California is doing a pretty good job of acknowledging a bunch of problematic history. When I visited the Historical Center at Manzanar (one of the WWII Japanese Internment Camps) they had a recounting of that history that I found satisfying
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hopeforyou and I have visited Manzanar as well, and we were so impressed that we've both brought other people back there. It pleases me you were satisfied, given your ethnicity
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Manzanar was a surprise to me. I vaguely recall driving past it to Mammoth from SoCal before it was restored. I've been back a couple of times since they opened up the center there, and I cry every time, and find it immensely healing to have a heretofore obfuscated bit of history acknowledged. Even more that they tie it into peace protests against the war in Iraq, and against the PATRIOT act. It is, as you say, a thing of much passion for me
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I'd be open to the TSA horror stories-I somehow like getting pissed off at those. Hell, a bloke who used to live around the corner from me is having a hard time getting into the country as we speak-it seems Julian Assange isn't a good person to be mates with. (I wonder if he has an LJ.)
The Lebanese are one of the more recent migrant groups in Australia. They were starting to appear when I was in high school, and I sometimes heard people spouting crap about them not assimilating, stealing jobs, and similar predictable venom. I occasionally heard it from the Vietnamese, who were the new immigrant group before them. I'm sure some Lebanese say the same about today's Sudanese immigrants.
The incident you're thinking about was probably what happened in Cronulla, a southern beach suburb of Sydney, where race riots occurred several years ago. It's the area where purplespark grew up, and he was particularly upset over it. (He lives in LA, so you could ask him yourself.) I was shocked myself, but not surprised that unchecked racist expressions had
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When I was visiting the John Muir house in Martinez, I was able to tour the Adobe in the back of the property where they have a huge history presentation (giant video, models, and historical records).
One of the things that sticks with me was binder with Native Californian's criticism of the first explorers, colonists, up to people living here today. From taking land, destroying homes and crops to ignorance of the continued existence of these displaced people-they're still here today.
It certainly does. But I'm not sure whether you mean it was the tour or the display that highlighted (or at least mentioned) this, or if it just tripped your own awareness.
It was the binder (actually a book) at one display that highlighted the actual quotes of descendants of Native Californian peoples about the past and present repercussions. They referenced both past events and things happening today.
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The Lebanese are one of the more recent migrant groups in Australia. They were starting to appear when I was in high school, and I sometimes heard people spouting crap about them not assimilating, stealing jobs, and similar predictable venom. I occasionally heard it from the Vietnamese, who were the new immigrant group before them. I'm sure some Lebanese say the same about today's Sudanese immigrants.
The incident you're thinking about was probably what happened in Cronulla, a southern beach suburb of Sydney, where race riots occurred several years ago. It's the area where purplespark grew up, and he was particularly upset over it. (He lives in LA, so you could ask him yourself.) I was shocked myself, but not surprised that unchecked racist expressions had ( ... )
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When I was visiting the John Muir house in Martinez, I was able to tour the Adobe in the back of the property where they have a huge history presentation (giant video, models, and historical records).
One of the things that sticks with me was binder with Native Californian's criticism of the first explorers, colonists, up to people living here today. From taking land, destroying homes and crops to ignorance of the continued existence of these displaced people-they're still here today.
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