Less as in none? We have a large Asian community down here in New Orleans, Vietnam refugees made it. I remember in the 90's, early 2000's, when they still had Asian gangs, no one messed with them much. After Katrina hit and the gangs scattered, they were the first to rebuild, and became the first target of robberies, rape, and murder.
Let's see, Asian women are seen as more desirable in general with Asian men seen as less so, I'm sure there's more than that but I'm on the outside looking in. My wife is Asian, and since I was 4 one of my dad's good friends who owns a body shop, him and all his employees I've been close to. I do miss the Asian gangs though, they were clean and got things done.
recognition? I'm not seeing the promotion... and that occurs through media. The "squeeky wheel" gets the grease.
don't know, maybe they are content with the various celebrations they have and they don't care? As well, they tend to be more subdued... decades of being controlled and oppressed... products of emperors, chairman Mao torturning and murdering people to submission by the millions?
Americans are a bunch of rebels. I don't see that in Asian culture, in some Asians yes.
We should. I didn't know what chinese food was until college... and that wasn't even real chinese food. I learned nothing of east or middle east in high school.
I think one reason nobody complains about Asian American discrimination is that Asian Americans are still able to get jobs and leadership positions and advanced degrees so are not viewed as victims as much as other groups, I’m not saying Asians are smarter than other races but since Asians are more populous in the world, there are more potential Asians to choose from when the immigration staff are selecting citizens to populate America, this leads to the academic clustering illusion, where Asians appear more intelligent than other groups, leading to envious people not caring about their social victimization.
I find Asians in general to be confrontation shy. Chinese culture takes the indirect approach in a lot of situations. This very overt expression of Asia-Americans calling out Asian hate is absolutely not from the Asian mentality in actual Asian countries. Historically, due to this pliant behaviour they have been let higher up the hegemonic ladder whereas Blacks are still America's defacto boogeyman when it isn't Muslims or Mexicans who don't have such a diminutive manner.
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"Asians" are actively discriminated against in the US, most notably in the (higher) education system, and indirectly through income taxation since they are on average among the highest salary earners (by demographic) living off of strictly taxable income. It's a group that the government elite generally avoids drawing any attention to when they can't exploit them.
Case in point: When "Stop Asian Hate" took off last year, they dropped it like a hot potato when it became apparent that almost all of the anti-Asian hate crimes were being committed by other minorities.
Honestly? Because I think Asians are less likely to get roped into the political bandwagon. They go by those marginalized groups who go out and vote vote VOTE for them when the time comes.
And somehow I don't see Asians running to the podium thinking about how they're going to vote for that nice politician who said he loves Asians. From my experience talking to a few classmates who were Asian back in the day, they all seemed to give much less of a shit about feeling marginalized and when they made decisions it was more logical rather than emotional.
Just a thought.
People like you can never celebrate other cultures without trying to pit bipoc communities against one another. You’ll weaponize bipoc communities but you don’t give a shit about them, last year during the Asian spa shooting did you give a shit about Asian lives or the Asian community? Probably not
Not sure. My state was the first in the nation to mandate teaching Asian American history. Why it is taking such a long time is beyond reason?
The thing is you are the last person to complain about it because you are batshit crazy.
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Because they're not seen as victims anymore, and in the idiotic heiralchy imposed by the modern zeitgeist, you're either a victim or an oppressor. Asians in America are too successful to be victims, so they've joined the Jews and the Irish on the oppressor pile.
I don't pay attention to racist history months. Theses events are created by racist who think only in terms of race.
When in fact actual historic events just like modern events happened very much in the context of a broader story of events chapping at the same time. You either learn that broad story or you don't understand those events.
Racist who want to focus upon the story of just a particular race should be as condemned as they are ignorant of history.
Democrats hate Asians because they disprove their lies that non-Whites are at a disadvantage in the USA when in reality, some "minority" groups actually have a legal and financial ADVANTAGE over Whites in the USA. Asians often actually work hard and don't resort to being criminals and druggies with excuses and end up doing well so democrats don't like or support them.
I think honestly too many histories have had to have been fought for in America. None will necessarily get the recognition that deserves but we definitely are glad for any that it gets. I really don't know why and you know what it would be great to hear about the contributions to American society via Asians.
You kind of answered your own question. Asians have always been considered privileged like White people, and are always being blamed for minorities not getting into good schools. And Asians have always considered themselves and Whites superior to everyone else, so they've never really fit in with the other minority groups, because like you said, they've never been seen as marginalized, in recent history.
They got a month despite being what percentage of the population, sounds pretty good. Maybe Asian Americans don't care about Asian history month.
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Why di think there's no White American anything? I feel your pain, but soft spoken back asses don't get as much attention as loud ass bog months. Thats just how it works, squeaky wheel gets the grease thing
If we did this proportionally, Europeans would be celebrated 350 days, Asians 5 days, Hispanics 5 days, And blacks 4 days and others 1 day. This is not meant to denigrate anyone, but this was a country founded and based on European blues and traditions — despite the pc crap that is so pushy and pervasive now
I don't pay attention to any of it. Black, women, Asian, etc. Nor the awareness months. Nor the social awareness challenges. I simply don't care. 🤷 But if its means something to someone more power to them. I mainly get tired of all the balloons and ribbons at work for all the history months. Balloons deflate and the tape holing all the ribbons fail and then I'm left with an obstacle course getting from point a to b. That's about the extent of my thinking about whatever "month" it is.
Because the media wants to make white people feel bad that they made blacks slaves in the past. Media pushing its agenda. Blacks protest saying BLM while shoving Asians into trains. Most of the people who support BLM could care less of the other minority groups. Otherwise they would have said all lives matter. If an Asian man were to get choked like Floyd did, trust me there won’t be shit happening. The BLM supporters wouldn’t give two fucks lol. This is the reality of the world we live in.
Because they don’t care about cultural appropriation like others. They celebrate their homelands holidays and cultures. Not American made holidays they don’t care about. And they are more focused on money/education rather than politics.
As far as I'm concerned there is 1 day that represents all of us. The 4th of July.
I think if we had a day to recognize every ethnicity that helped contribute to the idea of America we'd have 1 for every day of the week.
They haven't been here long enough maybe about 120 years. Other than that they just been contract workers or prison labor
My wife is East Asian and I did not know there was one.
I live in Asia. No one gives a shit about that, here.
Guess, why :D
I had no idea. I guess Asians are at that weird point on the progressive stack to have a history month but not at the point where a lot of people are aware of it.
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