HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR ! CHUC MUNG NAM MOI ! ~
For those who celebrate it, I wish you a happy lunar new year. May this year be good to you and full of happiness, money and success.
Since it’s the year of the rat, I did a cute rat on my ring fingernail but it looks more like a mouse lol. And on the other nails, I did glitter placements like the one I did for the new year manicure.
As I said last year, Têt (lunar new year in Vietnam) should remind us that our culture is one of the most important part of ourselves. Sometimes, it can be hard to be proud of this part that makes us different from others. I think that all the asians who grew up in western countries can relate to it. I used to think that people hated me because I was asian. They mock the shape of your eyes, the -supposed- accent of your parents, your culture. The racism against asian is so normalized that people don’t even considerate it as racism and spoiler : this is fucking racism.
Because it’s some “jokes” doesn’t mean it’s normal. People think that racism is motivated only by hatred and spoiler bis : it’s NOT. Ignorance and bullying can also be roots for racism.
For all the asians out there, don’t let people who have no idea what it feels like to be asian in a western country tell you what is and what is not racist.
And for the others, please if an asian person tells you that this remark or joke is racist, just listen to them. If you can’t understand, don’t but just accept that people feel the way they do about certain things they hear. Don’t try to be right at all cost, this is not what’s important. Don’t be the person who says that nowadays we can’t say anything because people are so sensitive or the one who pull the “freedom of speech” card. Please, just don’t. It just invalidates and belittles our feelings. It just normalizes racism against asians even more.
Be the person who listens even if you can’t understand, be the person who uses your privileges to make the unheard ones heard, be the person who can see things through others perspectives, be the person who speaks and not the silent one, be the person who loves asian culture AND defend the interest of asians and understand their issues.
That was a long one. I had a lot on my chest and I think that the lunar new year was the perfect time to evacuate everything. In Vietnam, when the têt comes, everyone clean their houses to welcome the new year. I did the same but with my mind. Few things related to my ethnic background happened to me lately and it just made me realize how we’re in 2020 and people still be in 1950.
Polishes I used :
OPI : Adam Said “It’s New Year’s, Eve”
Essie : Getting Groovy
Maybelline : Bling Bling
White & Black Polishes
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