wtf? no on wants to do that. what a shit curriculum.
Lol.In case you are confused, this isn't South America that we are talking about.
In case you are confused, this isn't South America that we are talking about.
As if racism ever ended.
If *I* could go to any school, it would be MIT; They're just better. I wouldn't go to Liberty if you paid me. I do appreciate the ironic naming though :^DIf I could I'd go to Liberty.
As if racism ever ended.
Chinese and Asians were never enslaved except some isolated 'tantamount-to-slavery' cases, mostly by their own. Chinese owned hundreds of successful businesses even as far as the Western frontier in the 1800s, were not only permitted to cater to whites and compete directly with white-owned businesses, but could cater to wealthy whites. They were not prohibited from reading and writing (unless they converted to Christianity), not stripped of their own cultures and religion. They could come and go, maintain ties to their homeland, knew where they were from, sent and received mail. The "orientals" were always portrayed as having a civilized and literate society, as being "productive", while anything having to do with African societies or cultures was portrayed as being sub-human, animal-like, primitive, non-productive. Literacy and education usually worked for Asians. It did NOT work for slaves or their descendants.Yeap, and Asians somehow climbed to the top SIGNIFICANTLY ABOVE WHITE PEOPLE by oppressing all of us right? Those damn Asian people are always keeping my pay-down yo.
Some special snowflake was offended because of a free yoga class
http://www.ottawasun.com/2015/11/20/free-ottawa-yoga-class-scrapped-over-cultural-issues
'Student leaders have pulled the mat out from 60 University of Ottawa students, ending a free on-campus yoga class over fears the teachings could be seen as a form of "cultural appropriation."'
Chinese and Asians were never enslaved except some isolated 'tantamount-to-slavery' cases, mostly by their own. Chinese owned hundreds of successful businesses even as far as the Western frontier in the 1800s, were not only permitted to cater to whites and compete directly with white-owned businesses, but could cater to wealthy whites. They were not prohibited from reading and writing (unless they converted to Christianity), not stripped of their own cultures and religion. They could come and go, maintain ties to their homeland, knew where they were from, sent and received mail. The "orientals" were always portrayed as having a civilized and literate society, as being "productive", while anything having to do with African societies or cultures was portrayed as being sub-human, animal-like, primitive, non-productive. Literacy and education usually worked for Asians. It did NOT work for slaves or their descendants.
Group dynamics are not individual issues. Your recent ancestors had those ties, and probably elected to let them wither, at some point, not forcibly prevented or denied, kept intentionally illiterate, dependent, and unable to function in society. And I'm betting your ancestors came here of their own volition, like 95% of the Chinese.You know how many ties I as a white person have ever had to my ancestry, homeland, & culture in Europe? None. Zero. Nada. That's an argument that could be made 100 years ago. Today, not so much.
If *I* could go to any school, it would be MIT; They're just better. I wouldn't go to Liberty if you paid me. I do appreciate the ironic naming though :^D
Chinese and Asians were never enslaved
Chinese and Asians were never enslaved except some isolated 'tantamount-to-slavery' cases, mostly by their own. Chinese owned hundreds of successful businesses even as far as the Western frontier in the 1800s, were not only permitted to cater to whites and compete directly with white-owned businesses, but could cater to wealthy whites. They were not prohibited from reading and writing (unless they converted to Christianity), not stripped of their own cultures and religion. They could come and go, maintain ties to their homeland, knew where they were from, sent and received mail. The "orientals" were always portrayed as having a civilized and literate society, as being "productive", while anything having to do with African societies or cultures was portrayed as being sub-human, animal-like, primitive, non-productive. Literacy and education usually worked for Asians. It did NOT work for slaves or their descendants.
Group dynamics are not individual issues. Your recent ancestors had those ties, and probably elected to let them wither, at some point, not forcibly prevented or denied, kept intentionally illiterate, dependent, and unable to function in society. And I'm betting your ancestors came here of their own volition, like 95% of the Chinese.
