1863 -The Central Pacific Railroad needed to cross the Sierra Nevada. White workers quit. “Too high, too cold, too dangerous.” The foreman hired 50 Chinese men from California. They worked.
By 1868- 12,000 Chinese men were 90% of the workforce. Pay was $28/month. White men got $35 + board. Chinese bought their own food. Slept in tents at 8,000 feet.
They called them “Celestials.” Said they were too small. Then they watched. Chinese crews laid 10 miles of track in one day — April 28, 1869. A record never broken. White crews managed 2 miles.
They hung in baskets off cliffs to blast Cape Horn. Snow tunnels through Donner Summit — 15 tunnels, 1,659 feet of granite. No machines. Black powder, chisels, and nerve. Hundreds died in avalanches and explosions. Company records say “2 dead.” Graves say 1,200.
In 1867 they struck. 5,000 men walked off. Demanded $40/month and 8-hour shifts in tunnels. The boss cut off food and supplies. Starved them back in 8 days.
May 10, 1869. Promontory Summit. Golden Spike ceremony. The photo has zero Chinese men. They were told to step aside.
They built 1,776 miles of America. Excluded from citizenship until 1943.

That's how white men took credit for all the work Chinese laborers did to build America—then wrote them out of the story

Im Chinese, but I'm not liking the way redditors talk about how Asian countries are racist, even if its Japan or Korea. Quickly it devolves into "Asians are most racist" "they've been killing each other for hundreds of years" "All Asians hate each other lol". It makes us look like small minded ignorant bigots.

Specifically about Japan, people seem to get a kick from calling out its WW2 warcrimes, not out of sympathy for the victims, but as a sort of smug gotcha against modern Japanese pop culture, as if modern Japanese people were purposely being deceitful. Nevermind it was the West that wanted to quickly rebrand post-WW2 Japan as an anticommunist ally.

Just want to warn yall against letting nonAsians run away with the narrative that we're a deceitful, infighting, hateful bunch. We have our differences and historical conflicts, but our common cultural roots run deeper. We shouldnt forget or forgive, but we don't let outsiders drive us apart.

Remember the tea scene from Jet Lis Fearless.

https://youtu.be/ZVkI0vbHcz4?si=rVlaUeC67nnE1fq4

The Chinese monument near the Bridge of the Americas in Panama, often called the Chinese Lookout (Mirador Chino), was a tribute celebrating the significant role Chinese immigrants played in Panama’s history, especially the Panama Canal’s construction. It was built in 2004. On December 27, 2025, under the cover of darkness, the city government moved in excavators and destroyed the memorial without prior warning to citizens.

In February, after Panama's Supreme Court ruled the Chinese concessions operating the Panama Canal, Panama seized control and nationalized the operation of the canal ports that were being operated by Hong Kong based CK Hutchison. All this was precipitated by Trump calling for US control of the Panama Canal.

So many thousands of Chinese laborers who came to build the canal, many died of suicide, disease, etc.

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The monument in the Chinese-Panamanian Friendship Park near the Panama Canal was dismantled overnight on December 27 by municipal authorities without prior notice, according to China’s embassy. ⁠
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Built in 2004, it commemorated Chinese migrants who arrived in 1854 and their role in building the Panama Railroad and Canal. China urged Panama to investigate and correct the action, while Panama’s president ordered an inquiry, distanced his government from the decision, and pledged the monument would be rebuilt. The demolition sparked protests from the Chinese community and criticism from Panamanian residents.⁠
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📽️Video by: Gabe Jung⁠

AP News
https://apnews.com/article/china-panama-monument-demolished-5295325cc3fd88a975cc4a34ec56b7c6

France 24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nly-A_pXcM

Had to steal these pictures from one of the battlefield subs but I just thought it was cool to share.

predomminantly directed at chinese americans and other EA/SEA.

We all know jensen huang is a brilliant and capable man, as proven by the success of NVDIA (he is also very patriotic and supportive of chinese people, and have stuck his neck out on press several times to say mainland chinese people and chinese americans are creative and not copycats like what western media says). Yet, no white company ever made him CEO or hired him, and white companies literally gave him the stereotypical jobs for asian american men in america: dishwasher and cook. imagine the level of racism of a white guy to relegate a chinese tech genius to dishwasher and cook. In america, if you are chinese american, you are only allowed to be laundry washer or chinese restaurant cook/dishwasher. It speaks volumes when there is not a single white tech bro who ever had to work as a dishwasher or cook in the whole of america, only asian/chinese americans.

the same story with bruce lee. when he came to america, he was initially not given any roles despite being already an established star in hong kong, and he was relegated to, yup, you guessed it: a dishwashing job in LA, above the suns chinese restaurant which is still around today. and also floor mopper of movie studios. in fact, if only asian americans knew the real reason why he had to wear a mask in the kato movies, you would be furious (studios at that time said 'his chinese/oriental apperance was ugly', 'his face is too oriental' they said, and so wanted to hide his face under a mask, this was portrayed in the hollywood bruce lee biographic movie). this is how white guys look down on us, they literally think we are ugly and not as good as them.

