Why Asian Americans Don't Vote Republican

theconversation. ^ | November 2, 2015 | Cecilia Hyunjung Mo

[entropy12]

During the recent No Labels-hosted Problem Solver Convention in New Hampshire, things got a little uncomfortable.

When Joseph Choe, an Asian-American college student, stood up to ask a question about South Korea, Donald Trump cut him off and wondered aloud: “Are you from South Korea?”

Choe responded, “I’m not. I was born in Texas, raised in Colorado.” His answer prompted laughter from the audience, and nothing more than a shrug from the GOP presidential candidate.

[entropy12]

My 2 daughters, born and raised in US and recent graduates from Univ of Washington (rated 27th best in world) have opined that many of their friends prefer pro-choice democrats over strict pro-life agenda of most republicans. Yet, no one has had an abortion! It is difficult to understand.

[M-cubed]

you're correct..but as an accountant friend of mine said..They know more about saving on taxes then most accountants....as he explained it... its part of their “culture”

[Finny]

“Leave the gun, take the cannoli”?

[M-cubed]

see post 42...lol...I rest my case your Honor!

[KC Burke]

I appreciate your candor and insight. Ignore the off the cuff goofs.

Do you think the claimed democrat advantage is the actual case or is it fudged statistics?

[dp0622]

that’s not it :)

how about the nerve of...

[entropy12]

It is well past time that we get rid of hyphenated Americans. It divides us instead of uniting us. Once one becomes citizen of United States, one takes the oath to follow US constitution by raising a hand in front of a judge. From that moment on, you are no longer a Korean-American or Mexican-American. As you said, you are an American, period.

Ditto with black-American, Hispanic-American, native-American. How do those labels help?

[Alberta's Child]

That wasn't even intended to be a racial commentary.

My point was that I've just never seen an Asian in a pickup truck. I've never seen an Asian in a rural area of America, period.

I suspect that has a strong correlation to why they tend to be heavily Democratic voters. A scene like this may as well be the moon to them:

[entropy12]

I can only go by what I see in my own relatives. My own sister who was a republican and voted for Gerald Ford when she lived in Michigan. After moving to California, she became a democrat. She was brain washed by the democrats into thinking that republicans will take her social security and medicare away. But there is hope. She might vote republican in 2016 if Trump is the nominee.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Thank you! Glad you’re here.

[achilles2000]

The answer is that the younger generations are thoroughly indoctrinated in government schools and, because a huge percentage go to college, they absorb more leftist group think than the population at large. Moreover, because of Asian culture they tend to be imitative and conformists, so they conform to the norms the government schools/universities pour into their heads. I know this demographic very, very well.

[KC Burke]

I appreciate your candor and insight. Ignore the off the cuff goofs.

Do you think the claimed democrat advantage is the actual case or is it fudged statistics?

[KC Burke]

Sorry for the repeat.
iPhone posting from poor signal area. Thanks.

[Finny]

Yep. All those labels do is divide and cause strife.

[entropy12]

WOW never heard of that before! If true, that is amazing factoid.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Asians come from countries where paternalistic, nanny-state government is ingrained in the culture. It's really that simple.

Is turning the culture into a septic tank part of the culture too?

[Sir Napsalot]

>>> What the hell happened?

Asians have mostly conservative view points, observe how they raise their children, and how they ‘behave’ at homes.

But they desperately want to ‘blend in’ in their professions, in most cases, highly skewed to white liberals (the more ‘successful’, the more rabid progressive). Insecurity, and a feeling of inferiority, I should say.

[Zionist Conspirator]

That image of George Wallace standing in the door to resist integration is burned into the brains of non-whites.

George Wallace was a Democrat his entire life.

Most people do not know that it was Lincoln, a republican who freed the slaves.

I find that extremely difficult to believe.

[Alberta's Child]

I don't think it matters where they are from. It's a matter of what is acceptable and normal in their culture, regardless of how long they've lived in the U.S.

I used to work for an Asian boss who owned his own professional business. He was a nice guy and a decent family man, but I've never met a more submissive sheep of a person in my life when it came to interacting with the state.

I like to use this photo from the Tokyo subway to illustrate the best and worst attributes of Asians:

One side of me marvels at a society that is so disciplined and homogenous that people will maintain themselves in an orderly fashion like this. The ones on the left side are waiting at the bottom of a stairwell until the platform is clear and the doors of the subway train close. They are constrained by nothing but a white line painted on the floor of the platform. They just stand there quietly, waiting for the next train, because their entire social order would break down if even one person decided to step across that line. People who live in urban sh!t-holes here in America can learn a lesson from people like this.

The right side of the photo is a different story. I couldn't imagine living in a culture where it is completely normal and acceptable for the government to pay two people to manhandle you and cram you into a crowded train like that. Get your 'effing hands off me, dude.

The typical person you see in this photo would be a liberal Democrat, not a conservative American.

[Finny]

Where I am from, Japanese Americans have been here farming for four generations; Chinese helped build the railroads and came to CA about the same mid 1860s as my mom's roots from both sides. Agriculture is really the main, or has historically been the main, industry in much of CA, so Chinese and Japanese Americans were as significant as Norwegian and German and Mexican and Scottish immigrants in the overall mix. The only kinds of people who paid much attention were the sprinkling of racist idiots, relatively few and mostly ignored.

That the sight of a Japanese or Chinese guy driving a pickup in a rural area would raise an eyebrow in your neck of the woods is ... understandable. I guess.