If you're subscribed to r/aznidentity, you probably already realize that America and its Anglo allies have opened a new front in their global economic race war on Asians, in China (following victory over Japan in the 1980s). This should be obvious, but we need to side with our Asian brothers and sisters against the neo-colonial, Anglo rapists (economic and literal). We need to wake up and realize that America is at war with the entire Asian population: home countries and the diaspora alike. American society doesn't even bother concealing it in the slightest. Its institutions ethnically cleanse the diaspora from top schools and employment opportunities, while its politicians and favored criminals carry out stochastic pogroms on its city streets. Back in our home countries, America sends its worst rapists and vehicular child-killers to subjugate its colonies, all while stirring up Sinophobia propped up by thinly veiled white supremacy.
Here's how I am responding and how I encourage others to respond: support Asian-owned businesses in any way possible. Stop giving your money to neo-colonial rapists who are trying to exterminate us. STOP. GIVING. YOUR. MONEY. TO. PEOPLE. TRYING. TO. EXTERMINATE. US. This means to stop attending American sporting events or watching the NFL/NBA/NHL, stop watching non-Asian shows on television/streaming services. Better yet, cancel your Amazon/Netflix/Apple subscriptions. Don't buy a fucking Tesla or other American EV. (Replace it with Hyundai or a Chinese/Vietnamese EV if you can get one.)
Here's how this looks in my life: My phone is Samsung. My computer is Asus, with AMD* and NVIDIA* chips. I use DoorDash*, Chowbus*, or Weee!* for food and grocery delivery. For beverages, I choose among Sans*, Sool*, Sanzo*, Hummy*, Dokkaebier*, Lunar*, Twrl Milk Tea*, and others. For furniture, I buy Zinus*, Outer*, or Silk and Snow*. I buy Italic* clothing. I buy kitchen equipment from Material*. I rely on Blueland* for all household cleaning products. I use Monos* luggage. For everything else, I have replaced ALL of my Amazon purchases with Temu purchases.
That's just my physical possessions. On my phone, I have the following apps: Notion*, Coupang, Zoom*, TikTok, SHEIN, Kin*, Coffee Meets Bagel*, Temu, Opendoor*, coursera*, NerdWallet*, moomoo, Webull, and Vinovest* Portfolio. I don't even like/have much use for some of these (never managed to sync up with TikTok's algorithm, for example). But I still support them because they're an Asian-founded company.
I also moved overseas to avoid tariffs and encourage Asian Americans to reduce spending as much as possible until you can do the same.
Tl;dr: America has been trying to exterminate Asians globally for decades, and we should really stop funding our would-be killers.
* indicates Asian-American founder
You seem to believe all Asians are Chinese (or Korean).
Why? I included brands founded by Filipino and Vietnamese diaspora members. I'm sorry the list is incomplete, but I just pulled from my own life. Feel free to add suggestions.
Just substitute for industries and companies from your motherland
Then, OP should have just said so? Then again, the Chinese don't even believe Taiwan had native Taiwanese people and they were the immigrants.
Yeah, I agree. OP should have said so. I'm just offering my advice. The Chinese aren't having demographic disputes with the native Taiwanese. That's all Taiwanese people who don't associate with the Chinese. Also to think that all of them think the same thing is crazy. Thousands of native american tribes are forgotten to history, the remainders are mistreated like the natives Taiwanese. That's the price of conquest. The native taiwanese are still suffering Manchurian Qing dynasty expansionist directives from centuries prior.
Exactly my realizations ages ago. Divisiveness is the modus operandi in the West for centuries & still applies today. Our brothers & sisters here & abroad need to wake up. The US has waged wars with so many non-white countries since its “founding” & we can include slavery & the massacre of the Native Americans.
Definitely put your money where your values are.
Supporting Asian Americans is an improvement but still supports a system that wants to exterminate you. It’s extreme but if you truly want to cut off your support for the system you need to try to keep your spending in this country to a minimum or to move to Asia.
That's pathetic avoidance. Move to Asia so you can give America to those who want you gone? You should lean towards advocacy or resistance.
Move to Asia so that my labor can benefit people like me instead of against. FWIW, I’m not talking about plumbers and accountants moving there. A prerequisite is having the capability to move back.
