Is the Republican party done?

[giblets]

Maybe that whole glorifying-white-men offends the sensibilities and intelligence of Asian American voters?

I can't understand why more Asians didn't vote for the guy who kept going on about how he'd label China a CURRENCY MANIPULATOR on day one.

[Hauldren Collider]

From my experience, Chinese people who move to the US don't mind the US getting tougher on China. They don't like the Chinese government. That's why they leave.

Their kids on the other hand, if they were born in China but moved away before they were 12, have a tendency to think China is the best country on the planet and yearn for their ancestral homeland.

If they aren't Chinese, they probably like it when Romney is tough on China. There's a lot of racial animosity among Asians. Koreans don't like the Chinese. Vietnamese do not like the Chinese. They probably approve of getting as tough as possible on China.

[giblets]

Mitt Romney was pandering to white working class voters through a combination of protectionism and racist subtext.

[Guynemer]

There are many kinds of "asians". There's far-east/southeast Asians, which consist of Koreans, Vietnamese, Chinese and Japanese folks. As much as they like to pretend they're all super culturally different, after around 8 years of going to school with a class that is around 30-40% Asian, my experience has been that they're really not.

Oh, do please detail this experience of yours, friend.

Then there are Indians, which just should be considered Indians instead of being lumped together. Then there's people from the Middle East like Pakistan who are again for no particularly good reason lumped in one group with everyone on the world's largest and most populous continent.

Oh... oh my...

[Hauldren Collider]

I don't really need to. What the **** do you want me to do, recount every time I've spoken to an Asian person in the last 8 years of my life? And I'm sorry, would you lump Pakistanis into the same group as Japanese? What the hell?

I'm glad my post entertained you so, but I'd like to know what about it you think was actually ridiculous.

[Uncle Sparky]

Diversity for Republicans is having two white males from distictively different Christian churches on the ticket. How much more diverse can you get?

[Hauldren Collider]

Let's be clear here--Guynemer has no actual refutation of my point. He just likes abusing the smiley and pretending to be worldly without any actual arguments.

[Guynemer]

I don't really need to. What the **** do you want me to do, recount every time I've spoken to an Asian person in the last 8 years of my life? And I'm sorry, would you lump Pakistanis into the same group as Japanese? What the hell?

I'm glad my post entertained you so, but I'd like to know what about it you think was actually ridiculous.

1. Pakistan is not in the goddamned Middle East. It is not even particularly close to the goddamned Middle East.

2. You are the one making the assertion that Chinese and Japanese and Korean and Vietnamese aren't different from one another, in all your experience; it is on you to back that up.

3. The reason I used the so much is because that post what extraordinarily -able, which is unusual for you.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Immigration. Really. That's it.

The arguement is simple to make. Land of opporntunity and all that jazz. Praise immigrants for the desire to live a better life and having the courage to take a chance i.e. entrepenurial spirt. Show them you embrace that line of thinking, paint the Dems as party of government with ever increasing regulation. Freedom to succeed vs. permission to succeed.

[snoopy369]

Umm, HC, Pakistan is basically India but Muslim. The people are genetically similar and culturally similar, to the point that in major US cities they live in the same area and eat at the same restaurants (why many Indian restaurants serve Halal meats).

Chinese and Japanese are really radically different. Koreans share similarities with both, given their history. Vietnamese I have no idea (don't know any nor do I know much about their country).

I generally think what Imran said is about right. The combination of more highly educated folks, who largely have a deep respect for science, and the later generations being substantially less religious-Christian, is probably why they're avoiding the increasingly Christian Republican party.

[giblets]

The arguement is simple to make. Land of opporntunity and all that jazz. Praise immigrants for the desire to live a better life and having the courage to take a chance i.e. entrepenurial spirt. Show them you embrace that line of thinking, paint the Dems as party of government with ever increasing regulation. Freedom to succeed vs. permission to succeed.

That'll work great with the Cuban vote. Oops, you already have that.

[onodera]

Let's be clear here--Guynemer has no actual refutation of my point. He just likes abusing the smiley and pretending to be worldly without any actual arguments.

HC...

[Imran Siddiqui]

We're not in Britain, practically nobody calls a Muslim "Asian" in America. Even if you're from Pakistan, you're probably classified as "White." While I've met Buddhist Asians (not being as cloistered as Alby), he's right that many identify as Christian.

Um, yeah we do. I've always checked "Asian-American" and every Indian I've ever ran into has considered themselves Asian. Hell, on cable packages, Indian channels are listed under "Asian".

[Imran Siddiqui]

1. Pakistan is not in the goddamned Middle East. It is not even particularly close to the goddamned Middle East.

2. You are the one making the assertion that Chinese and Japanese and Korean and Vietnamese aren't different from one another, in all your experience; it is on you to back that up.

3. The reason I used the so much is because that post what extraordinarily -able, which is unusual for you.

+1000

Pakistan being in the Middle East is WTF-able. Iran isn't even a Middle East county. Pakistan is basically Muslim India (as I see snoopy has pointed out).

And yeah, East Asians have vast difference as well.

[snoopy369]

My guess is they don't cover Asian History very well at CMU. Or British, for that matter, or any other history, or he'd at least know about the creation of Pakistan...