I immigrated to the US at age 8

NYC.

The school I was at was like somewhere 25% to 50% Asians, probably ethnic Chinese from what I remember of their names (especially the last names).

I get bullied a lot by English-Only ethnic Chinese kids…

Because I was different…

Cuz… language barrier…

Like… Bruh…

Okay I see.

You feel superior because you have birthright citizenship…

We are literally from the same place… the fuck is wrong with y’all

Like there’s always a weird thing with the ABCs (American Born Chinese)

Even after I sort of learned English…

From my memory, they’ve always been much much more likely to just bully me.

Cuz I’m a “Fresh off the boat peasant” and they’re born American…

fuck them (the bullies, not saying all ABCs are like that)

Idk why but I always seem to instantly bond with Cantonese speakers… like maybe not exactly being friend-friend… but having the same shared language quickly dispels any possible hostility very quickly… Those with fluency anyways…

the ABCs assigned to “translate” for me are kinda passive-aggressive…

My ABC cousins refused to talk to me…

one of my cousins bullied me…

like…

most of my bullies at this point in time were just ethnic-Chinese born in the US…

dipshits

Anyways.

We later moved to Philly.

Less Asians.

Instead of just merely Language Discrimination, now instead RACISM spiked a lot. I felt like I was the only Asian in the room (well maybe not exactly, but I felt like I was so “out of place”)

I didn’t feel safe.

Basically throught my whole journey… I sort of felt like shit could go down at any time…

Like sailing the turbulent oceans…

Oh I defended myself in Highschool and I got arrested

FOR SELF DEFENCE

I was 17.

Charges got dropped but still, wtf.

Those who attacked me were not ethnic-Chinese. Happening during the height of covid, right before they shut down the schools.

So there’s that.

They don’t care about bullying. You report it and its just “Oh he’s a good kid, there mUsT be some misunderstanding”

The kid is white…

Yeah okay teacher, sure thing…

The takeaway from this school journey is: For me, do not live where I don’t see a lot of Asians… preferably live closer to who are ethnic Chinese… best if multilingual… if you lack English, ABCs will not even try to talk to you (maybe it works different in the adult world), if you lack the Chinese languages, 1st gens will not be able to talk to you…

probably do not raise kids in Philly, it’s a horrible place. ABCs can be cunts… If I ever have kids… I’ll make sure they don’t end up being those ABC dipshits that I had to face…