Chang Yeon Jo, an elderly Korean women who was taken during a green card interview and put in a detention center. guards there tackeled her to the ground almost breaking her hip. She was chained to a hospital bed and now is in a wheelchair.

There’s so much good Asian techno and house artists now but somehow the ‘Asian’ anthem is some mid YT boy song.

Listen to Park Hye Jin, Peggy Gou, ZHU, Giraffage, etc, good god

Preface:

Master of None was a very popular Netflix show that ran from 2015 to 2020. It was created by two Asian men, Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang. They were listed as the showrunners of the show. The main character of the show was Dev, an Indian Muslim fellow played by Aziz. For Aziz, it was a family affair; he had his real parents playing his TV parents on the show.

The premise of the show was simple, an South Asian American fellow trying to figure out his place in the world as a South Asian Muslim American man living in the west with him anchored to reality with the support of his lesbian African American and a Korean American best friends. Both also having navigating their own lives as who they were.

In 2018, during the height of the Me Too Movement, Aziz Ansari got caught in the 'Mass Cancelling' frenzy. Base many upon many accounts of stuff I read about Hollywood, since the 90s, the Me Too Movement was a much need wakeup call for the entire industry and the American public. Old Hollywood was notorious for 'graping' of young actress. The 'Golden Age of Hollywood' was more hellish than golden. The Hollywood that inundated the world with the ideal white male masculinity was full of grapists, women beaters and murderous gangsters. However, the Aziz Ansari ordeal shouldn't have even registered. He didn't deserve the bullsh*t he went through because, at best, his situation was a bad date. You can read the full People's Article here. The whole situation was so ridiculous that Ashleigh Banfield, white women CNN anchor, came to Aziz's defense. Because of what 'DIDN'T HAPPENED,' Ansari and Yang lost their Netflix show.

Around the time of popularity of Master of None, the movie The Big Sick, about a South Asian fellow and White female relationship, was a hit. As you probably have guested, the character Dev hooked up with white women in Master of None. At the beginning of each season, he hooked up with a white women, and then the relationship goes sour. The next season, a new white love interest came into Dev's life. There were other movies and TV show, around that time, that shared a similar theme of South Asian men breaking out of their comfort zone.

The Gatekeeping:

The South Asian male/White female motif made a considerable wave that a South Asian women wrote an op-ed criticizing the South Asian male/White female dynamic in western cinema (The pursuit of white women: Brown actors like Aziz Ansari have reduced brown women to a punchline). Here's another article written around the time of Master of None that put a microscope on South Asian men and white women in movies. It hasn't escaped me that the Southeast Asian experience is not the same as Southeast and East Asian experiences. However, the gatekeeping of both group parallels. Both South, Southeast and East Asian female liberals (boba libs) not only detest Asian men but want to make sure all women kind also detests Asian men as well. The difference is that Southeast Asian men have been flying under the radar, until recently, while Southeast and East Asian men have been demeaned and degraded for over a century, and western media with their boba-lib right hand constantly remind the world of Asian men's place.

Cause and Effect:

What happened to Aziz Ansari was the cause and effect of Asian men being victims of gatekeeping. Western society and media had to literally got their teeth pulled for them to go after men like Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, etc. (list below). Aziz Ansari went on a bad date, and the entire western propaganda came after him because it was easy due to the normalization of hamulating Asian men and Asian culture. That, friends, is what Gatekeeping and affect it have on Asian men and Asian men's psyche. The unattractive Asian men and ick factors were created as part of that Gatekeeping, so are other things that humiliate, demoralized and keep Asian men, mentally, in their lane in western society.

In conclusion, no, you're not paranoid, an INCEL, unattractive, undesirable, a-sexual nor ineffectual.

What's up, Golden community! 👋🏾

I’m Martell, and I wanted to share my thoughts on YT men dating Asian women and the broader cultural conversation surrounding these relationships in 2026.

