Roaming Millenial represents a common trend I find among biracial Asians.
When the curtain falls – the last bastion of white supremacy will be loudly shouted from the walls of whatever it means to be an “Asian” person. Finally, after all this time, these sick, racist, self-hating Asian men and women will finally get their shot of feeling “white,” long after every other progressive ignored Asians and their white worship for centuries.
This “trend” is usually a manifestation of the “almost there” mentality of half-Asians, who feel as if they are “almost white,” given that many Asian men and women feel similarly – and marry white people in an attempt to integrate and assimilate against a background of blacks, Latinos, Muslims, and other “non-assimilated” ethnic groups.
This push towards reactionary conservatism is an attempt to capitalize on the white western world’s fears of progressivism that disfavors whiteness, and finally (note I say finally) use these fears to have half-Asians finally included in whiteness, but only by proxy.
In other words, Lauren Chen and other biracial Asians finally feel as if the atmosphere is right enough to have half-Asians included into whiteness, which was ultimately the goal of Asian people all along.
Lauren also seems to have issues with her identity, consistently changing hair color (a common trope among self hating Asians who desperately want to be white), and finally changing her name to her father’s surname in an attempt to deflect claims that she is self-hating – which I and many other progressive half-Asians accused her of for years.
She also seems to reflect the trend of half-Asians expressing latent sexual / gendered racism tropes, in which it was suspected that she retained latent desires for Asian or non-white men (recently having married a non-white man with a striking resemblance to her father), while resenting her father’s taste for white women – an inverse of what usually occurs with biracial Asian men who favor Asian women but resent their mother’s taste for white men. It seems that she possessed a desire for Asian men, while subconsciously distrusting her father’s obvious taste for white women (common among Asian men), and so chose a male with a strong resemblance to her father while simultaneously changing her name back to an Asian one.
As I said – the immediate nature of white supremacy is a handful of white and non-white men (many times these men are mixed), who, desperate to achieve power, real or otherwise – rely heavily on ideas of sexual dominance and genetic inheritance. And as long as that continues to happen, women like Chen will still have a platform as a temporary mouth piece for lonely men.
The last bastion of white supremacy is that upheld by Asians.
I love this comment on Lauren Chen. I’m a Canadian Chinese and her complete refusal to even talk about her Chinese half is disturbing.
Toronto and the surrounding suburbs for all of its flaws at the end of the day is one of the few places in the world where there is a lot less prejudice.
The multiculturalism of Toronto makes it one of the best if not the best place in the world to be a 1/2 and 1/2 kid. From a standpoint of culture and relative freedom from racism there is the greatest amount of openness for a 1/2 & 1/2 child to create a positive sense of self identity that embraces the best of both worlds and perhaps create a new hybrid cultural identity that would help make Canada a better place.
Yet what does Lauren Chen do…be a trad-thot who seeks whiteness.
Although I’m an HK Chinese by birth, I was raised in part by White Working Class Canadian guardians while my parents for (economic reasons) worked out in Shanghai during much of my childhood. I hated the ignorance, empty headed materialism and the philistine attitudes of the HK Chinese that would have shamed my family for their financial situation and other things. But I choose to embrace the positive aspects of Canada’s multiculturalism, learned from my partial white upbringing and to hate the negative cultural traits of my HK Chinese identity without being in a blackpill rage where I would stab my own Volksgameinshaft in the back and be a race traitor.
It is a shame that for all of the opportunities that Lauren had to be better she chooses racism and self hate.
We should look upon her as an object of pity and once she hits the wall we should hold her up as a object lesson for other Asian Diaspora and 1/2 & 1/2 kids.
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Actually, her current fiance is Muslim (hardly white) and looks almost exactly like her father. Years ago we speculated she suffered from something a lot of AMWF hapa girls suffer from, which is jealousy over the father’s apparently or believed “white worship.” There are actually several famous FtM trans men who were all AWMF, almost to an abnormally common degree; as if they are seeking to escape the discomfort of being an Asian woman while living under the supposed white worship of the father. Chen never was explicitly white worshipping but her pandering to the alt-right definitely was a manifestation of her desire to be seen as a white woman like her mother. I also suspect her switch to her use of her real surname was spurred by my work and /r/hapas’ accusations of her being white worshipping. Quite a few number of biracials suffer from the debilitating psychological duress of having one parent supposedly “white worshipping.” When you factor in notions of gender roles combined with bicultural racial dynamics across both cultures and both genders, you get double the confusion.
Unfortunately, or fortunately, the discussion of the gendered psychology of biracials mostly started with, well, me. There’s nothing really about this until I showed up. I’m still kind of surprised how well received were my theories of parental manifestation of hierarchies according to gender whereby affecting children.
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