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navigatingtracker10 karma

When I was young i had 3 Chinese classmates and all their parents owned a Chinese restaurant. I always hung out with one kid at his restaurant and there would ALWAYS be something racist happening since they were neighbors with a bar where people would get drunk. Things like pissing against their store, prank calling, making fun of their accent (she couldnt pronounce the R), not taking them seriously, saying ni hao mockingly. This got a bit less as soon as they got more repeat loyal customers and when they changed their restaurant from a Chinese one to a Japanese/sushi one. Btw, their sushi was fire and the best Japanese food I have ever eaten, funny since both of them are Chinese and just taught it when the Chinese food was failing.

Have you also experienced these things? And do you feel like racism towards Asians, especially Chinese, is more normalized?

navigatingtracker3 karma

That's nice to hear. Mine was in a poor rather small Dutch city in Europe and Asians were rare here and only represented in these restaurants. For me it was the opposite, at school I barely encountered any racists.

Chinese restaurants are seen as cheap takeouts (which they often are, the quality here of them is really poor) but the Japanese sushi ones are seen as high-class and something you would take your family/date to when they transitioned the business started booming exponentially.