Great initiative and best of luck! I just hope that this series not only represents East Asian Americans but also Asian Americans from other ethnicities like people from the Indian subcontinent, Middle East, etc which are many times mistakenly not referred as Asian in the us
People need to decouple the idea of government of a country from country of origin. People need to stop projecting their own 'patriotism' onto other people, thinking everyone is patriotic to their 'country of origin.'
I would like to hear you talking exactly like that about the suffering of Uyghurs from Xinjiang. Especially from those who was able to flee Chinese people’s discrimination and torture and now live in the US. Could you please interview just one of them. Thanks in advance!
I agree. That genocide needs to be called out more. But it's also important to simultaneously show how the far right exploits this suffering for their benefit and spreading fear and hate.
what suffering? terrorist are gone and given vocational training. only usa takes terroist like even the Saudi said. All those who are "oppressed" fled to usa. the criminals
looks like you are Kazakh or Russian. Its the same with the Kurds, is there a genocide? or Armenian genocide? I hope you can interview one of them as well. No negotiation with terrorist. just vocational training
As a white person to mother a mixed race Asian child, I get very upset when I hear people say in regards to an Asian person especially East Asian that that person is supposedly Chinese and it's so ignorant I don't understand why people do that and I've learned a lot from being a parent of an Asian child.
Partly ignorance and most part it is racial profiling. Deepest part is still China hate momentum IMO. Although your feeling is valid and legitimate that generalizing eastern Asians to Chinese is disturbing; singling out Chinese and discriminate in general is still a modern day ugliness. Often people feel so innocent when being harassed, intimated, or even attacked for looking like a Chinese with an expression “I am not even Chinese”. Does that mean you are wrong, I am not Chinese, do that to the real Chinese? The above comment is simply my thoughts about what is going on. It is not directly to you in person. I am just using your comment as a starting point to reflect my thoughts on issues. Like your comment though. The real fight out there is still anti discrimination. People shouldn’t be discriminated because of their skin color and “country of origin” which is a hybrid discrimination categorization.
When you see all the issues, dont only dig into history, interview current leaders in senate, house of rep, military, education sector etc. eg Judy Chu, General Clarence KK Chinn, General Shinseki etc
In military, there are heritage months for african american, hispanic, Asian american. But Asian american month is the only one that are consistently less celebrated, lower profile
Solid supporting graphics I've come to expect from PBS, as well as a relevant and impactful topic. There's good bones here. But I so desperately want to set up mics for these speakers.
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Mmm. Something about this in the original Kung Fu TV series, episodes Pilot, Blood Brother, Sun and Cloud Shadow, The Garments of Rage.
Be careful with broad sweeping generalizations since that is at the heart of all undeserved broad discrimination including racism, which BTW is not the sole property of white Americans. Racism is a Human problem. America doesn't say Blacks are bad or Asians are bad or there's no discrimination. Some people living in America say such things and the percentage of those who say such things has diminished over time. America isn't all that weird. It's just big and diverse. China is bigger but not as diverse and it isn't as if racism doesn't exist there. We ALL need to work against such generalities, and possibly America, with it's ethos of Individualism, is a actually at the front.
2:30 slightly misleading to graphically bunch all of the different first wave groups into the 1840s (cool graphic tho). chinese immigration (forced and unforced) doesnt really pick up until the 50s for the gold rush, 60s for the transcontinental railway + mississippi delta sharecropping, and 70s for levees in the sacramento-san joaquin river delta. it all starts in the gold mines.
In a video that seeks to bring unity and understanding, you attempt to promote division between black and asians communities by bringing up affirmative action. Let's be clear, it was black people who fought for the inclusion of all people of color. Many in the Asian community forget that lesson. There is nothing notable that the Asian community has done in America to secure their own rights and freedoms. The benefits that you largely enjoy today were bestowed upon you via the action taken by black Americans who bled and died in the streets of American towns and cities during the civil rights era.
Well, all I have to say is don’t assume all non-Asian Americans believe all Asian people are Chinese. We’re not as ignorant as you think. And China of today is not above criticism just because some bad things happened to Chinese people hundreds of years ago.
