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Does it mean anything to you?
Ah, yes that ABBA song is stuck in my head.
And it became stuck shortly after I spoke with my sister. She asked me what’s the big deal about the Yale a cappella group singing “All the Single Asians”. She couldn’t see why it was so offensive and why people are making a fuss over it. So I told her that it was degrading and demoralizing. It perpetuates several stereotypes and objectifies women and Asian Americans as flat, 2D characters. and she just said, “so? it’s not supposed to be taken seriously anyways. It’s a joke.” She said that it’s only demoralizing if we interpret it like that. She questioned why hardboiled was so invested in these so-called “petty” issues when there were larger sociocultural positions and stories that we could cover. But I honestly feel like the larger issues stem from the smaller problems. If people cannot appreciate themselves and their ethnic backgrounds, how are they expected to value and respect others?