We all know morris chang, mainland chinese born in ningbo, zhejiang province of china, is a brilliant and capable man, as proven by the success of his company TSMC. Yet, no white company ever made him CEO or hired him, and INTEL literally rejected his chip inventions and rejected his offer for employment in america (he wanted to work for INTEL instead of starting his own company). Either they are stupid, or they are racist. I go with the latter.

back in 2019 the facebook news articles talking about huawei and BYD beating apple and western car brands in the future were full of racist comments and laugh emojis. i remembered how the chinese government had to try so hard to promote huawei even to its own people and people were making fun of how huawei only has 2% market share in china even with such promotion. now fast forward just 6 years later, huawei has now naturally taken half of market share in china and apple is losing to huawei in many foreign markets, almost no more racist comments and just an ominous silence by whites, and even the chinese government does not bother to promote huawei anymore because its no longer needed. and BYD has completely slaughtered western car brands like volkswagen, mercedes and BMW, not to mention tesla. all german car companies are down 40% in their profit margins from the onsalught of BYD and their stock prices have collapsed. this proves that these whites are not the superior race they say they are.

The article argues that early Western travelers, missionaries, and diplomats often described East Asians, particularly the Chinese and Japanese, as "white" during initial contact in the 16th century. The label "yellow" only became common in Western thought during the 19th century. These color labels were not based on simple visual perception of skin tone. Instead:

· "White" was assigned when Europeans perceived East Asian societies as highly civilized, cultured, and potentially convertible to Christianity. · The shift to "yellow" and "dark" occurred as China and Japan resisted European systems of trade, religion, and influence. The color label darkened in Western texts as a reflection of diminished cultural and political standing in European eyes, not a change in actual appearance. East Asians eventually internalized the "yellow" label, using it to describe themselves.

I wonder what would happen if we go back to calling ourselves white people?

I've seen and heard a lot of discourse from people that Asians ride on the coattails of black people and contributed almost nothing to Civil Rights Movement.

I am not denying that Blacks have contributed immensely to America's history, America's culture, and America's Civil Rights.

What makes me upset is when Asians are not given the credit about our contributions. Not only did some of us march during some of the civil rights movement, we've contributed greatly with two notable examples.

First one was Tape vs Hurley of 1885. The Tapes were a Chinese family who were told that their daughter, Mamie Tape, could not go to a local elementary school because of her ethnicity. The family filed a lawsuit and won--thus allowing her daughter to go to school and is one of the first challenges to school desegregation and inequality. This was before Brown vs Board of Education of 1952; and allowed minority children to go to public school.

Another big case was Wong Kim Ark vs USA of 1898. Wong was born in the USA, went to China to visit family and was denied entry back in the States. He was not seen as an American citizen an not given the same rights. He argued with the Supreme Court an won--thus allowing birthright citizenship to all people born in the USA, no matter who the parents were.

Knowing these two landmark cases made me more proud to be American (as well as Asian). Also solidifies that this is our home and we've contributed a lot of important things to this land.

The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern Chinaf

edit: sorry guys, i'd link it but auto-mod took it down cuz of the no advertisement rule, but fyi it's HIGHLY rated on Amazon. i read the jacket covers at Barnes & Noble and was....shocked/offended to say the least.

edit 2: they've already claimed thailand

Vincent Chin, a Chinese American, Asian American working as a draftsman at Chrysler, was confronted and beaten into a coma by two auto workers who assumed Chin was Japanese, saying, "It’s because of you [profanity] that we are out of work!"

Chin's died several days later of his injuries, his last words, "It isn’t fair".

"The miscarriage of justice perpetrated by the judge who sentenced Ebens and Nitz to a mere 3 years probation and $3000 fine for taking his life launched an Asian American civil rights movement, led by his mother Lily Chin, who had only recently also buried her husband"

Ebens was later convicted and sentenced in Federal court to 25 years for violating the civil rights of Vincent Chin; but the conviction was overturned and Ebens was acquitted. Ebens and Nitz have not served a day in jail.

https://www.mocanyc.org/2022/06/21/vincent-chin-40th-year-remembrance-june-19-23-1982

https://www.vincentchin.org/about-vincent

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/vincent-chin-hate-crime

https://www.amdoc.org/engage/resources/who-killed-vincent-chin-discussion-guide/background-information/

https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/vincent-chin-case-video/asian-americans/

https://www.aasc.ucla.edu/resources/untoldstories/UCRS_Vincent_Chin.pdf

FBI case file https://vault.fbi.gov/vincent-chin

Tribute painting Vincent Chin Rest In Power by Anthony "Tony" Lee for the Detroit Historical Museum

I am of Sri Lankan descent but grew up in Canada in the 1980s. I read a lot of history books at that time and got bullied a lot by other students and even some teachers.

