Scissors: Week 1

  • Is it worse to be dehumanized by a racist/white supremacist or a yellow fever fetishist?
  • Do people deny the Holocaust (and/or severity of) since America’s concentration camps, though still awful and a crime against humanity, were not as depraved as Germany’s?
  • It’s interesting to note the Model Minority myth and it’s cultural impact. Many APIA’s feel “less” within their culture if they don’t exceed expectations. Terms like “white Asian” and “black Asian” by personality and not actual genealogy. It enforces the white/black racial binary that not everyone fits into.
  • Not much of the book discussed the inventions and innovations brought over by immigration.