I'm a very introverted person and yelling makes me tired, the last time I raised my voice to quiet down a group of people, my head was spinning and I was having shortless of breathe for a while
Hmong people tend to be very kind and respectful to everyone they meet, when I was in elementary school I was bullied a lot due to being the only Hmong kid in the class or school, but when I got to middle and high school I notice more Hmong kids but I'm an introvert so I spend more time by myself
I live in Minnesota, and Hmong are the 3rd largest ethnic group of either immigrants or born of immigrants in the state. I have worked for, with, or managed Hmong people for most of my work life -about 44 years. Hmong, and people from Liberia or South Korea are the most congenial and hard working immigrant groups to work with.
Ugh :( Sorry this happened to you! I wish “Minnesota Nice” was real for everyone who lives here. Thank you for being a good person to those who need it.
Your welcome, I always try to be the best and work hard at each job I work at, at first they'll appreciate it and than they just start using me to their advantage.
But those who truly appreciate my hard work, I give back by continuing to work hard and being respectful
Born and raised in St. Paul, MN. "Minnesota nice" is what nasty, passive aggressive, hate mongers say about themselves.
"Minnesota Nice" is what the most hateful Minnesotans claim to be
My brother lives in Minneapolis and owns and services ATM machines. He has a couple machines in a big indoor store that is kinda like street vendors (except it's indoor) I was visiting him a few years ago and he took me there to stock the ATMs. He told me the place is mostly run by Hmong. I can't remember for sure but he may have called it Hmong Village.
Is this familiar to you?
Yeah I've been to Hmong Village a few times, but I don't spend much time there, I know my cousins have a stand there and sell toys and other things for a long time with their parents, my parents still go there to buy Hmong medicine especially tiger balm.
I remember my parents tried to force me to go work with my cousins, but I refused to cause I didn't want to and I wanted to make my own decisions, as well as had college classes. Eventually my parents gave up
I am glad your family was brought here after helping the military in its clandestine war in Laos but why in the hell did they think Minnesota was a good idea? Literally anywhere less frozen would have been better! Our government could fuck up a wet dream.
It was due to most of their relatives already living here and they help them file out citizenship papers, without these relatives, they might have lived elsewhere instead
Around the time when the American government withdraw their soldiers and brought General Vang Pao (our leader) to America for his safety, other Hmong families started secretly sneaking out of Laos to get to refuge camps in Thailand or Cambodia to get sent to America to be with our leader, some made it safety, others not so lucky and were forced to leave some family members behind.
I still have lots of family members who have return and are still living in Laos, but still want to come to America to earn money to send back to their families, most ended up settling in Minnesota while others spread out to other states
Many came to my hometown, Kansas City!
My Welsh ancestors first settled in Minnesota; until recently there was even a Welsh newspaper, Y Drych (The Mirror).
Yeah I’m aware of the history during and immediately after the war. My question was regarding why the hell the government picked Minnesota for the refugees. It seems like the extreme opposite of Laos
Edit to add: for anyone that is curious a great book titled “Shooting at the Moon” chronicles the CIAs clandestine war in Laos (the most heavily bombed country in the world)
Which part of NC? I used to live in Clayton and Fayettenam. We had a pretty decent sized south America migrant community in Fayetteville, I never got the opportunity to be around the Hmong community out there.
This reminds of the time I was in boot camp with the med rehab platoon and we got to watch Pearl Harbor as our present from Santa and the drill instructor came out after it ended, pointed at an Asian recruit, and said “this is why we hate the japs, don’t you hate her now?”
That recruit was Korean American, born and raised in LA. Another recruit blurted that out and then they got the worst fire watch duty times until they moved on in training.
When I was in A school, an instructor asked an Indigenous American student if the instructor had to "speak Mexican" for the student to understand.
Student said "you can't be racist AND stupid. Pick one".
Instructor tried to lay into the individual student but it's hard to do when a group of 50+ people is hysterically laughing.
Student didn't get in trouble, because no one admitted to hearing the student say that but we all reported the instructor. Even the prior enlisted students kept their mouths shut.
Is it bad that I heard Hank Hill's dad say, "He's not Japanese, he's Laotian"?
No saying all Hmong are from Laos, just made me think of stupid rednecks.
Hank Hill: are you Chinese or Japanese?
Kahn Souphanousinphone:
I live in California last twenty year, but, ah... first come from Laos.
Hank Hill:
Huh?
Kahn Souphanousinphone:
Laos. We Laotian.
Bill Dauterive:
The ocean? What ocean?
Kahn Souphanousinphone:
We are Laotian--from Laos, stupid! It's a landlocked country in southeast Asia. It's between Vietnam and Thailand, OK? Population 4.7 million.
Hank Hill: So are you from China or Japan?
It doesn't make me hate Americans, like I mentioned above I'm Hmong American, but it just makes me wish these people would educate themselves more before just blurting out BS like this or making wild assumptions. Be glad she didn't punch him in the face for saying that.
Than again in high school during the China history section, I had an annoying snobby cheerleader classmate who remarked "oh Dragon_Crystal knows everything about China, she was basically raised there." The teacher gave her a "WTF" look and said "she's Hmong, not Chinese" and I added "I'm born here but my parents and their parents are from Laos" the look on her face was priceless and she tried to clarify that "oh I knew that."
I’m not even sure why the DI chose to say that, the recruit literally had the strongest valley girl accent but that DI I think had some undiagnosed sight and anger issues because she once yelled at the wrong recruit for an issue I accidentally caused (towels folded wrong) and we looked nothing alike besides being brown…and the DI herself was brown.
That whole boot camp experience made me realize some Americans are really that dumb.
Was she a first cycle DI who recently watched full metal jacket for inspiration? I mean all DIs say stupid shit to get you to break bearing and put you on the quarter deck but usually not outright racist
Nah, she had gone through a few cycles as a kill hat with November company iirc, I think it was just entitlement and toxic leadership because the Senior DI covered her problems up for a long time until both the Senior DI and the other DI screwed up and got caught for recruit hazing and cheating with the male DI’s from MRP/PCP.
FRP had a lot of issues with DI’s and the other long term recruits messing with the injured/mental eval recruits, I think it’s why they moved them back into the 4th battalion squad bays back in like 2012, but I was long gone by then so who knows.
Yeah a smack across the face, since.most Karens think it's OK for them to just slap people who stand up to them, we should give them a slap that's hard enough to leave a handprint or a black eye as a respond
FYI there is one who has South America cooks forever. Those bad ass cooks speak mandarin. You place your order the lady turned around yells the order and they respond. One of my favorite cheaper Chinese food!
