That’s the result of prolonged and deliberate programming by western MSM and Hollywood, which teaches non-Chinese Asians that the only correct and acceptable response to anti-Chinese racism is to proudly announce that they are Korea/Japanese/whatever; while Chinese can only answer back with quotes from their little red-white-blue book about how their ancestors escaped China because of blah blah lazy bad CCP fan fiction, and how they hate the CCP more than the racists. At no point is it acceptable to challenge the racist on their anti-Chinese racism.
I would say that’s only one of the core reasons behind the current state of the Asian-American society. The other parts of it include:
1. Not understanding American society at all. The older generations are particularly ignorant of the history and social fabric of the US. They can’t see the subtle and harmful racism committed by other groups, particularly “whites”.
2. The older generations brought their grudges with them and cannot see the bigger picture while the younger generations are influenced by contemporary politics in Asia.
3. Perspectives of economic differences. Some Asian American communities, particularly those from SEA, want to split off from Asian Americans since they want Affirmative Action. They believe that all East Asian communities are filthy rich (thanks to the good minority myth) when that is absolutely false. A walk through the Chinatowns, Little Tokyos and Koreatowns really paint a different picture.
4. Overwhelming subtle racism and the past poor state of Asia as a whole basically broke them. That is why self hate is so prevalent in Asian American communities. If they can redirect the fire to someone else just for a slight respite like the “but I’m {insert an ethnic group here}” claim, they would do it.
