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If you grew up in a country with distinct cultural aspects and features that are completely different to your own, you’ve probably experienced something like this, at least once in your lifetime. Of course it might’ve not been this confronting, because I get it. Sometimes you let it slide and build onto the offensive racial joke to please a privileged white race. Yeah, I said that! This doesn’t apply to everyone, but it’s so bloody common and stuff like this is tossed around, thoughtlessly. I’ve done that before. And yeah, sometimes they’re funny. I laugh at them too. But when it crosses the line between funny and offensive and it targets someone or a whole nation for something that they can’t change, it bothers me. There’s a difference. Harassing a woman wearing a beautiful headscarf and calling them a terrorist, isn’t. Disregarding your east Asian friend’s achievements, simply by telling them, “it’s because you’re Asian,” isn’t funny. These aren’t even half funny.

These stereotypes exist because people are so ignorant and don't, or can't, accept the fact that nobody chose how they were born. In fact, if certain people just shut their mouth then no one would feel this high level of insecurity and go to lengths to modify their looks to further live up to the standards created by our society. The reason why so many people feel uncomfortable in their own skin is because of you critics, and the results are to no extent. Your dissatisfaction with yourself affects your loved ones. Have you thought about that?

Accept each other. Accept someone different for their ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, appearance, abilities because it's likely that, behind all of those layers of identity, there is a person who is kind, talented and someone who wants change but is too scared to say it. I'm so privileged to have this platform in which I'm able to complain in hopes that someone will hear me out.