Thank you for clarifying the East Asia. I always struggle, because other Asians want immediate differentiation from East Asia. I didn't know how to differentiated. Sorry for your pain. It will get better in our lifetime or hopefully our children's lifetime.
@PBS Voices Not being a native English speaker I wonder if the choice of the term "race" as applied when talking about specifically and exclusively Chinese-nationals is done "colloquially" or if that is a "formally correct terminology" ? I ask because I have seen that the term "race" in some contexts is sensitive, and if used colloquially can be misinterpreted/misconstrued and possibly derail the conversation from the intended subject. It's not that I personally care, and I'm most certainly not looking for any argument, rather I just want to know to better understand what is the proper and correct way to express Yourself when talking about these issues/subject matters. Best regards.
I "love" the whole idea of "these people are coming to take our jobs". Well, see, who's bringing them and WHY are they getting jobs? They are getting those jobs because they are willing to work /those/ jobs at a lower wage than you are. They are getting those jobs, and sometimes being /brought/ to take those jobs because of CAPITALISM. Capitalism: increasing profits by any means from cheaper materials to cheaper labor! Capitalism: great for the people at the top, Just like any other social order based on wealthy elites! /s (in case anybody needed it) p.s. great series by the way. Thank you for educating people.
Illegal immigrants, as well as those on tenuous visas, get jobs over legal migrants and natural citizens because they're not in any position to complain about conditions without risking deportation. The word for that is actually slavery.
@@treasuremage7546 Yes, and just like the chattel slavery of Africans the driving factor is Capitalism. It's WAY easier to make a profit while keeping prices to your customers down if you aren't paying for labor.
I'm only two minutes in, but i have to say that i find it very weird that american media keeps calling it the "chinese coronavirus". In my country we call it covid or just corona.
Great idea behind this series. Hopefully, it will continue to analysis the broken, backward discourse about race in the US. But it misses notions of minority-on-minority aggression, and frames each group as a monolith. For example, who was the person who contributed to the LA Riots by killing a 15-year-old unarmed Black girl in their store?
@@shazang0 In the US? Perhaps one could argue this, but it is hardly the complete story. There were white immigrant groups that were explicitly discriminated against in US history, e.g. Irish and Italian immigrants. And abroad? No, not really. And, there are plenty foreign geopolitical examples of minority-on-minority violence that is based solely on tribalism, not skin color even, e.g. the Middle East, parts of Asia and Africa.
@@shazang0 Perhaps part of the problem is that U.S. thinks it is exceptional relative to everywhere else ... talk about oppressive structures. U.S. History did not happen in a bubble, and it is that very fact that has informed the very things mentioned in this video including, but not limited to, immigration.
@@ThingOfSome I can't believe the entire world and its history is interconnected and complicated. This is shocking news to me and I'm not being sarcastic.
Thank you for this series, it’s good to make sure people know about the United States’ history of racism towards many different ethic groups and the racist practices against Chinese people I feel are overlooked
The word CHINA is entirely associated with a country, until someone wants to play the race card... case in point. Doctor, if you want to educate people about racism, try educating the Chinese government so that the harm to ethnic and religious minorities can stop.
If you stop hate towards black people all hate towards people that look different will stop. I don't go to a Asian restaurant anymore because they treated me different when all I did was went there and spent money.
La calle negra was renamed Los Angeles street furthermore the violence was brought about by a cop getting killed, the vigilante mob that arose from that.
@@BlogofTheW3st I suppose we'll have to wait and see for the whole series, but as for this video there is value in laying out groundwork for everyone as an introduction, no?
@@whoknows6983 Absolutely, yes. I’ve just grown tired of media claiming to offer a paradigm-shifting perspective on something, when really it’s just more of the same - and this is how the above video strikes my ears.
Hey, I know you guys have a bit of an agenda to push and it is an important one, but I was actually hoping you would give facts about the SARS virus and how covid's been here for centuries it's just mutated into the most deadly version to date recently. -It was especially disappointing to see the doctor and not bring up any of these medical facts.- Ah, he's into ethnic studies. Even so, do you think maybe you can work on that for the next episode or series episodes? Also why not make videos telling people how to supplant their hatred for Asians into something more productive? I'd really love a video describing the psychology behind the need to constantly blame China as if that's changing anything. Yes it's racism partially but there's also got to be some psychological issues there as well and I think it would be a good topic for a video too.
