最具亚洲特色的事情是什么？ [美国媒体]

What is the most Asian thing ever?

最具亚洲特色的事情是什么？

Alex C. Lee, Full-time Dark ArtsPractitioner

Updated Mon

Homework is the top priority

A while ago, an Asian kid was trapped in anelevator for five hours. Instead of freaking out and screaming for help, hestarted doing his homework in the elevator while waiting for the help to come.By the time the firefighters came and got this kid out, he had already finishedhis homework.[1]

I was harrassed by a random stranger as Iwas on my way home. He touched me by the cheek for a while before letting mego. Instead of getting offended and freaking out, I was angry with him becausehe kept me five minutes, which means five minutes less for homework.

1、家庭作业排在第一

之前，一个亚洲孩子被困在电梯里5小时，他没有害怕，也没有喊叫呼救，而是在电梯里做起了作业，等待救援的到来。在消防员救出他时，他已经完成了作业。

之前我回家时被一个陌生人骚扰。他触摸我脸颊，摸了好一会才让我走。我没有觉得受到侵犯和害怕，而是对他感到愤怒，因为他延误了我五分钟，意味着作业时间少了五分钟。 

No dating at school

Before college, we were frequently told byour teachers and parents that it was too early to date.

Weird thing is, as soon as we graduate,parents start to get angry that we are still single.

That said, school banning relationships isnot the real reason why I'm still a virgin until my early 20s. The real reason isstill being unattractive.

Extremely ugly school uniforms

In middle school and high school, we areforced to wear uniforms all the time.

Males and females wear the same uniform.Generally, the uniform looks like this:

I'm not a nerd at all, but this baggyuniform, plus the glasses, make everyone look extremely nerdy.

Oh, did I mention almost everyone wearsglasses in high schools? Because they spend too much time doing homework!

2、学校里禁止谈恋爱

上大学之前，老师和父母都说谈恋爱太早。

可奇怪的是，大学毕业后，父母愤怒于我们还没找到对象。

话虽如此，我过了20岁还是处女不是因为学校禁止谈恋爱，而是因为我不够漂亮。

3、极度丑陋的学校制服

在中学，我们必须穿校服。男女都穿同样的校服。宽大的校服加上眼镜，看起来像书呆子。

 

 

高中生几乎都戴眼镜，因为花太多时间做作业了。 

“The Kid Next Door”

Me: Grandma I got 90% on this test.

Grandma: Look at the kid next door! She got100%!

Me: Grandma I got into the XX MiddleSchool!

Grandma: Look at the kid next door! She gotinto a much better one!

“The kid next door” was my childhood nightmare.

Asian families like to compare their kidswith other families’ kids. Usually, they compare their kids' weaknesses withother kids’ strengths, and then come back to reproach their own kids for beingbadly performed at school.

4、“邻居家的孩子”

我：奶奶，我这次考试90分。

奶奶：看看邻居孩子，她100分！

我：奶奶，我考进某某中学了

奶奶：看看邻居家的孩子，她考进的学校更好

“邻居家的孩子”是我的童年噩梦。

亚洲家庭喜欢将自己的孩子同他人的孩子比较。将自己孩子的弱点同他人孩子的优点比较，从而责备自己孩子在学校里表现不好。 

Spanking and beating

Asian families believe beating is the bestway to educate their kids. As a result, most of my classmates in elementaryschool had been beaten at least once by their family.

Once, the girl sitting beside me got 82 outof 100 in a math test. She spent the entire noon shivering with fear, and latershe left a suicide note, saying she didn't dare going back home as she wouldcertainly get spanked fiercely. (She didn't kill herself in the end, though.)

Unlike most other adults, I could neverforgive my family for all the spanking and beating I had endured. I hated mypants being pulled down and butt getting hit again and again.

Making fun of kids saying whatever theywant to their loved ones

Random relative 1: “Hey, which one do youlove more, your dad or your mom?”

Random relative 2: “Hey, what if one day yourgrandparents threw you onto the streets?”

Random relative 3: “Hey, who do you thinkloves you more, your grandma or your granddad?”

Seriously, how the fuck can I answer allthose questions?

Father: “Why are you so fucking short? Whydo your friends even speak to you? You're the shortest in your class!”

Grandma: “You’re a shame to your school!They must have been blind when they admitted you!”

