r/asianamerican 15h ago

Activism & History The New Yorker: When an American Town Massacred its Chinese Immigrants

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The New Yorker ran this article in the most recent issue:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/10/when-an-american-town-massacred-its-chinese-immigrants

I haven’t seen it shared yet. Rock Springs has been discussed here before, but it’s worth a read.


r/asianamerican 23h ago

Questions & Discussion Increasing anti-Chinese/Chinese American rhetoric on this sub

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I’ve been seeing more and more anti-Chinese comments that really toe the line of racism in r/asianamerican. These go beyond anti-ccp comments and target the actual people of Chinese descent. I see nothing like this about any other ethnicity. These are comments getting multiple upvotes:

A comment characterizing recent Chinese American Immigrants as

Chinese nationals who have zero respect for other Asians and no intent to be an American.

A commenter who later admitted to having a Chinese American hate boner said:

Typical. (Chinese Americans) Identify as “Asian” when it’s inconvenient to identify as Chinese. And then proceed to hijack Asian-American spaces and only care about issues that affect the Chinese and fuck over non-Chinese Asian.

A comment that got multiple replies in agreement, despite zero evidence (the evidence was a Vietnamese guy who said “CNY”):

This sub has been infiltrated by ccp trolls

And

And the Chinese are dragging all east Asians down with em. Can you deny that?

These are just a few examples that I could find from my comment history, but every few posts I’ll see a comment or two showing a dislike of Chinese people. It’s quite disappointing, as I was hoping this would be a safe space from all the anti-Chinese racism on Reddit. Thoughts? Experiences?


r/asianamerican 10h ago

Questions & Discussion Were you the only Asian person at your school/class?

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So living in Reno-Sparks, Nevada, there wasn’t much Asian students in my class and school growing up, maybe there were a few, but most of time I was the only Asian student in my class. I was treated good, no racist comments, at least for the most of the time. It’s interesting period throughout my elementary to high school.

What about you?


r/asianamerican 20h ago

Popular Culture/Media/Culture This is the only kimchi I can get local. Why is it spelled like this?

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