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.

Filipino American History

In 1763 Filipino Seamen established a settlement in what is now known as Louisiana. The Spanish-American War made American "nationals" of Filipinos and from the early 1900s through 1935 both Filipino men and women were free to enter the United States as long as they had the price of a boat ticket.
Waiting to be told are the stories of the descendants of those "Spanish colonial" seamen, early workers in sugar plantations of Hawaii, men who served in the U.S. Navy since World War One, women who came in the 1920s and 1930s, ambitious and aspiring college students, eager young workers - who toiled in Alaska canneries, farms in California, Arizona, Washington and Montana, the railroads, kitchens and restaurants, as postal workers or houseboys, the American-born second generation of pre-World War Two days, war brides, and countless others who constitute the subsequent groups of immigrants from the Philippines.
Stories of Depression, riots and discrimination, vignettes of dance halls, gambling and the other "leisure time" activities, the lodges, churches and organized Filipino communities, the process of acculturation, and the value of family are some of the information FANHS has been collecting and sharing. This is just the beginning of the telling of the Filipino American Experience. There is much more to research and appreciate, especially the eras of the Third Wave of Immigration of Filipinos to the U.S. from 1945 to 1965 and the Fourth Wave starting in 1965. On-going research and new revelations, plus exciting discoveries, continue.

FANHS

Filipino American National Historical Society

“Although the national conference honors the first Filipino pioneers recruited to work in Hawaii’s sugarcane fields, FANHS extends its focus to the past, present and future expiriences of other Filipino Americans toughout the US”
Thelma Buchholdt

FANHS was found to promote understanding, education, enlightenment, appreciation and enrichment through the identification, gathering, preservation and dissemination of the history and culture of Filipino Americans in the United States.

Telma Buchholdt

Did you know that...

...the first Chinese, came to America, came in search of gold. First, they were totaly exepted by the Americans, later the were transformed into wage earners working in the quartz mines for white employers.

In 1865, the Chinese workers found a new area of occupation in the railroad construction.

In1870s, Chinese moved to San Francisco to seach employment in the manufacturing industry, making boots, cigars, tabacco and shoes. Only a few were able to work in the chinese ethnic economy in the retail business, the service and entertainment sectors.

In the rural areas of the west, the Chinese worked in wineyards and wineries in Northern California. Only some who wanted to be farmers on their own, succeded in tenatent farming and as truck gardeners.

Many of the Chinese women were prostitutes. Only few were employed as housekeepers, servants, loundresses, seamstresses, shoemakers, cooks, miners and fisherwomen.