17 things I learned about Asian Americans

-we learned about the definition of stereotypes and racism
-we learned of about the groundaries of asian american racism
-we learned about asian americans in general
-we learned spacial things about chinese americans
-we learned spacial things about japanese americans
-we learned spacial things about korean americans
-we learned spacial things about filipino americans
-we learned about the literature of asian americans
-we learned about the virginia tech massacre
-we learned the definition of institutionalized racism and their laws
-we learned about the japanese american internment
-we learned about the vincent chin murder
-we learned about the LA Race Riots
-we learned about the Filipino Racial Profiling
-we learned about asian american writers
-we learned about the everyday racism
-we learned the asian american response to racism

Diary entry

A view weeks ago a family found and diary of an young asian american. Today we will read a view passages of it:

30 January 1946It is 4am, I’m sitting in my bed and try to write in my diary without any light. I have to hurry up, because at 5am a soldier will come to wake us up. The soldier are not so hard to us, last chrismas for example, they gave all of us a small bag of chocolate. We have enough treat but want to go home back to my mum, my dad and my brothers.

Asian FM

Welcome to asian FM, now we are going to play the song “What I’ve Done” by Linkin Park:

In this farewell there’s no blood there’s no alibi cause I’ve drawn regret from the truth of thousand lies
So let mercy come and wash away
What I’ve done I’ll face myself to cross out what I’ve become erase myself and let go of what I’ve done
Put to rest what you thought of me while I’ve cleaned this slate with the hands of uncertainty
For what I’ve done I start again and whatever pain may come today this ends I’m forgiving what I’ve done

Response to Sai-I-Gu poem

What have I done
Why do you kill my son
We asians aren’t all the same
Our lifes aren’t a shooting game
Don’t kick us with your feet
And don’t treat us like sheep.

Chinese American attacked by three men

On February 8 before noon, Epoch Times Chief Technical Officer Li Yuan was attacked by three men in his home in Duluth, a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, Li told CPJ. Two Korean-speaking men armed with a knife and a gun beat him in the face and bound him with an electrical cord, while a third asked in Mandarin Chinese the location of Li's safe.

Chinese American Citizens Alliance

Chinese American Citizens Alliance, with 112 years of history, is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the country. All through our history, we have championed civil rights for all Americans and humane immigration policies that are based on family reunification. We agree with most Americans that America urgently needs comprehensive immigration reform. The Senate is ready to vote on the immigration bill negotiated by Senators Kennedy and Kyl, supported by President Bush and a bipartisan group of senators. We want to declare our support for most, but not all, of the provisions of this bill.

Did you know that...

...on December 8th, 1941 thousands of Filipino men and women responded to President Roosevelt's call for help to preserve peace and democracy in the Philippines. In their tormentuous four-year battle to restore their independence, the courageous young men and women of the combined Philippine Islands suffered many hardships, tortures, loss of life and limbs, yet they never faltered. They endured the unendurable.
For decades after their heroic service under the command of their leaders and General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, these men and women of Filipino-American national heritage were denied the benefits and privileges provided to their American compatriots who fought side-by-side with them.Today, fifty years later, the proud soldiers of the Philippines are receiving long-awaited recognition and thanks for their selfless and sacrificial contributions.