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I read a book last year called "The Dim Sum of Everything". It was a really good read and shed light on a topic I find confusing. What the hell is the fascination with things and people of Asian heritage?
I thought about asking this question yesterday while having a chat with my manager at work. She's a very professional, extremely well educated woman who is Asian. C was recently hosting an old friend of hers who plays hard into a stereotype that Asian women are giggling, wide eyed idiots. She described how this friend of hers has a way of bugging her eyes all big and blinking ridiculously while giggling when she is trying to attract the attention of a man. Not being attracted to women, I had to stop and think about whether or not I've seen this behavior and I can't believe it passed my awareness. It takes all kinds so I can kind of see that maybe C's friend does this act out of nervousness or is being coy but I can't get past one critical point. Why the hell would a man look at a woman who is acting completely cerebrally embalmed and think, "hey, she's hot!"
Further, then to become obsessed with all Asian women because one thinks stupidity is attractove is just weird. Since C is very rarely laughing unless something is actually funny, she doesn't date very much. In defense of men not hanging onto C she can be intimidating because she's a bit standoff-ish and frighteningly smart. So is the giggle thing about pretending to be stupid so as not to make the man feel insecure?
I know everyone has a type they find ideally attractive, but do people really deny themselves possible romantic situations because of how someone looks or acts. I'm really into men who are taller than I but find myself dating a man a foot shorter and a hundred pounds lighter than me. Oh well!
In "Dim Sum" the author states that there are people who are eggs, white on the outside but yellow inside but that still doesn't explain for me the attraction to ditziness. I can't remember what she called the opposite which are Asians who deny their Asian-ness.
Ok, so I wrote a lot of generalizations based on two people and personality types, I'm aware. I couldn't think of any reason to include more people for examples.
Now I'm thinking about that old song, "I like 'em Big and Stupid"....
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post date: 01.18.06 (7:44 pm)
eggs?
i like mine basted, thanks!
and orange marmalade for my whole wheat toast ...
oops, i'm not supposed to have toast ... scratch that ...
i'll have hash-brown potatoes,
and coffee with *lots of cream and sugar*
thanks,
a/c
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