Let me tell you a story:
Drunken marine walks up to our bar because our door guy only checks id and leaves it up to us to refuse to pour drinks to pre-plastered people.
Looks at me, then tells me: "I want an order of crunchy rolls."
I reply: "We're the bar connected to a CHINESE RESTAURANT. Kitchen's closed, I can only cook you appetizers."
Him: "Well be a good chink an' fry some egg rolls up good."
I stay quiet and let it slide because I'm burntout, wrong type of Asian, and he's in that drunken stupor where if he doesn't get what he wants, he's gonna throw a hissy fit like the mature adult should.
Cook up his egg rolls, give him his tab.
In between egg roll one and two, he actually eats most of the tab.
While I stare at him.
Wondering if our military even worries about friendly fire when they hand off rifles.
There's no actual derogatory term for Filipinos, we've managed to laugh 'em all off or ignore them.
I'm annoyed though.
It's just that my short lifetime's been filled with racism, prejudice, and social bias.
It gets irritating sometimes.
Because the majority of the people that joke around with it have no first hand account of how emotionally damaging it can be.
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Here's a fun writing exercise for you:
Make a list of what white derogatory names for various European countries can you purposefully and wrongly accuse people such as this of being?
If he's drunk, and he didn't know the meaning, it'd slide over his head, and yet I'm sure you'd feel a little better, at least internally.
I know I would.
Or I'd hand him his food, "Fresh from the Philippines!" Play up the racial inaccuracy?
Wonder if the ass even would know where that was. Not that he'd care. Probably barely knows where he is now on the map.
Anyway sorry to hear all this, it'd get to me too. I've only heard the female derogatory stuff, but was too shy to do much of anything about it. I don't hear any ever anymore, at least not to face. Otherwise I wouldn't let it slide...
I think you need to have a close female companion who's rather attractive. If you get something of this, text her with some code word so that she walks in, as a customer, and snubs off said asshole military guy while meanwhile flirting with you. Give them hell when you can, even if it's only you who understands.
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