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boy oh boy sure am glad that during this crisis I get to experience Capitalist Plenty
and not Socialist Deprivation
rlly makes u think
hahahahahaha!!!!!!!! 50 years on and Vietnam is still beating America’s ass !!!!!!!!!!
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uh huh
undeadwill
You know how china lies?
Vietnam does the same shit.
I live in vietnam and the number is actually that low lmao vietnam has closed down schools and universities and started online learning since feb. they have praticed social distancing and lock down for 20 days now. The government literally spent billions to put tourists in quarantine for free to health check them everyday for fourteen days to make sure community spread doesn’t happen. They’re willing to risk the economy as long as the people are safe. Like you do know vietnamese people have access to the internet right???
Population differences you people, America has significantly more people total
wow you’re such a genius, if only there were statistics for the number of cases per million people so we could scale it to population size, such as here:
can any mathematicians tell us whether 3 or 3,379 is the larger number? can any number wizards help us out on that one
The lengths that people go to to try and force the idea that the us is great are just astounding really
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Barasuara - Pikiran dan Perjalanan (Official Video)
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Worldwide Jazz Day—30 April 2020
Jazz Age singer & dancer, and French resistance fighter, Josephine Baker.
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I feel like it's a disservice to refer to her as a "French resistance fighter" without acknowledging she was born in America to a formerly enslaved African American woman (and a likely white father), spent most of her youth (into her teens) in Missouri, and was equally important to the Civil Rights Movement throughout the 60s.
She worked with the NAACP, spoke alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and was actually the one that Coretta Scott King pursued to take his place when he passed, which she declined because she did not want to martyr herself and leave her children motherless.
Especially when using B&W images, it must be emphasized that she was Black and her work was principally drawn from her experiences being a Black girl in the southern US.
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the kim sisters by robert w. kelley (1960)
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Five months pregnant, 33-year-old Niken Fajarsari has to juggle work, domestic chores and teaching her son, as schools have been closed in Jakarta to curb the transmission of COVID-19.
Despite Jakarta’s large-scale social distancing (PSBB) measures, Niken still has to commute to her job at a ministerial office in the heart of the capital city periodically, as her family is now relying solely on her income.
Her husband resigned from his job at a financial technology company in February to start a toy store and a coffee shop, both of which have been badly affected by the outbreak. The couple will sometimes accept catering orders for extra money.
“My son gets so much homework from his kindergarten, be it written tasks, arts and crafts or practical assignments. He must wait until I get home to finish the tasks […] Moreover, it must be well-documented in pictures or videos, which are supposed to be submitted daily to the teachers. Doing this straight after work, while pregnant, makes me feel like I want to pass out,” Niken told The Jakarta Post on Monday.
Schools have been closed in Jakarta, the national epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak, since March 16, well before PSBB measures went into effect on April 10. Since then, many other regions have followed suit.
The Education and Culture Ministry issued a circular letter on March 24 calling for schools to provide distance learning activities for students while they stayed at home and announcing the cancellation of national exams.
It remains unclear when schools will reopen. The government predicts the outbreak could reach its peak in the country by the end of May.
The uncertainty has taken a toll on mothers in Indonesia, where women are expected to bear the responsibility of child-rearing on top of other domestic chores.
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“As the deadly coronavirus has now spread throughout the rest of the world, many countries are now understanding the true tribulation that China went through in the past three months. It’s easy to lose sight of the seriousness of the epidemic from far away. If it’s not affecting you, it’s easy to overlook the lives taken, the difficulties faced, and the setbacks of an entire nation and it’s population. It’s easy to think, ‘It’s not my country, so it’s not my problem.’”
—Firieba Sarwarzadah, Living in China During the COVID-19 Pandemic is not What you Think
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The Kolong Community Reading Park in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta must be one of the most quirky libraries in the world.
Loud noises and laughing are normal – and in fact encouraged. That’s because this open-air park is located directly under a towering flyover and sandwiched between two large roads where vehicles and motorcycles honk, rev their engines and emit exhaust fumes – very unlibrary-like.
“Oh yeah. That is our challenge. Any kind of sounds – traffics, smell, exhaust – we have to deal with it and carry on,” said Victoria, the reading park’s director.
But there is a method to the madness of the library, which also organises sports games and arts and craft classes in a small but beautiful patch of artificial grass, trees and plants, and a quaint brick building that houses the books: the park caters solely to children, including homeless kids.
There’s another, even more important, point to the library: Indonesians – adults and children alike – have an obscure aversion to reading. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s 2018 International Student Assessment showed that Indonesia ranked 72 out of 77 countries surveyed in reading proficiency, just behind Kazakhstan, Georgia and Panama.
