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1 min readAug 9, 2014
“You May Not Know About The First Chinese Americans, But You Should”
“Consider that the first Chinese immigrants arrived on U.S. soil at the same time as the first Irish. Their impact over more than two hundred years “has been extraordinary,” Mirrer says, “and yet its story is little or entirely unknown.”…Mirrer identifies the exhibit’s crux as a concept we can’t seem to agree on: “What it means to be American.””
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/07/chinese-american-exhibit_n_5528081.html
The fact that it’s been so long and this still hasn’t been resolved… (or, really, it was resolved to “if you can be White you can be American”).
