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Attack on the Asian Community

Jimmy/Jordan Uncategorized November 22, 2021asia, Current Events, racism, stopasianhate 0 Comment

Origins

Ever since the pandemic started, hate crimes and violence towards Asians in America rose at an alarming rate. Newly recorded data by the FBI found that anti-Asian hate crimes went up by more than 73% in 2020. There were 161 reported anti-Asian hate crimes in 2019. In 2020 there were almost double, there were 279 reported anti-Asian hate crimes.

As we all probably know, the coronavirus started in a city in China and it then spread throughout China and now all around the world. Thus making it a pandemic. It has made life hard for many people. So many people lost their jobs, family, way of life and many other things that can be very personal to some people. But the Asian community has had it so bad ever since this pandemic started. Elderly Asian people were getting harassed and even murdered just in the streets. It got so bad that Asian people would start disguising themselves in anything to hide their identity.

There were many cases that anyone can look into from last year but one in particular spiked my interest, it was about a Filipino American man, Noel, whose face got slashed on his way to work. Noel was standing, waiting for his train and another man came up to him and started kicking his bag. Noel thought the other man was going to punch him until he saw the box cutter. He cuts Noel across the face. Noel said to reporters, “I shouted for help, but nobody helped me.” which shows just how normal it is to see harassment or assault and people are afraid to speak out or do anything about it. Noel then goes on to say that if it was just him that experienced this, it would be OK, but since there are Asian Americans that haven’t survived attacks like this, it is not okay. An 84-year-old Thai man was murdered just 2 days after he was shoved to the ground while on his morning walk. An old married couple, Mr. and Mrs.Lee, said they only go out once a month because they are scared of potentially losing their lives or getting hurt out in public. There are tons of other examples and it’s so heartbreaking.

#StopAsianHate

In the summer, the hashtag BlackLivesMatter was trending. It is still a very big and growing movement. But it was a little unsettling that no one was talking about the movement “StopAsianHate” Not many people know about it because it isn’t being talked about.

I have only seen very few media influencers speak about it. The only ones that I have seen speak out about it are the ones that keep up with k-pop or watch anime or Asian’s themselves. It wasn’t until the k-drama “Squid Game” came out that people started treating Asians a bit too well. The Asian community is now getting fetishized because of their almond-shaped eyes and their clear skin. The character Kang Sae-Byeok, from ‘Squid Game” has been “analyzed” because she’s so hot and no one knows why. But it’s really because people can’t accept the fact that someone who isn’t white, can be hot just for the sake of being hot. The actress, HoYeon Jung, is a South Korean model and actress who started her career in 2010. Since she was exposed to the western audience with her starring in Squid Game, people have been analyzing her face to find out why she’s so pretty. But it’s just a cover for Americans’ internalized xenophobia and racism. People just don’t know how to accept that Asians and people of color can be pretty, if not prettier, than white people.

Speaking Out

Even fans of anime, K-pop, and K-dramas wouldn’t speak out about it or even know about all the Asian hate going around. True fans would speak out about it and hold people accountable but a lot of other fans would brush it off to the side as nothing happened. Even the fans that do talk about it, will make things more secret. There is this podcast called, “Daebak show w/ Eric Nam” if you don’t know, Eric Nam is an American K-pop idol, singer-songwriter, and he has a podcast where he will talk about K-pop, and a lot of the time he invites other idols on the show to talk about their new songs or a recent comeback. Eric Nam did an episode where he spoke about #StopAsianHate. In the K-pop community, everyone keeps up with certain groups and shows and that will become a trend. When Eric Nam posted this episode, no one was talking about it. The only thing I saw about Eric Nam was his memes. It was almost like no one cared about this huge event that is going down.

Throughout 2020, Asian people were getting harassed way more than usual because they were getting blamed for bringing over the Coronavirus. In 2021, the Korean drama Squid Game dropped on Netflix and now Asians are getting fetishized. In the past year, the Asian community has been under attack and enough is enough. What’s going on isn’t right, Asians should not have to endure this because they are Asian.

That’s your pet: the story of how a family ended up adopting a bear instead of a dog

forsymor000 Uncategorized November 11, 2021animals, asia, Bears, dogs, Lifestyle 0 Comment

A family lived in China and when they went on a road trip they saw some adorable little puppies the family fell in love so they decided to bring one home. The man who sold the puppies told them this was a Tibetan mastiff and would get very large but they would find out some odd things in the next two years including that he would get huge. They named the cute “dog” little black but he would not say little for long. At first, everything was fine but soon they realized he had an odd appetite for noodles and fruit.

They also soon realized he was able to stand on his hind legs the family realized their pet was quite strange but they didn’t think anything of it at the time. They knew their dog was going to get big but not this big the man they bought him from said he would grow to be 2 feet high but he didn’t stop at 2 feet he grew to 3 feet and weighed 250 pounds witch had the family on edge when their pet was this massive and he had some massive teeth but big dog big teeth right that’s what the mother of the family thought but she began to be scared of her pet.

They spent tons of money on him because when he ate fruit and noodles he ate buckets of them and wouldn’t eat any dog food whatsoever witch was also a concern to the family. Pretty soon he was forced to go outside because he was too big to fit in the house so they made him an enclosure in their backyard. When the officials found out about her strange dog they rushed to her house and she found out it was not a dog they
were lied to and told it was a large dog but it turned out to be a 250-pound bear.

The family was very startled to find out they had a pet Asiatic black bear and had kept it for 2 years the officials were surprised that this endangered bear looked very healthy. They loved their pet so you could imagine how hard this all was. The officials took the bear and brought it to a wildlife rescue center where they can care for the bear properly. Some people don’t get how they have mistaken a dog for a bear but the family said little black did start to look more like a bear as he grew older.

This is not the only time this has happened there are multiple stores where wild animals have been taken as pets to later discover had wild animals pets this has happened all over the world in multiple cases such as a family in texas brought home two kittens that turned out to be bobcats in another case a rescue brought in what they believed to be a box of puppies but were jackals but they had been too much socialized with humans so an employee got permission to keep the jackals there have also been incidents with wolves being mistaken for dogs there are a lot of animals that look very similar so if u ever encounter a new animal do your research before keeping it.