5、殴打

亚洲家庭认为殴打是教育孩子的最佳方式。我小学的大部分同学至少被家长打过一次。

一次，坐我旁边的女孩数学考了82分，整个中午她都害怕得颤抖，后来她留下了自杀信，称不敢回家，因为肯定会被狠狠的打屁股。（最终她没有自杀）

不像其他的大部分成年人，我永远都不会原谅我家人对我的殴打。我讨厌被脱裤子屁股被一次次拍打的感觉。

拿孩子开玩笑，对自己深爱的人说任何想说的话

亲戚1:“嘿，你更喜欢妈妈还是爸爸？”

亲戚2：“嘿，哪一天爷爷奶奶将你扔到街上怎么办？”

亲戚3:“嘿，谁爱你更多，爷爷还是奶奶？”

说真的，我怎么可能回答得了这些问题？

爸爸：“为什么你这么矮？为什么你朋友愿意和你说话？你是你们班最矮的！”

奶奶：“你是你们学校的耻辱！！他们录取你真是瞎了眼！” 

Long school hours and endless exams

My high school starts at 7:30am and ends at9:00pm.

We have several hours of homework to doeach night we are back home.

We have big exams every month.

Students are ranked according to theirtotal scores got from the exam. The ranking was published on the school bulletin.Everyone would know who was the bottom one and who was the top one.

I've been both the top one and bottom onebefore.

My life is complete.

Footnotes

[1] Student Gets Trapped in an Elevator For5 Hours - Does the Most Asian Thing Ever

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6、上课时间长，无尽的考试

我的高中七点半上课，九点半放学。

每个晚上回家要做几个小时的作业。

每个月都有一次大考。

学生根据考试总分排名。排名公布在学校公告栏上。谁都知道谁垫底，谁第一。我当过第一，也当过倒数第一。

我的生命是完整的。 

Ananya Nivsarkar

Nov 24 · 148 upvotes

You just explained the situation of Indiatoo! Though only a slight difference is that we have different uniforms, andsome Indian parents don’t want their children to date even after high school!The rest is more or less same in India. So I can say that, I feel you!

印度也是这样的！稍微的不同是我们的校服不是统一的，某些印度父母甚至不希望自己的孩子高中毕业后谈恋爱！剩余的多多少少和印度类似。所以我能理解你的感受！ 

Max Chen, knows Mandarin Chinese

Answered Tue

The way Asians take compliments is reallyunique.

Scenario 1:

Person 1: Hey, you’re pretty smart!

Person 2: You think so? Thanks!

(Asian) Scenario 2:

Person 1: Hey, you’re pretty smart!

Asian: No I’m not! Stop it! You’re muchsmarter than me!

This isn’t always the case, but I see it alot. This also applies to parents talking about their children:

Scenario 1:

Parent 1: Your daughter is doing so well inschool!

Parent 2: Aw, thanks! She works hard athome by herself.

亚洲人接受赞美的方式还真是很特别。

情景1:

A：嘿，你真聪明！

B：你这么认为？谢谢！

（亚洲人）情景2:

A：嘿，你真聪明！

亚洲人：不，我不聪明！别这样说！你比我聪明多了！

并不总是这样，但是我见过很多都这样。这也适用于父母谈论自己的孩子：

情景1:

A：你女儿的成绩真好！

B：谢谢！她在家很努力学习。 

(Asian) Scenario 2:

Parent 1: Your child is doing so well inschool!

Asian Parent: Are you kidding me? No! Lookat your child! She/he is so smart and hard-working!

Parents from other countries or those whohaven’t experienced this encounter before typically look baffled and awkwardlylaugh it off.

But I was just complimenting your child!

Well too bad. We Asians can’t take yourcompliments.

Sometimes it sucks. When I hear my parentstalk about how “bad” I’m doing in school, I get annoyed.

But when I hear other parents talking aboutme in a good way:

I only hope they actually mean it.

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（亚洲人）情景2:

A：你孩子成绩真好！

亚洲父母：你开玩笑吧？我孩子成绩不好！看看你的孩子，TA那么聪明，努力学习！

非亚洲父母或者从未遇见这种情况的父母会感到困惑，只能尴尬的一笑而过。

但是我刚才是在赞美你孩子啊！

很遗憾，我们亚洲人不能接受你的赞美。

有时候这种感觉真的很糟糕。当我听到我的父母谈论我的成绩有多糟时，我很烦恼。

但是当我听到其他父母表扬我时，我只希望他们是真心的。 

Esther Ng, studied at National Universityof Singapore

Answered Nov 25

The most Asian thing ever is this:

An empty plate.

