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?

[miyashu]

i actually used to be ashamed of my mixed heritage, because i used to get nothing but teasing and accusations of "OMGz THERE'S NO WAY IN HELL THAT YOU'RE PART CHINESE/JAPANESE. YOU DON'T EVEN LOOK IT." the "purebred azn" kids would think i was lying, which really hurt me and so for a while i pretended that i was 100% peruvian and nothing else. yeah, really stupid i know.

it wasn't until i started college, where i met people of all different cultures, that i started to appreciate all parts of my heritage. i'm happy being an asian-hispanic. xD (couldn't imagine myself saying that years ago.)