Eyes Open: An Anti-Asian Racism PSA
2021 ж. 11 Мам.
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French captioning available here: • Eyes Open: An Anti-Asi...
As I grew up I watched my parents and grandparents bullied by racist comments. My siblings and I were called every racist name and threatened physically. I was taught to keep my head down and not cause a scene. But my body and mind had a strong urge to fight racism. Fast forward. My parents are gone and I’ve learned to let that rage out and fight back when I hear and see racism. Every time I stand up against racism it’s the family’s voice that had been silenced in all my past years.
@Maximillan Maxmilan Kudos !!! AAPI - be Loud, be Proud, FIGHT BACK !
bravo for brave max....keep onn standing up
Yay victimhood! Which gender do you identify as comrade?
Fight for your rights until you win !
The combination of the poem and cinematography…. ahhhh (sigh of happiness)✨immaculate✨ * CHEFS KISS * It's so well written, and powerful!!! Christopher Tse touched on a variety of issues Asian-Canadians have faced(and still face), which I appreciate. I wish I hadn't found this video two months late :( ! I'll be sending this to my English teacher because I'm sure she'll appreciate the mix of good poetry, and activism. :) As someone who is part Japanese, it breaks my heart that Asian heritage month, Asian history, and Asian struggles don't get nearly as much recognition as they deserve. istg anti-Asian racism isn't talked about enough and the world has been pretty messed up recently, and it made me so glad that you guys made a video (and campaign) specifically targeting all of it. All the racists that say we "deserve" this can go to the bad place too bc their logic is completely flawed. Nobody deserves hate for being themselves. I was so happy to see Kim’s Convenience there too :D *Here it is written out :* We have never been a loud people. Our elders always taught us That actions speak louder than words So we learned to keep our heads down Keep our grades up Keep our kin close Keep our mouth shut. I wonder? What it does to a people when they stay quiet for so long Do they forget their voice? The sound of their stories? The resilience of language? When you are no longer in your Mother land Does your mother tongue still sing of home? What work songs lifted our spirits as we built the railroad? What prayers did we whisper as they sent us to camps in the mountains to meditate on all the ways we don’t belong to this country? So we stayed quiet. As they burned our Chinatowns down And spit on our grandmas at bus stops We stayed quiet. As they laughed in our faces and told us, To go back to where we came from But they’ve mistaken our silence.. For compliance Looked on our meekness as weakness. See we are not the submissive stereotype that’s been depicted on silence, on us. They’ve gotten it twisted. Silence is golden. As are we. A gradient of yellow to brown, Every KoreanTown & Little Saigon - an act of defiance Every hunchback elder - A humble giant Silence is grace in the triumph. Is peace in the not. Silence is bold. A force. It is the brewing calm before the coming storm. And now the sky is splitting open and the rage is pouring forth So this is for, Every kid who’s tried to pull their nose bridge to make it taller, Everytime they mocked us cause our eyes are smaller. This is both for our elders alive and remembered. For their lessons - the tough and the tender. For our full names - past and present. May they be pronounced. May they be respected. For every shink in the national fabric, Every nip in the winter wind of prairie towns and northern Hamlets Coast to coast on stolen land. We are here. We’ve been here. From takeout joints to internment camps To internships and graduation caps, we are strong. We have pride. We fight. We fall. We rise. And to those who say we don’t belong? It’s them who should open their eyes. #ProudToBeAsian #StopAsianHate
Excellent video... Superb poem written and read by Christopher Tse.(almost missed the credit even tho it's the first one or maybe becos of it,,lol)***.....***keep this alive year round. (from a Chinese --- author and ex-prof classical and jazz ballet dancer )
powerful montage. thank you for sharing!
Such a powerful poem. I cried at its beauty and strength. Great work by everyone involved!
As a proud Canadian of Asian descent, this video is so emotional and empowering. Much love to everyone and remember to spread kindness everyday. ❤️
You are getting the treatment you give others stop complaining
The Chinese government killed over 50 million Chinese, enslave over 1 billion, tortures millions, and invades other nations to take away their democracy and enslave them. How can a Chinese person come here and criticize us when their government is the biggest evil in history?
@@oneguy4253 Racism against Asians is wrong, period.
@@110577Mike Racism against anyone is wrong.
With accent and say so fast, i can understand half of it, dumb ad hell.
A Powerful message. For those relying on the closed captioning, I wish the printing was larger and in green or white lettering on a black strip to make if more legible. It's hard to read with a changing background. Update: I discovered in KZhead in Settings-Subtiles/CC-'>'-Options, I can set 'Font Size=400%' and ''Opacity=100%' to get what I want.
Beautifully filmed, written and narrated. Wonderful to see so many faces -- may this video bring light to others.
Beautiful poetry to awaken all to the strength of Asians in Canada and around the globe. We make bold contributions; we are often not acknowledged...until Christopher Tse vocalized our immense collective power. Thank you!
