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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I think a big part of it is that asians aren't typically stereotyped as criminals or terrorists in the public eye, which means there's less fearmongering possibilities. There are plenty of rotten stereotypes about them but people don't tend to feel unsafe around them, if that makes sense.
edited 9th Nov '16 7:48:41 PM by Draghinazzo
Well, not if they don't consider east Asians inferior to Europeans, and a surprising number of these people seem to think that's the case (a fair number of them in east Asia). Someone who is bigoted against one particular ethnic group isn't necessarily bigoted against all other ethnic groups.
edited 9th Nov '16 7:52:52 PM by CaptainCapsase
Also a lot of this racism is reactionary in nature, relative to institutions that have previously existed in the US. Chiefly, slavery and I guess in the case of latinos there's more of an old-fashioned xenophobia at play what with Mexico being right across the border. Islamaphobia has also been a thing for a long time but 9/11 has taken it to another level, so that's one more.
Compared to that asians are small potatoes. They're not seen as particularly threatening, except for the chinese because "taking jobs, etc."
edited 9th Nov '16 8:03:25 PM by Draghinazzo
Footage of anti-Trump protests near Trump Tower in NYC.
Apparently there's been flag-burnings and massive beatings of a Donald Trump pinata that lost its leg within seconds, according to the written article.
"It's also not something that would happen in New York city, or any part of southern NY. My state was among the ones Clinton won decisively, if that means anything."
That's exactly the wrong attitude. There are black shirts everywhere.
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."I must additionally mention that a large number of the self-declared Trump supporters at my college - who are predominantly white and male with the exception of about two female students - actually have studied in or visited East Asian countries (namely Japan and China) before. Three of them even expressed genuine personal interest in Japanese culture and history, and have learned enough Japanese to the point of being able to hold a basic conversation with foreign exchange students.
Some general overtones I've noticed them bringing up in unrelated non-political discussions is a sense of respect and admiration for the East Asian cultural emphasis on stability, order, and collectivism. They seem to unconsciously subscribe to the idea that "Asian people are better at getting shit done because they don't squabble over little individual things like Westerners do." They often point to Japan's speedy transformation from medieval isolationist state to an industrial oceanic empire capable of waging war with the US as an example.
Two of the world's three largest (China and Japan, with the other being the US) economies are in east Asia.
Japan has a reasonably sized military, it's just not called a military and officially they aren't allowed to use it preemptively. They're talking about changing that though.
edited 9th Nov '16 8:12:40 PM by CaptainCapsase
@ pwiegle
I don't think Asians are viewed as a threat, except for the ones over in China taking our jobs due to trade imbalance. It's the rapist/drug-dealing Mexicans, the terrorist Muslims, and the Where Da White Women At? blacks that they're gunning for...
What about Filipinos? Will they be threatened too?
There's a distinct fascination with ethnic homogeneity and how that plays into the "cultural emphasis on stability, order, and collectivism." And it's how white nationalists say they're technically not white "supremacists," because hey man those asians are doing something right.
And that's not even getting into the whole altright/anime crossover appeal nonsense.
edited 9th Nov '16 8:19:59 PM by Eschaton
Here [1]
is an interesting article from Five Thirty Eight about why the polls missed Trump's victory.
So what I'm getting from you, Indirect, is that you buy into the bullshit about professors espousing their viewpoints as "indoctrinating" students without even understanding what indoctrination is. I mean seriously, if you think that's what professors are doing then they're doing an incredibly bad job given the weird bullshit I hear a lot of college age kids spout. Also, I'm not even sure how any president has any direct affect on that, or how they afford those kinds of opportunities to colleges? Like, there is no direct connection there and you certainly aren't making it clearly. Also, again., PENCE. Pence, who is likely to do much of the actual policy making, is a highly religious fellow. With that as at least part of the power in the White House, you are failing to convince me that Trump somehow affords the opportunity to increase the separation of Church and State anymore than it already is.
I mean seriously, you are operating on some crazy moon logic on this issue all the way through.
Reading that 538 article also brings something to mind: we already knew a lot of people disliked Hillary, but I guess we underestimated just how many. I'm wondering if we would have had a better democratic turnout with a different candidate. Not necessarily Sanders but someone else perhaps?
(Also, no, I'm not blaming Clinton).
edited 9th Nov '16 8:28:21 PM by Draghinazzo

edited 9th Nov '16 7:46:09 PM by CaptainCapsase