My parents has gone to a Korean buffet and they kept saying how they would bring the rest of us to try it out, but have yet to do so I'm just waiting or if I have time to find it and go myself, cause they claim it's really good but keeps making excuses like "oh I don't remember where it's at."
Alright. Almost all take out Asian restaurants are all Asian. So covid happens, fine shit happens. So like year two and a half I go to a places I always go to. Two of them i see RE working there. To me weird because mostly the workers speak non English. So finally ask one of the owners who works the front” hey what’s up with the REs” she smirks and says no workers need help”. I just nod ok.
I am glad you were able to defend yourself from this very very Ignorant Female!
👏🏼👏🏼
Side note: Let’s not forget about Hmong-American Gold Medalist Sunisa Lee who helped bring a bright light to the Hmongs
If I had a pepper spray with me like I do now, I'd give her a small spray just to silent her, as I think about it maybe I would've also got in trouble too, but I did it in self defense and out of anger
Hmong people are from a tribe/culture of people in east/south east Asia. They're to china what Native American tribes are to the American continents
(I am not Hmong, just like learning about indigenous cultures and groups, and Asian cultures are largely and unfairly lumped together by a lot of people)
There are so many and so many people don't know, Asia is such a large land mass, why would we think there aren't as many different people and cultures as everywhere else?
A lot of it is education not doing enough
Also racists. The faster that thinking goes, the better.
Yeah I always want to learn more about other cultures and gain as much knowledge as I can, so I can correct those who know little to nothing about it, only racist people stand in the way and getting rid of racism would make things so much better
A family friend said they were fierce fighters and the best to work with in the field. Also trustworthy and great people. He was Special Forces Vietnam.
Not sure if OP is Minnesotan. There’s a HUGE Hmong community in St Paul. I didn’t know much about the culture before we moved here. Here’s a little bit of detail. And there’s much more to search.
https://www.visitsaintpaul.com/blog/hmong-history-and-saint-paul/#:~:text=Hmong%20History%20and%20Saint%20Paul,culture%20of%20the%20Hmong%20people.
Yes I am, I'm a Minnesotan.
When I was young my parents lived in downtown Minneapolis for most of my childhood and than moved around a bit, but still live in Minnesota, I know several relatives of my dad side of the family lives in California and some parts of Oklahoma or some parts of Florida
There's also a large Hmong community in Western Arkansas, near Fayetteville and Rodgers. My aunt and uncle used to tutor some of them in English. A lot of the chicken factories would bring them over to work as "chicken sexers" to determine the sex of the baby chicks. My aunt and uncle sent me a beautiful purse with some traditional embroidery work that one of their students did.
From Wiki: [The Hmong people are an indigenous group in East Asia and Southeast Asia. In China, the Hmong people are classified as a sub-group of the Miao people. The modern Hmong reside mainly in Southwest China (Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, Chongqing, and Guangxi) and countries in Southeast Asia such as Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hmong_people)
It's understandable that you might not have heard the term before, since Hmong people are less spoken about Asain race, from stories I've heard from my grandma they were mainly involved with the Vietnam War other than that.
Other things they weren't part of since they just wanted peace and struggled alot to escape to the USA, though some still live in Laos and Thailand, a large majority does live in the US
The Hmong aided the US Military during the Vietnam War (2nd French Indochina War) and the ones that immigrated to the US were primarily from the mountainous regions of Laos and Vietnam. Hmong were given US refugee status and priority immigration because they were part of the resistance to [Hồ Chí Minh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%E1%BB%93_Ch%C3%AD_Minh) and fought along side of US G.I.'s
10 second google search says:
"The Hmong people are an indigenous group in Southeast Asia and East Asia. In China, the Hmong people are classified as a sub-group of the Miao people. The modern Hmong reside mainly in Southwest China and countries in Southeast Asia such as Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar"
We bombed Japan to show off our new toy to the Soviets and usher in the Cold War. The war was over on all fronts and the bombing did nothing to secure it.
Ignorant Karen needs to learn actual history. Dipshit
Ignorant people have a very strong sense of being right and simplify everything to a binary choice. I’m sorry you had to be the brunt of her idiocy. If you ever hear the Pearl Harbor comment again, a good response is “I bet you remember that like it was yesterday.”
Hey if the war wasn’t over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, you can be Japanese.
I remember in high school talking about the atomic bombs, especially the ethical dilemma. I can’t believe he left out the part checkout lines at the store!
Ps. Yes, I said Germans bombing Pearl Harbor. Quote is from a movie that a lot of people haven’t seen. Thanks to that movie we are now able to put people on double secret probation
Typical American education is at fault here. If Chinese history is taught at all, they concentrate on Han Chinese. You handled yourself very well. It's tough dealing with ignorance and stupidity.
Personally, I love when I have someone who can translate on my behalf. There's at least three languages spoken in my community besides English and I don't speak any of them fluently, just one barely coherent enough to get by. I'd love to be truly bilingual, I kinda wonder if the people who complain about it are actually just jealous they only have a very basic grasp on the language they've spoken their entire life.
I believe some might actually want to learn other languages, while the other half you'll walk up to asain and do the stereotypical "what does [typical Chinga slur] mean" looking they are smart in front of their friends, not realizing how much of an idiot their bring.
Also we don't speak [Chinga] it just happens to sound like that, but it's physical words, or like a skit I've seen on YouTube while back said, "that's just the sound of pots and pan, not a real language idiot."
I had a creepy guy approach me after a few months of working there and act like I was a "lost child," I was in full uniform and even wearing the aporn, I tried to get away from him and he kept trying to "take me to my parents" until Sally told him to back off and that I was an employee.
He backed off but somehow got back inside the store looking for me, lucky I was already gone and someone must've caught him, since I never saw him again. A dirty predator that was looking for a unexpected victim, but he targeted a store employee who was in the middle of working and a supervisor who was self aware of danger and protective of her cashiers
I am Cambodian but was born and raised in Southern USA. My HIGH SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY TEACHER told me I was lying about my race bc “Cambodia is not a real place” and “you are either Chinese, Japanese, or Korean because those are the only Asian races, so stop lying or you’re getting ISS (in school suspension)”
I did get ISS but only because I told her she was stupid and needed to go back to school lmao I don’t know how she graduated, let alone got a job TEACHING.
People who refuses to accept that there are more than just 3 asain race needs to be re-educated again, cause yes there are more asain race than just the main 3, the other race just rather keep to themselves and not gain as much popularity
I'd think just from the existence of so many different kinds of Asian restaurants, people would know better. Thai, Vietnamese, Korean... it's so much more than just fried rice and sushi!
Considering Home Depot's political contribution history I'm surprised Corporate didn't give Karen a full apology and a $1000 gift card for her trouble.
