Chinese - Historian | March 28, 1968 - November 9, 2004
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
Iris Chang
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Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
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I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.
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Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
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It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.
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Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.
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When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out.
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The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
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