Reddit reviews The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
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I only got in to Non fiction recently, been a fiction fan all my life...but found some awesome stuff that I wanna name-drop because I'm sure others will list my favorite fantasy titles.
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account, Born to Run, and the Omnivore's Dilemma were a few other non-fics that changed my life and really made me think.
https://www.amazon.com/Snakehead-Chinatown-Underworld-American-Dream/dp/0307279278/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1506111238&sr=8-2&keywords=snakehead
should give this a read, details how people from Asia try very hard to come to USA.
I had the same New Year's resolution a few years ago and ended up reading 65 books that year. I ran out of books I wanted to read and scrambled to find more. So you'll have weeks you'll read anything you can get your hands on which can be hit or miss, but I liked being taken out of my normal, nonfiction, reading patterns.
Here are a few If my favorites:
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
Demon In The Freezer by Richard Preston
The Snakehead by Patrick Keefe
John Dies At The End by David Wong
Into Thin Air by John Krakauer
Death's Acre by Dr. Bill Bass
Biohazard by Ken Alibek
My parents owned Chinese buffets. I was an indentured servant. Can confirm.
No, in all seriousness, it's super simplistic to think of them as indentured servant. They're just heavily in debt(by choice) and need to work their asses off to pay off their debt pronto. It ain't cheap to come to America. You can't be dumb and lazy to be here. Life ain't easy for Chinese restaurant workers with limited English skill.
You are serious about learning more, pick up this book from library. But with the amount of ignorance I saw on daily basis on this sub, I'm not optimistic people would even bother.