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Prestoff posted...

Yeah I remembered being bullied just for being Asian, with every stereotyped thrown at my face like having a small penis and eating dogs. I remember the day my mom confronted the Principal about it and I remembered he said something very inappropriate like "stereotypes are based off truths you know, so technically what the kids are saying to him (me) isn't necessarily wrong, but I'll agree maybe what they said it wasn't very nice." (my mom english vocabulary wasn't very good so he was using that to his advantage to play semantics). My mom brought the bullying to my teacher and she took it into her hands by literally humiliating the main bully (the one starting it all) in front of the class and demanded he do a public apology to me and another asian student. So the bully than brought his parents in and said what the teacher was doing was "bullying" and actually got her fired and was replaced. My mom ended up pulling me out of the school and decided to put me into a school with more asian students to prevent this from happening again.

I think 2 decades later, I found my teacher attending my cousins wedding. She's currently working as a regional manager at Costco and she even said to me that she had no regret for her action and would do it all over again. I still keep in touch with her every once in awhile.

hm... i had the opposite happen to me. I was in a school where there were very few Asians. But instead of being bullied for being Asian, people thought it was ... i dunno. Exotic? Like that one thing people felt stood out, but no really cared. Sometimes I'd get "hey where you from?" and i would tell them. They would then just shrug and move about their day.

I'm not trying to minimize your experience. I just find it interesting how some people have very different experiences when placed in very similar circumstances.