Asian Americans in the U.S. have achieved great success in both academics and work fields nowadays. However, they could still face discrimination in regards to executive positions in the workplace. The sources below have the main idea that such phenomenon would cause mental health effects on Asian Americans in major corporations. Each source either offers information that workplace discrimination could mentally affects Asian American employees, or further the main idea of another source. A few sources interpreted the resulted outcomes by scientific means. Meanwhile, there are a few articles that analyze the stereotypes of Asian Americans creating such discrimination in major corporations.
Buchanan, Alexis. “Asian Americans Earn Top Wages Yet …show more content…
nowadays, they could still face workplace discrimination of executive positions. Such phenomenon is also termed as “bamboo ceiling”. She states that Asian Americans have become a “model minority” in regards to high average wage and education level. She supports this claim by presenting several studies and statistics. Buchannan then shifts the focus to introducing the term “bamboo ceiling”, which refers to the barriers that exclude Asian Americans from executive positions on the basis of stereotypes. In summary, Buchannan believes that this commonly existed workplace discrimination among Asian Americans is not sensible. In order to promote social justice, the “bamboo ceiling” needs to be taken down, as well as the stereotypes on Asian American workers. Buchannan is a mass communication scholar from Clark Atlanta University, and has work experience in multiple corporates for 11 years. This article narrows the subject down to the discrimination of junior-level positions among Asian American workers, which provides relevant background statistics that help analyze the mental health effect of such workers. The brief explanation of “bamboo ceiling” in the context also clarifies the particular type of workplace discrimination in further
Buchanan, Alexis. “Asian Americans Earn Top Wages Yet …show more content…
nowadays, they could still face workplace discrimination of executive positions. Such phenomenon is also termed as “bamboo ceiling”. She states that Asian Americans have become a “model minority” in regards to high average wage and education level. She supports this claim by presenting several studies and statistics. Buchannan then shifts the focus to introducing the term “bamboo ceiling”, which refers to the barriers that exclude Asian Americans from executive positions on the basis of stereotypes. In summary, Buchannan believes that this commonly existed workplace discrimination among Asian Americans is not sensible. In order to promote social justice, the “bamboo ceiling” needs to be taken down, as well as the stereotypes on Asian American workers. Buchannan is a mass communication scholar from Clark Atlanta University, and has work experience in multiple corporates for 11 years. This article narrows the subject down to the discrimination of junior-level positions among Asian American workers, which provides relevant background statistics that help analyze the mental health effect of such workers. The brief explanation of “bamboo ceiling” in the context also clarifies the particular type of workplace discrimination in further