@PugJesusM to HistoryPornEnglish • 4 months agoRuth Lee, a Chinese-American woman, flying the flag of China while at the beach to avoid being mistaken for Japanese, Miami, USA, WW2, December 15, 1941imagemessage-square18arrow-up1322arrow-down13
arrow-up1319arrow-down1imageRuth Lee, a Chinese-American woman, flying the flag of China while at the beach to avoid being mistaken for Japanese, Miami, USA, WW2, December 15, 1941@PugJesusM to HistoryPornEnglish • 4 months agomessage-square18
minus-square@PugJesusOPMlinkEnglish26•edit-24 months agoProbably not flags usually, but there was a great deal of effort made by Chinese-Americans to distinguish themselves as “Not-Japanese” to the white majority of the US during WW2 to avoid getting racism-by-proxy.
Probably not flags usually, but there was a great deal of effort made by Chinese-Americans to distinguish themselves as “Not-Japanese” to the white majority of the US during WW2 to avoid getting racism-by-proxy.