When Your Existence Is a Spectacle | My Lived Experience as an Chinese American Adoptee

In this video I discuss my life as a Chinese American adoptee, anti-Asian sentiment in the U.S. and Brazil, and how it's affected my life.

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
0:39 My Background
7:10 A Brief History of Anti-Chinese
Sentiment
12:59 Debunking Stereotypes
17:39 Asian american Community
vs. Adoptees
21:59 Being Asian in
Brazil
26:40 The Ramifications of Harm
29:14 Final Thoughts

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Sources:
Why Chinese people don’t need deodorant
https://thechinaproject.com/2019/07/0...

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-do....

Immigrants from Asia in the United States
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/artic...

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