That's not funny!
Know what else isn't funny?
- Eric Holder assures Pakistan that there will be no discrimination against Pak Ams ...
- ... meanwhile, this WaPo article explains how Pakistanis are starting to refuse to become American.
- For a perspective: two Pakistani novels about the experience of Pak Ams in New York after 9/11.
- Desis open a yoga food joint in Murray Hill.
- A perspective on the Arizona immigrant profiling law from an American in China.
- An Indian American scientist was on the team that created the first synthetic cell.
- An extensive article in the L.A. Times blog on racebending.
- Indian American candidate for S. Carolina governor Nikki Haley gets endorsements from Sarah Palin & Mitt Romney and then jumps ahead in the polls.
- Fil Am transwoman is suing Macy's for discrimination and wrongful termination.
- Chinese American WASPs, the women pilots who ferried planes stateside during WWII.
- Fil Am orphan helps sponsor other Filipino orphans to come to the States.
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I didn't really get the joke but all I knew was that he was mocking the Chinese accent.
In addition, I don't think he is really Chinese. He's more American than Chinese. Perhaps, he does not know the difference among nationality, race, and ethnicity?
Actually, I believe the accent. I think it's real. I don't think he was mocking it.
And it might be you who is confused abut the difference. Saying that you're "Chinese" doesn't mean that you're saying your nationality is Chinese. You could be referring to your ethnicity or your nationality, or both. You could be from Hong Kong or Singapore or the U.S. or Australia or wherever and still say that you're "Chinese."
And the joke is based not on nationality but on race: he was saying that the three people created a gradient from white, to part-white part-Chinese, to Chinese. So he clearly meant that he was ethnically or racially Chinese, just like the other two were ethnically or racially white and white/Chinese.