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kittykittysnarfsnarf t1_iswwmjp wrote

Reply to comment by NotSethRoganForSure in Anna May Wong will become the first Asian American to be on U.S. currency by _notsuoh_

Cause it's a US token! But fr there were better picks if they wanted to represent asian american women Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu, the “First Lady of Physics” Grace Lee Boggs, revolutionary activist and author. Maya Lin, groundbreaking designer and architect. Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Everest. I respect her work and I'm happy to see her on currency but they should make more designs that represent asian women that made more of a historical impact on the US

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CallidoraBlack t1_isx7b4u wrote

I'm not trying to be argumentative here exactly, but...what does Junko Tabei even have to do with the US? And Maya Lin is still alive. We don't put living people on currency. I'm not gonna argue against your other two suggestions a bit, but. I'm not certain that it makes sense to say that Junko Tabei had more of an impact on the US than a woman who was born here, in the film industry here for decades, made films in Europe because she wasn't given the roles she should have gotten in favor of white people in yellowface, advocated for better representation for Asian-Americans in film, was a philanthropist, and spent her time and money trying to help China repel the Japanese before WWII.

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kittykittysnarfsnarf t1_it0ao1m wrote

I guess i thought she lived in the US during her writing career. Also didn't know putting a living person on currency was against federal law. The more ya know

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