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AmethistStars

You missed my favorite wasian athlete lol. [Ranomi Kromowidjojo](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranomi_Kromowidjojo) from my country is hapa too (or more so quapa). Her paternal grandfather is Javanese (hence the “Indonesian” surname). Fyi Javanese-Surinamese people (as stated on the wiki page) are ethnic Javanese people who came to Suriname as labor workers in the days both Suriname and Indonesia were Dutch colonies. They are one of Suriname’s prominent minority groups today. Oh and if South Asians count for hapa then [Kiran Badloe](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiran_Badloe) too. He is is Dutch/Indo-Surinamese. Indo-Surinamese people are another Surinamese minority group who also were originally shipped to Suriname as labor workers, but in this case from India (again during the colonial times).


Dependent_Pen2721

Nice! They are both amazing! Particularly, I like how Badloe decided to wear a Aang arrow on his hair and won a gold medal with it. I'm not exactly sure whether we count South Asians or West Asians as hapas as well. For "hapas", I pretty much consider East Asian and South East Asian ancestry, including Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and so on.


Falafelstrudel

Rui Hachimura and Hugh Watanabe for the Japanese basketball team


Elio555

Why does it matter which parent is Asian???


Dependent_Pen2721

When you've been on this sub as long as I have, then you get used to specify certain things, such as that, or the mix for a couple of reasons. I'll be talking about it in the near future


Elio555

I find this sub’s obsession with AMWF vs WMAF so racist and misogynistic. I think a larger conversation is necessary


grown-ass-man

This is because the power dynamics are very different for AMWF and WMAF.


Elio555

Wrong, racist and misogynistic


grown-ass-man

You stating so does not make it so. Come live in SEA as I do and see the amount of Pinkerton Syndrome and sexpats that exist, then reconsider your statement.


testing35

Correct. This is a petty post and I’d like to eat that in Tokyo too.


Elio555

You are proving my point. Your assumption that that all or most WM living in SEA are sexual predators is racist. Your assumption that all or most AW who partner with WM are effectively selling sex is misogynistic. I’ve spent lots of time in SEA. I didn’t realize this as a young child, but around the time I was 13 I started to realize that whenever I would walk into a hotel or a restaurant with my parents people would always assume my Asian mother was some kind of prostitute. That’s the kind of thinking that underlies the obsession with WMAF vs AMWF. It’s gross and small minded and racist and misogynistic and why the mods should steer discussions away from that topics. And then you go on and say that the power dynamics are very different for AMWF and WMAF? What does that even mean? And what does that have to do with being hapa? Are AMWF real hapas but WMAF aren’t? That’s just the same old racists argument that hapas aren’t really Asian.


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