Chinese Americans are like the Jews. Blacks kick them in the ass all the time, and Dems support them. Yet Chinese and Jews vote for Dems over GOP. Jews do it because past country club GOP mistreated their rich grandparents at the country club and GOP coalition include Jesus loving Christians. The Chinese on the other hand don’t vote for GOP because the GOP is leery of their homeland of China. So in a nutshell, perceived threats from GOP are worst then real threats from Dem blacks. Talking about insanity!!???
Thanks for your observation on racism and political affiliation of minorities, especially on anti-Chinese racism.
To start, I think you may be underestimating the Jewish urge for social justice which motivates many Jews to gravitate to the Dems, whose rhetoric proclaims them to be on the side of the angels on this issue and the GOP as reactionary servants of the devil. It’s been drummed into the Jews for years that the Dems position on social justice issues protects them as a minority.
The underlying issue of course is their fear and distrust of the ‘common herd’ of Christians who have a past history of anti-Jewish discrimination, persecution and violence.
On the other hand, the Chinese have a long and traditional respect for ancestors, an ethos which sometimes surfaces as a cultural bias toward their ancestral homeland as superior to the barbarians outside their race and culture. That, rather than the current government or military posture of China, may be a reason some are ‘leery’ to use your words.
That may make Chinese-Americans suspect in the eyes of Americans of other races as Americans are famous for having little knowledge or appreciation for their previous cultures. After all, most of our ancestors were dissidents from those cultures and that’s why we’re here.
Or is that my own racism disguised as intellectual argument?
I guess what I’m trying to say is that all races generally have reasons (which are rational to them) for their cultural biases toward their own race. This cultural bias is usually translated as ‘racism.’ when turned against the “other” via actions or words.
The “other” looks different, dresses different, eats different and prays to a different God. For some, those things that make up a different cultural identity are potentially dangerous and certainly not ‘natural’ in the context of the ethos of the majority.
I venture that every race has disparaging words for the ‘other’ whether it be another country or race. It seems to be an everlasting part of what makes us humans operate within our own cultural identities.
Me, I’m a Texan, and everyone knows I hate anyone who isn’t one of God’s truly chosen people. YeeHAW!