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HuffPo- How Asian Immigrants Learn Anti-Blackness From White Culture, And How To Stop It
Anti-blackness in the Asian American community is not a discreet, whispered sentiment. It’s a blatant belief that’s been engrained into many immigrant minds — something force fed to us as children of immigrants as we attempt to integrate into American culture, where anti-blackness and white supremacy ideals are also rampant. It takes awareness and willingness to unlearn the false narratives we’ve been taught and recognize them as misguided fear passed down to us from our overprotective parents.
When Asian immigrants leave their home countries to come to America, often to escape poverty or tyrannical regimes, they’re often faced with the concept of race for the first time. Growing up, I often attributed my mom’s erratic behaviors to her being naive and gullible. She treated articles she read as holy scripture, shunning anything that was forbidden by the obscure newspapers she got at the Korean market. Many times, the literature she read perpetuated problematic ideas of other minorities, especially black people. As I became older, I realized that this impressionable mindset comes from an intense desire to survive in a country that functions on rules and customs unfamiliar to the ones in their former cultures.
As Asian immigrants work toward building successes in a foreign environment, they begin taking cues from the people they see as most successful. Because America’s historical oppression of people of color, these people are usually white. To many Asian Americans, whiteness often becomes equated to success, and all the elements that have been conditioned to come with the paradigms of whiteness. One of those, historically speaking, has been anti-blackness.*
*see slavery, systemic oppression, mass incarceration, encouragement of harmful stereotypes, micro aggressions, and police brutality as just a few examples.
hmmm, Learned discrimination is a two way street.
If certain minorities stopped targeting Asians specifically for beatings and robberies maybe Asians wouldn't have such negative feelings against those minorities.
The racist left has gotten a pass for to long. Those days are over.
The examples of racism by the left is nearly a daily occurrence.
The OP's HuffPo article calls for more indoctrination not education.
Racism in Asian nations is not new
or something encountered for the first time when arriving in the US.
Total BS and lies so common by the left.
If certain minorities stopped targeting Asians specifically for beatings and robberies maybe Asians wouldn't have such negative feelings against those minorities.
Yet another fluff piece that doesn't accurately represent reality.
Asians in America don't 'learn' to be racist against blacks from whites. That's utter nonsense. There's plenty of racism throughout Asia (and the rest of the world for that matter, Latin America, Europe, etc.) against people not of their own race/ethnicity, so where did those asians learn that racism? Sure, in a homogeneous society you're going to have some of that.
But in America, where asians are specifically targeted for hate crimes and crimes in general by some blacks, that seems like a lot more of a legitimate reason for some asians in america to adopt anti black attitudes, than 'learning' it from whites.
The fact is that hate crimes against Asians in America by blacks are either downplayed or made out to be something ludicrous like 'cultural' differences, or in a perverse twist, blamed on the asian because they were rude or something, instead of being called out for what it is.
Now I know the majority of black people aren't like this, they are law abiding good people, but let's not sugar coat this whole issue that only makes it worse with ridiculous articles like these.
The racist left has gotten a pass for to long. Those days are over.
The examples of racism by the left is nearly a daily occurrence.
The OP's HuffPo article calls for more indoctrination not education.
Racism in Asian nations is not new
or something encountered for the first time when arriving in the US.
Total BS and lies so common by the left.
Mmm pretty sure you can't decide whether or not it is lies as this is an opinion piece.
You know -- coming from Canada - where I know there is racism -- I have to tell you -- the USA does many things better than Canada and racism is one of them.
My oldest kids were 7 and 9 when we moved to the USA and I didn't even think about racism being something I needed to talk to them about. It wasn't long and they and I learned very fast it was a BIG deal still. An eye opener -- that was in 1997. I think it has gotten worse.
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