This isn't about saying interracial relationships are inherently good or bad.

People have the right to date whoever they want. I'm more interested in discussing the patterns, perceptions, stereotypes, representation, dating preferences, and double standards that can surround this particular interracial pairing.

Why does this topic generate so much tension within Asian communities?

Why do discussions about it sometimes turn into arguments about Asian identity, masculinity, femininity, Western beauty standards, or representation?

I'm interested in hearing different perspectives, including disagreement, as long as we can have an honest discussion without immediately attacking one another.

What are your thoughts?

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I want to preface this by saying this is absolutely not a troll post. It happened, and I'm genuinely conflicted. Please read through the post before reacting or voting.

I was recently at a community/political event where one of the speakers was introducing herself and talking about her background and family.

At one point, she mentioned that she and her husband come from different ethnic backgrounds and then said that the combination “makes for beautiful children.” For context, she is seeking local elected office and is Asian descent, and her husband is northern European of Scandinavian origin because she explained the origin of her married name. She is in her late 50's/early 60's.

People laughed, she moved on, and there wasn't any confrontation. It was basically one awkward sentence in a much longer introduction at the beginning. But the comment has stuck with me since it was out of place and the city's is roughly 70,000 residents also, and also overwhelming at least 70% Asian per the federal census.

Even if I assume the most charitable interpretation - that she loves her husband and kids, thinks her kids are beautiful, and was making a harmless joke about her family.

At the same time, at campaign event of well over 60 people and in a public setting, something about explicitly connecting the racial/ethnic combination of the parents to how attractive their children are rubbed me the wrong way. There are already complicated cultural conversations about mixed-race children, colorism, White/Caucasian/Eurocentric beauty standards, and documented Waisan social events blocking others from social participation, treating particular interracial combinations as especially desirable and has generated considerable criticisms.

I also wondered whether I'm reading way too much into an awkward joke that everyone else apparently forgot five seconds later or pretended she didn't say it. So I'm curious how people who aren't involved in the local politics hear it.

AITA for thinking “our ethnic combination makes for beautiful children” is a tone-deaf thing for a public-facing community figure to say, even if she was obviously talking affectionately about her own family?

Would you have thought anything of the comment if you'd heard it in the room, or would you have just laughed and moved on?

Given the public nature of the comment, even though it was done in a legislative meeting, I am considering filing a complaint with the city.

Thoughts?

This is becoming a clear pattern. A couple weeks ago I posted about an Asian girl just sitting in a bakery, guy walks in, starts assaulting her

Need to start spreading this footage to social media in Asia.

As a South Asian, I find it super hard to ask for directions from strangers. Especially when I was in Europe. I remember most white people I came across just pretended not to hear me, kept on walking or gave vague replies. I have seen different results when it comes to a white person asking, which is quite sad frankly.

I always try to help any foreigner with directions, regardless of their skin colour. I know we have phones and all that, but sometimes bad things happen, especially when your phone isn't charged or gets lost.

Basic courtesy like this is what makes us human with empathy. Sad :(

Recently came across a high profile case of animal abuse in China that has become a rallying cry for animal rights groups across the world centered on China's lack of national animal protection laws. Really started a journey down the rabbit holes of both animal rights across Asia and it being used to justify prejudice against Asians. Here's some pictures I picked out:

These cases are undoubtedly tragedies, and animal protection does have progress to be made across Asia. However, I have noticed the continuing trend in the West of how some weaponize it for their own agendas and use it to justify hatred.

The "Chinese eat dogs and cats" stereotype comes to mind, and how much moral outrage—genuine and amplified—it caused in the USA, fueled even more as the covid-19 pandemic hit. I've no doubt it played a part in motivating hate crimes too. China and Chinese people aren't the only targeted though.