Chinese and Asians were never enslaved except some isolated 'tantamount-to-slavery' cases, mostly by their own. Chinese owned hundreds of successful businesses even as far as the Western frontier in the 1800s, were not only permitted to cater to whites and compete directly with white-owned businesses, but could cater to wealthy whites. They were not prohibited from reading and writing (unless they converted to Christianity), not stripped of their own cultures and religion. They could come and go, maintain ties to their homeland, knew where they were from, sent and received mail. The "orientals" were always portrayed as having a civilized and literate society, as being "productive", while anything having to do with African societies or cultures was portrayed as being sub-human, animal-like, primitive, non-productive. Literacy and education usually worked for Asians. It did NOT work for slaves or their descendants.
the Naturalization Act of 1870, which extended citizenship rights to African Americans but barred Chinese from naturalization on the grounds that they and other Asians could not be assimilated into American society.
Unable to become citizens, Chinese immigrants were prohibited from voting and serving on juries, and dozens of states passed alien land laws that prohibited non-citizens from purchasing real estate, thus preventing them from establishing permanent homes and businesses.
The idea of an "unassimilable" race became a common argument in the exclusionary movement against Chinese Americans. In particular, even in his lone dissent against Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), then-Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan wrote of the Chinese as: "a race so different from our own that we do not permit those belonging to it to become citizens of the United States. Persons belonging to it are, with few exceptions, absolutely excluded from our country. I allude to the Chinese race."
Chinese and Asians were never enslaved except some isolated 'tantamount-to-slavery' cases, mostly by their own. Chinese owned hundreds of successful businesses even as far as the Western frontier in the 1800s, were not only permitted to cater to whites and compete directly with white-owned businesses, but could cater to wealthy whites. They were not prohibited from reading and writing (unless they converted to Christianity), not stripped of their own cultures and religion. They could come and go, maintain ties to their homeland, knew where they were from, sent and received mail. The "orientals" were always portrayed as having a civilized and literate society, as being "productive", while anything having to do with African societies or cultures was portrayed as being sub-human, animal-like, primitive, non-productive. Literacy and education usually worked for Asians. It did NOT work for slaves or their descendants.
The "orientals" were always portrayed as having a civilized and literate society, as being "productive"
Chinese and Asians were never enslaved except some isolated 'tantamount-to-slavery' cases, mostly by their own. Chinese owned hundreds of successful businesses even as far as the Western frontier in the 1800s, were not only permitted to cater to whites and compete directly with white-owned businesses, but could cater to wealthy whites. They were not prohibited from reading and writing (unless they converted to Christianity), not stripped of their own cultures and religion. They could come and go, maintain ties to their homeland, knew where they were from, sent and received mail. The "orientals" were always portrayed as having a civilized and literate society, as being "productive", while anything having to do with African societies or cultures was portrayed as being sub-human, animal-like, primitive, non-productive. Literacy and education usually worked for Asians. It did NOT work for slaves or their descendants.
Yet piss poor Asians (myself included) were able to come to this country and succeed in the very first generation. I've been called a beloved patriot. I've been called Bruce Lee, Jackie Chen. etc etc.... In California's UC system, it's actually more difficult to get into college if you are an Asian. We don't get the special black privilege when applying to Universities. Somehow none of this stops first generation Asians and countless other first generation Africans and Latinos from Succeeding. Keep blaming all your problems on the past. If you can't live past it, I feel sorry for you. You're letting the world control you and not letting yourself control your own destiny. Us first generation minorities, when we come to this country, we see opportunities. When we get wronged, we don't care we'll just keep going. You know why? Because the place we came from sucks and the opportunities in this country is amazing and we APPRECIATE the opportunities. People in this country...just blame all their problems on everyone else...
I get it. What was done to blacks in this country was horrible. But blacks are the ones who choose to fester in the pool self pity while waiting for the Whites to come around to apologize and fix all their problems. This is INSANE. It will not happen. There are opportunities to make a better life for yourself regardless of what neighborhood you grew up in, regardless of how much racism you experience. Anyone who has every lived in Southern New Jersey can probably relate. But there are a TON of successful Latinos particularly Puerto Ricans and Dominicans who grew up guess where? Camden!
