That is one full college thesis. I'm not going to pretend like I'm an expert in handling social and society issues in my country, let alone The Merica. I believe the problem being, when the people started to accept their racism by declaring NOT racist, yet they act like it. How many times we saw different treatment by a white cop towards different colours skin tone people. How many times we've seen black people use the racist card to provoke a white cop.
I'm not racist, but I think you're racist because you have a Cambodian wife.
I'm not racist, I just don't trust you because you have a Cambodian family.
I'm not racist, but I think I should pay you half since you're gonna take our money to YOUR country.
I already have the script in my subconscious mind. It happens here too, despite I was born here, but often other races would use the NOT A RACIST card to ask me to "go back to China".
I don't know how can I help. I wish you can get a better adjustment with your family staying there. Hive price isn't doing as well as I wished it would, but I do pray that one day you'll find yourself a pot of gold when the price soar, so you can have a better arrangement with the family. Maybe start a new business or something.
How I wish we can go back to the era when racism is still a sensitive topic, at least we know what we're fighting for.
Well, the things that are sensitive issues here are things known by folks like you in Southeast Asia for far too long. I think because I have never had close friends here and haven't spent much time here in the last 15 years, I tend to assume the USA is the way it was when I left, both politically and socially.
Despite us making less than a 1/10th of what I thought we'd earn here, we spend all of our time in the garage where we live with the kitties, saving as much as possible, and sending every dollar back to Cambodia where it can actually do something one day.
More and more I think I need to open a kitty rescue sanctuary when we get back because cats are now the main thing keeping me sane here.