There's An Asian Pecking Order!

I never knew this. From what I've gotten from that young Asian forum I frequent, it seems like the Japanese and the Koreans are at the top of the totem pole. Everyone (and by everyone I mean a lot of the members of that forum) envies the Japanese and/or Koreans for their style/beauty. And I've noticed that the Japanese members have a sort of snobbish-I'm-so-better-than-you-attitude. It's all so strange. I mentioned this to the husband and he said that it makes perfect sense. The Japanese have kicked everyone's ass in everything in the past. And the Japanese and Koreans are the most industrialized. More wealth = more beauty.

I guess us Filipinos, Cambodians and Laotians must be the bottom feeders with our short, dark, flat-nosed impoverished selves.

Another thing I didn't know, that the husband actually told me about when we first got married, was that Koreans hate Filipinos. I don't remember why or if he even told me why. I just thought that was the most interesting thing. I guess I was just surpised and entertained by the idea that there were tensions amongst Asian nationalites.

Then I asked him why some folks on the forum used the term, "Taiwanese." Wasn't Taiwan a part of China? Why not just say "Chinese"? A gasp escaped from the husband as he told me to never call a person from Taiwan, Chinese. He then gave me a brief history lesson - China took over Taiwan in 1949. And I guess the Taiwanese have never gotten over it. I don't remember the specific example the husband gave me, but it reminded me of the time I called a coworker Mexican and she shot me a look that could kill as she explained that she was Guatemalan.

I then asked him where Hmong people were from. That answer he didn't know. I guess I'll have to google it myself.

The husband told me that he thought he was a bad Asian. But apparently I'm even worse than him. I make a very bad Asian. I had to agree as I told him that sometimes I forget which is the "good" Korea.