Yeah let's keep pushing that revisionist history BS of how the Chinese had it so good here or back in their home country because only blacks were oppressed.Chinese and Asians were never enslaved except some isolated 'tantamount-to-slavery' cases, mostly by their own. Chinese owned hundreds of successful businesses even as far as the Western frontier in the 1800s, were not only permitted to cater to whites and compete directly with white-owned businesses, but could cater to wealthy whites. They were not prohibited from reading and writing (unless they converted to Christianity), not stripped of their own cultures and religion. They could come and go, maintain ties to their homeland, knew where they were from, sent and received mail. The "orientals" were always portrayed as having a civilized and literate society, as being "productive", while anything having to do with African societies or cultures was portrayed as being sub-human, animal-like, primitive, non-productive. Literacy and education usually worked for Asians. It did NOT work for slaves or their descendants.
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/china_1750_opium.htmIn the 1870s and 1880s various legal discriminatory measures were taken against the Chinese. These laws, in particular the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, were aimed at restricting further immigration from China,[10] although the laws were later repealed by the Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act of 1943.
Another key piece of legislation was the Naturalization Act of 1870, which extended citizenship rights to African Americans but barred Chinese from naturalization on the grounds that they and other Asians could not be assimilated into American society. Unable to become citizens, Chinese immigrants were prohibited from voting and serving on juries, and dozens of states passed alien land laws that prohibited non-citizens from purchasing real estate, thus preventing them from establishing permanent homes and businesses. The idea of an "unassimilable" race became a common argument in the exclusionary movement against Chinese Americans.
In particular, even in his lone dissent against Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), then-Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan wrote of the Chinese as: "a race so different from our own that we do not permit those belonging to it to become citizens of the United States. Persons belonging to it are, with few exceptions, absolutely excluded from our country. I allude to the Chinese race."[11]
In the USA xenophobic fears against the alleged "Yellow Peril" led to the implementation of the Page Act of 1875, the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, expanded ten years later by the Geary Act. The Immigration Act of 1917 then created an "Asian Barred Zone" under nativist influence.
The Chinese Exclusion Act was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in U.S. history. The Act excluded Chinese "skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining" from entering the country for ten years under penalty of imprisonment and deportation. Many Chinese were relentlessly beaten just because of their race.[12][13] The few Chinese non-laborers who wished to immigrate had to obtain certification from the Chinese government that they were qualified to immigrate, which tended to be difficult to prove.[13]
The 1921 Emergency Quota Act, and then the Immigration Act of 1924, restricted immigration according to national origins. While the Emergency Quota Act used the census of 1910, xenophobic fears in the WASP community lead to the adoption of the 1890 census, more favorable to White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) population, for the uses of the Immigration Act of 1924, which responded to rising immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, as well as Asia.
One of the goal of this National Origins Formula, established in 1929, was explicitly to keep the status quo distribution of ethnicity, by allocating quotas in proportion to the actual population. The idea was that immigration would not be allowed to change the "national character". Total annual immigration was capped at 150,000. Asians were excluded but residents of nations in the Americas were not restricted, thus making official the racial discrimination in immigration laws. This system was repealed with the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.
The Opium War and Foreign Encroachment Two things happened in the eighteenth century that made it difficult for England to balance its trade with the East. First, the British became a nation of tea drinkers and the demand for Chinese tea rose astronomically. It is estimated that the average London worker spent five percent of his or her total household budget on tea. Second, northern Chinese merchants began to ship Chinese cotton from the interior to the south to compete with the Indian cotton that Britain had used to help pay for its tea consumption habits. To prevent a trade imbalance, the British tried to sell more of their own products to China, but there was not much demand for heavy woolen fabrics in a country accustomed to either cotton padding or silk.
The only solution was to increase the amount of Indian goods to pay for these Chinese luxuries, and increasingly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the item provided to China was Bengal opium. With greater opium supplies had naturally come an increase in demand and usage throughout the country, in spite of repeated prohibitions by the Chinese government and officials. The British did all they could to increase the trade: They bribed officials, helped the Chinese work out elaborate smuggling schemes to get the opium into China's interior, and distributed free samples of the drug to innocent victims.