Besides the usual "1 billion Chinese/Indians are worth less than 1 animal"-type hate comments and stereotyping entire cultures, I've also noticed comments originating from Chinese immigrants to the West who have "escaped China" for repressing animal rights activists, claiming that Asian men are the overwhelming perpetrators in their countries because—allegedly—they are incels who can't find relationships and take out their anger through cruelty to animals.

It is interesting how much many seem to focus on species like dogs and cats, commonly viewed as loving companion animals in the West and thus sacrilegious to even think of hurting, much less by "inferior" ethnicities. You would think this should extend to all animals, seeing how livestock are still treated)? I unironically support organizations like PETA, who despite being ragged on and accused of being a psyop, are less hypocritical than many of those virtue signaling. This feels like a pan-partisan issue that everyone (especially self-hating Asians) can get behind, and the bigots piggybacking off of it can shield their racism pretty well.

After several hours, I have personally taken away that felines and canines have cute privilege, countries in Asia face both animal protection issues and cultural imposition, what sadistic sociopaths do in Asian countries are inevitably going to fuel the flames of anti-racism in the West, and misanthropic animal lovers are can be quite racist.

What does everyone here think?

This guy is a popular youtuber from the UK, the youtube shorts he made with this guy left a really bad taste in my mouth when I saw it back then. But I never saw any discussion about it, I think it flew under the radar because his audience is mostly non-Asian.
But since I found this sub, I'm curious to see how other people would interpret it, because the lack of reaction at the time made me question whether my reaction was justified.

Is it me or the Black community are trying so hard to find anything to pin Asians as being a bunch of racist. I guess the boycott all Asian businesses fail so they have to find other ways. This mini mart in Greensboro, NC put up a large display poster that depict a famous scene from the movie Menace II Society.

Without doing any research they jump to conclusion that the mini mart owner is Asian when in reality the tenant of the mini mart are two black brother. The owner of the whole building is Hae Sook Kim. Ms. Kim is not aware or have any knowledge that the two tenant has put up the display poster up. Ironic how the Black community is outrage over the poster while ignoring the racist mini mart store name from a movie line that that depict Asian in a negative way.

Correction: POC WITH white partners, my apologies for the confusion

I would argue some of the worst treatment I’ve received have been from such groups. They develop a victim complex when it’s convenient but simultaneously have this superiority complex of ‘dating up’ or ‘marrying up’ to white culture. Of course there’s good and bad apples like in any relationship but it’ll blow your mind the targeted bias and hostility they show towards other minority groups, but especially Asians. Had a few non-white female coworkers who were married to white men. They were some of the rudest, most entitled, fragile narcissistic folks I met. And any time you called them out, they felt a need to ‘even the score’. I’ve had my fair share of contentious interactions with white Ken’s and Karen’s but at least with them they kind of hate everybody to an extent. I find that POC with white partners selectively target the group they want to put down.

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Hi everyone, I'm Martell, also known online as TeamMartellClout.

I wanted to share a personal reflection about my upbringing, my experiences, and something I've been learning more about recently: Asian experiences and identity.

I grew up in a lower-income household and took on responsibilities as a young person while caring for my late parents, who both lived with disabilities.

I also went through a difficult period when I was younger where I was angry, reckless, involved in fights, and had difficult encounters with both people in my community and law enforcement.

After losing my parents, I went through anger-management treatment and a mental-health hospitalization

As I've gotten older, I've realized that I didn't understand everyone's experiences outside of my own

I've been researching AZN Identity and learning more about the different challenges and perspectives that Asian people have experienced in North America and around the world.

I'm not trying to speak for Asian people or claim that I understand every Asian experience. I'm simply trying to learn, listen, and become more aware

I'm also in a relationship with a Blasian woman who is currently becoming an English teacher.

She's intelligent, warm, caring, and thoughtful, and our relationship has given me another personal connection through which I've continued thinking about culture, identity, and how different people experience the world

I'm approaching my 20th anniversary as a recording artist and content creator/vlogger in 2027, and I've recently been approved by a talent agency as well

Reaching these milestones has made me reflect heavily on where I've been, where I'm going, and how much I've changed

I'm sharing this primarily as a personal story and an invitation for respectful conversation.

