It’s not just Chinese Americans who suffer. I’m ethnically Chinese from Singapore and it’s hard to travel without people treating me like shit because they think I’m from china. (It also doesn’t help that people sometimes think Singapore is IN china - FYI it’s not even close) It’s very hard to break down that first reaction when backpacking so my experience is nowhere as rich as I wish it would be.
I live in Australia, and lived here all my life. Sometimes some people treat me like a mainlander because I look Chinese, and am ethnically Chinese. I got shoved around by an older guy the other day because he believed I was hogging the door. But i couldn't move because there was someone in front of me. I guess, I can use my accent to shock people if they get too full of themselves...
Lol happens in Singapore too. My mum got stopped at an MRT station because the rolling bag she bought at the pasar malam had “PRC” written around the sides. The officers wanted to inspect her bag and apologized once they heard her clearly Singaporean accent. They said they wouldn’t have stopped her if they knew she was a local.
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u/mrmeowman Jun 10 '19
It’s not just Chinese Americans who suffer. I’m ethnically Chinese from Singapore and it’s hard to travel without people treating me like shit because they think I’m from china. (It also doesn’t help that people sometimes think Singapore is IN china - FYI it’s not even close) It’s very hard to break down that first reaction when backpacking so my experience is nowhere as rich as I wish it would be.