Asian Week Options

[xiong]

Anybody know when asian week is coming up I know I is in the next month just not what week

[Kulong]

Blacks get a whole month while Asians get only a week?

[SiLvErStArDuSt]

lol. There's an Azn month. I don't remember when tho. I have no clue when anything-month is. -_-' It might be May, but I may be just saying that because my birthday's in May.

[YManchun]

What is asian week?

[SiLvErStArDuSt]

It's just this thing people do in schools. They read up on Asian cultures and stuff like that. It's alright. Us Azns don't get special treatment or anything tho.

[Kulong]

I don't understand why we need such things as "Black History Month" or "Asian Week".

I actually get a negative feeling when I'm flooded with propaganda that over-glorifies African-American achievements.

If I were interested in black history, I would look it up myself.

The same goes for Asian and Latino history/culture.

[SiLvErStArDuSt]

I don't quite mind it, as long as people don't expect me to know anything at all abt Azn history. -_-'

Besides, we get free food and stuff from it. Everybody likes food... lol

[xiong]

So no one knows when Asian Week(month) is??

This post has been edited by xiong: Mar 11 2004, 06:16 PM

[DaMo]

There is something in the US called "Asian/Pacific Islander heritage month"

(even though East Asians and Pacific Islanders aren't exactly very closely related)

It's in the month of May.

[Kulong]

There is something in the US called "Asian/Pacific Islander heritage month"

(even though East Asians and Pacific Islanders aren't exactly very closely related)

It's in the month of May.

They might as well had called it "The Others Heritage Month" or "The Miscellaneous People Heritage Month"...

[Ogumo]

I don't understand why we need such things as "Black History Month" or "Asian Week".

I actually get a negative feeling when I'm flooded with propaganda that over-glorifies African-American achievements.

If I were interested in black history, I would look it up myself.

The same goes for Asian and Latino history/culture.

The whites do it as a hand out I believe. I did not even know about this asian week until I just read this. In a way it is insulting. African americans have only several hundred years of history? Yet they get a month. But asians have thousands of years history. China alone should have its own month. They should have a week for each asian group if anything.

[DaMo]

The whites do it as a hand out I believe. I did not even know about this asian week until I just read this. In a way it is insulting. African americans have only several hundred years of history? Yet they get a month. But asians have thousands of years history. China alone should have its own month. They should have a week for each asian group if anything.

But this isn't about history. That's just silly. This is about minority pandering. Why do you think there is no Celtic, Greek, Mesopotamian, or Egyptian heritage month?

[Ogumo]

The whites do it as a hand out I believe. I did not even know about this asian week until I just read this. In a way it is insulting. African americans have only several hundred years of history? Yet they get a month. But asians have thousands of years history. China alone should have its own month. They should have a week for each asian group if anything.

But this isn't about history. That's just silly. This is about minority pandering. Why do you think there is no Celtic, Greek, Mesopotamian, or Egyptian heritage month?

Oh I know that. That is why I said it is just a ridiculous little hand out. It is like here take your week and shut the hell up. They do so that we cannot say they do nothing.

[xiong]

The whites do it as a hand out I believe. I did not even know about this asian week until I just read this. In a way it is insulting. African americans have only several hundred years of history? Yet they get a month. But asians have thousands of years history. China alone should have its own month. They should have a week for each asian group if anything.

But this isn't about history. That's just silly. This is about minority pandering. Why do you think there is no Celtic, Greek, Mesopotamian, or Egyptian heritage month?

Oh I know that. That is why I said it is just a ridiculous little hand out. It is like here take your week and shut the hell up. They do so that we cannot say they do nothing.

don't you mean "our week"

[Ogumo]

The whites do it as a hand out I believe. I did not even know about this asian week until I just read this. In a way it is insulting. African americans have only several hundred years of history? Yet they get a month. But asians have thousands of years history. China alone should have its own month. They should have a week for each asian group if anything.

But this isn't about history. That's just silly. This is about minority pandering. Why do you think there is no Celtic, Greek, Mesopotamian, or Egyptian heritage month?

Oh I know that. That is why I said it is just a ridiculous little hand out. It is like here take your week and shut the hell up. They do so that we cannot say they do nothing.

don't you mean "our week"

No I did not.

[Kulong]

Oh I know that. That is why I said it is just a ridiculous little hand out. It is like here take your week and shut the hell up. They do so that we cannot say they do nothing.

don't you mean "our week"

He meant that Caucasian-Americans gave minorities black, Latino and Asian months or weeks so we can't complain.

[tongbao_vince]

I didn't even know we had a Black History month until it ended.

[Ogumo]

I didn't even know we had a Black History month until it ended.

That must have been difficult seeing as how they have the whole black american campaigne going during that month.

[tongbao_vince]

I think it is different in British Columbia, Canada. Probably not advertised on the scale of America.

[Ogumo]

I think it is different in British Columbia, Canada. Probably not advertised on the scale of America.

That would explaine it then.