Blue Collar and Buddha
The film directed by Taggart Siegel specifically deals with racism that Indochinese people were facing and their brief life sketches in Rockford. There have been several attacks against Indochinese community by setting up pipe bombs in Buddhist temple, which was a place where the refugees gathered. The white people did not like Asians mainly because they believed that their jobs were taken away because of the Asians, yet government and church organizations were supporting them. Asian were not only thought to take over their jobs but they were also believe to be not paying any taxes yet live in better houses and own fine cars. In early 1900's, diverse group of immigrants came to the United States, and the ethnicity were starting to get mixed up among Italians, Swedish, and German. Rockford was thought to be a good place to live until it was hit
Although the attacks persisted over a period of time, neither sheriffs nor Buddhist showed too much interest trying to solve the problem by not investigating the incidents thoroughly on sheriff's part, and not talking about crime too much on Buddhist part. The community that existed inside the temple were nice and quiet, thus no one really paid any attentions. However, Indochinese people wanted their neighbors to know why they came to the United States. And since then the economy has been bad, and the blame has been put on Asians. The refugees usually do not engage themselves in preparing for their depart form their country unlike immigrants. It is more like two hours of decision that led them to flee from their own country. Refugees come across a minor barrier between two different refugees yet neither Asians nor other religious group of people try to persuade their beliefs, yet they continue to pursue the interactions. Therefore they are in great need of help and it is usually church organizations who help them out, if not the Buddhist who embrace them with understanding mind. Misunderstanding and a lack of knowledge about Indochinese people must had existed among white people because there was some kind of attack at the Buddhist temple every national holiday, such as 4th of July and Labor Day. Their co-workers seemed to believe that they work harder than other Americans workers and maintain their quality at work, thus finding no conflicts with the refugees. What was a mystery to white people was that Asians in general owned better houses and cars although they were refugees. When Indochinese people started building Buddhist temple and putting fence around the temple, their neighbors did not really know what was going on inside the temple. The attacks on Asian in Buddhist temple could have been prevented if there existed just a little bit of understanding between two communities. And because of these assumptions, an antagonistic feeling toward Asians started to grow and being angry with Indochinese people was an automatic reaction from white people.
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