Arden Cho is sick and tired of being asked what she is — and we don't blame her.

In a new YouTube video, Arden opens up about the racism she experiences pretty much daily. As a Korean American, Arden says she's asked all the time "what" she is, and she's angry. That's because Arden is a human, and honestly more than that doesn't really matter.

Arden explains in her video that she's been told she's not Korean (she is), people constantly ask her whether she's North or South Korean, and people are always trying to guess her race. She's been called racial slurs, and people make micro aggressive gestures toward her often. She's even been physically assaulted.

“I’ve grown up with racism my entire life,” she said. “I’ve been bullied, sent to the hospital, beat up, I’ve been called a Chink and a Gook, every single racial slur an Asian person can be called, I’ve been called it.”

No one should be subject to violence because of their race, but, as Arden points out, the micro-aggressions are harmful too.

"I just want to put this out there," she said. "It doesn't matter what I am, or what you are, or what anybody is. If you are friends with someone and you're like 'hey, what ethnicity are you,' that's cool. But you wouldn't walk up to a white person and say 'what kind of white are you?'"

"I'm so tired of people telling me what I am and what I'm not," she continued. "I'm so tired of people saying you have to look a certain way to be American."

Exactly. Of course, this doesn't mean you can't have conversation about culture and race — it just means we should be conscious of how and when we bring these things up. Asking someone "what" they are implies they aren't a person. Asking someone where they come from implies they're less American than a white person. But, as Arden points out, asking someone about their ethnicity once a relationship outside of that context has been established can be done respectfully and meaningfully.

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