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I can't speak to your experience, the Korean and Japanese friends I've had have had a way, way better time than other Asian subgroups. The white people I know d

I can't speak to your experience, the Korean and Japanese friends I've had have had a way, way better time than other Asian subgroups. The white people I know don't think of Asians like they think of white people. They break them down into subgroups. Chinese get some hate due to the whole political situation right now, but even that pales in comparison to what my Middle Eastern, Indian, and Pakistani friends go through. I'm not trying to argue anecdotes here. Quite the opposite. I'm trying to express my frustration in these social studies that don't model the complexity in the underlying realities of race relations so we can do a better job at ending racism.

PaulHoule 4y ago
If you made finer grained distinctions you’d get better results. I don’t know about people resident in the US but I know that Chinese, Koreans and many other Asians feel coldly towards the Japanese because of WWII and a lack of atonement thereof. I know a Chinese person who talks to the effect that Japanese are perverts and Indians are losers. Some Asian groups seem to do well economically in the U.S. but some don’t, such as Cambodians. The same is true for other groups that appear on the U.S. census such as “hispanics”. Ever since that question got added to the census Democrats have thought “great we are going to win the next election because ‘Hispanics’ are going to vote for us” and then they find it didn’t happen for a few reasons, one of which is there is no such thing as a ‘hispanic’ person but rather there are Mexicans, Cubans, etc. and those groups have very different perspectives. Cubans in the u.s. are notoriously right wing in reaction to Castro for instance. Somehow the democrats don’t seem to remember what happened 4 years ago so they always get blindsided. That census question might be the worst thing that happened to the democrats since 1970.

PaulHoule 4y ago

If you made finer grained distinctions you’d get better results. I don’t know about people resident in the US but I know that Chinese, Koreans and many other Asians feel coldly towards the Japanese because of WWII and a lack of atonement thereof. I know a Chinese person who talks to the effect that Japanese are perverts and Indians are losers. Some Asian groups seem to do well economically in the U.S. but some don’t, such as Cambodians. The same is true for other groups that appear on the U.S. census such as “hispanics”. Ever since that question got added to the census Democrats have thought “great we are going to win the next election because ‘Hispanics’ are going to vote for us” and then they find it didn’t happen for a few reasons, one of which is there is no such thing as a ‘hispanic’ person but rather there are Mexicans, Cubans, etc. and those groups have very different perspectives. Cubans in the u.s. are notoriously right wing in reaction to Castro for instance. Somehow the democrats don’t seem to remember what happened 4 years ago so they always get blindsided. That census question might be the worst thing that happened to the democrats since 1970.