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Color Outside the Lines celebrates AANHPI month!

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It’s the Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the US, again.

It’s not become a big heritage month in the US from what I understand (as mentioned in last year’s thread), but given Trump & his White House has all but scrapped it, I think it’d be nice to keep it on, if those turds think it’s a bad idea.

In a confluence of timings, here’s an interesting video I saw about Asian representation in Ryan Coogler’s hit movie Sinners (that I mentioned being released in the last thread & have since seen[footnote]The film is awesome.[/footnote]):

warning spoilers:

Also a recent news interview about the hit new show The Pitt, that then led me to a Filipino nursing history video:

In sadder (but Filipino related) news, Rest in Peace to the eleven souls[footnote]https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgnz7n7zj4o[/footnote] that were senselessly taken from the world, in the car ramming attack at the annual Lapu Lapu Festival[footnote]similar festivals in the Philippines and around the world, take place every year to commemorate Lapu-Lapu, a national hero who resisted Spanish colonisation in the 1500s 🔥[/footnote] in Vancouver last month.

Prompt: open prompt. Feel free to talk about AAPI (or AANHPI) Heritage month.

Or go off topic & discuss anything else you feel like & have a nice day 😊.

Open invitation to any AANHPI (do we actually have any Hawaiians or Pacific Islanders here?) who would be interested in writing a thread for this month?