Reading Articulate_AzN's journal

The other day I was conversing with some buddies of mine, and we were talking about insults, and how good/bad we were at them. This brought up the old memory of my childhood days, acutally, which was only a few years ago, but that is besides the point. anyways, I remembered when I was in the 1st grade. I was about 7 years old, stood maybe 3.5 feet off of the ground. I always wore mens boxers over my pants, and always had a cool head accessory I was forced to take off (that was just to give you an image to allow you to further enjoy my next comment). I was the only asian kid at the school, being in the boon-docks of Tennessee, so I was picked on quite a bit. This comment I remembered because it was my first real attempt to defend myself and my culture.

I was walking down the hallways one day, and a bigger guy and some of his friends ran into me (being picked on a lot, I usually kept my eyes downcast, ergo not watching where I was going). He turned around in a rage and yelled,
"Go home and burn in hell!!"
I was quite offended by this, so I, 7 years old, turned around and replied,
"Sorry, but I am home, and the only person I see getting burned would have to be... <insert moment of contemplation> you."

everyone found this quite amusing that, I believe he was a 6th grader, was completely insulted by me, a small, skinny, strange looking asian girl.

just thought Id let everyone know. :-P

"Wishing on a star that's already burned out..."

This post was edited by Articulate_AzN on Apr 13, 2004.

Good job. Wow i probably would've done the same thing.... Freaky

everyone found this quite amusing that, I believe he was a 6th grader, was completely insulted by me, a small, skinny, strange looking asian girl.

One up for the asian gals! ;)

Yes. Childhood can be a rather trying period. And worse when u have to deal with racism (actually to deal with any issue that sets u apart somehow), no matter how diluted. I am not very good with on-the-feet kind of retorts so I really admire u. I have had some disturbing experiences with racism when I was backpacking but I didn’t have to stay at any place for long, so I could still manage some semblance of humour abt it. But even then only barely. It must be really tiring to be constantly on a defensive mode. U r one brave gal!

"Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating." --Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Thank you for your compliments. for some reason, ive always been able and required to defend myself in a situation, especially verbally (although ive had several incidents where I had to defend myself physically, but thats a different story altogether).

im sorry, but I infered from your comment that you were of a minority. am I right, or am I just dumb?

"Wishing on a star that's already burned out..."

*laughs*
Yeah, I’m an Asian Chinese who’s more adept with her chopsticks than with the keyboard. If u see this gal kicking the faulty cup noodles dispensing machine, demanding her coins back, hee, that’s probably me! :)

Coming from multi-cultural/racial/religious Asia, I find it difficult to see the sense of discrimination for any issue sometimes, especially towards race. Yet, I am aware that being prejudice free is impossible too.

I have childhood frens from primary sch who migrated to different continents where their parents were posted. They used to write letters back about how unhappy they were cos they were singled out and picked upon. So I can empathize with your difficult situation then. And children can be v cruel sometimes, bullying is almost like breathing at that age. Personally, I would have been terrified. Adapting is already v hard, being a kid somehow makes everything seems even tougher.

"Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating." --Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.