Ivy Yan
Ms.McIntosh
20th Century History
May.12th
Research Paper Walking down the streets of Detroit in 1978, a drunk worker pointed her finger at an Asian American citizen’s face and said, “I don’t care if you’re from jap-an, the philipp-eens or Ha-wah-yeh, you’re on my turf.” as it is described in the book Asian American dreams by Zia, hate towards Asian Americans was common in the late 20 century.(Zia 54) However, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is considered the law that ends all discriminations. It protects constitutional rights in aspects such as public facilities, public education and equal employment opportunities of people of all colors. Even though after the anti-racism law passed, there are still discriminations against Asian Americans going on in business, education, and social areas. The bias in local personal businesses and large international companies are mainly revealed in two ways, the theory of “glass ceiling” and being targets for hate …show more content…
There was a large scale of war-derived hatred as American was involved in several wars with Asian countries including Vietnam and Japan. In 1989, Patrick Purdy who held hate towards southern asians because of the Vietnamese war fired rifle killing five children and wounded more than 20 in a school yard in Stockton California. (5/b) Also, in 1989 Raleigh North Carolina, a white man beat a Chinese American, Ming Hai to death because his brothers went over to Vietnam in the war and never came back. In 1983, Fort Dodge, Iowa, a Laotian immigrant was yelled by words like “Remember Pearl Harbor,” and “Go back to Japan, you Kamikaze pilot.” The discriminated reaction those citizens faced was injustice and against the moral sense. Although being verbally offensive is not considered as illegal, it is still a prof that this nation still hadn’t reached the ideal their constitution had built
Ms.McIntosh
20th Century History
May.12th
Research Paper Walking down the streets of Detroit in 1978, a drunk worker pointed her finger at an Asian American citizen’s face and said, “I don’t care if you’re from jap-an, the philipp-eens or Ha-wah-yeh, you’re on my turf.” as it is described in the book Asian American dreams by Zia, hate towards Asian Americans was common in the late 20 century.(Zia 54) However, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is considered the law that ends all discriminations. It protects constitutional rights in aspects such as public facilities, public education and equal employment opportunities of people of all colors. Even though after the anti-racism law passed, there are still discriminations against Asian Americans going on in business, education, and social areas. The bias in local personal businesses and large international companies are mainly revealed in two ways, the theory of “glass ceiling” and being targets for hate …show more content…
There was a large scale of war-derived hatred as American was involved in several wars with Asian countries including Vietnam and Japan. In 1989, Patrick Purdy who held hate towards southern asians because of the Vietnamese war fired rifle killing five children and wounded more than 20 in a school yard in Stockton California. (5/b) Also, in 1989 Raleigh North Carolina, a white man beat a Chinese American, Ming Hai to death because his brothers went over to Vietnam in the war and never came back. In 1983, Fort Dodge, Iowa, a Laotian immigrant was yelled by words like “Remember Pearl Harbor,” and “Go back to Japan, you Kamikaze pilot.” The discriminated reaction those citizens faced was injustice and against the moral sense. Although being verbally offensive is not considered as illegal, it is still a prof that this nation still hadn’t reached the ideal their constitution had built