For you minorities out there, how do you show your pride? Options

[Tung]

Living in a predominantly Asian community, I find that it's easy for a lot of people to stay here and never have to assert their Asian-consciousness. However for most of us, colleges, careers, and etc. force us out into the predominantly white world outside of our neighborhood.

Often when a lot of young Asian-Americans leave, they get a culture shock. Hey, the world is racist? What there's discrimination? What do you mean there's a different between you and me cause your skin's different and you grew up differently than me?

So how do people assert themselves in these new situations and be proud of their heritage? They can't a lot of the time and don't know how, and let themselves get pushed around and end up in the background.

Or else they end up clumping together with other Asians in the area, but sometimes that isn't an option.

So what's there do to? How do you stand up to the environment around you?

[DoubleJ]

To the contrary, I actually don't clump at all. I for one don't have many black friends irl. I can actually name all of them on one hand lol. With that being said, I constantly get labeled as the white black guy, because I act whiter than some white guys according to people.

When it comes to the situations that you mentioned, I always keep it in the back of my mind, that I am black, and it is twice as hard for me to achieve what I want to. I never forget where I come from, or where my ancestors came from for that matter. As a result of that, I always give a full effort to everything, and conduct myself in a proper manner.