Beautiful, thank you Christopher!
👏👏👏 brilliant work, so inspiring!! #FaceRace
Provoking and Inspirational. Thank you
Proud Asian. Honoured to be a part of this incredible project.
Beautiful and moving. Thank you.
Excellent Job! Well done!
Powerful. Thank you!
Powerful words left unsaid for too long. Thank you for speaking up 🔥 So we can all rise up ✊
Left unsaid too long indeed - the Dragon has awakened, finally, and yes it is a benevolent and not hegemonic rise (check its long history and culture) All Asians must rise up, now, TOGETHER, not divided and dare to speak the TRUTH about today's powerful CHINA to make any difference at all against this formidable and relentless anti Asian = anti China demonising campaign from the dominant global north. God Bless Asia ! God Bless China !
As a POC and a black person, this made me feel very good and I love how we can unite together and defeat racism. I stand for anti racism, sexism, etc.
Thank you for this!
Beautiful
Terrific performance! A wonderful collage of images!
One of my best friends shared this. It literally sent tears streaming down my face and a lump in my throat. It could be my emotional nature, but it could also be hearing all my feelings in someone else's voice.
Beautiful words and beautifully shot.
Beautiful.
Thank you for sharing such powerful words! I would love to share this with my students for our poetry unit and was wondering where would I be able to find the written poem? Thank you once again!
Hiii, Ms Nguyen! I wrote a comment were I copied the poem down. Feel free to copy and paste. :)
Regardless where you were from, this IS your, my and our home, OUR Canada!!! We have been a part of our collective history, we have contributed to the building of our nation, we have served in our Police Forces and the Canadian Armed Forces, we have protected our country, and we shall stand tall and hold our heads high as proud CANADIANS!!!
Incredibly awesome and powerful ✊🏿😁 TY for making this so that it can be shared. We all need to stand up and together as well as for each other. If one of us is oppressed, then we are all oppressed. We as a group cannot move forward n be liberated if other groups are still being held back. Proud to be Asian, proud to be Canadian. We will persevere n persist together!!
So incredibly powerful! You are a talented slam poet. Thank you for using your platform in positive ways.
This was such a powerful video, it brought me to tears. Thank you for sharing #stopasianhate
Beautifully done, brought tears to my eyes, you have made Canada a BETTER place to live. Thank you with All my Heart
Great video! Love my Asian heritage. I would not change who I am.
Powerful and Beautiful. You said everything I want to say in 2&half minutes.
Powerful stuff
Powerful video, great work 👍 “It’s them who should open their eyes!! “ Stay safe, stay strong💪 Proud to be Canadian, Proud to be Asian❤️
Thank you so much for this. So well made and so accurately depicts the diversity and yet, similarity of Asian cultures. As a proud Filipina Canadian... Finally our voice is heard.
Great video!
What song did you use in the background? It sounds really good and I want to use it for my school project
thank you for this
Amazing video! Thank you for the voice and lets stand together to and stop Asian Racism!
It's ironic since every race faces racism from every other race. Some just choose to kick a bully's ass and others wine about it.
Beautiful. Powerful. Thank you.
Thank you for making this beautiful piece of work. This resonates so much.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for speaking up!
Every migration of every people, of every belief, of every creed was once an immigrant in a strange land. We are all immigrants and we have built this land through our blood, our sweat, our tears. God bless our diversity.
THIS IS SO POWERFUL✊🏻
Wonderfully powerful! Thank you for sharing and being in Canada as part of our diversified heritage.
Thank you for this, so needed right now.
It is time for Asians to rise up from their silence when they are mistreated for no other reason than their distinct appearance, dialects, or other unique cultural traits. It is never wrong to speak up when a social justice is experienced or observed as long as it is done peacefully. We know of the long-fought struggles of our fellow brothers and sisters from the black and indigenous communities to be fully accepted and treated as equals but there is not much awareness of the struggles from the Asian community until recently, even though historically it has been around a long time since the first immigrants landed in their new country. May mainstream media begin to highlight our plight and other racialized communities and for political and community leaders to take action to denounce mistreatment especially of late due the geographical origin of the Covid virus and its spread. God created us as human beings first, in His image. Let us all learn to love one another as Christ has taught us.
Beautiful. Powerful. Thank you!
💛🙏🏼💛 So good.
So powerful. Definitely made me tear up. Thanks for the video, your words were so strong and meaningful it hit me hard. 🙏❤️
This is really powerful and well-made. Thank you.
Asians Assemble! Protect our Elders! Their History is our path to the Future!
Amazing - thank you for making this! And sadly the 5 dislikes are probably racists
A "Racist" is anyone who subscribes to the belief system that mankind is made up of multiple races...instead of one.
@@powermetal26 Well it would be alot easier if shitty people dont attack someone who look different
Simply incredible poetry and video. Amazing and thank you for speaking out.
Thank you for this.
