Su Qingqing tried her best to ignore the embarrassed looks from Li Nanxing and the others, and said to Song Jingyi, "Do you think what you just said will improve your status? You're wrong. In this country dominated by white people, if you belittle your compatriots, you're also belittling yourself! These white people can't tell the nationality or appearance of Asians apart. They just think we're one ethnic group. If you bully your compatriots, you'll only make foreigners laugh at you!"
As expected of the heroine, she speaks in a grand manner!
I'm not going to discuss the gap between the rich and the poor with you, I'm going to talk to you about national justice.
"Hmph! Who dares to laugh at me? You and I are not compatriots. I now have American citizenship and I am an American! You have to understand this clearly and don't try to make connections!" Song Jingyi said bluntly.
"Oh! This naive young lady, before you say this, you should first find out what Japanese Americans experienced in the United States during the Pacific War, and then you say these things! Do you think that just because you have American citizenship, you become a real American? And you are one of them? You are so funny! Or, why don't you interview those black Americans, what do they say? They also have American citizenship! And they have been in the United States longer than you! Don't you know what their status and situation are in the United States?" Li Nanxing laughed out loud.
During World War II, Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in the United States, which triggered a wave of anti-Japanese sentiment among the American people. The United States then officially declared war on Japan, and the Pacific War broke out with Japanese warships in the Pacific. At that time, anti-Japanese sentiment was high among the American people.
In order to comply with public opinion, the then US President Roosevelt issued a presidential order requiring all Japanese in the United States to move to a fixed area to live within a limited period of time.
At that time, nearly 10,000 Japanese people stationed in the United States were driven to so-called "settlement areas."
The Japanese government froze their bank deposits in the United States and seized their personal belongings and other assets. They were required to carry no more than 70 kilograms of luggage, and were not allowed to bring valuable items. The soldiers guarding them would repeatedly search their luggage and openly rob them of their valuables.
The seized assets were of course confiscated by the local government.
Finally, we know that in the war between Russia and Russia, European and American countries froze and confiscated all overseas assets of Russians so quickly, including bank deposits, real estate, company assets, cars, yachts, and even Russia's gold reserves in the United States were confiscated!
These countries are waving the banner of so-called anti-war, but are actually committing robbery and robbery.
So this means he is very experienced!
After three years of being "surveilled" by the US government, the US authorities lifted the restrictions on Japanese in the United States. However, they did not return the property that was seized that year, including real estate and bank deposits.
It was not until more than 40 years after the incident, in 1988, that US President Reagan apologized for the internment on behalf of the US government and paid a total of more than $1.6 billion in compensation to the detained Japanese Americans and their descendants.
However, it is still the 1970s, and it will take another ten years for Japanese Americans to receive an apology from the US government!
Anyway, at this point in time, Japanese Americans were still greatly affected by the war in Japan during World War II.
Do you think you'll be alright just because you have American citizenship?
Haha, do you know about the Asian American Segmentation Act issued by the US government in 2024?
After the promulgation of this new provision, all Asians in the United States will be more finely differentiated, and will need to fill in different ethnicities such as Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Chinese when filling out forms.
In the past, whether Japanese, Indian, or Chinese, they all belonged to Asian descent, and you only needed to fill in Asian. After all, in the eyes of white people, it is difficult to distinguish the differences between Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. Many foreigners even think that Japan and South Korea are both part of China!
But once this bill came out, Chinese people were singled out and became a "special group".
Who would believe that the emergence of this set of bills is not to make it easier for Americans to target Chinese people precisely?
After Li Nanxing mentioned the experiences of the Japanese in the United States during the Pacific War, the others who had just been watching the girls arguing with interest now looked serious.
At this moment, more than ten people have arrived one after another. Because Li Nanxing and the others were arguing just now, those who came later didn’t know what happened, so they didn’t say anything.
However, except for Song Jingyi and her bestie, all the others who were able to attend this party were elite college students. In that era, Europe and the United States had not yet implemented any happy education. Those who were able to be admitted to prestigious universities in the 1970s were the elite among the elites. They still had some understanding of what happened during the not-so-distant World War II.
At that time, Japan launched the Pearl Harbor incident against the United States, which caused public outrage in the United States, resulting in the death of 110,000 Japanese Americans.
All the property and real estate that these Japanese Americans had accumulated after years of hard work in the United States have been lost, and they have not received any compensation to this day.
The United States was able to take action against Japanese Americans back then, who knows if it will take action against other ethnic minorities in the future?
Song Jingyi really didn't know anything about the Pacific War, the internment order for Japanese Americans, etc., but she could hear that the other party was comparing her with black Americans!
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