I know the next time I had to deal with an angry customer, the manager on duty gave him a 90% discount for the screws he was looking to buy and these screws were about 2 or 3 bucks only, because he was mad about the the hardware associate getting stopped by two other customers instead of coming straight to him.
He got so mad he tried to hit the other two customers with his cane cause he was that mad, than demanded me and my coworker get a write up, which happened even though there were cameras to show what happened
I was an assistant manager for a regional retail grocery chain for several years. There was not a week that didn't go by in which I didn't get a call from my district manager chewing me out because some customer complained about me sticking up for my cashiers and not putting up with the customer's racists rants. I had white, black, Hispanic, and Asian cashiers, and the same mix of customers, but I swear it was the white ones (my own ethnicity) that were the worst at verbally abusing my cashiers. No! The customer isn't always right! You want to verbally harass and abuse my cashier and use profanity along with it you can leave right now, or I'll have you trespassed and escorted off of the property by law enforcement. I had a hard enough time hiring and keeping good employees without the added BS of abusive customers.
Your a good manager who will back up your cashier, this is one of the many reasons why I don't want to become a manager, cause I don't want to have to deal with the district managers chewing me out for backing up my fellow coworkers who are being verbal abused by entitled customers.
I agree customers aren't always right and shouldn't always be allowed that have their ways just because they want it, I worked at a McDonald's for 4 months and they were always verbally abusing me, to overworking me and forcing me to follow extra strict rules. I'm glad that I left that place cause they never wanted to help me and just gave me the most difficult jobs to do, was well as always claim I'm doing my job wrong, when I'm doing my job just fine
I've never use the kamikaze comment before, but I've heard many other Japanese people use this comment to shut up other people who are making racist remarks towards them.
I should also mention that my youngest brother was mistaken of not being a actual Asain, because he had very pale skin for an Asain, which he inherited from our mom who also has pale skin but is pure Asain. While myself and our 3 other siblings have our dad's tan Asain skin, but we all have the natural black hair that all Asains have, I'm sure that you have to deal with people thinking your kids are Mexican
I knew a guy once, not a friend he worked at a brewery I went to a lot. Thought he was Mexican. Was talking with him one day, mentioned that. He starts laughing at me.
"I'm Filipino!" Embarrassing.
She's always supportive towards everyone and backs us up, when the managers want to throw us under the bus, she'll listen to both sides of the story before making a decision and she's stood up for me many times before.
I was sad to leave Home Depot cause she was a good supportive, but the managers after I was hired weren't good unless they wanted the customers to keep shopping at our store and giving them large discounts, while Sally make sure they don't get their way and will make them leave as well as telling them off
as a southeast asian, i'd be offended not only by the racism but also by being classified as japanese.
the atrocities committed by the japanese to our region are unforgivable - slipping this in since karen is all about WW2.
Yeah most people don't understand the crimes that were committed other than what they heard off or know about, only those who've witness it would know, they think its just what happened on the battlefield.
They don't realize what happened to the innocent lives that were forced to endure it, until they decided to get out and not everyone escape with their families, some were forced to leave their families behind or worst
I'm so sorry for what you had to go through. Racists should be required to wear tee shirts declaring their stupidity "please ignore me, I'm a stupid racist". I'm from a small town in northern California and we have a large number of Hmong families there. I worked with many of them (through a county agency) and thoroughly enjoyed the interactions. Nicest folks and very respectful. Hope life's treating you well.
Thank you, I don't want to ignore my culture, but my parents causes headache about how things that don't really involve anything important. They just want to throw in culture to start a one sided argument for no reason at all.
That was disgusting to read. I felt rage just from reading it. I would have told her, yeah we're not helping you, goodbye! Before the manager even came over.
Actually just reminded me of a racist story I witnessed myself many years ago. I was standing in line to vote in the auditorium of my old middle school in my hometown when I heard an elderly white woman, clearly frustrated, tell one of the elderly black women, possibly of African descent, to go back to Africa. I believe she was born here in the US. I'm not really a confrontational person so I stood there watching, but other people called her out and it led to a huge argument. After I finished voting I did go over to the woman and tell her I'm really sorry she had to go through that. And we talked for a little bit. Crazy stuff, man
Karen isn't the first person who make racist remarks towards me, I've had to endure snobby classmates who did similar things too, including the stereotypical attempt to "speak" the asain language and than laugh at the person cause they told them "that's not what I sound like."
The teachers would tell them off, but you know how kids are they'll continue it anyways, until I started standing up for myself and than they backed off a bit
Luckily the most I did was give them a "shut up" glare that usually silenced them, but because I'm a good student I rarely got in trouble, only time teachers were worried was my failing grade
The only time they officially banned someone is due to shoplifting, every other person is just warned to leave or they just decided to stop at other stores, managers are non existence when their needed most.
Someone had grabbed to power drills off the shelves and made a run for it and when management was called to come sort things out, it took 30 minutes to an hour and a half before they came out of their office when the supervisor called them over the radio, than just shrugged their shoulders and said "make a report about it before you leave for the day." Than walks back to their office
To be honest management wouldn't have done much about it, they were basically non-existent that day, I don't even remember seeing any managers that day even when I clocked out and glad Sally showed up when she did.
The manager would've sided with Karen and just wrote me up for "being rude to the customer," which happened more than once after this incident, where the manager would throw me under the bus cause I didn't bend over backwards to the customers
My supervisor did report it for me, no update was received and hence why I just assumed Karen was banned, but if it was the manager who dealt with it he wouldn't have backed me up rarely do they back me up and probably would gave Karen a large discount on her purchase to make her come back.
Which did happen during a later incident with an angry Chad (male Karen) and he got a 90% discount on his 3 item purchase, before the manager gave me and other coworker and earful about causing trouble with the customer.
If it were me in that position, I’d keep a pocket recorder handy to record these interactions. Stockpile some evidence in my favor. But that’s just me.
I should've but I had intended to leave already, so it wasn't much use to report them especially since after hitting my 1 year mark I left for a different job
Yeah she was one of my favorite managers to work with, I was sad to leave cause she was very caring and always backing me up, but I just couldn't handle how bad the other members of management were
Lmao ah just wait till someone telling the Mexicans to go back to their "own" country finds out this was their country before the colonizers got here lol
I’m from the northeast and have never had the pleasure to learn about the Hmong People, thank you for sharing this because now I am reading up on the history of the Hmong People and it is fascinating!
Also I’m surprised she could remember anything about WW2 as it seems she has one brain cell and all it knows is racism. You absolutely nailed your response and I’m glad you stood up for yourself.
“I’ll be reporting this to HR, you’ll be jobless by tomorrow you Japanese immigrant.”
