If Lemmy does end up being the site that redditors migrate to, I thought I may as well set this community up before others* did. I'll get to the others* in a minute. I will likely add to this post later but I just wanted to introduce myself and why I decided to create this community.
I'm a third-generation (half)Chinese-American, my grandmother and her husband moved to the States during the Chinese Communist Revolution, they had a daughter, their daughter married a nice white guy, and then had me and my sister.
I'm 32 as of writing this, work as a full stack developer, love gaming and weeb stuff as well as College Football, travelling anywhere and everywhere though I haven't been able to the last few years and riding motorcycles just to name a few things.
This community was created for all hapas, or even if you aren't hapa; you have a friend who's hapa, kid that's hapa, or are just interested in the stories and experiences that are shared here you're welcome here. If you're a quarter Korean, 1/18th Filipino, 3/4 Taiwanese or anything that remotely falls under the blanket term of 'hapa' I encourage you to join!
I may not be the most active moderator, but if this community grows at all then anyone who's interested in helping me mod, please don't hesitate & send me a message.
Lastly, for now at least, what this community isn't:
I want this community to respect others as if they were talking to someone in real life. Which may sound difficult being a community on the internet - but all I'm asking for is that you use common sense, have an open mind, and use the golden rule. The other* community on reddit did not have these values in mind...
/r/hapa - The subreddit that I sincerely believe was run by one moderator and an army of bots. The most popular posts were always those that centered around the discussion of White Male, Asian Female relationships that had sour undertones of bitterness and hatred towards said White Males targeting Asian Females...
Other topics that I found relatable like 'How do you meet other mixed Asian people?' or stories/experiences of user's lives as a hapa, having a hapa son/daughter, and the like never gained near as much traction to the posts I described above. I questioned the moderator and was promptly banned. I spoke to other users who were banned for similar reasons and it honestly just sounds like the person who created that subreddit had a personal vendetta or other issues and used that community as a platform to discuss his views.
This community will not be anything like that.