When someone says, "you all look alike, but, do u speak 'asian..?"
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You guy’s words just amazing. You guys are very well organized when it comes to address these issues. I love you. All the way from Africa.
Fear + Ignorance = Hate
Asian American studies will attempt to address the Ignorance portion of this equation.
I needed those videos! I'm currently researching anti-Asian sentiments in Poland and having a broader perspective can be really helpful!
Great initiative and best of luck! I just hope that this series not only represents East Asian Americans but also Asian Americans from other ethnicities like people from the Indian subcontinent, Middle East, etc which are many times mistakenly not referred as Asian in the us
Thank you for making this great video!
Man, I wish this kind of show was around when I was a kid
People need to decouple the idea of government of a country from country of origin.
People need to stop projecting their own 'patriotism' onto other people, thinking everyone is patriotic to their 'country of origin.'
Thank you for the series, I'm watching with my 8-year-old son who is Asian Caucasian mixed. ✌️
Wow I'm finding this series a year later, but these topics really need to discussed widely in America.
What a great series
I loved this series now. I took ethic studies classes as an undergraduate. I’m considering making it my masters.
I would like to hear you talking exactly like that about the suffering of Uyghurs from Xinjiang. Especially from those who was able to flee Chinese people’s discrimination and torture and now live in the US. Could you please interview just one of them. Thanks in advance!
I agree. That genocide needs to be called out more. But it's also important to simultaneously show how the far right exploits this suffering for their benefit and spreading fear and hate.
what suffering? terrorist are gone and given vocational training. only usa takes terroist like even the Saudi said. All those who are "oppressed" fled to usa. the criminals
looks like you are Kazakh or Russian. Its the same with the Kurds, is there a genocide? or Armenian genocide? I hope you can interview one of them as well. No negotiation with terrorist. just vocational training
@@Willxdiana found the triggered Chinese
wussup12345 cool story. 2022 China is too strong for Turks now you failed
This is great! I really enjoyed it and felt there was so much more to unpack with this topic. MORE PLEASE!
As a white person to mother a mixed race Asian child, I get very upset when I hear people say in regards to an Asian person especially East Asian that that person is supposedly Chinese and it's so ignorant I don't understand why people do that and I've learned a lot from being a parent of an Asian child.
Partly ignorance and most part it is racial profiling. Deepest part is still China hate momentum IMO. Although your feeling is valid and legitimate that generalizing eastern Asians to Chinese is disturbing; singling out Chinese and discriminate in general is still a modern day ugliness. Often people feel so innocent when being harassed, intimated, or even attacked for looking like a Chinese with an expression “I am not even Chinese”. Does that mean you are wrong, I am not Chinese, do that to the real Chinese? The above comment is simply my thoughts about what is going on. It is not directly to you in person. I am just using your comment as a starting point to reflect my thoughts on issues. Like your comment though. The real fight out there is still anti discrimination. People shouldn’t be discriminated because of their skin color and “country of origin” which is a hybrid discrimination categorization.
When you see all the issues, dont only dig into history, interview current leaders in senate, house of rep, military, education sector etc. eg Judy Chu, General Clarence KK Chinn, General Shinseki etc
I’m so excited for this series. Thank you!
great series of videos! I wish I found this sooner and you guys did more
In military, there are heritage months for african american, hispanic, Asian american. But Asian american month is the only one that are consistently less celebrated, lower profile
Great content , never new of Vincent chin until today, the truth is in the history
Solid supporting graphics I've come to expect from PBS, as well as a relevant and impactful topic. There's good bones here.
But I so desperately want to set up mics for these speakers.
Mmm. Something about this in the original Kung Fu TV series, episodes Pilot, Blood Brother, Sun and Cloud Shadow, The Garments of Rage.
Y’all always say this and that but go to china as an American and tell me how it goes 😭😭
Loving this series
Doesn't this actually go back before the 1800s?
I think we should reunite again and march.
America: Blacks are bad.
America: Asians are bad
Also America: There's no discrimination in America
America is weird.
