Man, once when I was in my early 20s I met this beautiful and smart marriage material Chinese girl and we hit it off amazingly. The chemistry was incredible. We’d go to dinner and just lose time talking to each other—restaurants having to kick us out in order to close. She’d bring me back expensive gifts from China (her parents—doctor mom and documentary making father—were loaded). We’d text and call for hours. She was constantly inviting me out to do cool shyt. From time to time she’d write me letters and shyt talking bout how lucky she was to meet me. But it wasn’t developing into anything which was frustrating cuz I was falling pretty hard not gonna lie.
Anyway, she kept stalling about dating for real for real and I was confused as fukk cuz she was obviously into me. Then one night she invites me to the crib and breaks it down for me—she told her parents about me and they were cool with her dating a Black dude but she said her extended family woulda essentially disowned her and her parents and she didn’t know what to do. I was like, cool don’t worry about it then. At that point I know what time it was with Asians and stopped fukking with em after that. I had no time for all that bullshyt.
Epilogue: the woman I’m talking bout never really found nobody after that and ended up on China’s version of The Bachelor which apparently was the most viewed program in the world when she was on it. Anyway, she got voted off quick cuz at like 32 (she had four years on me) she was the oldest woman on the show and being a 32-year old unmarried Chinese woman carries so much stigma over there. She always used to tell me how hard it was for her being an educated, liberal, free-thinking Chinese woman cuz she couldn’t find a man to live up to her standards and said a lot of Chinese men wanted a mother and not a woman. Anyway, last I spoke to her she still wasn’t married. Hope she sorted her shyt out. Moral of the story is Asians don’t really fukk with us like that soooo I don’t really fukk with them on a real level.