An AI-driven analysis of widely used textbooks found that only 1% of sentences contained any mention of Asians or Asian Americans – and most of the references were related to war and foreign affairs rather than contributions to society.
There’s so much shit US history classes don’t talk about when it comes to Asian-Americans. The press ganging. Massacres of miners and farm workers. Entire towns and communities burned to the ground.
Can’t say I’m surprised when enslavement of black people and genocide of Native Americans are both treated as “controversial.”
I didn’t fully learn about how bad it was till the college town I went to was the sight of a railway massacre of Chinese workers by Irish workers, and it was only a fucking small blurb at their local train museum
There’s so much shit US history classes don’t talk about when it comes to Asian-Americans. The press ganging. Massacres of miners and farm workers. Entire towns and communities burned to the ground.
Can’t say I’m surprised when enslavement of black people and genocide of Native Americans are both treated as “controversial.”
I didn’t fully learn about how bad it was till the college town I went to was the sight of a railway massacre of Chinese workers by Irish workers, and it was only a fucking small blurb at their local train museum