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"Anchor baby" is a mythical beast used to stir up xenophobia. Fears of yellow peril in the US died many decades ago, so pushing this incident serves no special
by dalke 11y ago
"Anchor baby" is a mythical beast used to stir up xenophobia. Fears of yellow peril in the US died many decades ago, so pushing this incident serves no special purpose.
Instead, it's falls into the long history of people doing exactly the same thing. For example, the father of former New Mexico governor and one-time presidential candidate Bill Richardson "had a complex about not having been born in the United States" (quoting his son), so "[j]ust before Bill Richardson was born, his father sent his mother to California to give birth" (quoting Wikipedia).
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago> Fears of yellow peril in the US died many decades ago It's not totally gone, it just morphs over the years.
- dalke 11y agoWhat we have now is generic xenophobia. It's not "yellow peril" in any meaning of the historical sense. There are no pogroms, where Asians have a "Chinaman's chance" of avoiding lynching. There is no "Asiatic Barred Zone" from which people could not immigrate. American women who marry an Asian alien do not lose US citizenship. People from India and Japan can become US citizens.