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slowdog ◴[] No.22975385[source]
Part of the problem is Asians don’t vote as a block, so who will protect them? If for a group of people, votes are split, who will look out for their needs?
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1. magicsmoke ◴[] No.22975499[source]
Yep, Asian Americans are ridiculously diverse and divided compared to other racial groups in America. Conflicts back in the old world keep AAs divided here, and even when older AAs stay long enough in America to develop a purely AA identity they get swamped by newer immigrants that don't have that same sense of identity and political unity with other AA groups. Despite being in the US since the 1800s, the bulk of the AA population doesn't actually have that much history in the US or experience with how the US political system works. When Asian Americans start putting their Asian identity over their Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, India, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, or wherever their ancestors were from is when you'll see an actual political bloc.