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Comment by lambdasquirrel | Hacker News Reader

As an Asian-American, I have to say that I envied the Chinese who could stay amongst themselves. Just saying.

Can you expand and explain what you mean?

Not asian-american but i have read about their thoughts on things. From what i gather atleast socially, asian americans feel like second class citizens in western societies, no matter how hard they study, they can't rise in management positions (bamboo ceiling), men are emasculated in the media (leading to a lot of their women favoring people of other races) etc... I think this is what the op meant, in chinese soceity, they would be the default, and so wouldn't face problems in areas which they feel are out of their control.

Since OP refuses to explain, my uneducated guess is that OP is facing similar issues that people in r/hapas are facing.

Not sure why OP got downvoted.

given the downvotes I just got, the nationalism on HN lately, and the narcissism in US-centric discourse in general, no, I do not wish to explain or expand on this

it is to the US-centric benefit that I should mention it, or expend the energy to explain myself, not the other way around

I think I partly recognize the feeling and the situation you're alluding to, but still: if you're not willing to post substantive information, it's best not to comment. Posting a vague and provocative allusion and then refusing to answer normal requests for clarification doesn't help the discussion here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

That sounds like the "not my job to educate you" mentality.

If they are the one complaining about something yes it is their job to educate from basic communication alone. No matter how frustrating it may be forcing others into playing a game of Mao is not reasonable.

FYI, I upvoted your initial comment, but downvoted this one.

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