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We are all “colored” people; we are just not the colors people say we are.

"… Similar stories could be told about how the indigenous population of North America became red, Africans became black, and Caucasians came to be thought (or to think themselves) white. The color-coding of race now seems to us more or less natural—at least until we take a step back.

People are variously colored, but they never are the color that putatively identifies them racially. No one is actually yellow, red, black, or white. Color turns out to be a remarkably inexact index of racial identity, perhaps the least telling of the biological markers that have been used to build our taxonomies of race; and yet it is still the one we most commonly employ. In the complicated and often corrosive politics of pigmentation, color is almost always a social fact more than it is a visual one. We are all “colored” people; we are just not the colors people say we are."

On Color -Yellow — “Yellow peril”

This Chapter explains the story of how people of Asian descent are called 'yellow' among Americans.

In fact, I believe that some of the objective political implications of this are deplorable. This makes changing the structure of their speech difficult for Westerners who have a favorable opinion of East Asian culture. They think it is beneficial to learn East Asian culture, but it is also difficult for them to get rid of the shade produced by "yellow".

In this era, maybe this is what our generation can try to fix and build on cultural heritage with ethnic confidence.

The project United 1/12: Cultural Innovation shows how we can shift #StopAsianHate to #ProudToBeAsian as the following topic, not only enhances intercultural empathy but also steadies intra-cultural relationships, manifesting the "cross and bond": Endeavor to persevere cross-cultural dialogue.

+ Deriving cultural heritage into daily life to smoothen cultural communication.

+unleashes the curiosity and positivity of the users, and encourages rebuilding and spreading modern Asian culture simultaneously.

+ Infuses Asian cultures by reinforcing both cross-cultural and cross-generation communication.

+ By generating “subversive forms”, strives to completely disregard ethnic stereotypes, such as “model minority”.

#StopAsianHate 👉👉👉 United 1/12: Cultural Innovation

Yumeng Li