Are you white washed??, ......... Options

[silver-rain]

Yeah, I'm definitely white-washed. I live in a mostly white community and I went to a white elementary and middle school. I did not know that much about my culture and other Asian cultures other than what I learned from my parents. But, I don't speak Chinese, nor can I read or write it. It was really until I went to my high school, which is predominately asian that I suppose I "reconnected" with my Asian side... But I still think I'm white-washed and my boyfriend jokes around with me about that.

[gelionie]

Nope I guess not.
Even when I was living in Australia when I was small, I still learned Chinese so I wouldn't consider myself as whitewashed.

[sheddingtears]

nah, ive still got my roots and im still down with it...
though i mainly speak and write in english.

[Sumiaki]

Nope. I don't try to act white and be accepted. I act the way I want to act and well to most people that comes off as whitewashed. Oh well.

[*Azarel*]

I'm accused of being whitewashed. These stupid little girls would tell me how whitewashed I am for not celebrating such and such holidays or for not speaking Vietnamese when I'm around Vietnamese. I hate to tell them that it's simply a preference of mine and that I could beat them all in a writing/reading/culture/history test. But ah... people will say what they wanna say.

I love you, you fob!

[gigiopolis]

In some subtle ways, yes, but that's only from living in North America for 13 years. But most people I know (including myself) consider myself not to be whitewashed, especially when I live in a place where something like 50% of the population is Asian.

I celebrate all the Chinese holidays, I speak the language, I watch the TV, I listen to the music, and if Canada were up against China/Hong Kong in some Olympic event, you bet I'd root for the Chinese team.

[Mr. Slowjamz]

im not white-washed , nor am i (asian-washed)....im just myself

[[Mediocre]Artist]

Can you be black-washed? Cause thats what I was for the first 13 years of my life.

[heyyfrankie]

i'm half mexican but i'm pretty much whitewashed.

[pinklove_stains]

semi-white washed , since ive never been to africa, and don't see much africans here in asia and when i go to paris to see my family everyone there seem whitewashed too or should i say frenchwashed

[DullStringedGuit...]

nope..i still hav an accent....so yea..

[baller30]

My best friend Jordan is. People call her Oreo.

Yea that's my nickname at school because i am "whitewashed", but i was never really black to begin with because my parents are from Ghana which is in west Africa, and they don't act like black people here so... yea

[sharerol]

Ummm....I guess you can say I'm partially white-washed. I don't speak/write/read Chinese, though I can understand some. Haha. I enjoy watching some Asian films. I don't watch any Asian channels or listen to any of that type of music. So I sorta am white-washed. Yeah...

[KELLYYY]

Ummm....I guess you can say I'm partially white-washed.  I don't speak/write/read Chinese, though I can understand some.  Haha.  I enjoy watching some Asian films.  I don't watch any Asian channels or listen to any of that type of music.  So I sorta am white-washed.  Yeah...

I don't think I'm white-washed. Am I? I don't think so.

[`SWTWiNKLE3YES]

maybe im a bit white-washed .. but i do know a lot about my culture

[starlette]

I guess I'm kinda white washed...even tho its understandable seeing as I knew maybe one black person befroe I was 10 years old...my whole family is black as well. in elementary school I only had one non white friend...in junior high I had only 2. It wasnt really until 9th grade that I started making friends with more people...and really it wasnt that I didnt like other people, it was that people, especially black people, would talk about how I was too white. I cant help it tho. being half white wasnt my choice. SO yeah, the few friends I haddidnt really care. Everyone else hated on me. Expecially in high school when I started losing wieght and getting pretty. lol. so yeah. Its hard for me becuase I just am who I am. I wouldnt consider it white washed, because I dont try to do the things I do. I'm just a product of my environment.

[crazeegirl411]

I'm whitewashed completely, but I don't do it for attention. I was born in the USA; how do you expect me to speak Vietnamese and know about my culture? I don't even go by the same religion as most Vietnamese (Buddhism). I'm whitewashed and proud, I guess. I'd rather be white than asian and I don't really have any asian pride. 

Well I was born in Canada, lived in Vegas for 9 years...

In some subtle ways, yes, but that's only from living in North America for 13 years. But most people I know (including myself) consider myself not to be whitewashed, especially when I live in a place where something like 50% of the population is Asian.

I celebrate all the Chinese holidays, I speak the language, I watch the TV, I listen to the music, and if Canada were up against China/Hong Kong in some Olympic event, you bet I'd root for the Chinese team.

Me too...I do celebrate Chinese holidays (around the house, Chinese New Year is way more important), I watch Chinese (Hong Kong..TVB) dramas, but then, I wouldn't know who to root for because I'm from Canada too =P.

My culture is really both, and split halfway. Sometimes in my thoughts, it would be in Cantonese, sometimes it would be in English. I love Chinese music way more, I love American and Chinese food. I celebrate both holidays. I watch American movies, but Chinese series. When I speak Cantonese to my mother sometimes, a few English words pop up. Sometimes when I speak English too, I'd think of better words to describe a situation in Cantonese.

One thing is probably the fact that I can't write chinese (at least I can write my own name). I can read a LITTLE bit, like enough to know a few in everything, but not enough to read sentences.

You see...I'm both, exactly.

[parallel]

Um. No. Not sure if I know someone like that either.

[*disco infiltrator*]

^ My thoughts exactly.

How exactly do you act white? I've asked this many times and no one has been able to tell me.

And yea I'm white-washed. Isn't that surprising?

[HongKongDong]

^^You are white

I'm black washed, grew up around black people and mexicanos. Moved to a white community and now im getting dumbed down, soon to be white-washed. Trying not to be =P

[sadolakced acid]

am i?

if you mean i don't do stupid things because it's asian to do them, then i guess so.

but err...
i'd say half.

well, mindy's whitewashed.

[Hiphop d[-_-]b]

im actually preeetyyy far from it. i speak ebonics fluently [ lol ] and i know some spanish and some tagalog. but if i want to i can speak really proper and with eloquence and whatnot but thats ony when i want to seem smart [:

[Im So Vain]

I hope Im not. People say that I sound like a white person sometimes And usually its my own Liberian people who tell me that, or they either call me valley girl, but I could care less. I mean what can I say I live in California. But I dont really see how I could be since I did grow up in a place full of mostly Mexicans, and a few blacks. But whatever.

[DrSMooTH]

My best friend Jordan is. People call her Oreo.

that's just being an ass. anyway, i don't think i'm white-washed. i have tendencies to act that way sometimes, but i wouldn't consider myself to be white-washed.

[Angel_Cece]

nope. although i like saying like... hmm i hope im not discriminating here. but i have some white friends and my black friends and family say i sound white, when i say "like".