what I can tell, Asian women are seen as the shitty option for beta males who can't get a real (white) woman... I wont go into their opinion of mixed race families or mixed race people.
This is an interesting viewpoint. I'm not surprised by it, however. For me, personally, I've not encountered such an attitude and didn't realise it still existed. However, logically, why would this attitude have faded by now, since the other attitudes still persist?. But, wow... Ew!
Returning to the OP: Yes, to what everyone else has defined POC as: Non-white.
Also: Agreed that "POC" is a term used by America, almost exclusively. I don't hear it often (if at all, but granted my network doesn't include people who are familiar with such terms, usually) in the UK, or where White people are in the minority. If anything, the opposite is what I hear: "White devils" is still very much in use here, in HK (I cringe at that term and call out my friends who use it). Or the term "foreigner" is assigned to anyone not Chinese (not a great improvement over the former, but still better). The friendlier one is "Expat", meaning non-Chinese (mostly White people) who live and work in HK or China.
I can't say anything about terms used in, say, Japan or South Korea, etc. I believe Japan still uses "Gaijin" ("foreigner" or "outside person", aka, Non-Japanese; same as the Chinese, "wairen" or "oiyan").
Back to topic.
Good know that POC includes Asians.
P.S. I also need a cringe icon; do we have one? >,<
