I believe people can tell apart exploitation and genuine reverence. The so called "Asians" that made a hoo-haa telling off the world need to self reflect.
It's a great disservice to the community they are so call defending.
And surprise they are perpetuating that we Asians are so sensitive that we frown upon everything that touches our culture.
It perpetuate that we Asians cannot live in a culturally diverse environment. That we must always find a small hole to huddle together as a single infallible society. Less we are exploited culturally.
More surprisingly it is the American Asians that make the most noise.
Why is it surprising? Unless you adhere to some myth about the USA.
Brazil and the USA have similarities. Huge continent sized nation-states. People from all over came to them. Both were erected on the bones and graves of their indigenous inhabitant. Both were socially and
economically supported on the institution of a racial
caste system. But the USA and Brazil took different cultural routes towards national racial identities. Prior to WWI Louisiana--it has been claimed by one historian I've read--never fully assimilated into US racial constructs. It was perhaps more akin to Brazil. But after WWI Louisiana fully embraced US racial constructs.
Whereas Brazil took a national path towards assimilation of blacks, whites, Indians and whoever into one; as one Brazilian sociologist has coined it "cultural cannibalism" (in reference to some Amerindian nation in Brazil known for cannibalism I think). The USA on the other hand took the path of ethnic ghettos. If you listen (I mean
really listen) to what both liberals and conservatives in the USA say they tend to
suggest this "salad" (a metaphor where things remain distinct, separate but united) makes America stronger. As opposed to full biological and cultural assimilation.
Depending on how one wishes to define "multiculturalism" then Brazil is or is not multicultural.
If a "salad" of independent cultures is multiculturalism then Brazil
is not multicultural. And the USA is. In Brazil which boasts the most Japanese outside of Japan, the most Italians outside of Italy, the most Arab Lebanese outside Lebanon, eveyone is expected to become
culturally Brazilian.
The City of Sao Paulo in Brazil has more Italians than the City of New York. You'd never know it though because New York Italians have the loudest mouths and relish in the Italianess, in their vegetable identity within the salad as it were.
In Milwaukee--as nearly every other Northern city ion the USA--the history of Catholic parishes and Catholic ethnicities were this: they couldn't stand each other. A priest would say Mass for one ethnic group at one hour and a different ethnic group at a different hour (if they didn't have their own parishes) less a brawl and verbal insults break out.
Or consider Brazilian Jujitsu. That's an example cultural cannibalism.