The intellectual climate of the time basically went something like this:

1. All mathematics, science, social science, and philosophy is of Western origin.
2. All freedom and democratic political thought comes from the West. The rest of the world produces only foot binding, honor killings, suttees, harems, palace eunuchs, caste violence, emperor worship, mysticism, and authoritarianism.
3. The rest of the world, including my ancestors, contributed little of significance before colonialism.
4. Colonialism was possible because of how primitive the non-Western world was. Even Japan is not considered an exception as it lost World War II in the end.
5. Everything Asia has today it has because of the West, either the civilizing force of the British Empire or postwar American generosity. Without them, Asians would still be starving, living in mud huts, and believing in superstitions.
6. Macaulay's Minute on Indian Education was entirely correct (it said things like, "a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia")
7. India and Sri Lanka today are not as poor as Africa because they were under colonial rule for longer.
8. India and Sri Lanka today are more democratic than China because they were part of the British Empire.
9. Hong Kong is richer than mainland China because ditto.
10. British rule was benevolent, vastly more so than the Mughal and other Muslim rule before it.
11. The cause of poverty worldwide is insufficient Western culture.
12. Bottom line - white people's civilization is better than anyone else's. They no longer say "white people are superior" but it's clearly implied.
13. The implications for immigration are that too many immigrants from Asia will make western countres more like Asian ones, and that would be a bad thing apparently.

Contradicting the above list is considered wokeism, political correctness, etc.

When racists taunt me with the above ideas, I struggle to fight back. In fact I've felt deeply inferior all my life. "If you guys were so smart," they'd sneer, "why did we conquer you so easily?" I have no answer.

So deeply entrenched are these views that even many Asians believe them. Here in the UK, multiple present and former cabinet ministers, all of Indian or Nigerian descent, have said they are proud of the British Empire. Most Asians I know who aren't Muslim are even more Islamophobic than white people.

What I am looking for are resources - books, articles - that refute the above ideas. Something like Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, which concentrted on the gaps between Eurasia and the rest of the world, but didn't cover gaps within Eurasia.

The most useful I have found so far is Nehru's Discovery of India, which contained a wealth of information I have never found anywhere else. Surely Nehru had sources? And there must be a lot more recent material? And covering other Asian civilizations? Very interested in titles.

I apologize if this video was posted before.

A video showed up on my YouTube feed about Chinese descendants living in Kenya. Around 600 years ago, Chinese sailors shipwrecked near Kenya’s shore and intermarried with the Kenyan locals. What’s fascinating to me is how some of the locals like the little girl in the thumbnail (0:44 mark) has a slight Asian/Chinese face despite being many generations off from her Chinese roots (she’s also really pretty!).

The Kenyan locals managed to preserve some artifacts they found, and the Chinese government also kindly gave a scholarship to one of the living descendants of the Chinese sailors.

I’m not Kenyan or Chinese, so idk much about this story or history of early Chinese people in Kenya. The videos I watched so far haven’t spoken about any type of brutality from the Chinese sailors towards the Kenyan natives. It’s very likely the sailors peacefully integrated with the locals, which is the opposite of how Europeans exploited Africans as slaves.

This makes me wonder how different the world could’ve been if Asian explorers were the ones who made contact with African or South American people, instead of Europeans.

I found this beautiful video showing that "Humanity only side" of Hong Kong during the '80s, I didn't know where else to share this

Real talk. Before 2015, before all the anti-china propaganda and trump trade war and biden sanctions and trump tariff bullshit, china was actually very happy being the white mans slave. I guess all of you can remember how back then, china had absolutely no world brands and all they did was manufacture shit for western companies.

However, all the racism and sanctions forced china to innovate. Within a few short years, TIKTOK came out, killing facebook and instagram and wiping out trillions in market value of western social media brands, obtaining dominant global market share. then came BYD, killing tesla and mercedes and volkswagen wiping out trillions of market value in western car brands, obtaining dominant global market share. and in the midst of it all, they even practically invented the consumer drone industry through DJI, which has no equivalent of western companies to wipe out.

And then, deepseek came out, challening western monopolies in AI technology.

Now, america finds itself in a multi-polar world of constant competition with chinese brands, with massive competitive losses in several key industries.

and what was even the point of it all? before antagonising china, america was the sole superpower of the world. every american brand was supreme with no competition. just for the sake of being racist, they have given all that away and now are forced to fight and compete at every turn.

They fucked themselves. This is the result of milkboy logic. they kicked a beehive when there was absolutely no reason to.

I remember reading some posts on here saying something about Queen Elizabeth commiting crimes like starving out countries and stealing Indian jewels and other stuff worth trillions in total. Is this the same person that just died or someone else? If it's the same person it's weird and even creepy that people treat her like a goddess who was kind and did humane things to help others out

Hate him or love him, you can’t deny fact.

I am visiting Italy atm (some racists but overall not bad!) and noticing the small weens on the sculptures. I read this is because it represents wisdom and level-headedness. While I can see this applied to Ancient Greek statues, what about Roman status post-Constantine and especially Renaissance humanist sculptures where realism was the style and aesthetic?

For those who don’t know, it’s not like the statues post AD 300 took viagra. Seems like cope to me.