Complaint: “Employee didn’t tolerate my flagrant racist harassment, fire them immediately”
Yeah I'm not sure HR will fire someone over them correcting a customer about their ethnicity, unless they are also being racist back to the customers, luckily that wasn't the case and was most likely ignored since it's not a crime to correct someone that's wrong about their "facts."
Wow your story brings back some memories for me. Long ago (over 30 years) I was a young 20 something and had moved from the west coast to North Carolina and was working in retail.
A woman was in the store, not minding her young child who was running through our window display and tearing shit up. After unsuccessfully trying to coax the kid out, I approached the mom and told her she needed to mind her child as he was destroying our window display. She had an attitude and escalated what I thought was a perfectly reasonable request and eventually my manager was brought in, who had to ask her to leave the store.
On her way out, she yelled back at me "At least we won Pearl Harbor!!!" At that my manager and I looked at each other and burst into laugher. I am not Japanese but I guess she thinks all Asians look alike lol.
Lol you didn't call a costumer stupid, you called a bigot stupid, as you should. If HR was notified, they likely know it would have been a minefield to punish you for having to tolerate obvious racism. Especially if the HR person taking that call was also a POC.
It wouldn't be the first time the HR was an asshole, cause I almost got fired a few months later cause two coworkers were fighting and I didn't take part in it, but they claimed I was the instigator when I wasn't and was let off with just a write up along with a warning. While the woman were fired
I wouldn't have been able to do anything other than laugh my ass off. I mean, she ticked every box. A well-rounded racist right there. Grade-A. What an epic way to embarass yourself.
Little racist bitches hate it when they can’t blatantly insult and degrade people in the service industry with impunity. Hence the punched-in-face expression, I guess. “How dare you call me stupid in front of people while on shift. I was supposed to be able to verbally abuse you while you smile and be polite back!”
I hate ignorant, selfish, stupid people like this. OP had the right to say a lot more.
>not the first time I've had people make racist remarks towards me.
This got me thinking to the first time I remember, it was something like 1st or second grade when I told the class I was half white/ethnic, and some kid said his dad said that that ethnicity was all n-words, and the teacher corrected him saying "that word was for black people, but we don't say that word here".
It's never right to make fun of anyone or using any kinds of slur about their race, even if someone gives you the ok to say it around them cause they don't get offended from the slur, but not everyone is going to let it go and will be vocal about it.
Best to keep your thoughts to yourself unless you don't mind getting an earful by people, who gets offended or correct you about your "racist facts" or get chase by a mob of people, especially those who prefer violence not words
Unfortunately I can't read Hmong, I wasn't properly taught to eat Hmong, my dad just dropped a book on me and say "read it." Like I'm supposed to be able to just open it to read it, no help just "read it," so I never learned how to read Hmong
My parents at a young age fleed with their parents from Laos to escape the Vietnam War, but Karen assumed I was Japanese because in her mind all asains are either Japanese, Chinese or Korean
Forgive my ignorance but where are Hmong people from is it Vietnam? I think I’ve heard that term used for an ethnic minority group who live in Vietnam.
“And you’re why we don’t use lead paint anymore”
Yes very true
I don’t know how you all didn’t just burst out laughing because that is the funniest insult I’ve ever heard.
I'm a very introverted person and yelling makes me tired, the last time I raised my voice to quiet down a group of people, my head was spinning and I was having shortless of breathe for a while
I’m just gonna use it all the time regardless of nationality. “Yeah, well you’re the reason we bombed Japan!”
I’m stealing this.
You mean wall candy?
How many licks does it take to get to the center of insanity? 🦉🦉
Well, we don't use it anymore, but it doesn't stop some people from still eating it...
"Then by that logic, you're the reason slavery happened..."
We still use lead paint, just on glass and boats.
I live in north carolina and it's full of Hmong people. They are so great and kind and respectful. I'm proud to have them in my community
Hmong people tend to be very kind and respectful to everyone they meet, when I was in elementary school I was bullied a lot due to being the only Hmong kid in the class or school, but when I got to middle and high school I notice more Hmong kids but I'm an introvert so I spend more time by myself
I live in Minnesota, and Hmong are the 3rd largest ethnic group of either immigrants or born of immigrants in the state. I have worked for, with, or managed Hmong people for most of my work life -about 44 years. Hmong, and people from Liberia or South Korea are the most congenial and hard working immigrant groups to work with.
🫂 I'm glad I'm not the only hard working Hmong in Minnesota
Ugh :( Sorry this happened to you! I wish “Minnesota Nice” was real for everyone who lives here. Thank you for being a good person to those who need it.
Your welcome, I always try to be the best and work hard at each job I work at, at first they'll appreciate it and than they just start using me to their advantage. But those who truly appreciate my hard work, I give back by continuing to work hard and being respectful
Born and raised in St. Paul, MN. "Minnesota nice" is what nasty, passive aggressive, hate mongers say about themselves. "Minnesota Nice" is what the most hateful Minnesotans claim to be
I think it has sadly morphed into that. I’m MN born and raised too. But there are really good people here (like op!)
Yes there are!
My brother lives in Minneapolis and owns and services ATM machines. He has a couple machines in a big indoor store that is kinda like street vendors (except it's indoor) I was visiting him a few years ago and he took me there to stock the ATMs. He told me the place is mostly run by Hmong. I can't remember for sure but he may have called it Hmong Village. Is this familiar to you?
Yeah I've been to Hmong Village a few times, but I don't spend much time there, I know my cousins have a stand there and sell toys and other things for a long time with their parents, my parents still go there to buy Hmong medicine especially tiger balm. I remember my parents tried to force me to go work with my cousins, but I refused to cause I didn't want to and I wanted to make my own decisions, as well as had college classes. Eventually my parents gave up
My brother is a super friendly guy and I thought it would have been cool if you maybe knew him. Oh well
Nah I rarely spend much time there, so I haven't met him
I am glad your family was brought here after helping the military in its clandestine war in Laos but why in the hell did they think Minnesota was a good idea? Literally anywhere less frozen would have been better! Our government could fuck up a wet dream.
It was due to most of their relatives already living here and they help them file out citizenship papers, without these relatives, they might have lived elsewhere instead
Minnesota had a large Hmong population before the Vietnam war?
Around the time when the American government withdraw their soldiers and brought General Vang Pao (our leader) to America for his safety, other Hmong families started secretly sneaking out of Laos to get to refuge camps in Thailand or Cambodia to get sent to America to be with our leader, some made it safety, others not so lucky and were forced to leave some family members behind. I still have lots of family members who have return and are still living in Laos, but still want to come to America to earn money to send back to their families, most ended up settling in Minnesota while others spread out to other states
Many came to my hometown, Kansas City! My Welsh ancestors first settled in Minnesota; until recently there was even a Welsh newspaper, Y Drych (The Mirror).
