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.
看看張純如的書《The Chinese in America: A Narrative History》,中國人在美國是永遠的外國人(perpetual foreigner),不管你是第幾代後裔。
近年來的反亞裔當然是有川普挑起,但背後原因是中國的崛起和美國的衰弱,中國成了最直截了當的攻擊目標。不止在政府層麵,更重要的是在媒體上。當左中右所有媒體每天都在曝露關於中國的負麵新聞,其中大部分都是無中生有,捕風捉影,你還能指望美國人會對華人有好印象嗎?
sensei321 發表評論於
扯NM蛋.歧視華人,不是歧視亞裔, 別故意混淆.
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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.
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.