50 ordspråk av Iris Chang
Iris Chang
 The Committee of 100 commissioned a survey in which they found that Asian-American candidates are the most unpopular of all the races. They found that people were less likely to vote for Chinese-Americans than other minorities. |
| The Japanese even forced fathers to rape their own daughters or sons their mothers, brothers their sisters in order to further degrade the victims. |
| The reason Chinese went into groceries was that it was easy to start them. It required little skill and served an important function. In the South they almost completely dominated the grocery industry after it became clear to plantation owners that they couldn't replace slaves with Chinese. |
| The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out. |
| The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion. |
| There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force-then there could very well be a backlash. |
| There is a perception that the Chinese started out downtrodden and abused in the 19th century and gradually rose to the top of society as model minorities, and you see them winning Nobel Prizes and getting into our best colleges. But it is not a linear progression. Things don't always get better. |
| There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China. |
| There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country? |
| There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control. |
| These episodes of racism occur in cycles. |
| They probably do have an Asian Barbie. |
| This by no means the last word on the Chinese in America. This is my personal interpretation of the 150-year epic history of Chinese in this country. |
| We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths. |
| Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien. |
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