Saturday, June 20, 2009

How Dutch think of Asians


After a month stay in the Netherlands, i've got the chance to let my curiousness out of my bag and questioned people here how they think of Asians. And I am very much surprised. And its pretty funny and interesting when I hear it. So i surveyed a few men and friends and here's what I've got:

1) Most of them think too highly of themselves, that they think Asians are weird creatures that came from Mars with small eyes and weird noses which looks the same.
2) I feel offended when hearing how they make fun of us, the Chinese. They think that we speak weird and funny language and laughed proudly about it.
3) They think we are just NOOBS.
4) Female asian with a dutch man walking down the streets = hooker with an ugly unwanted dutch man. ( DUH )
5) They think Chinese = Asians = All from China. ( same same ) (DUH DUH DUH)
6) They think they know EVERYTHING better than us.

And the most amazing thing is, all their life, they had only stayed on their home ground. And they KNOW so much about us. Wow, how AMAZING. L.O.L

But Well, NOT EVERYONE ARE LIKE THAT! I would take a poll of 70% are as stated as above.

However, i see plenty of nice people around too:
1) My dear friend Bunny and I were lost while taking a train and there's this nice lady who showed us all the way to our train and eventually went back to her train station. How nice!
2) Most of the people are more than happy to help you if you lost your way ( we've been lost like more then 10 times and 10 times we've got help. )
3) They smile to you when you are walking pass.
4) Please, Thank you and See you again. ( Everytime ) Thats really nice.
5) They try to speak English and help you in ANY way they they could.

In a Nutshell:
Its a pretty bad misconception of the portrayal of Asians as minorities and perhaps a misunderstanding of the different cultures of the East & the West.

Therefore....
I think everyone in this whole wide world needs to liberal and open to the different cultures of all nationalities and races. Everyone in any place in this world has something special to appreciate in them. So appreciate everyone around!

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