With Indonesian Ministry of Education policies on reading seemingly ineffectual, the group running the park, opened in 2016, is one of a number of non-governmental organisations starting community libraries, and holding seminars and reading programmes specifically targeting children to embrace reading at a young age.
“Our first audience is not schools. It’s not classrooms,” said Morgan Belveal, a programme specialist with The Asia Foundation, which is working with several groups in Jakarta, and in East and West Java provinces through its “Let’s Read” initiative. “We want to create books that are beautiful, creative and engaging, so the habit will stick.”
He added: “While it is hard to know how many informal community libraries there are in Indonesia, it is easy to see that there are thousands of these libraries that are opened and managed by passionate volunteers who are building reading movements in their communities.”
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05/05/20
A woman appearing to be of Asian descent was surrounded by three black teens and kicked in the face at a bus stop.
The teens surround her while the individual recording the video repeatedly taunts “You won’t,” until the teen in the red hoodie jumps and kicks her in the face, sending her backward into the bus stop. “Crazy boys,” says the cameraman right before the woman is kicked. The teens are then heard laughing and running away.
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Infinite Songs: Ghoomar
Source: aashiqaanah
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05/05/20
At the beginning of March, the Asian American Feminist Collective started calling for personal accounts from the community as they began to create the zine. They wanted stories about xenophobia, especially from frontline workers. Through a collective effort, the organization was able to publish “Feminist Antibodies” on March 25.
The title itself emphasizes how people of Asian ethnicity are not the virus, playing with the symbol of racism through the analogy of pathogens. As a society, we need antibodies against the spread of hate and discrimination.
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Interior Chinatown: A Novel (2020)
Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He’s merely Generic Asian man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but he is always relegated to a prop. Yet every day he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He’s a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy—the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. At least that’s what he has been told, time and time again. Except by one person, his mother. Who says to him: Be more.
Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes, Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterly novel yet.
by Charles Yu.
Get it now here
CHARLES YU is the author of three books, including the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (a New York Times Notable Book and a Time magazine best book of the year). He received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award and was nominated for two Writers Guild of America Awards for his work on the HBO series, Westworld. He has also written for shows on FX, AMC, and HBO. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired, among other publications.
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Who is afraid of the Big Black Femme? Bell hooks, Beyonce and Femmephobia
I’ve loved bell hooks for many of her insights. There are few men in my life who I have not prescribed her book We Real Cool. I’ve treated All About Love as a Bible, folding pages that moved me and highlighting sentences that I thought I should hold on to. When hooks gave us the phrase “whiteness fatigue” in Killing Rage, I thought to myself, “here is a woman who truly understands me and my particular condition, being Black and woman, ” As I’ve watched more of her talks and read her shorter works, the feeling of being understood by bell hooks has died. Her recent essay “Moving Beyond Pain” about Beyoncé’s Lemonade peaks my frustration with hooks in a way that might keep me from appreciating any work from her in the future. What’s most disturbing about hooks’ latest essay is it’s bare revelation of an undercurrent in all of her work: hooks does not respect Black femmes, especially not Black femme women, no matter what we do or create. Growing up the daughter of a very dark Black woman with a nose the world often told me was too broad, the emphasis has always been for me to be smart. It was already decided that I was not going to be anyone’s version of pretty, so I shouldn’t waste time with my looks. Still, I was always feminine and chastised for it. I was told it was frivolous. Later it was third wave and Black feminism would affirm who I was, challenging the idea that any preoccupation of women was inherently less serious and for the attention of men. In contrast, hooks talks openly about her own experiences growing up and being told to try harder to be feminine, pretty. It’s become clear that this, coupled with societal pressure for women to be a European standard of “beautiful”,has convinced hooks that Black femininity is always the result of conforming. During “Are you still a Slave?” and again on stage with Laverne Cox, she insisted that those of us who are Black and feminine are conforming to patriarchy, implied we are bowing to our history of sexual exploitation. But if we are looking at Black womanhood from the perspective of slavery, as hooks so often does, then every moment a Black woman spends adorning herself, expressing her femininity for herself is revolutionary. It was a luxury never extended to us but one that we take for ourselves. Spanning hooks’ long academic career, there are irrefutable signs that bell hooks takes particular issue Black femininity, meaning none of this is new. But it is why, when I read “Moving Beyond Pain” it was clear to me that it is more about hooks’ personal discomfort with Black femininity than with the art she says she is critiquing. Hooks, tears apart Lemonade using the guise of feminism, holding Beyonce to a near-impossible standard, demanding from her which she, and