Are Asians Perennial Adolescents 6

So what's my point?

My point is that WASPS, seeing themselves as mature adults, try to keep other races "adolescent." At the same time, there is alot of adolesence in the human race.

I don't think my experience is unique. I think Irish-Americans, Italian-A, Jewish-A, East European-A, Chinese-A, Japanese-A, Hispanics, Blacks... I think all these races and more races have at once time felt the sting of being sexually and otherwise being inferior to WASPS. I can only think in terms Freud here... castration anxiety. The Father (WASPS) castrates the son (minorities) in order to offset the proper formation of the ego in the son. The son no longer becomes a threat to the father... it's not pure Freud, but you get the point.

Hispanics and Blacks have reacted by presenting a fiercely sexual part of themselves in music and in other arts. While watching a gangster rapper video, I am reminded of Picasso's "The Young Girls of Avignon."

I may have reacted by becoming "phallic" politically... becoming an Asian Fascist?

And it's not to say that WASPS control the world or that WASPS are the only ones who are racists. Every nation has its pecking order of countries that it sees as most like itself... that it sees as allies and then a list of nations that it sees itself as most unlike itself. I, myself, share alot of the prejudices and racist attitudes of East Asians (China, Japan and Korea). I don't think much of the other Asian groups. I have a hard time trying to understand how India and Pakistan are Asians. I especially hate being identified as Vietnamese because I see them as weak. I own a Hair Salon and often people ask me if I do nails. I know what they are thinking... Vietnamese men do nails, I must do nails. I often console myself by saying that owning a Hair Salon is one step up from owning a nail salon. I also have the pride of being associated with one of the 3 Asian countries, who as a select group, will have a strong hand in shaping the world at large. I called my essay "Are Asians Perennial Adolescents?" I should have really called it... "Are East Asians Perennial Adolescents."

Also, it's not like WASPS made the world hell for everyone. Blacks and Hispanics haven't just being traumatized by WASPS, but by Italian-American, Jewish-Americans, and Asian-Americans, etc. Everyone has their share of racial attitudes and even the most liberal... the old time liberals must feel guilt because deep inside of them, there are racial attitudes that come out, unaware. Blacks can be intensely racist also. I sometimes see very arrogant Blacks who have no respect for anyone because everyone is a phony or a hypocrite. These Blacks are quite capable of saying the worst things about people, using all the racial and sexist ephithets.

Now, I'm stressing the racial attitudes of WASPS because it was England and America that really saved the World during World War II. This would mean that English and American attitudes would dominate the world. Why is East Asia called East Asia? Probably because the British Empire designated it that way. You look at a map and see what's East of Britain or Far East of Britain and it's Japan. You look at the World Map and look at who's named the various places and designated it
as such... it's really England and America. So do Indians and Koreans really have many common characteristics or are they both called Asians because of their geographical location?

Now, during the LA Riots, the Media presented Koreans shopowners as rude and racist Asians who got what was coming to them. You know, If New Yorkers were the owners of those shops in LA, would the Media have said they got what they deserved. New Yorkers are also known for being rude and sometimes racists, at least according to Californians. Later, I began to think about this image of Koreans being rude and unruly... this is a Japanese prejudice... the land of fair manners where a breach in etiquette is crime. Aplogize, apologize, apologize. This is a Japanese prejudice of Koreans that was accepted by the English and the Americans. Is it true? Yes, there is some truth to it, but it's really a superficial truth. To tell you the truth, I think there are alot of similarities between Blacks and Koreans. But I digress.

Now, where was I? Yes. Japan. I remember a Japanese friend that I had when I was young. He was, I think, the kindest person I ever met. His mother too was very kind. There was a kind of light around them, a numinosity. While playing Scrabble, all his energy seemed to be focused on the problem.

I also remember when I was in high school in Charlotte, NC. A Japanese girl was performing a tea ceremony. There was a kind of numinosity and focus on detail in her gestures.

You focus on the moment. You become one with the moment. Your interior monolgue stops. Your concern with your petty problems stops. You focus on what you are doing. You become empty in the sense that your interior personal engine is no longer running. It's something deeper, something from the soul running your gestures. You feel one with the environment.