Food for Thought: An unstated hierarchy amongst Asians?

So SEASA Eboard has been doing some homework on ... the unstated hierarchy amongst Asians...and we thought WE SHOULD DO AN EVENT ON IT (:D that you definitely should come out to..so stay posted!)


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As a quick search, I just googled up and found a thread on it in a forum. And this is what i found:

"There seems to be an unstated Asian hierarchy amongst nationalities. For example, this is especially evident with Chinese people's reverence with Japanese culture, and a inferiority complex to boot. Likewise Chinese people's snobbish view of all other southeast asian peoples. But it seems to permeate across asian nationalities.

What's going on here? Why is there this pecking order and what caused it? Was it the war? Confusciounism? Racism? Discuss." -- misubi from http://www.giantrobot.com/forums/showthread.php3?threadid=434


Some interesting responses to Misubi's posts:

• "- people who were early migrators to the US, the UK, Australia are often thought of as "superior" because they had money to get there. I would say migration from the 50s - late 70s (think Joy Luck Club)."
  
  
• "I could draw a little hierachy from a HK person's perspective but it would probably offend - it's not my opinion but my mother can be mostly snobbish at times. But I dont' think the hierachy is caused by racism, but rather culture and socio-economic circumstances"

Of course, these are only opinions and were found on a forum so we definitely need to keep researching with an open mind!


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Challenge your mind:

So is there an unstated perceived Asian hierarchy??? And if so, how can we get rid of this perception?!