I like #ProfessorJiang because he actually wants his #students to learn to think for themselves and to be OK with challenging/questioning authority. He doesn't want them to just parrot what he says or take his lectures as gospel. #Teachers who are open & welcoming of being questioned/challenged by their students, have integrity & more than their own best interests at heart.
In his Foundation series, Isaac Asimov proposed that the science of "psycho-history" will help humanity understand its past, predict its future, and control its present. This channel is dedicated to exploring if "psycho-history" is indeed possible. This channel seeks to answer the following three questions: 1. What models, theories, and paradigms help us best understand world history? 2. What does history teach us about our current predicament? 3. How much of the future can be predicted?
*This video may trigger MapleMAGA & super patriotic moderate leaning Canadians because he speaks some hard truths about Canada.*
This video is so relatable on many levels for me & my family. Our lived experiences, during our first decade in #Canada was very similar to Professor Jiang & his family's experiences as #Chinese #immigrants in Canada. We faced the same kind of #racism & #poverty. My parents suffered a lot. They kept holding their heads high & tried to shield us from the worst of racial hatred that they both faced on almost a daily basis. My family was dehumanized by cruel, ignorant white people. We faced several racial hate crimes in the 80s. Those hateful racists never robbed us from our humanity though. That is still fully intact.
My Mom cut all of our hair at home until I was 13 years old. My parents would always look for free furniture/household items that people put outside for free. Me & my brothers started gleaning for free food/fruits everywhere we could, when I was 8 years old.
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It surprises and confuses me that not everyone has these family stories.
Then I remember that places like ancestry dot com exist because plenty of folks simply don't know where they came from.
And if you don't know where you came from, it's unlikely you have a wooden spoon wielding grandmother who makes sure you know exactly how your family was treated when they "came over".
Heck they probably didn't even know what boat they came on!
Crazy
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Rereading my comment hours later, it is far from all inclusive.
I stand by the sentiment, but certainly acknowledge the huge gap that contains anyone & everyone without the upstream family ties that I'm fortunate to have had.
I just get angry when I see people I *know* are 4th generation at most screaming about 'border security'.
It's the "my ancestors didn't travel 4000 miles by boat to have this place overrun by immigrants" mindset that pisses me off.
Hmph.
@phpete I get pissed off at immigrants who choose to forget that they're immigrants & are hating on new immigrants. Professor Jiang talks about that subject too.
I'm estranged from some family members here because they have chosen to be capitalist & cruel towards those with lesser than. They prefer to protect their white proximity privileges & they are racist jerks. I don't tolerate racism/bigotry/inhumanity from anyone - especially from my blood relations - who should honour our ancestors & our family's living history, much better.
The racist, capitalist, white proximity privilege protecting, estranged family members also hate upon the homeless & are queerphobes to boot. They disgust me. They are no better than white racists who are cruel to POC folks. They're worse in my eyes because of our shared war refugees history!
@PhoenixSerenity The unthinking hubris of white people whose cultures are a few centuries old calling *Asians* whose cultures are a few milleniums old "uncivilized" never ceases to amaze me.
One of the first times I was hanging out with my partner's brother and sister-in-law, I caught myself referring to beautiful old architechture in the US. And mocked myself for referring to 300 year old buildings as "old," when chatting with a woman from Korea.
Even as a kid I remember just how racist Vic was in the 80s. It was also when I realized that my parents were racists, in spite of consistently saying they weren't racist. I made friends with an amazing girl from Vietnam and we totally hit it off.
I was invited to her house for dinner and her family made me feel so welcome. I tasted the best soup I'd ever had in my life.
When my parents found out I had gone to dinner at a refugee's house they got super weird and basically forbade me from hanging out with her, even at school because "we don't know how those people raise their kids."
Um, maybe like goddamn human beings who love their fucking children?
40 years later I am still a heartbroken 6 year old over it, but I also loved finding out in my 30s that I was actually of Asian decent.
My mom was dying of a leukemia that only affects people of Mongolian and Northern Chinese decent and I realized there was a whole lot of family history that had been silenced and unspoken for years. It was a bleak way to find out, but her anti-Asian sentiments became laughable at best in a morose way in the end.
Hugs for the endurance and survival of your parents.
@RobotDiver I'm sorry that your parents were racist but glad that you didn't succumb to that hatred. Hoping you can find some lost cultural connections, if you seek to do so.
I have bad memories of being invited to white friends' homes & some of their parents were racist - wouldn't let me in the house or on their lawn. They harmed me & their own kids by being mean racists.
Some areas of Vic are better than others & over time, it is less overtly racist. It only takes a few surface scratches to see that racism is still a social problem here. It's just ignored by a lot of people who want to believe it's no longer an issue worth discussing much. POC with protective white proximity privileges tend to volunteer to feed into the - there is no racism issue & there never really was a racism issue in Vic - lies.
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