From a young age this is drilled into yourhead. It’s not just about finishing your food, it’s making sure you eat EVERYSINGLE GRAIN OF RICE, EVERY BIT OF FOOD on your plate. So this below, thoughquite acceptable in most cultures, is a big no no for most Asians.

You better come as close to licking theplate as possible (but don’t lick it ’cause that’s rude too).

The funniest thing for me was how literallyevery parent would scare their kids into obeying by telling them that theirfuture spouse would be ugly/have pockmarks if they didn’t clear their plates.How it is known to every single Asian parent, I have no idea.

Even now, when we learn about portioncontrol and not eating once you feel full, it is still instinctive for a lot ofus to continue finishing whatever’s on our plate. And when you are a guest,they just keep piling up more and more food on your plate. I guess we know whyI’m gaining weight nowadays — metabolism is not offsetting the huge intake nowthat I’m older *sighs*. At least my husband won’t be ugly right?

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最具亚洲特色的事物是这个：

 

一个光光的盘子。

从小就被灌输这样的思想。不仅是吃完食物，而是要把盘子上的所有米饭和食物一点不剩的吃掉。以下这种情况对于大多数国家可能都是可以接受的，但是对大部分亚洲人来说这是不能接受的

最好是舔干净（不要那么做，有点粗鲁）。有意思的是几乎每个父母都会吓唬自己孩子说如果不吃干净以后的配偶就会很丑或者长麻子。为什么每个亚洲父母都知道这一点，我也不得而知。

即使到了现在，人们开始讲究食量控制以及吃饱就不吃的情况下，我们很多人出于本能还是会把盘子里的食物继续吃光。当你去做客时，他们就不断往你的盘子增加食物。我猜我知道自己为什么越来越胖了——新陈代谢赶不上我的巨大食物摄入，因为我老了。唉。至少我未来丈夫不会很丑，对吗？ 

Allen Lobo, Corporate finance exec,formerly a physician and scientist

Answered Tue

This answer is bound to raise the hacklesof many Asians around here but my answer to this question at this point in timewould have to be

Ultra-nationalism.

Too many citizens of the Asian nations withsome of the largest populations of any on the planet - China, India, Pakistanand Japan - are thin skinned beyond the people of any other continent. Thesefour nations cumulatively comprise almost 50

I read The Economist regularly and the twonations that have a veritable army of uber-defensive supporters are China andIndia. They cannot tolerate one word of criticism in an article and willimmediately accuse that British journal of being ignorant, imperialist and whatnot.

While at university, I had Chinesecolleagues, Ph.D students in physics no less, who would vehemently argue thatall the Western accounts of the Tiananmen Square massacre were a hoax at bestor worse still, that the students simply had it coming.

我的回答可能会让这里的很多亚洲人感到不爽。我觉得此时此刻最具亚洲特色的事物是：极端民族主义。

亚洲人口大国的好多公民都是薄脸皮的——中国，印度，巴基斯坦和日本。这四个国家的人口占据了50%。

我经常看《经济学人》，最为维护自己国家的人是中国人和印度人。只要经济学人的文章里出现一个批评的词汇，他们就会马上指责这家英国杂志是无知的、帝国主义的等等。

在大学里，我有中国同事，至少是物理学博士生，他们会激烈的争论说所有西方有关TAM的表述都是骗局，说那些学生是自找苦吃。 

In India, it is a criminal offense to notstand during the national anthem. It gets played before every movie in thecinema halls and you’ll get sanctioned if you didn't stand up during that time.

The Pakistanis continue to think that theywere exploited by America in the Cold War while the fact is that the firstmujahedeen cell was established by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto long before the invasionof Afghanistan by the Soviets. I've met more than a couple of Pakistanis herein the West who insist that their nation is a victim, while Pakistan (theirArmy and ISI intelligence service specifically) has been sponsoring terroristsagainst India since god knows when. Some of the world's most wanted terroristswalk around freely in their cities and even appear on national TV. Pakistan isthe biggest state sponsor of terrorism globally, by far. Yet to hear many ofits citizens talk, you'd come away thinking that their poor nation has beenswindled by America.

