Amazon?? I can't find a certain sock with a printed pink cat on it, bad website!
American Delivery? So bad, took me 2 months! Canada post? Lost my orders 3 times!
Our alibaba? Top 10 company on earth! Everything you can find! We created the biggest digital shopping festival that made Black Friday look like a child! Our delivery? So Fast! That man delivered 100 goods in one day unlike that lazy American UPS driver! Jack Ma is our daddy!
5 years later when Ma went missing..
China: Eat the rich!!! Fuck capitalism!
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I wasn't going to go, but he twisted my arm
Context: My friend "X" (30F) and I (25M) generally get along, but there's one opinion she has held over the years that has always soured our friendship. She considers me to be a "fake Chinese".
See, she was born and raised in China before moving to the USA, and she has often held it over my head that I'm a "fake Chinese" because I do not follow certain customs or have certain skills. For example, I speak terrible Mandarin (with very limited vocab) and my family does not have a custom to make dumplings together.
On the other hand, despite my shortcomings, I am quite proud of my Chinese-American heritage. My grandparents were born in China, and immigrated out before having my parents in another country. My parents then immigrated to the USA. Despite the movement, my family has passed down a few traditions that we have grown up with and observe today. For example, I learned Chinese calligraphy and martial arts at a young age. Also, my family has observed Chinese New Year in our own way. In past years, we spent in our red attire while cooking fish (nian nian you yu) and sweet rice cake (nian gao). And of course, we never forgot custom of the red envelopes.
Despite knowing this, X has taken it upon herself to call me a "fake Chinese" and deny my heritage at nearly every opportunity. Whether it be at a restaurant or even during a carpool, as long as some topic related to it comes up, X will call me a "fake Chinese". I've told her repeatedly that it offends me, but to no avail.
Situation: This year, due to the COVID pandemic and increasing job responsibilities, my family and I have decided to have a toned-down Chinese New Year celebration. X decided to ask me about my plans, for which I responded "nothing much" without providing further details. Predictably, she begins to lambast me with "this is further evidence of you not being Chinese" and "no red envelope, no gathering, no dumplings, then no Chinese". She proceeds to offer some dumplings to me so I "don't pass the year without them".
At this point, my anger was two-fold: 1) she made fun of my heritage again, and 2) I have a high-risk family member that would find it very difficult to beat COVID and X had tested positive for COVID late last year. So, I respond to X with two statements: "hard pass" and "you seriously piss me off when you pronounce your cultural pride". However, her response caught me off guard, as she claimed that I saw her as an "infectious monster" by refusing the dumplings and t
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