The railroad builders and refugee scholars whose forty-nation diversity made them America's most misunderstood and most academically celebrated community.
Asian Americans — the more than twenty-three million people of Asian heritage whose presence in America spans the Chinese railroad workers of the transcontinental line completed at Promontory Summit in 1869, the Japanese American farmers of California whose agricultural ingenuity transformed the Central Valley before Executive Order 9066 sent one hundred and twenty thousand of them to internment camps in 1942, the Filipino nurses and farmworkers whose labor built American healthcare and agriculture, the Korean entrepreneurs whose small businesses rebuilt the commercial life of American inner cities, the Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, and Hmong refugees whose arrival after 1975 brought the survivors of America's most divisive war to rebuild their lives in the country that had fought in theirs. The Asian American world — whose forty-plus national origin communities speaking dozens of languages represent a diversity so vast that the category itself is a political coalition rather than a cultural identity, whose model minority myth flattens into a single stereotype the enormous disparities between the Hmong refugee family in Minnesota and the Taiwanese American engineer in Silicon Valley, whose contributions to American science, medicine, literature, and culture include the architects of the internet, the composers of American classical music, the writers of the American immigrant experience, and the physicians of American hospitals whose Asian American doctors and nurses carried a disproportionate share of the COVID-19 pandemic's frontline burden while their communities faced a surge of anti-Asian violence, and whose political awakening following that pandemic moment carries the energy of a community that has decided that invisibility is no longer acceptable. This interactive sweatshirt connects you to that diverse and dynamic legacy with a QR code linking to the full story.
HERITAG is a purpose-driven brand that celebrates cultural diversity and awareness. Wear and share your social identity and cultural heritage with a unique collection of interactive sweatshirts that carry flags of ethnic groups in the USA. Create informative and fun moments by inviting people to scan the visible QR code and learn about the diverse population in America.
Making products on demand instead of in bulk also helps reduce overproduction, and this quality sweatshirt is made especially for you as soon as you place an order.
Few more things to know about this sweatshirt: • Scannable QR code printed on the back for an interactive and fun experience • Designed to educate about a nation's proud history milestones and rich culture • Custom print-on-demand • 50% cotton, 50% polyester • Unisex regular fit, sturdy and warm, pre-shrunk soft-feel fabric • Double-needle stitched spandex collar, shoulders, armholes, cuffs, and hem
