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- - - - Asian hierarchy based on how "white" they look Experiencing the Asian Hierarchy Firsthand in a Korean Hagwon
        
        Filipinos tend to look darker and thus "rank lower." Koreans, Japanese, and some of the other more developed Asian countries have more technology to make themselves look whiter (i.e. plastic surgery) and thus "rank higher."
        Experiencing the Asian Hierarchy Firsthand in a Korean Hagwon
        
        Skin whitening in Asia has been around for centuries because lighter skin implied wealth because you didn't have to work out in the sun.
        Yes, Asia is obsessed with white skin
        
        Chinese and Japanese people like to see themselves as "nearly white" and thus the top of the hierarchy. Below them are the "people of color."
        The global hierarchy of race
        
        See: Sinocentrism
    - - The Vietnamese immigrants settled after the Chinese and Japanese immigrants, which made them have a lower standing in comparison. The Asian groups that were already adapting viewed the Vietnamese as new and inferior in many ways.
- - - - Sinocentrism-
        "any ethnocentric political ideology that regards China to be central or unique relative to other countries"
        Sinocentrism
        
        Sinocentrism was created to justify the domination of the countries around China Sinocentrism
        
        See: Territorial Disputes
        
        "China stood at the center of the system and regarded itself as the only civilization in the world; the emperor of China was regarded as the only legitimate emperor of the entire world. Surrounding countries—including Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Annam, Cambodia, Siam, Malacca and Sri Lanka—were regarded as barbarians and vassals of China" Sinocentrism
        
        Japan has been a rival of China both economically and politically and thus is very critical of Sinocentrism Sinocentrism
        
        Culturally, Sinocentrism believes that the countries around China are mere derivatives of its culture. Sinocentrism
  - - - In 1902, Chinese immigration into the United States was made permanently illegal
        Chinese Exclusion Act
        
        Chinese-Americans were not allowed to have citizenship in the United States until the Magnuson Act of 1943.
        Chinese Exclusion Act
        
        By 1924, almost all immigrants from Asian countries were banned. Those who remained in the United States settled mostly in California.
        Chinese Exclusion Act
    - - Asians make up 34.17% of the population of San Francisco
        
        San Francisco, California Population 2019
        
        More specifically, the Asian ethnic breakdown of the population of San Francisco is as follows:
        21.4% Chinese
        4.5% Filipino
        1.6% Vietnamese
        1.3% Japanese
        1.2% Korean
        San Francisco, California Population 2019
- - - - anti-miscegenation laws: the United States tried to preserve racial "purity" by controlling the sexual and marital relations among blacks and whites as well as Asian Americans, Mexican Americans, and Native Americans from 1661 to 1967.
        "What's Love Got To Do With It?" The Politics of Race and Marriage in the California Supreme Court's 1948 Perez v. Sharp Decision.
        
        Loving v. Virginia
        1967 Supreme Court legalized interracial marriage
        Key facts about race and marriage, 50 years after Loving v. Virginia
        
        Perez v. Sharp
        in 1948 the California Supreme Court found an anti-miscegenation law unconstitutional, which was the first time it was ever done. The court ruled that anti-miscegenation laws violate a person's right for equal protection under the law.
        "What's Love Got To Do With It?" The Politics of Race and Marriage in the California Supreme Court's 1948 Perez v. Sharp Decision.
        
        New idea about marriage being a human right and that the arbitrary race categories are perpetuating racism
  - - - The diversity among Asians in San Francisco makes Ali Wong's marriage plausible.