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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • I wish they had some hard numbers to look at, but thanks for the sources.

    I do find this excerpt from the wiki page interesting though in that it speaks to how far back certain attitudes go:

    In 1910, the Asiatic Exclusion League argued that Asian Indians should be denied citizenship through naturalization. The league described Hindu ancestry as “enslaved, effeminate, caste ridden, and degraded” and Hindus as the “slaves of Creation”.[7][page needed] Such racist rhetoric formed the idea of the “Hindoo invasion”, an iteration of the “Yellow Peril.”[7][page needed]