I've got an old high school friend who is now a deep-in-the-weeds Texas Republican (photo-ops with Greg Abbot, dinner parties with Dinesh D'Souza, etc) and she's a Taiwanese ex-pat. It blows my mind, because she's in the heart of the beast and she's constantly eating shit for looking Chinese. But she's so heavily invested in the GOP as her meal ticket that she keeps eating their shit day in and day out.
Taiwanese ex-pat
looking Chinese
:trump: Many folks are saying, they came to me crying and said, its_the_same_picture.jpg
Well, presumably she is Han and not Formosan
A lot of 1st generation asians who immigrate to the U.S tend to be conservative (hell, it doesnt stop at asians, this also applies to most immigrants)
Its the second generatiom who lean more left, and how left they lean usually is on how deeply family oriented they are.
Taiwanese usually land on the richer side of asian immigrants and the prototypical "model asian" stereotype so I wouldnt be suprised they landed on the more right leaning side of the spectrum reletively speaking.
Edit: it alsp doesnt help that asian news networks tend to be right leaning.
It doesn't help that communists are banned from immigrating to the US.
"The inadmissibility ground for immigrant membership in or affiliation with the Communist or any other totalitarian party is part of a broader set of laws passed by Congress to address threats to the safety and security of the United States" from the US government
Theres like lines about that I would believe. How would the government define whose communist, as there are many civilians who come from communist countries and are known to be very conservative (e.g Cubans)
I think strictly speaking it's party membership that would reason for inadmissibility, but I suspect that a "vibes" based approach might be in use, due to the possible difficulty in figuring out who exactly is a member.
They broadly don't. I have friends that immigrated to the United States whose parents are communist party members back in China.
Hence why I dont think that law really enforced unless you were obviously communist (e.g big name politician or figurehead).
Immigration is extremely lax on actually verifying identities of people (e.g some people sponsored for immigration gave it to a reletive or a friend if they chose to ultimately stay in their respective country)
Even then, its amazing to see what she'll do to get in with a party that clearly hates her. My ears practically bleed when I'm listening to her apologize for someone like D'Souza or Vivek, as though a thousand cocktail party niceities make up for the latest racial slander they've rolled out to the mainstream.
there was a Chinese RNC person that was getting accusations of being a "CCP spy"
How is the GOP her meal ticket? I thought they directly opposed giving anyone anything. Or do you just mean that she's very mentally invested?
She's a lawyer with a clientele of conservative families. She's had a number of appointments to municipal and state commissions by Republican elected reps. And she's worked as a family law judge for a few years after winning one of the local way-down-ticket races.
Also, her husband works for a foundation funded by conservative donors and does consulting work for the party.
Her livelihood is literally tied up with the Republican Party.
I think the constant warmongering towards the PRC in western media probably has something to do with it
was there ever really a point in US history chinese americans could go a year without experiencing discrimination? the framing of sinophobic hate since covid has always playacted like this came out of nowhere, as if there isn't a mass grave of chinese railworkers or miners in every western state
Details: Nearly half of Chinese Americans report being treated with less respect than other people, according to the study, one of the most extensive surveys of Chinese Americans ever conducted.
More than a quarter say they've experienced bias or hate episodes such as being physically intimidated or assaulted, having their property vandalized or damaged, and being called racial slurs.
The study found that eight in 10 Chinese American citizens were registered voters, and that 91% of those registered voters voted in the 2020 presidential election.
Racism, crime, gun control, and the economy were identified as the top four most important issues facing the U.S. by the survey respondents.
Why was that part of the survey? Are we gonna 
the racism away?
The minds of even well-intentioned libs work in mysterious ways 
That level of turnout is actually rather remarkable
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