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Japanese Book Reviews for Language Learners
Everything I write about on this blog has to do with an Asian language, either Japanese or Cantonese. For this post, I want to bring the focus to Asian people, especially those with Asian heritage in the United States, my own country. Discrimination against Asian Americans and Asian people in America has increased dramatically since the beginning of the pandemic, mainstream media covered the increase in violence for a brief moment after the murder of six women of Asian descent in Atlanta in March, but while
Many people in the United States are in denial about the severity of the issue. This makes it important to seek an understanding of the context for how we got here. We need to understand that the model minority myth is a calculated lie and that discrimination and violence against people of Asian descent is not new in our country but dates back into the mid-1800s when people first began to arrive from countries in Asia.
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