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There is a large amount of Asian Americans who became famous?
Here some examples:
-Lucy Liu: She's a Chinese American actress and had very important roles in "Charlies Angels" and "Kill Bill" part one and two.
-Jackie Chan: He's a chinese American actor and director and he's very well trained in traditional Chinese martial arts. I think he's one of the few actors who does all his actions in films without a stuntman. In one of his movies he broke his leg at a scene where he jumped off a boat and he didn't stop playing his role till the end of the chapter.
- Jin tha MC: He's also a Chinese American who became famous as a Hip Hop artist.

These are just a few examples of famous Asian Americans...

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a lot of Koreans blame theirself for the Virginia Tech Masscare and feel responsible for it? They think he was a part of their society and they should have been recognizing his problems before he committed a suicide massacre at his school. Well, I think these Korean Americans shouldn't blame theirself for it, because everybody knows that Seung Cho who killed himself and many other people, was totally crazy. So it's no fault of all Korean Americans of course, I think it's good that they feel sorry for the victims, but they shouldn't feel guilty at all.

Outcast of a TV show on a channel made by Asian Americans

...This afternoon Rosie O'Donnell was a guest of a TV show and she made a lot of jokes about Chinese Americans. She said we're talking like: " ching chong ching chong Danny de Vito ching cong". Why does she make such racistic comments? Do we play jokes on her because she's lesbian? No, we don't. So she shall shut the f**k up what concerns saying such things about us.
I think it's the worst stereotype to claim that we're all talking like this, it's our language and even if it sounds a little bit strange to other cultures, it has to be respected.

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even some famous people made racist comments about Asian Americans or gay people? For example Rosie O'Donnell made a lot of jokes about Chinese Americans on a TV show. She was thinking that the only words a Chinese American can say are "ching" and "chong". Another example is the famous basketballplayer Tim Hardaway who said in an interview: "Well you know, I hate gay people. I let it be knwon that i don't like gay people... ." I think saying things like that shows that you're a kind of racist. It is intolerant to discriminate people because of their nationality or their sexuality, it's nonsence to make comments like that, whether you are famous or not.

Poem about racism

Why are we dicriminated?
Why do people blame us for their hatred?
Why shall people from other countries be inferior,
while Americans shall be superior?
Why don't the cops care about our death?
Why should our life be worth less?

We must stop the governments racism,
and finally set an end to fascism.

If we don't stop the law and the cops,
people won't stop blaming us for losing their jobs.

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Asian immigrants of the 1.5 generation often think that they don't belong to the American society because of their look and their pronounciation? But if they would go back to their so called "mother-country" they would think that they don't belong,too. They are torn between their 2 cultures, on the one hnad the Asian and on the other hand the American culture. So they feel like they don't have a place where they can stay and they feel excluded by their societies.

Radio News about race riots in 1992

Radio Speaker: This morning race riots broke out in L.A. again. African and Korean Americans were arguing and the results of it were different cases of stealings an shootings. 24 people died because of the shootings. The amount of people who became injured isn't known yet. The police of Los Angeles didn't do anything against the riots. They made no efforts to stop the shootings and other terms of criminality and violence.

Interview between a reporter of a news show on TV and one of the murderers of Vincent Chin

Reporter: Good evening. I have a few questions about the murder you commited last year. Would you please answer them?
Murderer: Good evening. Yes I will of course answer them.
Reporter: OK. My first questions to you is for what reason you killed Vincent.
Murderer: I killed him because I thought he was a Japanese American. At this time a was a racist and I didn't think about what i did.
Reporter: Yes but why did you kill him? You said he was a Japanese American,ok , but was it really a reason to kill him? Why did you hate Japanese Americans?
Murderer: 2 month before the murder i lost my job in a company producing cars because the Japanese had a better standart of technology in creating and improving their cars. So i thought the Japanese are to blame for the job i lost.
Reporter: How did you feel before you killed him?
Murderer: I felt terrible. I lost my job and after losing it I couldn't feed my family. My family left me and I had really nothing. No job, no family, no future. Then Iand the other one who lost his job, too , decided to kill him when we saw him on our way back home from drinking.
Reporter: Oh, now I can understand how you felt. Do you regret your action now?
Murderer: Of course I do. After we murdered him we recognized that he was a Chinese not a Japanese American. We killed without knowing him. His parents lost their son because we we're angry, agressive and drunken.
Reporter: Well thank you for giving answers to my questions. I hope you have learned sth. for your life in the future. Goodbye.
Murderer: No problem. Goodbye.

Homework : Letter to a friend from a child of a family which was arrested in a camp

Dear ...,

are you alright? I am not, because policemen knocked at our frontdoor and told us to enter their car when we opened. They took my whole family away and put us into a concentration camp. We asked why they did such things to us, but we were only told we were brought to the camp because we are Japanese. So I want to ask you if you're alright because you're Japanese, too, and I hope something like that won't happen to you. You should tell your family about my message and try to escape to a safe place. I don't know what they might do to us in the future, but I think they might perhaps force us to leave the country and go back to Japan. Well, there's nothing left I could tell you, I'm happy that I can write this letter to you, I hope you receive it.

Good luck! Yours sincerely ...

Murder on Vincent Chin

Vincent was murdered by two white persons who thought he was a Japanese American.
Before they killed him they discriminated him and then they finally attacked him with a baseball-bat. When his murders got on trial they only got a fine of 3.700 dollars and 2 years probation time. Can this be the case that a human life is only worth of 3.700 dollars because he comes from another country? If they had killed a white American person they would stay in prison for their whole life. I think the most annoying thing on the murder is that the government also thinks that the life of an immigrant isn't as important as a life of a white person.