Be careful with broad sweeping generalizations since that is at the heart of all undeserved broad discrimination including racism, which BTW is not the sole property of white Americans. Racism is a Human problem. America doesn't say Blacks are bad or Asians are bad or there's no discrimination. Some people living in America say such things and the percentage of those who say such things has diminished over time. America isn't all that weird. It's just big and diverse. China is bigger but not as diverse and it isn't as if racism doesn't exist there. We ALL need to work against such generalities, and possibly America, with it's ethos of Individualism, is a actually at the front.
America is a mix of races.
I think you know who the native americans really are.
This is really well done and informative, thank you for your time and effort 💗
2:30 slightly misleading to graphically bunch all of the different first wave groups into the 1840s (cool graphic tho). chinese immigration (forced and unforced) doesnt really pick up until the 50s for the gold rush, 60s for the transcontinental railway + mississippi delta sharecropping, and 70s for levees in the sacramento-san joaquin river delta. it all starts in the gold mines.
Such a good series!!! We want more!!!!
Do follow up on hate crime follow up to see if the criminal is punished
what is so crazy is that, during the 1980's germany imported way more cars than japan ever did - but its ok, cuzz germans have white skin.
Have they covered the discrimination Asians face due to affirmative action?
Is affirmative action an anti Asian sentiment? Or does anti Asian discrimination not matter when it benefits universities
In a video that seeks to bring unity and understanding, you attempt to promote division between black and asians communities by bringing up affirmative action.
Let's be clear, it was black people who fought for the inclusion of all people of color. Many in the Asian community forget that lesson.
There is nothing notable that the Asian community has done in America to secure their own rights and freedoms. The benefits that you largely enjoy today were bestowed upon you via the action taken by black Americans who bled and died in the streets of American towns and cities during the civil rights era.
America seem a little bit crazy.
Wow 😳 this is Krazy 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️ maybe on years future America would change for the better and treat everyone equal that wants to be American
This is a good start! Definitely tuning in for more!
Sad, but true American history…
Race-based fear or race-based excuses for bigotry and bullying? It's time that bullying doesn't get excuses anymore.
Well, all I have to say is don’t assume all non-Asian Americans believe all Asian people are Chinese. We’re not as ignorant as you think. And China of today is not above criticism just because some bad things happened to Chinese people hundreds of years ago.
Thank you for clarifying the East Asia. I always struggle, because other Asians want immediate differentiation from East Asia. I didn't know how to differentiated. Sorry for your pain. It will get better in our lifetime or hopefully our children's lifetime.
@PBS Voices
Not being a native English speaker I wonder if the choice of the term "race" as applied when talking about specifically and exclusively Chinese-nationals is done "colloquially" or if that is a "formally correct terminology" ?
I ask because I have seen that the term "race" in some contexts is sensitive, and if used colloquially can be misinterpreted/misconstrued and possibly derail the conversation from the intended subject.
It's not that I personally care, and I'm most certainly not looking for any argument, rather I just want to know to better understand what is the proper and correct way to express Yourself when talking about these issues/subject matters.
Best regards.
I "love" the whole idea of "these people are coming to take our jobs". Well, see, who's bringing them and WHY are they getting jobs? They are getting those jobs because they are willing to work /those/ jobs at a lower wage than you are. They are getting those jobs, and sometimes being /brought/ to take those jobs because of CAPITALISM.
Capitalism: increasing profits by any means from cheaper materials to cheaper labor!
Capitalism: great for the people at the top, Just like any other social order based on wealthy elites!
/s (in case anybody needed it)
p.s. great series by the way. Thank you for educating people.
Illegal immigrants, as well as those on tenuous visas, get jobs over legal migrants and natural citizens because they're not in any position to complain about conditions without risking deportation. The word for that is actually slavery.
@@treasuremage7546 Yes, and just like the chattel slavery of Africans the driving factor is Capitalism. It's WAY easier to make a profit while keeping prices to your customers down if you aren't paying for labor.
@@gildedbear5355 The driving factor is greed. People were greedy before capitalism existed and people will still be greedy even if it's abolished.
@@treasuremage7546 well, yes. which is why we (as a democratic society) should do what we can to safe guard against people's greed...
