Touchy topic, but basically what I want to ask is: do you ever feel like you have to hide a part of yourself in public? Sometimes I intentionally hide the fact that I speak Chinese or that I'm very involved in the culture, simply because there are negative stereotypes revolving around Chinese society. (I want to clarify that, even though I'm not a native Chinese, I grew up partly surrounded by the language and the people.)
I have seen similar, almost cliche, reddit posts about minority Americans being "ashamed" of their heritage, if you know what I mean. Anyways, it's a similar feeling. It's as if you want to blend in with everyone, but if the majority finds out you're so involved with Chinese, then all of a sudden you don't fit in with the majority. Further, there's a stereotype that a sub-population of the non-native Chinese speaking population can be described as LBH, yellow-fever, banana, weirdo or other slurs like that. Don't get me wrong: I love the Chinese lang/cult, but it's just the negative stereotypes that loom around.
So, sometimes I feel like, in order to avoid being judged, I should not talk about this passion I have for Chinese lang/cult. But I feel like that's not a healthy mentality to have.
I'm curious as to what other people's perspectives/attitudes are.
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