I am interested to know what life was like from the words of people who were still children then or they were from 16-30 years old.
I am interested to know what life was like from the words of people who were still children then or they were from 16-30 years old.
I wrote a 3k character history about racism in the US, but it killed itself. Basically, racism in the North and West has gotten worse when things get bad, racism in the South got worse after the Revolution and stayed bad for a long time, but has somewhat decreased recently, the Western US hated Chinese people in the mid to late 19th century enough to get them banned from the country for a few decades, the country hated Japanese people during the first couple decades of the 20th century mostly because of Japan’s imperialism, racism related to Asia is mostly directed towards China, a lot of it is related to the CCP and the consumption of dogs, there’s quite a bit about India for reasons I can’t really think of (maybe it was imported from Britain???) mostly about them being doctors, surgeons, liquor store and gas station owners and smelling bad (idfk) (the doctor, surgeon, lawyer or engineer thing is about all of Asia (the part that most Americans think Asia is)), people that are actually hateful towards Asian people are far less common than they used to be, racism against Arabs peaked in the 2000s, it’s somewhat decreasing over time, Americans don’t care about people being Polish, German, Irish, or Italian anymore (too late, they were forced to give up their cultures to survive, especially the last three), racism against Latinos is a slightly more recent development resulting from more of them immigrating in recent decades, it’s really bad in certain places, but a lot (probably even most people tbh) of people truly don’t give a shit, racism against black people is a national constant, although it ranges from complete ignorance (there’s states that are less than 1% black, such as Montana and Wyoming, which is insane since 14.4% of the country is black) to outright hatred, most common in the South, but not particularly hard to find anywhere in the country, the govermment is most prejudiced against black people by an absolute fucking landslide.
This is also really fucking long, but I spent a long time on it, so please read it. Please. I’m begging you.