在印度，奏国歌不起立是犯罪行为。电影院里放映电影之前都要奏国歌，这期间如果你不站起来就会收到惩罚。

巴基斯坦人依然认为自己在冷战期间被美国利用了，而事实是在苏联入侵阿富汗之前，首个圣战组织就被佐勒菲卡尔•阿里•布托建立起来了。在西方我见过好多个巴基斯坦人坚持认为自己的国家是受害者，而巴基斯坦一直都在支持针对印度的恐怖主义分子。世界头号通缉的恐怖分子自由的走在巴基斯坦城市街头，甚至出现在国家电视台上。巴基斯坦是最大的恐怖主义支持者。可是听巴基斯坦人说话，你会觉得他们那贫穷的国家被美国欺骗了。 

But the ones who really take the cake arethe Japanese. While at business school, a German friend of mine was absolutelyappalled by how one of our Japanese colleagues was shunned by his countrymenfor criticizing the atrocities committed by Imperial Japan in the Second WorldWar. The contrast could not be more stark between how the Germans have owned upto their sins of the Second World War while the Japanese continue to teachtheir kids in school even today that they weren't all that guilty (a short BBCarticle here below from a few years ago, is one of many examples summarizingthat).

What Japanese history lessons leave out

Now the citizens of each of these nationsmay be critical of their countries when talking with each other, but boy dothey get mad at the slightest sign of criticism by anyone else.

South Americans are critical of theirnations.

Africans are.

Europeans and even Americans will take it.

But as far as being touchy about any signof criticism, nobody comes close to the Asians.

Let the brickbats and stones at my answercommence now.

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但是最最民族主义的要数日本人。在商学院里，我的一个德国朋友被我们的一个日本同事的经历给震惊到了，这个日本同事因为批评日本二战期间的暴行而被自己的国人所回避。德国人承认自己二战的罪行，而日本人直到今天还教育自己孩子当时的日本没有那么罪恶。

我所提及的这些国家的公民在互相聊天时或许会对自己国家感到不满，但是如果是别人批评自己的国家的话，他们肯定会很生气。

南美人也对自己的国家不满。

非洲人也是。

欧洲人和美国人会默默忍受。

但是在面对别人的批评时，亚洲人是最敏感的。

Cece Eason, Freshie girl

Answered Mon

This

And this

And this

And finally, this

Yes. That.

Rice.

Now you guys are all probably like what theheck Cece, you’re African American and Trinidadian (Indo).

Yes guys you are completely correct!

However, this rice isn’t mine. It’s my(step) dad’s. Who also isn’t Asian (mixed white and black).

When my dad was younger he and his siblingswere put into a group home. While in the system he had only one foster mom— anold North Indian woman. He spent years living with her, and in that time ricewas in almost every since meal he ate. Always.

Now over 15 years later rice is still veryimportant to my dad, even if we don’t eat it as often as he did when he wasyounger.

Everytime we go grocery shopping we alwaysbuy another pack of rice to go in pantry even though we always have cabinetsfull.

Rice.

Just look at it

When hurricane Irma came the first thing mydad did was buy rice.

This ~Google Search ~ is the most Asianthing ever.

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是的，大米。

 

 

现在你们会说，什么情况，你可是非洲裔美国人和特立尼达人（印裔）啊。

没错。

但是这个大米不是我的，是我继父的。他也不是亚洲人（黑白混血）。

在我继父还小时，他和兄弟被送进教养院里。在那里，他只有一个养母——一个北印度裔老妇。他们一起生活了多年，期间顿顿米饭。

15年过去了，米饭对我父亲而言依然非常重要，虽然现在不像他小时候吃得那么频繁。

每次去杂货店我们都要买一袋回来，虽然储米柜里已经满了。

艾尔玛飓风来临时，我父亲想到的第一件事就是买米。

Kim Ryokshin, studied at Fine Arts OfStupidity

Answered Sun

I actually can’t believe no one answeredthis.

I will rice up and answer this questionthen…

Every single day there is a sack of rice inthe corner without fail.

It’s magic.

Every Asian family will have a sack of ricein the corner.

If you don’t.

You aren’t Asian full stop.

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想不到竟然没人提到这一点。

每天都有一袋米放在角落里。

好神奇。

每个亚洲家庭都会在角落里放一袋米。

如果没有，你肯定不是亚洲人。