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I Do Not Understand Racist People

Telling jokes about Asians eyes or their skin color isn't funny. It seems like it's mostly Caucasian people making jokes about us like how can we read with our eyes. OUR EYES ARE THE SAME SIZE AS YOURS! Our epicanthic fold just makes our eyes smaller.

I can't stand people who make racist jokes and I call them out that they are a racist. However, they respond it was a racist joke, there's a difference.

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CesareBorgia

I certainly don't think that it's mostly people who are Caucasian who are making jokes about people who are Asian, that my friend is a racist remark in and of itself.

In some Asian countries, many people have plastic surgery to remove their Epicanthic fold, and to remove some of the material in the eyelid. As well, Asian people are not the only people who have an Epicanthic fold. I am not Asian myself, and yet I have an Epicanthic fold.

No matter your race or ethnicity, skin color, country of origin, nationality there will always be others who will find humor, racist and not in who you are. Caucasians, people of African decent, Asians, East Asians, South Americans, Slavic, Middle Eastern and so on and so on.

You can either choose to be butthurt, you can ignore it, or you can choose to see humor in whatever it is that is being said. Personally, the world is a far better place when you choose to either ignore that type of thing, or see the humor in it if in the form of humor. If it's blatant racism then you can always respond, or as the Native North Americans practiced with their children when they displayed behavior they did not wish to promote, nor did they condone they would ignore the person as if they did not exist.

What I don't feel is right, is to say one race is more prejudiced than another, no matter the race. You cannot possibly know this unless you can cite research that was done on this subject.

You might find this map of the world, and the study that was done that specifically relates to racism interesting:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325502/Map-shows-worlds-racist-countries-answers-surprise-you.html

If you look at that map, the top countries in the world, that score the lowest on racism happen to also be countries more populated by Caucasians. That is a fact, and I just cited it. You might try the same when posting things of an inflammatory nature.

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CesareBorgia

It all depends, honestly. I have gone to comedy shows where the comedian was pointing out stereotypical things about specific races, and even so those people of those races who were sitting in the audience were enjoying themselves and laughing. It depends on the context. If it was obviously meant as a racist attack on you personally that is one thing, but if it was said, even if it was tasteless, as humor then instead of taking offense, you might try to understand instead how it was intended.

Humans only communicate about 17% of what they say with words alone. Inflection of voice, eye contact, body language, context etc express far more. If you are only going to take the words, and not the context then you cannot state it was intended as a racist remark.

Why don't you tell us the context of what was said, and what it was that was said that has offended you so greatly. Perhaps then we might better understand your remark.

But remember, stating " It seems like it's mostly Caucasian people making jokes about us" is in and of itself a racist remark as well as biased, prejudiced and unqualified.