Paranoids: Any ABC’s fearful of chinese bashing in the future?

[Coronita]

This is mainly a question for some of you american born asians living here who don't really have an option of "going home" to japan/korea/china/taiwan…..

 

Do any of you share a slight concern that as China's economic power increases, and *if* U.S's economy's start to decline, that our politicians, and society will resort to the sort of Asian bashing  that happened around the 80ies when Japan was sort of taking out companies left and right?

I remember as a kid growing up, I read about some chinese dude got bludgeon to death by a few car workers because I guess they lost their jobs and thought the poor dude was was japanese. The judge i think jury acquited them because they felt the made a mistake, and didn't mean to kill someone chinese. Yes go figure….

Anyway, wondering if anyone else shares an likewise concern. I'm thinking of Canada as a fallback option. …Eh? 

[Coronita]

For reference…

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Chin

 

Although, I didn't know about the Federal civil charges after the state slap on the hand… I sort of feel better now. Ok, not really.

 

 

[Coronita]

For reference…

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Chin

 

Although, I didn't know about the Federal civil charges after the state slap on the hand… I sort of feel better now. Ok, not really.

 

 

[Coronita]

For reference…

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Chin

 

Although, I didn't know about the Federal civil charges after the state slap on the hand… I sort of feel better now. Ok, not really.

 

 

[Coronita]

For reference…

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Chin

 

Although, I didn't know about the Federal civil charges after the state slap on the hand… I sort of feel better now. Ok, not really.

 

 

[NotCranky]

That is just awful. You might take heart in the fact that Arabs and Muslims are not being rounded up in mass and put in internment camps at the current time as the Japanese were in WW2. I expect propaganda and backlash against any threat to U.S. agenda or supremacy but let’s hope nothing like that will ever happen again with so little justice. It is just disturbing. See Arraya’s post about monkeys in the “Love of God or money thread”.

http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/snow/
That is a book you might like, also a movie.

[NotCranky]

That is just awful. You might take heart in the fact that Arabs and Muslims are not being rounded up in mass and put in internment camps at the current time as the Japanese were in WW2. I expect propaganda and backlash against any threat to U.S. agenda or supremacy but let’s hope nothing like that will ever happen again with so little justice. It is just disturbing. See Arraya’s post about monkeys in the “Love of God or money thread”.

http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/snow/
That is a book you might like, also a movie.

[NotCranky]

That is just awful. You might take heart in the fact that Arabs and Muslims are not being rounded up in mass and put in internment camps at the current time as the Japanese were in WW2. I expect propaganda and backlash against any threat to U.S. agenda or supremacy but let’s hope nothing like that will ever happen again with so little justice. It is just disturbing. See Arraya’s post about monkeys in the “Love of God or money thread”.

http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/snow/
That is a book you might like, also a movie.

[NotCranky]

That is just awful. You might take heart in the fact that Arabs and Muslims are not being rounded up in mass and put in internment camps at the current time as the Japanese were in WW2. I expect propaganda and backlash against any threat to U.S. agenda or supremacy but let’s hope nothing like that will ever happen again with so little justice. It is just disturbing. See Arraya’s post about monkeys in the “Love of God or money thread”.

http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/snow/
That is a book you might like, also a movie.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Rustico: While I think that internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII is a black mark on America’s reputation, you also have to put it into context: The Japanese had just attacked Pearl Harbor (with the help of Japanese spies in the Hawaiian islands), they had been running rampant in the Pacific, China and Mongolia and were potentially a threat to the west coast of the US.

You might also remember that German-Americans and Italian-Americans were also being interned, mainly members of the Bund and the Italian-American Friendship Society.

I don’t see a huge backlash against Chinese-Americans, and I would caution those that see China reprising the role of Japan, Inc. during the 1980s to please remember how that turned out for Japan.