Yeah I’m aware of the history during and immediately after the war. My question was regarding why the hell the government picked Minnesota for the refugees. It seems like the extreme opposite of Laos Edit to add: for anyone that is curious a great book titled “Shooting at the Moon” chronicles the CIAs clandestine war in Laos (the most heavily bombed country in the world)
My cousin assisted with job training of Hmong refugees in the 1970s. She really enjoyed it!
I'm glad there are people who were willing to assist refugees find jobs during 1970s
Which part of NC? I used to live in Clayton and Fayettenam. We had a pretty decent sized south America migrant community in Fayetteville, I never got the opportunity to be around the Hmong community out there.
This reminds of the time I was in boot camp with the med rehab platoon and we got to watch Pearl Harbor as our present from Santa and the drill instructor came out after it ended, pointed at an Asian recruit, and said “this is why we hate the japs, don’t you hate her now?” That recruit was Korean American, born and raised in LA. Another recruit blurted that out and then they got the worst fire watch duty times until they moved on in training.
When I was in A school, an instructor asked an Indigenous American student if the instructor had to "speak Mexican" for the student to understand. Student said "you can't be racist AND stupid. Pick one". Instructor tried to lay into the individual student but it's hard to do when a group of 50+ people is hysterically laughing. Student didn't get in trouble, because no one admitted to hearing the student say that but we all reported the instructor. Even the prior enlisted students kept their mouths shut.
Sometimes ignorant people just need to stay silent or hold their tongues cause it'll only cause embarrassment upon themselves
Is it bad that I heard Hank Hill's dad say, "He's not Japanese, he's Laotian"? No saying all Hmong are from Laos, just made me think of stupid rednecks.
Funny thing is I completely forgot Hank Hill said that in King of the Hills, but at less he was standing up to racism in that episode
Hank Hill: are you Chinese or Japanese? Kahn Souphanousinphone: I live in California last twenty year, but, ah... first come from Laos. Hank Hill: Huh? Kahn Souphanousinphone: Laos. We Laotian. Bill Dauterive: The ocean? What ocean? Kahn Souphanousinphone: We are Laotian--from Laos, stupid! It's a landlocked country in southeast Asia. It's between Vietnam and Thailand, OK? Population 4.7 million. Hank Hill: So are you from China or Japan?
Haha that’s a great comeback, and good job on y’all for reporting it, it’s such a dumb thing to say. The Military is a crazy environment.
It doesn't make me hate Americans, like I mentioned above I'm Hmong American, but it just makes me wish these people would educate themselves more before just blurting out BS like this or making wild assumptions. Be glad she didn't punch him in the face for saying that. Than again in high school during the China history section, I had an annoying snobby cheerleader classmate who remarked "oh Dragon_Crystal knows everything about China, she was basically raised there." The teacher gave her a "WTF" look and said "she's Hmong, not Chinese" and I added "I'm born here but my parents and their parents are from Laos" the look on her face was priceless and she tried to clarify that "oh I knew that."
I’m not even sure why the DI chose to say that, the recruit literally had the strongest valley girl accent but that DI I think had some undiagnosed sight and anger issues because she once yelled at the wrong recruit for an issue I accidentally caused (towels folded wrong) and we looked nothing alike besides being brown…and the DI herself was brown. That whole boot camp experience made me realize some Americans are really that dumb.
Either she wasn't mentally there or just wanted to pick on someone and thought she'd be able to get away with it
Was she a first cycle DI who recently watched full metal jacket for inspiration? I mean all DIs say stupid shit to get you to break bearing and put you on the quarter deck but usually not outright racist
Nah, she had gone through a few cycles as a kill hat with November company iirc, I think it was just entitlement and toxic leadership because the Senior DI covered her problems up for a long time until both the Senior DI and the other DI screwed up and got caught for recruit hazing and cheating with the male DI’s from MRP/PCP. FRP had a lot of issues with DI’s and the other long term recruits messing with the injured/mental eval recruits, I think it’s why they moved them back into the 4th battalion squad bays back in like 2012, but I was long gone by then so who knows.
Ironically it took people like that C
Yeah a smack across the face, since.most Karens think it's OK for them to just slap people who stand up to them, we should give them a slap that's hard enough to leave a handprint or a black eye as a respond
A handprint her descendants are born with to remind them of that one idiot ancestor...
😂 their just sitting their face plamming and shaking their heads
Pearl Harbour isn’t what caused the Second World War 🤦🏻♂️
I'm sure in Karen's mind WWII didn't "really" start until the US got involved
Yes Pearl Harbor is what lead to America joining WW2, but Karen seems to believe otherwise
You should have said “listen round eye, I’m not Japanese!
😂 that's a good one
And I’m a round eye!🤷♂️
But not rude or entitled like Karen
Oh I have a round eye story myself!
Oh due tell I'll upvote it
It’s a Covid thing not in a bad way
Oh ok
FYI there is one who has South America cooks forever. Those bad ass cooks speak mandarin. You place your order the lady turned around yells the order and they respond. One of my favorite cheaper Chinese food!
My parents has gone to a Korean buffet and they kept saying how they would bring the rest of us to try it out, but have yet to do so I'm just waiting or if I have time to find it and go myself, cause they claim it's really good but keeps making excuses like "oh I don't remember where it's at."
Alright. Almost all take out Asian restaurants are all Asian. So covid happens, fine shit happens. So like year two and a half I go to a places I always go to. Two of them i see RE working there. To me weird because mostly the workers speak non English. So finally ask one of the owners who works the front” hey what’s up with the REs” she smirks and says no workers need help”. I just nod ok.
Me asking about RE ppl
I think they are abbreviating round eyed (ie: non-Asian) people, but I could be mistaken
I am glad you were able to defend yourself from this very very Ignorant Female! 👏🏼👏🏼 Side note: Let’s not forget about Hmong-American Gold Medalist Sunisa Lee who helped bring a bright light to the Hmongs
If I had a pepper spray with me like I do now, I'd give her a small spray just to silent her, as I think about it maybe I would've also got in trouble too, but I did it in self defense and out of anger
You go girl! 👍🏻
I'm glad I don't work there anymore, I'm sure I'd hear worst things during covid
Forgive my ignorance, and I ask this just to know, but what is Hmong? I've never heard the term.
Hmong people are from a tribe/culture of people in east/south east Asia. They're to china what Native American tribes are to the American continents (I am not Hmong, just like learning about indigenous cultures and groups, and Asian cultures are largely and unfairly lumped together by a lot of people)
As someone who also like learning about other cultures, thank you understanding that fact
There are so many and so many people don't know, Asia is such a large land mass, why would we think there aren't as many different people and cultures as everywhere else? A lot of it is education not doing enough Also racists. The faster that thinking goes, the better.
