17 things I learned about Asian Americans and Racism 1882-2007:

- An Asian American is generally defined as a person of Asian ancestry who was born in or is an immigrant
to the United States
- All people have stereotypes in their minds about other nations etc.
- Many of the Chinese Americans came to the USA during the Gold Rush of the 1850s in order to be lucky and
find perhaps gold to bring it back at home
- The Filipino American community is the second largest Asian American group in the United States
- Notable famous Japanse Americans: Ellison Onizuka (1985 the first Asian American in space)
George Hosako Takei (Japanese American actor (Star Trek)
- Most Korean Americans are Christians/ Protestants
- There are two froms of racism: the (Everyday) Racism and the Institutionalized Racism
- Cho Seung-hui (Korean American) was part of the 1.5 generation (= people who aren`t second-generation but don`t feel like
first-generation immigrants either) and caused the Virginia Tech Massacre
- The L.A. Race Riots, examples: -19th March 1991
-3rd March 1991 R.King There are also racial tensions between Afr. Americans
-29/04/92 Race Riots and Korean Americans
- Japanese American Internment: The interment is the housing of the Japanese Americans in concentration camps during WW2.
And the living conditions in the camps were horrible...
- Recent racism and discrimination from famous persons like Rosie O`Donnal or a basketball player
- Many laws against Asian Americans, like the Anti-Miscegenation law (1880) where the immigration from asia to the United States
was stopped, and the explanation and history of this laws
- There is a very good literature from Asian Americans, for example Bienvenido N. Santos (Filipino American):
Immigration Blues (extract)
- The situation of Paris in 2005 can be compared with L.A. in 1992. In both cases the police caused riots and
did`t do anything and even the reasons for this acting were the same, f. ex. racial tensions
- The Chinese Exclusion Act was lifted in 1943
- The Quota Act (1927) was aimed at Japanese
- Many Japanese Americans came to the USA because there was a demand for labor, because of the Chinese Exclusion Act