Lastly, the biggest threat to America’s supremacy is America itself. The mess we are in at present is entirely of our own creation. Hubris, ignorance and greed have landed us in the soup and we’ll see if this generation has the sand to knuckle down and get ourselves back on track.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Rustico: While I think that internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII is a black mark on America’s reputation, you also have to put it into context: The Japanese had just attacked Pearl Harbor (with the help of Japanese spies in the Hawaiian islands), they had been running rampant in the Pacific, China and Mongolia and were potentially a threat to the west coast of the US.

You might also remember that German-Americans and Italian-Americans were also being interned, mainly members of the Bund and the Italian-American Friendship Society.

I don’t see a huge backlash against Chinese-Americans, and I would caution those that see China reprising the role of Japan, Inc. during the 1980s to please remember how that turned out for Japan.

Lastly, the biggest threat to America’s supremacy is America itself. The mess we are in at present is entirely of our own creation. Hubris, ignorance and greed have landed us in the soup and we’ll see if this generation has the sand to knuckle down and get ourselves back on track.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Rustico: While I think that internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII is a black mark on America’s reputation, you also have to put it into context: The Japanese had just attacked Pearl Harbor (with the help of Japanese spies in the Hawaiian islands), they had been running rampant in the Pacific, China and Mongolia and were potentially a threat to the west coast of the US.

You might also remember that German-Americans and Italian-Americans were also being interned, mainly members of the Bund and the Italian-American Friendship Society.

I don’t see a huge backlash against Chinese-Americans, and I would caution those that see China reprising the role of Japan, Inc. during the 1980s to please remember how that turned out for Japan.

Lastly, the biggest threat to America’s supremacy is America itself. The mess we are in at present is entirely of our own creation. Hubris, ignorance and greed have landed us in the soup and we’ll see if this generation has the sand to knuckle down and get ourselves back on track.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Rustico: While I think that internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII is a black mark on America’s reputation, you also have to put it into context: The Japanese had just attacked Pearl Harbor (with the help of Japanese spies in the Hawaiian islands), they had been running rampant in the Pacific, China and Mongolia and were potentially a threat to the west coast of the US.

You might also remember that German-Americans and Italian-Americans were also being interned, mainly members of the Bund and the Italian-American Friendship Society.

I don’t see a huge backlash against Chinese-Americans, and I would caution those that see China reprising the role of Japan, Inc. during the 1980s to please remember how that turned out for Japan.

Lastly, the biggest threat to America’s supremacy is America itself. The mess we are in at present is entirely of our own creation. Hubris, ignorance and greed have landed us in the soup and we’ll see if this generation has the sand to knuckle down and get ourselves back on track.

[NotCranky]

I lost my wonderful, well thought out post Allan. Anyway I have contemplated the internment issues from many angles. I have even seen essays by Japanese of the era who had the opinion that it was not completely unjustified. As you point out Japan then Vs. China now are completely different.
Anyway, FLU was more concerned of ramifications that occured circa 1980 and I don’t blame him. I don’t have confidence that the U.S.,from the upper levels of power to the blue collar guy who will go ape shit when he losses his job in the factories, is very different with regards to the tendancies you describe in your last paragraph,over the entire time frame discussed so far.

I am sure we both wish it were better.

Disclaimer: editing issues due to feeding baby and having already lost a perfect work of art on the topic…Good luck reading that.

[NotCranky]

I lost my wonderful, well thought out post Allan. Anyway I have contemplated the internment issues from many angles. I have even seen essays by Japanese of the era who had the opinion that it was not completely unjustified. As you point out Japan then Vs. China now are completely different.
Anyway, FLU was more concerned of ramifications that occured circa 1980 and I don’t blame him. I don’t have confidence that the U.S.,from the upper levels of power to the blue collar guy who will go ape shit when he losses his job in the factories, is very different with regards to the tendancies you describe in your last paragraph,over the entire time frame discussed so far.

I am sure we both wish it were better.

Disclaimer: editing issues due to feeding baby and having already lost a perfect work of art on the topic…Good luck reading that.

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