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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Which wave?

Or are you just talking in the general sense?

I ask because I've heard the term applied specifically to the Chinese workers on the railroads in the late 1800s, here in the US, plus another that came between the end of the first World war and some time after the end of the second.

In the specific senses, it's too far in the past for me to think of it much at all. The more modern wave has essentially integrated and their descendants are just plain old americans for the most part; meaning they hang onto the parts of their ancestral culture to the degree they want, and otherwise may not have any connection in that regard. So it's more a point of historical interest than something influential on current events. That seems to be the prevailing take I've run into with others as well.

More recent immigrants, I don't have enough experience to have formed an overall take. My area doesn't run high to Chinese immigrants. We get more folks from the Americas and African nations. But I haven't had any standout bad encounters, nor have I seen any patterns that would make it seem like a bad thing.

Can't lie, racism against asian folks in general is present here. It isn't as prevalent as that against Latinos, Africans or African-Americans, but it's there. Afaik, nobody thinks of it as an overarching "thing" at all. Folks here tend to look at immigration on a smaller scale than a diaspora. If there isn't a significant inrush of a given group, nobody really notices.