I cried by the end of this video - thank you 🙏
Me too!!
Why wasn't this posted on your social media pages? Why wasn't this posted to David Suzuki's pages?? Why is there no mention that David Suzuki is in this? Why make a video and then not use it?
#stopasianhate
Wow, this is so beautiful and inspiring. I keep watching it and thinking about it. This hits home on so many levels. Our eyes are OPEN. We BELONG! I think we need to bring back AZN PRIDE :D
👏👏👏👏👌👌👍👍👍👍👍👏 SPEAK THE WORDS!! WRITE THE WORDS!! SHOW THE WORDS!!
Yes.
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SO POWERFUL!
We Got To Celebrate Our Differences
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Yes.❤️
Can I have the lyrics to this rant please?
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Sounds as good as Prince EA's stand up poetry 🔥🔥🔥
So powerful.
Beautiful. Made me emotional.
Bravo 👏🏻
Asians need to stand together to support each other. We are strong, but together we can be stronger!
Powerful, as a Vietnamese-American, this is a great pro-Asian message, Asian Americans could learn a lot from Asian-Canadians how to do a unity affirming message right. The 2 videos we have circulating in the States does nothing to lift our voice. 👍🏼
1:50 What up, that’s my arm
Wowed
ALL LIVES MATTER from JAPAN 🇯🇵
I stalk people on KZhead to see what people post w/out having to subscribe to anyone - as an asian, I NEVER MAKE IT MY CHOICE TO CARE ABOUT OTHER’S OPINIONS BECAUSE IT’S NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY TO LIVE UP TO ANYONE’S EXPECTATIONS.
Let's end this at our generation.
Where's my comment, who delete mine?
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Wang chung
They really called the anti-asian racism PSA "eyes open" Holy fuck you can't make this shit up... Who sat down and said "Yeah this is the perfect name, def no way any stereotypes could be used with this name."
So now you know what black people have gone through, and you may want to start with your own people not to discriminate against other minorities especially as a consumer in your store. America has always been based on English black white and Native indigenous
EYES OPEN?!?!? are you fuckin with us?
Maybe we can start calling ourselves: tan instead of Asian. Asian makes it sound like Asia is the only place where we are from and belong. People from Europe are not called Europeans; they are called white. People from Africa are not called Africans; they are called black. Black, white, red, tan, and brown are colors that exist in our universe. So, when Europeans are called white, they can fit in in America, Australia... If we allow ourselves to be pigeonholed into being called Asians, then Asians belong only to Asia. We become forever foreigners. Yet, if we call ourselves TAN, we are part of the color spectrum, belonging everywhere, not just Asia. We do not and should not be called yellow because of its perforative tone: yellow equals cowardly. Besides having a degrading meaning, yellow has two syllables. Tan has one syllable, just like white, black, red, and brown. Every racial and ethnic group on earth can refer to themselves as belonging to a single-syllable color found on Earth, but somehow East Asians are left out and ostracized. Why should we be singled out to be different as belonging to only one continent: Asia? We belong on God's green Earth like everyone else. We are TAN. Tan is a color found on every continent. We are TAN, and we belong in the Americas, in Europe, in Australia, in Africa, in Antarctica, in Asia. White, tan, red, brown, black- we are all part of the same color spectrum.
“It’s THEY who should open their eyes”. If you’re gonna do poetry in English do it right
Its a matter of perspective. You can set the rules or follow and comply. Much in English is a joke. Just check Jamaican patois for example. It simplifies English.
I disagree the possible use of slang and strong message to the 'THEY' is purposeful toward the white supremacists that need to open their eyes....this is slam poetry done RIGHT! Bravo.
@@darlenepayne-jamesgrieveps8539 Not just the white supremacists. “They/them” can be anyone who harbours hatred.
why not add some Cantonese ^_^
なんで渡邊ｗｗｗｗｗ
Bring back the Roof Koreans
no problem, just don't include China Government or any one who supports them, you know why
You need to be educated dear sir.
@@howard49 China government is evil, PURE EVIL.never to be trusted / they always lie, this is a fact / grow the hell up
"Eyes open" Stop it!
if he wants to deliver the message effectively, speak a little slower. this is not for show. this is for communication.
Honest question: why do Chinese restaurant owners speak English fine but only until you have a complaint?
Honest answer: That isn't true.
@@ellazubec9862 Honest reply: Very true. Even a good friend of mine - coincidentally of Chinese heritage - whose family owns the local Chinese diner brags that up as being one of their tactics of dealing with problematic customers. It's a huge joke to them. But honestly, thanks for playing anyway.
Not true. Never ever encountered that.
hide your asian last names in the comments. ofuscate them
Totally irrelevant argument. In Canada the official languages are English and French. Also, its not permitted to write other languages be written on public signage. But, in many cases governmental signage are in Chinese! No to Chinese colonisation
Beautiful.
Thank you.
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