05:20 Funny thing that union - the UAW - is a big supporter of the Democratic Party. They also hosted one of Biden’s interviews in the 2020 campaign.
Are Republicans more likely to be anti union (except for police of course)?
Why make it political?
Crash Course sent me!
Why why can't all minorities just sit together this world will be a little bit more better place to live and communication is the way for peace
Great video
I'm only two minutes in, but i have to say that i find it very weird that american media keeps calling it the "chinese coronavirus". In my country we call it covid or just corona.
right wing calls it that. not all media in the U.S.
Great idea behind this series. Hopefully, it will continue to analysis the broken, backward discourse about race in the US. But it misses notions of minority-on-minority aggression, and frames each group as a monolith. For example, who was the person who contributed to the LA Riots by killing a 15-year-old unarmed Black girl in their store?
You know it all stems from white supremacy though, right?
@@shazang0 In the US? Perhaps one could argue this, but it is hardly the complete story. There were white immigrant groups that were explicitly discriminated against in US history, e.g. Irish and Italian immigrants. And abroad? No, not really. And, there are plenty foreign geopolitical examples of minority-on-minority violence that is based solely on tribalism, not skin color even, e.g. the Middle East, parts of Asia and Africa.
@@ThingOfSome Oppressive structures exist everywhere, yes, but this video literally has "U.S. History" in the title.
@@shazang0 Perhaps part of the problem is that U.S. thinks it is exceptional relative to everywhere else ... talk about oppressive structures. U.S. History did not happen in a bubble, and it is that very fact that has informed the very things mentioned in this video including, but not limited to, immigration.
@@ThingOfSome I can't believe the entire world and its history is interconnected and complicated. This is shocking news to me and I'm not being sarcastic.
If you really care so much, then you sound to find the origin of it, not the history
Ooooh, I'm hyped
Thank you for this series, it’s good to make sure people know about the United States’ history of racism towards many different ethic groups and the racist practices against Chinese people I feel are overlooked
Then why does the average Asian American make more than European American? I can't believe pbs gets taxpayer $
Because of strict immigration policies preferring those who are college-educated immigrants.
Thank you for this series!
Thank you for offering an educational series. 💚💙💜
The word CHINA is entirely associated with a country, until someone wants to play the race card... case in point. Doctor, if you want to educate people about racism, try educating the Chinese government so that the harm to ethnic and religious minorities can stop.
Yeah it's the governments fault
I love this
Thanks for bragging and hyping your cultural achievements. You guys never take a break. 🤣
If you stop hate towards black people all hate towards people that look different will stop. I don't go to a Asian restaurant anymore because they treated me different when all I did was went there and spent money.
La calle negra was renamed Los Angeles street furthermore the violence was brought about by a cop getting killed, the vigilante mob that arose from that.
I’ve been hearing all of this for at least a year now. Will this series offer any new and challenging perspectives?
To everyone else: Don't take this bait.
@@yulebones You don’t want to respond to sincere opposition who is discussing in good will (this is what I am)?
@@BlogofTheW3st I suppose we'll have to wait and see for the whole series, but as for this video there is value in laying out groundwork for everyone as an introduction, no?
@@whoknows6983 Absolutely, yes. I’ve just grown tired of media claiming to offer a paradigm-shifting perspective on something, when really it’s just more of the same - and this is how the above video strikes my ears.
Dolly here of PHAA. You're ahead of the curve! Stay tuned for more :)
That is why I do NOT watch American news.
😔 I do my best to see what is actually going on. And they don’t make it easy...
Hey, I know you guys have a bit of an agenda to push and it is an important one, but I was actually hoping you would give facts about the SARS virus and how covid's been here for centuries it's just mutated into the most deadly version to date recently.
-It was especially disappointing to see the doctor and not bring up any of these medical facts.- Ah, he's into ethnic studies. Even so, do you think maybe you can work on that for the next episode or series episodes?
Also why not make videos telling people how to supplant their hatred for Asians into something more productive? I'd really love a video describing the psychology behind the need to constantly blame China as if that's changing anything. Yes it's racism partially but there's also got to be some psychological issues there as well and I think it would be a good topic for a video too.
More people need to see this video, history is so important to know and understand.
Break the cycle ha it’s not going to happen just cut your losses and move