[TW: Very Brief Mention Of Death]

[TW: Very brief mention of death]

To anyone that may read this;

If you ever find yourself feeling insecure about the way that you look and, much like myself, compare yourself to anyone that you might think looks more attractive; I'm about to tell you something that my mom told me once.

She told me that it didn't matter how I looked, someone in the world was bound to be attracted to me someday.

She told me that I shouldn't make myself feel less attractive than anyone because when we all die our skin and flesh will rot away and we're all going to look exactly the same "just a heaping, old, dusty pile of bones".

She told me that she would remind herself about that whenever she was feeling unattractive and it made her more confident about herself over the years.

I hope this helps someone the way it's helping me today.

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lazythingsdiplomatchick

4 months ago

As a Chinese American, it's so jarring to see positive things said towards China/Chinese culture now that RedNote has become trending.

I see all the TikTok's about people moving to RedNote, all the nice things said about Chinese culture and people and I just feel conflicted. Like great, it's becoming less stigmatized for people to enjoy Chinese culture but I had to go through hell to get to see it.

From 2020-2022, I saw my culture being mocked, memed, and ridiculed. I was being called slurs in the lunch hall in high school. I was glared at in stores by middle aged men. MY OWN FRIENDS refused to stick up for me against blatant Sinophobia and even contributed to it.

I still constantly have to BEG some of my friends, some who I've known for OVER A DECADE, to at least acknowledge that things are different from me than they are for them.

I did an entire paper on Sinophobia for one of my classes. I used only academic journals and sources from accredited schools, I pulled from my own experiences, I put my blood, sweat and tears into that paper. It got me an A in that class too. And that still wasn't enough for some people to ACKNOWLEDGE we had a different experience.

And surprisingly, I never experienced any of the previously listed bullshit in my circle on tumblr so thank you.

Edit: I would like to add that I don't condone hate/generalization to other groups. We can point out discrimination without being discriminatory ourselves. BEHAVE🫵

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lazythingsdiplomatchick

1 year ago