I had previously worked in Afghanistan for State. I had a top secret security clearance. But here was a letter saying we don’t trust you. What confused me more is that I didn’t even apply to work on Korea. The StateDept was proactively telling me they didn’t trust me. 2/13
As strange as this nationalist identity politics might seem, it has deep roots in the original decision to install the United States as the global military hegemon, as I uncover in @TomoTheWorld. FDR, in 1940, likened a hemispheric sphere of influence to total imprisonment: pic.twitter.com/S3XK5ifjJV
Ironically this happened the day everyone is talking about prejudice against #AAPI . Behind this photo was a disturbing experience. I was getting ready for my TV live shot at BLM Plaza, 3 female Korean reporters were setting up at my left. Two people, the man was filming with an pic.twitter.com/4m1KMGGRE2
Jill and I are keeping everyone impacted by the shootings in Atlanta in our prayers. We don’t yet know the motive, but what we do know is that the Asian-American community is feeling enormous pain tonight. The recent attacks against the community are un-American. They must stop.
Chinese diaspora is not accountable to the PRC gov, but it's still not acceptable that 99% of western media coverage on China is negative. PRC gotta be doing some things right if they got 850M people outta poverty, modernized their cities, controlled COVID, & have 90% approval.
看看张纯如的书《The Chinese in America: A Narrative History》,中国人在美国是永远的外国人(perpetual foreigner),不管你是第几代后裔。
近年来的反亚裔当然是有川普挑起,但背后原因是中国的崛起和美国的衰弱,中国成了最直截了当的攻击目标。不止在政府层面,更重要的是在媒体上。当左中右所有媒体每天都在曝露关于中国的负面新闻,其中大部分都是无中生有,捕风捉影,你还能指望美国人会对华人有好印象吗?
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扯NM蛋.歧视华人,不是歧视亚裔, 别故意混淆.
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Your analysis is very acute. For a student rapidly climbing up from the bottom towards the top of the class in school, every other top-ranking students should feel threatened. It is inevitable by human nature. However, after the student solidifies herself as a dominant force who can't be pushed down, others will eventually accept and try to live with the new reality. The journey would be full of struggles for Mainland Chinese, and to a great extent also for Chinese Americans because Chinese and Chinese Americans are indistinguishable in self-identity on street and in political ideology. If Chinese Americans do not fight fiercely and courageously like Blacks for equity rights, the Japanese detention camps would be waiting for all of Chinese Americans down the road.