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I have always seen chinese people as (spare me the fired up comments about racial profiling and what not) old, super wise, and living on top of mountains, Kung-fu masters, or noisy, short old women that smell funny. Thats just me of course, and yes there might be a little bit of racial stereotype-"ism" in those descriptions, but thats just me. Im trying to be real. I can change?
anyway, a week ago these mountain-dwelling, noisy, funny-smelling, skilled fighters had never been the topic of my thoughts until a chinese man rear-ended me while i was stopped. and here comes the venting: WTF!! who does that?! Just making asian people look bad. Effing yellow on yellow crime.
ok well, I started to realize that i couldnt blame this man that hit me because of his race. Im sure there are amazing chinese drivers out there that wouldnt take their eyes off the road in stoppped traffic while going 30 miles per hour. I couldnt blame him because i didnt understand his situation. Sure this chinese guy could have been just a beat-out (about 48 years old) old chinese man that sucked at driving, but theres always the chance that he was... being haunted by a ghost or driving away from a divorce or so emotionally caught up in his child's addiction to drugs, he couldnt think straight.
All im saying is these things, although the chances are slim, may have been true... the fact that they could be true is what really hit me. Right after the accident, i was thinking, "effing chinese guy, damn i cant believe he effing hit me. Garsh! &*(*&^%$$^(*^%&*)*^%!!!!" haha but in situations like this, everyone thinks that way. Everyone thinks that because they are the victim, the one at fault isnt a victim himself. And i would term people that think this way... hmmm.... society. Everyone thinks like this! and sometimes the situation is so that you think there is no possible way this person could have been led to OPPRESS (for lack of a better word in my vocab. repertoire) you by another outside force. BUT there is always the possibility and because there is a possibility, you acting naturally: getting mad and all is what i like to call being a jerk
dont be a jerk. be calm. Kung fu may not involve driving, but maybe crazy scary ghosts make people crash into cars.
Peee ssssssssssss,
Im out,
DavSKim
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