society at large, asks of no one else except for Black women. She dismisses Lemonade as anything more than “money-making at it’s best” because in a 1 hour visual album Beyonce was unable to destroy structures hooks hasn’t in her decades long career. Which White singer gets this? Which Black male rapper? When have we seen the work of Taylor Swift (a crowned feminist darling) criticized for it’s greater contributions to revolution? When was the last time we had a public intellectual lambaste Kendrick Lamar for not deconstructing sexism in his videos? hooks’ distaste for Beyonce is no secret to anyone, but this article veered from disliking Beyonce to a particular femmephobia. hooks participates in the white cishetereopatriarchy that she claims to critique when she raises the bar for Black women and Black women alone. hooks has no problem getting paid to lift up the elementary feminism of white capitalists like her “feminist girl crush” Emma Watson, recently named in the Panama papers. Hooks mimics the White cishetereopatriarchy she so carefully names when she raises the bar for Black women alone, when her feminist analysis boils down to “I can’t take her seriously, she’s got on all that make-up!” hooks’ analysis of Beyoncé mimics society at large by reducing Black feminine woman as disingenuous, unserious, a sexual commodity. Embracing my femininity and my sexuality has been my personal revolution. The time I spend doing my nails, getting my eyebrows waxed, these rituals- a singular declaration that the time I spend on me is not a waste. What hooks would call my “utterly aestheticized” presentation is for me. I was feminine when I was strapping women down and I am feminine standing next to my partner now. These are the moments I delight in this skin my grandmother lamented over as too dark. I fluff my hair White people often deem too big, I dress my body and it’s curves in loving adoration despite its very existence being deemed vulgar. This too is feminist.
As a woman who makes her living dissecting the particular cruelty of devaluing Black women and the many ways it happens, bell hooks disappoints profoundly when she herself devalues a Black woman and her art baselessly. It is hard for me to read hook’s essay as any sort of feminism and if I were to follow her example, I’d dismiss everything she’s written and declare her feminism untrustworthy. After all, a woman who internalizes the misogynistic disregard for femininity can’t possibly “call for an end to patriarchal domination.” When bell hooks can’t see the harm she inflicts when she couches femmephobia in feminist critique, can her “feminist vision” be trusted? The answer seems closest to no. Still it is patriarchy that teaches us Black women are disposable, especially when there is no more labor you can suck from them. I’ll continue to love hooks for the many things she’s given to me- the perfect rebuttal to The Feminine Mystique to her loving assessment of Black manhood- but her femmephobia will not be one of them.
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I think finding out that Hitler was inspired by how throughly Andrew Jackson committed genocide against the Natives would shatter or at least destabilize the ethos of the Founding Fathers & America for a lot of people
also the american eugenics movement which started in the late 1800′s was a huge inspiration for Hitler, and was even where the idea of blonde hair blue eyed superiority came from, and the idea of a “gas chamber” to take care of “undesirables”. In the early part of the third reich, the american eugenics movement saw it as the logical conclusion of their ““research”” and republished lots and lots of nazi propaganda
but yeah, nazism is so un-american uwu
Hitler praised American immigration restrictions in Mein Kampf. When the nazis wrote the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime, they specifically modelled them after the Jim Crow Laws, the Citizenship Law and the Blood Law of the United States.
Big chunks of the American legal system and history inspired the nazi’s in their organisation of the Holocaust.
Welp
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That is why you cannot talk about Nazism in The Americas without talking about antiblackness and anti native racism. All that does is absolve the U.S. of the policies it supported (and enforced) by pretending it was purely a foreign invention that they actively tried to resist.
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05/02/20
According to NYPD, “Two individuals (male and female) entered the market without masks. The employees at the location approached the individuals and asked if they could put one on. Both individuals refused, which turned the verbal dispute into a physical altercation. The woman shopper sustained a laceration to her nose and mouth and a male employee sustained bruising to his neck and legs.”
Widely shared video of the arrests were originally posted on WeChat according to some netizens, but found their way to Facebook. The video is recorded by an unnamed woman and explains what she captured in the video in Cantonese. “There is a lot of trouble today. The woman is trying to cause trouble. There was fighting like it was a world war with the employees and blood was shed. They were asked to wear a mask, and if they don’t wear a mask they should leave, but they started to argue and curse “F___ you Chinese people.”
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What
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Yeah in America that’s just an average Tuesday
Wait what???
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05/01/20
The A100 list is released annually in May, which is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. 2020 marks the third iteration of the nonprofit’s awards.
In a year where Asian representation in pop culture was championed, perhaps it’s not surprising that most of the nominees hail from the arts and entertainment industry. Directors including Taika Waititi and Lulu Wang, comedians including Bowen Yang and Hasan Minhaj and actors including Dwayne Johnson and Lana Condor were honored for their work. Meanwhile, musical sensations BTS and Blackpink also made the list.