I like #ProfessorJiang because he actually wants his #students to learn to think for themselves and to be OK with challenging/questioning authority.
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*This video may trigger MapleMAGA & super patriotic moderate leaning Canadians because he speaks some hard truths about Canada.*
This video is so relatable on many levels for me & my family. Our lived experiences, during our first decade in #Canada was very similar to Professor Jiang & his family's experiences as #Chinese #immigrants in Canada. We faced the same kind of #racism & #poverty. My parents suffered a lot. They kept holding their heads high & tried to shield us from the worst of racial hatred that they both faced on almost a daily basis. My family was dehumanized by cruel, ignorant white people. We faced several racial hate crimes in the 80s. Those hateful racists never robbed us from our humanity though. That is still fully intact.
My Mom cut all of our hair at home until I was 13 years old. My parents would always look for free furniture/household items that people put outside for free. Me & my brothers started gleaning for free food/fruits everywhere we could, when I was 8 years old.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM
#CDNpoli #AsianMastodon #AsianImmigrants #CDNpoli #geopolitics
I was in my early 20s when my parents finally shared their difficulties in trying to rent an apartment in early 80s. They faced racism from landlords who didn't want to rent to 'uncivilized boat people'. A couple of landlords even called them some nasty racial slurs, while rejecting them. They eventually had to get one of our white sponsor friends to help out & that was how we finally got our very first apartment in Victoria.
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I was in my early 20s when my parents finally shared their difficulties in trying to rent an apartment in early 80s. They faced racism from landlords who didn't want to rent to 'uncivilized boat people'. A couple of landlords even called them some nasty racial slurs, while rejecting them. They eventually had to get one of our white sponsor friends to help out & that was how we finally got our very first apartment in Victoria.
@PhoenixSerenity
It surprises and confuses me that not everyone has these family stories.Then I remember that places like ancestry dot com exist because plenty of folks simply don't know where they came from.
And if you don't know where you came from, it's unlikely you have a wooden spoon wielding grandmother who makes sure you know exactly how your family was treated when they "came over".
Heck they probably didn't even know what boat they came on!
Crazy
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@PhoenixSerenity
It surprises and confuses me that not everyone has these family stories.Then I remember that places like ancestry dot com exist because plenty of folks simply don't know where they came from.
And if you don't know where you came from, it's unlikely you have a wooden spoon wielding grandmother who makes sure you know exactly how your family was treated when they "came over".
Heck they probably didn't even know what boat they came on!
Crazy
@phpete @PhoenixSerenity Enough generations and it just stops mattering to people. We are the norm everyone else is the invader. Its one of the reasons why the concept of whiteness is so toxic, it strips you of your actual heritage in favor of a collective fake superior one. -
@phpete @PhoenixSerenity Enough generations and it just stops mattering to people. We are the norm everyone else is the invader. Its one of the reasons why the concept of whiteness is so toxic, it strips you of your actual heritage in favor of a collective fake superior one.
@anubis2814 @phpete @PhoenixSerenity
Super crazy when so many pasty white skinned people come from ethnic groups that were not considered white a few generations ago, or where some of the worst affected by World War I / II. 17 (or 13) million people died in Nazi death camps. A lot of Christians were executed. Catholics Protestants. didn’t matter. It was whoever was in the way of their little blood and soil exercise.
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@anubis2814 @phpete @PhoenixSerenity
Super crazy when so many pasty white skinned people come from ethnic groups that were not considered white a few generations ago, or where some of the worst affected by World War I / II. 17 (or 13) million people died in Nazi death camps. A lot of Christians were executed. Catholics Protestants. didn’t matter. It was whoever was in the way of their little blood and soil exercise.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell
Some of my anarchist Irish & Italian friends have been reminding people about this. -
@GhostOnTheHalfShell
Some of my anarchist Irish & Italian friends have been reminding people about this.@PhoenixSerenity
And we've come fill circle to my personal pet peeve:The fact that *reminding* is necessary.
I fully acknowledge it's a personal, mostly irrelevant sticking point in MY brain.
But
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@PhoenixSerenity
And we've come fill circle to my personal pet peeve:The fact that *reminding* is necessary.
I fully acknowledge it's a personal, mostly irrelevant sticking point in MY brain.
But
!@phpete
I'm constantly reminding conveniently forgetful immigrants, that they're immigrants & they're always going to be immigrants, so they can stop hating on new immigrants, anytime - preferably, right now. -
@phpete
I'm constantly reminding conveniently forgetful immigrants, that they're immigrants & they're always going to be immigrants, so they can stop hating on new immigrants, anytime - preferably, right now.@PhoenixSerenity @phpete My mother came to this country something like 70 years ago. In conversation last year, something like "yada yada housing shortage yada yada uncontrolled immigration..." came out of her mouth, and I interrupted her. "Immigrants make this country great, they are always a net boon, not a drain, and *you* know that because you were one. Don't you dare start talking about pulling up the ladder behind you. The woman who raised me was better than that." I think she watches too much tv.
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@PhoenixSerenity @phpete My mother came to this country something like 70 years ago. In conversation last year, something like "yada yada housing shortage yada yada uncontrolled immigration..." came out of her mouth, and I interrupted her. "Immigrants make this country great, they are always a net boon, not a drain, and *you* know that because you were one. Don't you dare start talking about pulling up the ladder behind you. The woman who raised me was better than that." I think she watches too much tv.
@ZenHeathen
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@ZenHeathen
Good on you for reminding her about being an immigrant & why immigrants aren't the enemy.@PhoenixSerenity @phpete If even she (lifelong multiculturalist, liberal, set my leftie streak in me) could start swinging around to talking points like those, and without anything like FoxNews at play, I am very worried about our generation of seniors.
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