The cost to China was enormous. The drug weakened a large percentage of the population (some estimate that 10 percent of the population regularly used opium by the late nineteenth century), and silver began to flow out of the country to pay for the opium. Many of the economic problems China faced later were either directly or indirectly traced to the opium trade. The government debated about whether to legalize the drug through a government monopoly like that on salt, hoping to barter Chinese goods in return for opium. But since the Chinese were fully aware of the harms of addiction, in 1838 the emperor decided to send one of his most able officials, Lin Tse-hsu (Lin Zexu, 1785-1850), to Canton (Guangzhou) to do whatever necessary to end the traffic forever.
Lin was able to put his first two proposals into effect easily. Addicts were rounded up, forcibly treated, and taken off the habit, and domestic drug dealers were harshly punished. His third objective to confiscate foreign stores and force foreign merchants to sign pledges of good conduct, agreeing never to trade in opium and to be punished by Chinese law if ever found in violation eventually brought war. Opinion in England was divided: Some British did indeed feel morally uneasy about the trade, but they were overruled by those who wanted to increase England's China trade and teach the arrogant Chinese a good lesson.
Western military weapons, including percussion lock muskets, heavy artillery, and paddlewheel gunboats, were far superior to China's. Britain's troops had recently been toughened in the Napoleonic wars, and Britain could muster garrisons, warships, and provisions from its nearby colonies in Southeast Asia and India. The result was a disaster for the Chinese. By the summer of 1842 British ships were victorious and were even preparing to shell the old capital, Nanking (Nanjing), in central China. The emperor therefore had no choice but to accept the British demands and sign a peace agreement. This agreement, the first of the "unequal treaties," opened China to the West and marked the beginning of Western exploitation of the nation.
Other humiliating defeats followed in what one historian has called China's "treaty century" (major aspects of the so-called "unequal treaties" were not formally voided until 1943). In 1843, France and the United States, and Russia in 1858, negotiated treaties similar to England's Nanking (Nanjing) Treaty, including a provision for extraterritoriality, whereby foreign nationals in China were immune from Chinese law.
To compel a reluctant China to shift from its traditional tribute based foreign relations to treaty relations, Europeans fought a second war with China from 1858-1860, and the concluding Treaty of Tientsin (Tianjin) and Convention of Peking (Beijing) increased China's semi-colonial status. More ports were open to foreign residence and trade, and foreigners, especially missionaries, were allowed free movement and business anywhere in the country.
Conflicts for the rest of the century wrung more humiliating concessions from China: with Russia over claims in China's far west and northeast in 1850 and 1860, with England over access to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in 1876, with France over northern Vietnam in 1884, with Japan over its claims to Korea and northeast China in 1895, and with many foreign powers after 1897 which demanded "spheres of influence," especially for constructing railroads and mines.
In 1900, an international army suppressed the anti-foreign Boxer Rebellion in northern China, destroying much of Beijing in the process. Each of these defeats brought more foreign demands, greater indemnities that China had to repay, more foreign presence along the coast, and more foreign participation in China's political and economic life. Little wonder that many in China were worried by the century's end that China was being sliced up "like a melon."
Yet piss poor Asians (myself included) were able to come to this country and succeed in the very first generation. I've been called a beloved patriot. I've been called Bruce Lee, Jackie Chen. etc etc.... In California's UC system, it's actually more difficult to get into college if you are an Asian. We don't get the special black privilege when applying to Universities. Somehow none of this stops first generation Asians and countless other first generation Africans and Latinos from Succeeding. Keep blaming all your problems on the past. If you can't live past it, I feel sorry for you. You're letting the world control you and not letting yourself control your own destiny. Us first generation minorities, when we come to this country, we see opportunities. When we get wronged, we don't care we'll just keep going. You know why? Because the place we came from sucks and the opportunities in this country is amazing and we APPRECIATE the opportunities. People in this country...just blame all their problems on everyone else...