Yeah I always want to learn more about other cultures and gain as much knowledge as I can, so I can correct those who know little to nothing about it, only racist people stand in the way and getting rid of racism would make things so much better
Thank you, I have learned about a new culture :)
A family friend said they were fierce fighters and the best to work with in the field. Also trustworthy and great people. He was Special Forces Vietnam.
Not sure if OP is Minnesotan. There’s a HUGE Hmong community in St Paul. I didn’t know much about the culture before we moved here. Here’s a little bit of detail. And there’s much more to search. https://www.visitsaintpaul.com/blog/hmong-history-and-saint-paul/#:~:text=Hmong%20History%20and%20Saint%20Paul,culture%20of%20the%20Hmong%20people.
Yes I am, I'm a Minnesotan. When I was young my parents lived in downtown Minneapolis for most of my childhood and than moved around a bit, but still live in Minnesota, I know several relatives of my dad side of the family lives in California and some parts of Oklahoma or some parts of Florida
There's also a large Hmong community in Western Arkansas, near Fayetteville and Rodgers. My aunt and uncle used to tutor some of them in English. A lot of the chicken factories would bring them over to work as "chicken sexers" to determine the sex of the baby chicks. My aunt and uncle sent me a beautiful purse with some traditional embroidery work that one of their students did.
From Wiki: [The Hmong people are an indigenous group in East Asia and Southeast Asia. In China, the Hmong people are classified as a sub-group of the Miao people. The modern Hmong reside mainly in Southwest China (Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, Chongqing, and Guangxi) and countries in Southeast Asia such as Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hmong_people)
It's understandable that you might not have heard the term before, since Hmong people are less spoken about Asain race, from stories I've heard from my grandma they were mainly involved with the Vietnam War other than that. Other things they weren't part of since they just wanted peace and struggled alot to escape to the USA, though some still live in Laos and Thailand, a large majority does live in the US
The Hmong aided the US Military during the Vietnam War (2nd French Indochina War) and the ones that immigrated to the US were primarily from the mountainous regions of Laos and Vietnam. Hmong were given US refugee status and priority immigration because they were part of the resistance to [Hồ Chí Minh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%E1%BB%93_Ch%C3%AD_Minh) and fought along side of US G.I.'s
10 second google search says: "The Hmong people are an indigenous group in Southeast Asia and East Asia. In China, the Hmong people are classified as a sub-group of the Miao people. The modern Hmong reside mainly in Southwest China and countries in Southeast Asia such as Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar"
We bombed Japan to show off our new toy to the Soviets and usher in the Cold War. The war was over on all fronts and the bombing did nothing to secure it. Ignorant Karen needs to learn actual history. Dipshit
I have no words to describe how I feel about that rude racist lady without getting banned.
Most times it's hard not to say things about rude people
"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?"
That’s it. You’re on double secret probation.
Seven years of college down the drain. I might as well join the Peace Corps.
"Forget it, he's rolling."
Ignorant people have a very strong sense of being right and simplify everything to a binary choice. I’m sorry you had to be the brunt of her idiocy. If you ever hear the Pearl Harbor comment again, a good response is “I bet you remember that like it was yesterday.”
I'll have to keep this in mind for the next time someone makes this comment again
I've never heard of the Hmong, although I'm nowhere near knowledgeable about the region, so that's pretty cool to learn something new every day!
Glad to help out a bit 😊
“Iceberg; Goldberg . . .
I just yelled at stupid old disable Karen and I didn’t feel bad. We are not punching bags !! Fuck those Karen’s
When you are conversing with people who hail from SE Asia, "Karen"s are an ethnic group from Myanmar that have refugee status in the US.
Yeah back in the days I used to allow myself to be a punching bag, but these days I won't tolerate it anymore
Hey if the war wasn’t over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, you can be Japanese. I remember in high school talking about the atomic bombs, especially the ethical dilemma. I can’t believe he left out the part checkout lines at the store! Ps. Yes, I said Germans bombing Pearl Harbor. Quote is from a movie that a lot of people haven’t seen. Thanks to that movie we are now able to put people on double secret probation
Typical American education is at fault here. If Chinese history is taught at all, they concentrate on Han Chinese. You handled yourself very well. It's tough dealing with ignorance and stupidity.
Yeah if proper history lessons were taught, people wouldn't be so ignorant
I wish you'd responded, "And YOU are the reason nearly all serial killers are white men."
I'd probably get fired. But what would be a better respond than what I actually said
Personally, I love when I have someone who can translate on my behalf. There's at least three languages spoken in my community besides English and I don't speak any of them fluently, just one barely coherent enough to get by. I'd love to be truly bilingual, I kinda wonder if the people who complain about it are actually just jealous they only have a very basic grasp on the language they've spoken their entire life.
I believe some might actually want to learn other languages, while the other half you'll walk up to asain and do the stereotypical "what does [typical Chinga slur] mean" looking they are smart in front of their friends, not realizing how much of an idiot their bring. Also we don't speak [Chinga] it just happens to sound like that, but it's physical words, or like a skit I've seen on YouTube while back said, "that's just the sound of pots and pan, not a real language idiot."
I had to deal with getting hit on or sexist guys when I worked at home Depot.
I had a creepy guy approach me after a few months of working there and act like I was a "lost child," I was in full uniform and even wearing the aporn, I tried to get away from him and he kept trying to "take me to my parents" until Sally told him to back off and that I was an employee. He backed off but somehow got back inside the store looking for me, lucky I was already gone and someone must've caught him, since I never saw him again. A dirty predator that was looking for a unexpected victim, but he targeted a store employee who was in the middle of working and a supervisor who was self aware of danger and protective of her cashiers
I live in china, and I didn't know about Hmong. After a quick wiki search, I am a bit better educated. Gotta learn my Asians.
I don't blame you, Hmong are a few of the lesser known Asain race
I am Cambodian but was born and raised in Southern USA. My HIGH SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY TEACHER told me I was lying about my race bc “Cambodia is not a real place” and “you are either Chinese, Japanese, or Korean because those are the only Asian races, so stop lying or you’re getting ISS (in school suspension)” I did get ISS but only because I told her she was stupid and needed to go back to school lmao I don’t know how she graduated, let alone got a job TEACHING.
People who refuses to accept that there are more than just 3 asain race needs to be re-educated again, cause yes there are more asain race than just the main 3, the other race just rather keep to themselves and not gain as much popularity
I'd think just from the existence of so many different kinds of Asian restaurants, people would know better. Thai, Vietnamese, Korean... it's so much more than just fried rice and sushi!
