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Feb. 14 - Feb. 20, 2003
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Is War Good for Asian Pacific Americans?As a group, Asian Pacific Americans are not seen as favoring or opposing the impending war on Iraq. Judging from just six key issues, however, Asian Pacific Americans have a lot to lose if this country goes to war with Iraq and starts a new era of preemptive warfare around the globe. APAs are a diverse bunch, with variations in education level, occupation, political affiliation, and other factors that are at least as wide as the population as a whole. As a community, however, we skew higher than the general population when it comes to small business ownership, work in the health care industry and level of educational achievement. As a community with many recent immigrants, we also travel to, and communicate with, countries outside the United States more than many of our American neighbors. And because of the religious diversity that exists in Asia, many of us are adherents of non-Christian faiths. Finally, because our numbers are small in most regions of the country, we must rely on a tradition of civil rights and civil liberties to counteract the forces of nativism, racism and intolerance. Let us review each of these factors in more detail. |
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APAs call for his removal from subcommittee Rep. Howard Coble never meant to offend Japanese and Arab Americans during a radio interview regarding the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and the consequences of this policy in today’s society, according to a letter Coble personally wrote to three Asian Pacific American house representatives. Last Tuesday, the Republican congress member — who heads the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security — said on Greensboro, N.C. radio station, WKZL FM, that he agreed with the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Coble made his remarks after a listener called in and said Arabs in the United States should be confined. Although Coble disagreed with the caller, who suggested detaining Arab Americans in prison camps, he did say that President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s decision to establish internment camps for Japanese Americans was necessary at the time.
N.C. Legislator Says He Agrees with WWII Internment
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