Hello fellow nyans!
I watched this video of an Asian guy going around and interviewing Caucasian people
on what sort of punishments they received from their parents when they were a kid
and it was stuff like:
GO TO YOUR ROOM!
or..
NO INTERNET FOR A WEEK!
And then the interview cuts to interviews with Black people and Asian people
and they would say things that were like the total opposite
Like, they got hardcore punishments.
So that video inspired me to come up with this list of the punishments and emotional abuse
that my brother and I received when we were kids.
and when I say emotional abuse it would be things that my parents would *say*
that would really scare me and my brother.
I think a lot of Asian kids will have heard these phrases that I'll mention in the video
SO! You know you've been a naughty asian kid when...
...when you are made to get on your knees and stay on your knees for a period of time
Even if it was on carpet, it would still hurt because the fabric would just like, burn through your knees.
And by the time you got up, the texture of the fabric is like, indented in the skin of your knee..
..and it just looks so ugly
Maybe that's why the skin of my knees are so fudged up!
Oh, and in addition to being on your knees on the floor, you gotta CROSS YOUR ARMS!
...when you are asked to spread your hand out ready to get the SMACK!
and for me, it was the dreaded bamboo stick on the hand..
...when you get your ear pulled.
Really
really hard.
..when you are made to face the wall.
I remember being made to stand in front of a wall and just reflect on the naughty things that I did.
I don't remember how long I was made to stand in front of a wall for
but when time was up, my mum would call me over, tell me to say the naughty thing that I did
and then apologise for it.
...when you crossed your arms and apologised
I think this was particularly a Vietnamese punishment
but say if I were to talk back at my mum or even like say something really bad to my mum, she would say:
Khoanh tay xin lỗi mẹ
Which translates to:
Cross your arms and say sorry to me!
And the reply that I would say back which is out of respect would be:
Con khoanh tay xin lỗi mẹ
Which means, "I'm crossing my arms and I'm sorry!
Oh and not forgetting to add that when you're being made to cross your arms and say sorry,
there is a tool of abuse in the parents hand ready to smack you with if you don't listen to them.
..when you're threatened with this saying.
"Don't make me throw you out the house so the rubbish men will take you!"
and threatened with this:
"I'll throw you out the house so the black people can kidnap you!"
Sure, mum. Sure
...when your parents enter your room and say this:
Ơi dời.. (Oh my..)
"Your room look like pigsty so go pack your clothes in rubbish bag and don't come back!"
When you made your parents feel ashamed and they say something like this:
"I wish I never pick you up from the dumpster!"
"I should have left you in the rubbish bin!"
There seems to be an ongoing pattern here with Asian kids and rubbish/ trash.
I think when Asian parents mention rubbish/ trash and stuff, it literally makes us feel like sh*t.
..when you got hit with ANY household item.
Whatever your Asian parents could get their hands on, they would use it and abuse it.
The typical things that Asian kids would get hit with would be..
Belts, slippers, feather dusters, a remote control..
The worst weapon I received was the bamboo stick
I cannot forget the pain of the bamboo stick.
and before my mum would even hit me with the bamboo stick, she would go:
*Whip sound effect*
Just so I could hear that bamboo stick cut through the air molecules..!
And those are all the punishments and emotional abuse that I could remember from my childhood.
Most of the punishments my brother and I received were mostly from my mum
because my Dad wasn't around much but when he *was* around
and he was pissed off at us, oh my god..
He is *much* scarier than my mother.
I tried to run away from him and I remember being dragged by my legs
just so I can get smacked on the butt like really hard
It was with a slipper. And boy, could he smack hard with a slipper.
Let me know in the comments what sort of punishments YOU received when you were a kid
and which one of the things that I listed was something that your parents did to you or said to you
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