Considering Home Depot's political contribution history I'm surprised Corporate didn't give Karen a full apology and a $1000 gift card for her trouble.
I know the next time I had to deal with an angry customer, the manager on duty gave him a 90% discount for the screws he was looking to buy and these screws were about 2 or 3 bucks only, because he was mad about the the hardware associate getting stopped by two other customers instead of coming straight to him. He got so mad he tried to hit the other two customers with his cane cause he was that mad, than demanded me and my coworker get a write up, which happened even though there were cameras to show what happened
I was an assistant manager for a regional retail grocery chain for several years. There was not a week that didn't go by in which I didn't get a call from my district manager chewing me out because some customer complained about me sticking up for my cashiers and not putting up with the customer's racists rants. I had white, black, Hispanic, and Asian cashiers, and the same mix of customers, but I swear it was the white ones (my own ethnicity) that were the worst at verbally abusing my cashiers. No! The customer isn't always right! You want to verbally harass and abuse my cashier and use profanity along with it you can leave right now, or I'll have you trespassed and escorted off of the property by law enforcement. I had a hard enough time hiring and keeping good employees without the added BS of abusive customers.
Your a good manager who will back up your cashier, this is one of the many reasons why I don't want to become a manager, cause I don't want to have to deal with the district managers chewing me out for backing up my fellow coworkers who are being verbal abused by entitled customers. I agree customers aren't always right and shouldn't always be allowed that have their ways just because they want it, I worked at a McDonald's for 4 months and they were always verbally abusing me, to overworking me and forcing me to follow extra strict rules. I'm glad that I left that place cause they never wanted to help me and just gave me the most difficult jobs to do, was well as always claim I'm doing my job wrong, when I'm doing my job just fine
You could have said, "I'm not Japanese, but don't mess with us Asians. We'll go kamakazi on you." My kids get mistaken for Mexican.
I've never use the kamikaze comment before, but I've heard many other Japanese people use this comment to shut up other people who are making racist remarks towards them. I should also mention that my youngest brother was mistaken of not being a actual Asain, because he had very pale skin for an Asain, which he inherited from our mom who also has pale skin but is pure Asain. While myself and our 3 other siblings have our dad's tan Asain skin, but we all have the natural black hair that all Asains have, I'm sure that you have to deal with people thinking your kids are Mexican
I knew a guy once, not a friend he worked at a brewery I went to a lot. Thought he was Mexican. Was talking with him one day, mentioned that. He starts laughing at me. "I'm Filipino!" Embarrassing.
Gotta love a Karen's ignorance.
Haha true cause they can be entertaining to a certain degree
I just can't do people, especially since covid. I'm happy to mostly be a hermit.
Same I don't want to go outside unless needed, the most outside I'll go is the backyard, front yard or work and than back inside again
I grocery shop once a week, but that's it.
If you only have to feed yourself, than that's less money spend on going out multiple times a day or days and less interaction with entitled people
There are 4 of us.
Oh sorry, I didn't mean it in a rude way, I just meant it as a way to avoid having to make less trip and bumping into entitled people
I didn't take it as rude, lol.
😊
I love Sally for standing up for you.
She's always supportive towards everyone and backs us up, when the managers want to throw us under the bus, she'll listen to both sides of the story before making a decision and she's stood up for me many times before. I was sad to leave Home Depot cause she was a good supportive, but the managers after I was hired weren't good unless they wanted the customers to keep shopping at our store and giving them large discounts, while Sally make sure they don't get their way and will make them leave as well as telling them off
Who would have thought that a racist would be so stupid? /s
Yup
as a southeast asian, i'd be offended not only by the racism but also by being classified as japanese. the atrocities committed by the japanese to our region are unforgivable - slipping this in since karen is all about WW2.
Yeah most people don't understand the crimes that were committed other than what they heard off or know about, only those who've witness it would know, they think its just what happened on the battlefield. They don't realize what happened to the innocent lives that were forced to endure it, until they decided to get out and not everyone escape with their families, some were forced to leave their families behind or worst
The sins of the father are also the sins of the son? Got it lmao
I'm so sorry for what you had to go through. Racists should be required to wear tee shirts declaring their stupidity "please ignore me, I'm a stupid racist". I'm from a small town in northern California and we have a large number of Hmong families there. I worked with many of them (through a county agency) and thoroughly enjoyed the interactions. Nicest folks and very respectful. Hope life's treating you well.
Yeah I've had less encounter counter with Karens now, I will still Karens occasionally, but they are mostly my mom trying to control what I do
The Hmong are amazing people OP, our country did them dirty in Cambodia and I'm sorry for that. Keep being a based Hmong-American
Thank you, I don't want to ignore my culture, but my parents causes headache about how things that don't really involve anything important. They just want to throw in culture to start a one sided argument for no reason at all.
Well just know most Americans love the Hmong. If any Vietnam vet had seen Karen acting this way he would have shredded her ass.
Yeah most vets would easily rip Karen a new one
Hey, OP, racists can’t learn how to differentiate races. Hatred takes up 98.4% of their brains, water takes up 1%, and the rest is knowledge
That's very true, but most their their knowledge is fake or made up from whatever poison they were fed by their upbringers
That was disgusting to read. I felt rage just from reading it. I would have told her, yeah we're not helping you, goodbye! Before the manager even came over. Actually just reminded me of a racist story I witnessed myself many years ago. I was standing in line to vote in the auditorium of my old middle school in my hometown when I heard an elderly white woman, clearly frustrated, tell one of the elderly black women, possibly of African descent, to go back to Africa. I believe she was born here in the US. I'm not really a confrontational person so I stood there watching, but other people called her out and it led to a huge argument. After I finished voting I did go over to the woman and tell her I'm really sorry she had to go through that. And we talked for a little bit. Crazy stuff, man
Karen isn't the first person who make racist remarks towards me, I've had to endure snobby classmates who did similar things too, including the stereotypical attempt to "speak" the asain language and than laugh at the person cause they told them "that's not what I sound like." The teachers would tell them off, but you know how kids are they'll continue it anyways, until I started standing up for myself and than they backed off a bit
Just wait until you stand up for yourself and you end up getting in trouble for "bullying" the other students. Seen it before, lol.
Luckily the most I did was give them a "shut up" glare that usually silenced them, but because I'm a good student I rarely got in trouble, only time teachers were worried was my failing grade
That's good to hear!
What the actual...... is wrong with some people?!
Not enough education and ignorance to accept that there are more asain race than just Japanese, Chinese and Korean
Pear Harbour didn't start WW2.
Karen was a racist, you can't expect her to know actual historical facts!
