



I'm an Asian male living in the Bay Area. I never believed in modern racism and thought that anytime any mention of it was brought up, that they were just another SJW.





Growing up, I was okay with girls telling me I wasn't their type, or coaches telling me I wasn't aggressive enough in sports so they'd bench me, or school administrators telling me that I wasn't a strong enough leader to run for council so they'd revoke my ability to run (all of which I worked hard to proved them wrong and eventually succeeded at all of these). Looking back, I realized that I had to work 10x harder than what my white peers did, and often times it was still not enough.

In college, I busted my ass to get a great degree, and found a STUNNING wife. Absolute 10/10 girl from China who was in my program and we hit it off. We now live together back home, and she changed my worldview on how Asian men should really be seen. It was the first time in my life I actually felt attractive. Unfortunately, after marrying her -- I've also seen the disgusting aspects of modern racism in a politically correct society.



Before we were married, we often worked at my family's side business running a modest Chinese restaurant. I remember a 50s white male patron, whom I've never met before interact with my mother like so:





WM: Is that your daughter? She's very pretty

Mom: Yes, that's my soon-to-be daughter in law in 2 days! My son is lucky.

WM: Well, you don't know that

Mom: ?

WM: Anything can happen, she may find someone better laughs.





To this day I physically hear people say: "Why is she with him?" both by passer-bys on the street, and my own sister.



It wasn't until I was finally treated like someone worth something by my current wife, that I started really noticing things like this. It's disgusting how commonplace this was while growing up and in my current everyday life. In a place such as San Francisco where people say that racism doesn't exist and it's a "melting pot."





It's all bullshit.



MayanJade:

I grew up in the Bay Area, and I would say the reason people think it's post-racial is because racism has evolved into a sort of passive-agressive post-modern racism. Overt racism has become covert racism. This is the type of racism that has people stating, "Not that I'm racist, but [insert racist statement here]."

Long gone are the days where there would be mass random acts of violence against Asians, blacks and Latinos on the streets of San Francisco (thank God), but now you get all kinds of snide remarks as you described in your post, and find that you have to work harder to accomplish just about anything.

Overall I'd say the Bay is still relatively accepting, compared to other parts of the country, but don't be mistaken, racism still is prevalent here, it just takes a different form.





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Candle21:

Lastly, that part about those systems (or ceilings) in place to keep non-whites from easily progressing are more real than a $100 bill existing. That's why I hear about it from non-white corporate people ALL THE TIME and even when I was looking up a huge multinational company's company rating on how it is to work for them, look what a top review said at the end of it.





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