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Random story on my mind right now.
I just got the the US. So we found about these amazing thing called libraries and its free to the public, so... my mom tooks me and my brother there. I didn't like books (other than like comics... probably due to my partial-aphantasia, which I didn't know about at the time), but I saw they had computers, with internet access, which was new to us.
I saw kids playing games on it, I think it was flash games or something.
So anyways... we got library cards... and I used it to register on the thing and wait in line. Each session was 30 minutes, and once the sessions is up, next in line goes there. (adults and kids are in different sections) So I'm uo next. I log in, I don't think I even know how to use it, literally never had internet before, so I ask my ABC ("American Born Chinese") cousin, who was in the library with us, for help, so she kinda reluctantly did. But then after getting to the browser (I think) she left me and I think she just assumed I knew how to use a computer and just said something like "just look it up" or something...
But I literally have no clue what websites to type in, didn't know how to do a google search...
So I kinda just sat there being sad lol.
Then like after I think 15 minutes(?) elapsed from the beginning of the session, she finally decided help me because my aunt told her to help me.
Wasted so much precious time lol.
Its mostly their attitude that pissed me off. So cold and just thought of us of no more than rural villagers, "peasants".
These fucking ABCs, I think its the first impression I had of ABCs. Fuck you Tiffany, and fuck you Raymond. Pieces of shit.
I remember my aunt got busy so my parents had to temporarily watch over this Raymond kid (younger brother to Tiffany), DUDE WAS SO FUCKING SMUG, he bullied me while IN MY HOME, this fucking kid.... He used his phone camera to take picture of me then use the photo editor to draw over it and make fun of me to send to his friends. I used my dad's phone and called my aunt and complained, but she was kinda just like... "sorry π₯Ίππ". I mean I still remember that incident all these years later, so my brain decided it was important enough to remember...
I mean to be fair, they were kids, so maybe I shouldn't be that mad over it in retrospect, but I was also a kid at the time, and this fucking Raymond kid was older than me, what an asshole.
Wow, fuck that Raymond kid, what an asshole. Everybody hates Raymond. Can I ask what ABC stands for though? I'm coming up blank and that feels important
"American Born Chinese", kids born with US Birthright Citizenship to ethnically Chinese parents.
It's a contested term, but I'm fine with it in this context, because they think they are superior to other ethnic Chinese because they got lucky and just so happened to be born in the right place at the right time.