2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America | 
This book had some interesting (if slightly obvious) predictions, but one thing that stuck out for me reading it today was the idea that America and China would be partners rather than adversaries. This quote in particular baffled me and felt very ignorant of the history of Chinese laborers in California, modern anti-Asian bigotry, and the *massive* influence of German immigrants on American culture, particularly in the Midwest.
CSeydel The context for this quote is that America‘s finances have been so depleted by entitlement payouts to aging baby boomers that China has to step in and co-own Los Angeles after it‘s damaged in an earthquake. And Americans are unanimously happy about it, even hoping the Chinese government will offer to revamp other American cities with their sleek and efficient modern engineering. 8mo
Leftcoastzen 🤔 8mo
Texreader That quote doesn‘t explain why Italians were outcasts for so long. Italian food 😋 but I love German food too!! 8mo
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CSeydel Really it‘s such an odd take, especially since a lot of people can‘t stand Chinese food and find it pretty “weird”. It‘s like he assumes that the attitudes and preferences of Brooklyn Jews represent the whole American populace 8mo
CSeydel And yes, Americans (in general) like German food so much that we don‘t even recognize it as ethnic cuisine - we think of it as American food 8mo
CSeydel @Texreader Plus, in addition to historic anti-Italian sentiment as you mentioned, there is still a lot of bias against Latinos - and their food is absolutely top tier 8mo
Texreader @CSeydel Truth in all respects. Sounds like an interesting book. 8mo
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