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Word: kjeldsen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take money out of their neighborhoods. In a wider context, even though Canadians until recently owned more of California than Japanese did, it is the latter who are looked upon as encroachers. "I've heard more anti-Japanese sentiment in working-class bars than I can remember," says Richard Kjeldsen, a University of Southern California financial specialist on the Pacific Rim. Japan bashing easily becomes Asian bashing. The most famous case is the 1982 murder of Chinese American Vincent Chin by Detroit autoworkers who thought he was Japanese. As late as 1985 and 1986, violence against Asians jumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strangers In Paradise | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

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