May is Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month. It commemorates the contributions AANHPI people have made to U.S. history, society and culture
AANHPI month is needed! Many of our families got here in the *1800s*, before Irish or Italian waves, yet *still* get treated like immigrants! Time to educate ourselves
I got you. I wouldn't say there were before Irish & Italian waves considering the British dragged many Irish along wherever they went even in 1620. The Irish had several waves. But you're right a lot of your families have been here since before large scale European migration so that's valid.
@@JonDoe-mz4dx not a unique group--masses of us worked on railroads and sugar plantations, but limited. After the Chinese Exclusion act many had to come after getting citizenship in South America which took a few years
@@MissJIF Definitely is unique because they kept their culture and language. Irish, German immigrants , etc. all adopted Anglo/American customs in one single generation. The Chinese and Japanese kept their tongues and identities.
Well I'm not of any Asian or Pacific Island heritage so this is entirely someone else's celebration. I like it because it represents what post-colonial European immigration never had: an opportunity for immigrants to retain their non-Anglo culture. Irishmen and Italians and even American Indians had their identities beat out of them by this country trying to assimilate them as Whites. But modern Asian and Pacific migrants are one of the first groups that this country actually celebrates them for being different, rather than forcing assimilation. And I like that, you have the opportunity to keep your culture that most Americans' ancestors did not have, and you should be proud of it and we should be supportive.
Yet we Asian Americans aren't modern immigrants. Many of our families got to America in the 1800s, *before* Irish or Italian waves. We retain our cultures because Whyt Protestant Americans never acknowledged us as Americans but did grudgingly acknowledge Europeans from any country. My family has been here over 160 years, I still get asked weekly where I'm from
@@MissJIF Interesting. I've never seen evidence of Chinese & Japanese migration to the states until the mid 1800s or so. Not counting the Filipinos among the Spaniards.
@@MissJIF Irish were before Italian. I have a document entitled "Forced emigration by the Irish House of Commons." With my ancestors' name and clan origins on it from 1740. The Irish were in several waves.
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AANHPI month is needed! Many of our families got here in the *1800s*, before Irish or Italian waves, yet *still* get treated like immigrants! Time to educate ourselves
I got you. I wouldn't say there were before Irish & Italian waves considering the British dragged many Irish along wherever they went even in 1620. The Irish had several waves. But you're right a lot of your families have been here since before large scale European migration so that's valid.
That's really cool that your heritage goes back to a unique group of early-mid 1800s immigrants.
@@JonDoe-mz4dx not a unique group--masses of us worked on railroads and sugar plantations, but limited. After the Chinese Exclusion act many had to come after getting citizenship in South America which took a few years
@@MissJIF Definitely is unique because they kept their culture and language. Irish, German immigrants , etc. all adopted Anglo/American customs in one single generation.
The Chinese and Japanese kept their tongues and identities.
@@MissJIF an Irish/German immigrant became Anglo overnight but you actually held on to who you were and I do respect that.
Well I'm not of any Asian or Pacific Island heritage so this is entirely someone else's celebration.
I like it because it represents what post-colonial European immigration never had: an opportunity for immigrants to retain their non-Anglo culture.
Irishmen and Italians and even American Indians had their identities beat out of them by this country trying to assimilate them as Whites.
But modern Asian and Pacific migrants are one of the first groups that this country actually celebrates them for being different, rather than forcing assimilation. And I like that, you have the opportunity to keep your culture that most Americans' ancestors did not have, and you should be proud of it and we should be supportive.
Yet we Asian Americans aren't modern immigrants. Many of our families got to America in the 1800s, *before* Irish or Italian waves. We retain our cultures because Whyt Protestant Americans never acknowledged us as Americans but did grudgingly acknowledge Europeans from any country. My family has been here over 160 years, I still get asked weekly where I'm from
@@MissJIF Interesting. I've never seen evidence of Chinese & Japanese migration to the states until the mid 1800s or so. Not counting the Filipinos among the Spaniards.
@@JonDoe-mz4dx mid 1800s is 1850 that's 174 years ago, or basically what I said. Irish and Italian waves were after that
@@MissJIF I got you.
@@MissJIF Irish were before Italian. I have a document entitled "Forced emigration by the Irish House of Commons." With my ancestors' name and clan origins on it from 1740.
The Irish were in several waves.
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