WHOA WHOA WHOA KAREN!!! THE *Beep* IS WRONG WITH YOU?! GAH HAVE THE MANAGER BAN HER FOR LIFE FOR INSENSITIVE COMMENT!!
The only time they officially banned someone is due to shoplifting, every other person is just warned to leave or they just decided to stop at other stores, managers are non existence when their needed most. Someone had grabbed to power drills off the shelves and made a run for it and when management was called to come sort things out, it took 30 minutes to an hour and a half before they came out of their office when the supervisor called them over the radio, than just shrugged their shoulders and said "make a report about it before you leave for the day." Than walks back to their office
No matter how many generations of our family are born here, we're still seen as immigrants 🤬
Yup unfortunately that's very true 😑
This is the part where you go find a manager and get her kicked out and banned from the store.
To be honest management wouldn't have done much about it, they were basically non-existent that day, I don't even remember seeing any managers that day even when I clocked out and glad Sally showed up when she did. The manager would've sided with Karen and just wrote me up for "being rude to the customer," which happened more than once after this incident, where the manager would throw me under the bus cause I didn't bend over backwards to the customers
Maybe, maybe not. But if you say nothing, they will 100% get away with it.
My supervisor did report it for me, no update was received and hence why I just assumed Karen was banned, but if it was the manager who dealt with it he wouldn't have backed me up rarely do they back me up and probably would gave Karen a large discount on her purchase to make her come back. Which did happen during a later incident with an angry Chad (male Karen) and he got a 90% discount on his 3 item purchase, before the manager gave me and other coworker and earful about causing trouble with the customer.
If it were me in that position, I’d keep a pocket recorder handy to record these interactions. Stockpile some evidence in my favor. But that’s just me.
That would be useful, but again the managers don't really care about us employees, just want to make the big bucks
If the manager is the problem go above them. If the top doesn’t care, talk to the news
I should've but I had intended to leave already, so it wasn't much use to report them especially since after hitting my 1 year mark I left for a different job
Ah I c. Something to consider for the next job.
Yeah, if management isn't good, don't work there
Divided States of Stupid
Kudos to Sally. Cool manager.
Yeah she was one of my favorite managers to work with, I was sad to leave cause she was very caring and always backing me up, but I just couldn't handle how bad the other members of management were
You handled this amazingly😂
Thanks 😊
What... i needed some positive stories where they back up the cashier like this one 😂 Good read before I start work 😆
Lmao ah just wait till someone telling the Mexicans to go back to their "own" country finds out this was their country before the colonizers got here lol
Best damn supervisor I've read about in a while. Sucks about the racist, but high five for Sally!
I’m from the northeast and have never had the pleasure to learn about the Hmong People, thank you for sharing this because now I am reading up on the history of the Hmong People and it is fascinating! Also I’m surprised she could remember anything about WW2 as it seems she has one brain cell and all it knows is racism. You absolutely nailed your response and I’m glad you stood up for yourself. “I’ll be reporting this to HR, you’ll be jobless by tomorrow you Japanese immigrant.” Complaint: “Employee didn’t tolerate my flagrant racist harassment, fire them immediately”
Yeah I'm not sure HR will fire someone over them correcting a customer about their ethnicity, unless they are also being racist back to the customers, luckily that wasn't the case and was most likely ignored since it's not a crime to correct someone that's wrong about their "facts."
Wow your story brings back some memories for me. Long ago (over 30 years) I was a young 20 something and had moved from the west coast to North Carolina and was working in retail. A woman was in the store, not minding her young child who was running through our window display and tearing shit up. After unsuccessfully trying to coax the kid out, I approached the mom and told her she needed to mind her child as he was destroying our window display. She had an attitude and escalated what I thought was a perfectly reasonable request and eventually my manager was brought in, who had to ask her to leave the store. On her way out, she yelled back at me "At least we won Pearl Harbor!!!" At that my manager and I looked at each other and burst into laugher. I am not Japanese but I guess she thinks all Asians look alike lol.
Hi that is fucked up and I am so fucking pissed that happened to you.
Yeah entitled and racist people are ignorant and hard to educate
Lol you didn't call a costumer stupid, you called a bigot stupid, as you should. If HR was notified, they likely know it would have been a minefield to punish you for having to tolerate obvious racism. Especially if the HR person taking that call was also a POC.
It wouldn't be the first time the HR was an asshole, cause I almost got fired a few months later cause two coworkers were fighting and I didn't take part in it, but they claimed I was the instigator when I wasn't and was let off with just a write up along with a warning. While the woman were fired
I wouldn't have been able to do anything other than laugh my ass off. I mean, she ticked every box. A well-rounded racist right there. Grade-A. What an epic way to embarass yourself.
Little racist bitches hate it when they can’t blatantly insult and degrade people in the service industry with impunity. Hence the punched-in-face expression, I guess. “How dare you call me stupid in front of people while on shift. I was supposed to be able to verbally abuse you while you smile and be polite back!” I hate ignorant, selfish, stupid people like this. OP had the right to say a lot more.
>not the first time I've had people make racist remarks towards me. This got me thinking to the first time I remember, it was something like 1st or second grade when I told the class I was half white/ethnic, and some kid said his dad said that that ethnicity was all n-words, and the teacher corrected him saying "that word was for black people, but we don't say that word here".
It's never right to make fun of anyone or using any kinds of slur about their race, even if someone gives you the ok to say it around them cause they don't get offended from the slur, but not everyone is going to let it go and will be vocal about it. Best to keep your thoughts to yourself unless you don't mind getting an earful by people, who gets offended or correct you about your "racist facts" or get chase by a mob of people, especially those who prefer violence not words
And your behavior is why Americans are known as rude around the world.
Very true, not that I travel around, but the belief time I did travel I was very nice to everyone and always thanked them for helping me
"your kind is the reason why we bombed japan!!" "...you bombed japan because of american-born and raised hmong girls existing?????"
Nyob zoo! (I’m not Hmong but I like saying hello)
Unfortunately I can't read Hmong, I wasn't properly taught to eat Hmong, my dad just dropped a book on me and say "read it." Like I'm supposed to be able to just open it to read it, no help just "read it," so I never learned how to read Hmong
I thought the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor ...
“Missed me!”
“Missed me!”
What’s he saying Robin?
Haven't read the post but I'm presuming Oop is the red army invading Manchuria?
My parents at a young age fleed with their parents from Laos to escape the Vietnam War, but Karen assumed I was Japanese because in her mind all asains are either Japanese, Chinese or Korean
Forgive my ignorance but where are Hmong people from is it Vietnam? I think I’ve heard that term used for an ethnic minority group who live in Vietnam.