The article has serious holes, but don’t sell the points short. The Japanese internment for instance. Frankly the major Asian groups in the US, Chinese Vietnamese, Koreans and Filipinos, have little sympathy for the Japanese, in their home countries, and have little or nothing to do with Japanese-Americans. However the stress in the public schools is all about the Japanese internment- WWII as far as school history goes is just that and nothing else. The point made is that the white man is out to get you and will intern/deport you at anytime.
Asians also don’t get Republican news.
Much of the Republican media doesn’t go to these people.
Much is very culturally loaded with stuff that is just foreign. And the article is right in that the location of these populations does not help in terms of media and general social conditioning. If the Chinese were all going to Texas it would be very different.
What would help is some intelligent Chinese language outreach.
Filipinos, Vietnamese and Koreans are much more Republican BTW; the real problems are with Chinese. Japanese and Indians (so far) are too few to matter.
“What would help is some intelligent Chinese language outreach.”
Yes.
Yes. We have an active - if aging — filipino organization here that I am familiar with - great folks. And my eyes moisten when the VietNamese Viet Nam veterans march in our Veterans parade.
I read that all of the businesses torched in Baltimore riots were non-black. That has to open some of their eyes.
The never ending focus on the internment camps is pretty damaging to us all. After all, the Japanese treated Americans and Australian civilians in their control very well /sarc.
My wife and I became close to some Chinese students studying here through our alumni organization. One was able to stay here, is a Christian, and is marrying next month. Another really got our Freedom and desperately wanted to stay but couldn’t get the work visa. I’m just thinking of examples of Chinese cultural openness to messaging of Freedom.
The Koch’s have started doing some messaging to Hispanics. http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/libre-hispanics-politics-koch-brothers/2015/05/01/id/641983/
Maybe the stupid Party will follow suit.