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Re: Didn't you know? Vietnamese people aren't gay.
During the early part of the AIDS crisis in the late 1970s or early 1980s, when scientists from other countries warned Japan about this new, frightening viral disease, Japanese officials responded by saying that there were no gay people in Japan.
Two counts of ignorance there -- one, Japanese associated sexual orientation as being determining factor of getting this virus. Two, that homosexuality is purely a cultural phenomena that can be excluded from some countries while it exists in others.
Originally posted by Oerdin
So I went out with an old friend of mine tonight for a few beers and to shoot some pool and he brought his younger brother along. When I say younger I mean WAAAAAYYYYY yonger; as in 12 years younger but the pool hall let him in as long as he didn't try to drink any beer. Any way my friend's brother is a senior in high school and he happens to be gay. Recently he came out to his parents and both of them are in a state of denial about it. They told the poor kid that there is absolutely no possibility that he is gay because "Vietnamese people aren't gay; only Whites and Blacks are gay". Their mother is Catholic and their father Buddhist but their mother has been pushing my friend's brother to go to church and pray to god to rid him of his "confusion". To his credit my friend seems to have accepted his brother's gayness though he kept making jokes that since his younger brother is gay (and so won't have kids) that now their mother is going to really be after him to get married and have babies.
It's hard to believe that in the 21st century some people still believe being gay is some how something people need to be "cured" of or that gayness doesn't happen to certain ethnic groups. Just thought I'd share.
So I went out with an old friend of mine tonight for a few beers and to shoot some pool and he brought his younger brother along. When I say younger I mean WAAAAAYYYYY yonger; as in 12 years younger but the pool hall let him in as long as he didn't try to drink any beer. Any way my friend's brother is a senior in high school and he happens to be gay. Recently he came out to his parents and both of them are in a state of denial about it. They told the poor kid that there is absolutely no possibility that he is gay because "Vietnamese people aren't gay; only Whites and Blacks are gay". Their mother is Catholic and their father Buddhist but their mother has been pushing my friend's brother to go to church and pray to god to rid him of his "confusion". To his credit my friend seems to have accepted his brother's gayness though he kept making jokes that since his younger brother is gay (and so won't have kids) that now their mother is going to really be after him to get married and have babies.
It's hard to believe that in the 21st century some people still believe being gay is some how something people need to be "cured" of or that gayness doesn't happen to certain ethnic groups. Just thought I'd share.
During the early part of the AIDS crisis in the late 1970s or early 1980s, when scientists from other countries warned Japan about this new, frightening viral disease, Japanese officials responded by saying that there were no gay people in Japan.
Two counts of ignorance there -- one, Japanese associated sexual orientation as being determining factor of getting this virus. Two, that homosexuality is purely a cultural phenomena that can be excluded from some countries while it exists in others.
Yes, I've heard the notion amongst the older Asian crowd that there are no such things as gaysians. It's a white/black problem, like drug use or going on shooting sprees.
Happy now?
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