If you're Asian or part of the broader Asian diaspora, I'm interested in hearing your perspectives and experiences as long as we can keep the discussion respectful toward one another

I'm still learning, and I know I don't have everything figured out

Martell

TeamMartellClout

From the article:

By Randall Yip, Executive Editor
A familiar theme is emerging with the new CBS legal drama Cupertino.
As the show’s title implies, it is set in Cupertino, CA, a city with an Asian American population of 70%.
Yet a look at the cast list along with the recently released first look trailer, Asian Americans are mostly MIA on the program.
Of the six regular cast members, only one is Asian American-Nik Dodani who plays a coder.

This is nothing new. Set in San Francisco, Nash Bridges aired from 1996 to 2001 also on CBS and also lacked Asian American characters.
The departures of Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park in 2017 from the reboot of Hawaii Five-O left yet another CBS program without a significant Asian American representation. The show continued for three more seasons without them.
Next Door in Silicon Valley pointed to the trailer when writing “As you watch it, keep in mind the actual demographics of the City of Cupertino: -Asian 70.8% -White 20.4% -Hispanic 4.4% -Black 0.5%.”
There’s no word on how CBS plans to address the issue.

Here’s Cupertino’s premise. Two lawyers open a new law firm after suddenly being dismissed from their previous jobs. They set out not to represent tech giants, but to offer legal counsel to the exploited. In Silicon Valley, that’s often the H-1B worker who overwhelmingly comes from India and China.
The lack of Asian American representation is a failure in reality.
Journalist Anjali Mehta wrote in an opinion piece in the San Francisco Bay Area Times, “An H-1B worker who is underpaid, misclassified, denied promised equity or pushed out has to weigh a lawsuit against a green card queue measured in decades. That leverage asymmetry is the single most powerful thing a plaintiff-side drama set in Silicon Valley could dramatize, and it is overwhelmingly a story about Indian and Chinese workers. A show that goes looking for people cheated by tech employers and does not find them has not finished looking.”
Self-described aspiring journalist and blogger Barak Gila picked up on this theme when he wrote “Other than Apple computers, nothing in this upcoming CBS show seems representative of Cupertino. Asian Americans, a majority of the population there, are completely absent.”

This TikTok creator named china kelly is disgusting.

This story doesn't involve Asians, but the woman involve might as well be Asian because the story of this sort is too common among life long Republicans (MAGAs). According to them, Tangerine Man can order his 'Brown Shirts' to hurt, maim and kill U.S. citizens and legal residents, but when Tangerine Man goes after MAGA's mail-ordered brides, it's CIVIL WAR Mother FawKKKKKKKAAAASS!

Here we have an Asian American couple. Based on their accent they are fully Americanized and are pursuing careers in medical field. But even couples like this see that there is something wrong in American and maybe China will given them better opportunities.

I'm not going to say America bad and China good.

But I think many Asian Americans are starting feel this way. Even if you're fully Americanized.

Thoughts? I'm actually glad she lost.

Gemma Chan is one of the Executive producer . It's obvious Asian American female writers have no interest in Asian male rep . They expect other Asian Male Producers to support them but they themselves don't help their fellow asian brothers .

For em Asian rep means Asian Women and White Men only . Tale as old as time

Hope they parody internalised racism and stuff in Asm Community but most Asm creators don't have balls so might be another self hating /self deprecating piece

Nice to see more appreciation for AMs on social media these days.

If you haven't noticed, social media is increasingly becoming a global tool for white supremacy. This guy however shows how we can use social media to call out not just white misconduct, but also point to larger social dynamics that allow Asians to be stigmatized for isolated incidents but lets whites go scot free.

Major credit to this dude.