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For far too long, Asian Americans have been overlooked in conversations on climate change and the natural world. In a Yale School of Climate Change Communication report that purports to reveal which racial groups care most about climate change, for instance, the results for Asian Americans were unavailable, raising concerns over the low sample size. However, the inability to retrieve data on Asian communities whether because of language barriers or questions over which ethnic groups are considered Asian American reveals a more insidious concern: that Asian Americans have always been an afterthought in the national imagination.
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Anita Sethi is taking me along one of Manchester’s inner-city canal towpaths, marvelling at the yellow Erythronium flowers lining the water’s edge that seem to radiate the warm April sunshine. “See, it’s just like Venice,” she quips, before this surprise urban calm is interrupted by honking geese angrily clearing a way for fluffy goslings. They look for all the world that they’re embarking on their maiden voyage.
“Look at them,” Sethi says
. “Aren’t they cute? A nice metaphor for my book, too. New life, not doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. How wonderful.”
The continuing, unabated rise in anti-Asian violence came to head on Sunday as over a thousand marched in Queens to protest the unprovoked attacks, which have been plaguing the city. Beginning in Flushing, a who’s who of elected officials and renowned individuals gathered at 137-35 Northern Boulevard on the steps of the neighborhood’s town hall.. Read More