https://www.indiewire.com/2023/03/npr-michelle-yeoh-identifies-as-asian-tweet-1234818884/
shareI myself identify as African. Transracialism is the next rights movement coming to America.
You should refer to people by their prefered racial terminology, it is correct to state that Michelle Yeoh identifies as Asian.
Can anyone identify as Asian? or do I have to be Asian?
I might spend a week or two being Asian , see if I pick up any kung fu
You are free to indentify as whatever racial group you feel. It's not right for society to assign race to people without their consent.
I myself was AWAB (assigned White at birth) but identify as African.
My husband is racialfluid. He sometimes feels Asian and other times African, he too was AWAB.
You don't have to be a woman to identify as a woman. Hell, you can even be woman of the year.
shareI love beef lo mein and egg rolls, does this count?!
I’m sort of too large and Irish looking to pass for Asian but I’ll just hide in the background, maybe get some grey pajamas and one of those straw hats, I’ll totally blend right in👍
"Merle Oberon was the first Asian woman nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1935. Oberon hid her heritage to avoid discrimination. Michelle Yeoh, however, is open about her Asian heritage.”"
In other words, Yeoh's not passing for white like Merle Oberon did.
This reminds me of a television interview I saw many years ago. A reporter from one of the major US television networks (I forget which one) was interviewing black British athlete Kriss Akabusi after being a member of the 400 metres relay team that took the gold medal at the 1991 Athletics World Championships. The interviewer started off with:
"So, Kriss, what does this mean to you as an African-American?"
"I'm not American, I'm British"
"Yes, but as a British African-American ..."
"I'm not African. I'm not American. I'm British."
This went on for some time before the reporter got so flustered that she gave up and went to interview someone else. I guess more than anything else it demonstrates the potential absurdity of political correctness -- this reporter was so tied-up with the idea that the "correct" term for someone of afro-caribbean ancestry was African-American and not Black that she couldn't cope with the fact that many black people are neither African
nor American...