This is also not unprecedented. It’s not difficult to find information about Asians that have moved back to Asia to improve their own lives because they could not here. How many Chinese actors had to start in Hong Kong before making it big in Hollywood?
You can certainly lean into advocacy and resistance but what is the end result? What will your advocacy do in the wake of political, economic and martial conflict between superpowers?
We can see the difference in recent history. Campaigning for representation has given us jesters and sellouts. International media is what improved recognition and status. AA businesses are small businesses, industry from the homeland has markedly improved diaspora livelihoods. How many AA representatives voted for a 1.6 billion dollar bill to promote Sinophobia? How many AA reps are complicit in government restricted vaccination to the Philippines during COVID?
"You can certainly lean into advocacy and resistance but what is the end result? What will your advocacy do in the wake of political, economic and martial conflict between superpowers?"
You fight to the bitter end and never give up. Learn from the blacks in that respect. It doesn't matter if Western governments consistently engage in endless exploitation and destabilization of African countries, blacks planted their feet where they were and fought for a right to live a dignified life.
"We can see the difference in recent history. Campaigning for representation has given us jesters and sellouts."
This is correct. Endless examples of this exist like uncle Roger, or should I say uncle Tom. Blacks have faced similar struggles. The solution is call them out ruthlessly and never give in to their self-hate and defeatism.
I find that you keep looking at current half-assed results to justified relocation. It is fundamentally a defeatist attitude. The truth is the struggle never ends. If black people looked at Rosa Parks and KKK and said "welp guys, time to pack it up and go back to Africa where we can make more meaningful contributions", would that have been better for them?
Black Americans are much more culturally distinct from Africans and neither had the means nor incentive to go back. In fact, the same can be said of Asian Americans that don’t connect with their roots. The majority of Asian Americans are first generation immigrants. You cannot apply the same framework from a completely different demographic.
FWIW, resisting is not futile and if that is what you have the means to do, you should with gusto. For those with the means and talent to contribute to the reawakening of Asia, I believe that is the better choice. The alternative in my mind end all is Jensen Huang. Who does his work benefit?
It's honestly hard to imagine it being much worse for them.
It honestly depends on how much money one is extracting from that shithole.
Asians care too much about money and short term incentives. Learn from the blacks. Prioritize struggle and never give up. There is never money in class and racial struggle.
To some extent money is just a quantified extension of political power. It can be easily created or destroyed by policies. Without a strong political consciousness, Asians too often fall into the peasant mindset of counting coppers.
I don’t think Asians care about $ anymore than any other race. That’s buying into the optics of the racist media & other myth makers. Maybe they’re just better at. Speaking for myself (& I come from very, very humble beginnings) & my circle of friends, giving to the larger community, has always been a priority. Only to gradually find that the larger community excluded Asians. So now, I agree, never mind Red or Blue, but choose Yellow💪🤜🤛👍
I'm glad you have reformed and stopped funding efforts to exterminate our people.
So, I'm genuinely open to being persuaded, but let's play out your recommended course of action. You suggest staying in America with an ordinary (~$100k) salary, paying ~$20k annually to the anti-Asian U.S. government and providing value as an employee and/or consumer to anti-Asian businesses. Best case scenario is that you're able to find an Asian employer and live where you can shop exclusively at Asian-owned businesses, but I still don't think any activism you can reasonably do in your spare time can cancel out that delta. You can engage in advocacy and resistance from abroad just as well.
International activism does not change the lives of Asian Americans on the ground. That is delusional. Activism includes organized protests, running for political office, working on political campaigns. See Zohran Mamdani's recent success. Do you think your 20k annual contribution matters to Elon Musk or the military industrial complex?
I also don't encourage only working for Asian employers.
"but I still don't think any activism you can reasonably do in your spare time can cancel out that delta."
Speak for yourself. Sometimes people don't have a choice. Black people chose to fight because they didn't want to return to Africa. They fought the good fight and they deserve a better future in America, period.
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Excuse me? There is nothing I do that is self-hating or worshipping blacks. I am very disappointed that you failed to engage my points at all and only resulted to stereotyping and ad hominems.
Exactly what I did!
The Sunday Collective founders are both Asian. And their clothes are quality. Both my kids rocked them this Christmas Eve and regularly receive compliments when out. Easy to mix and match pieces.
Great find!