Nealon's 'The Theory Toolbox'

Throughout today’s modern culture or even societies from the past, numerous groups or communities have played an immense role in creating a world that is more intelligible, responsive, and aware of differing people’s beliefs and values through the categorization of cultural identities. Furthermore, Nealon and Searls Giroux in “The Theory Toolbox” assert the importance of cultural subjects providing a more interconnected and communicative society, but also stressed the false notions of generalizations on an individual basis, whether through identity categories or preconceived judgments. In fact, as a biracial American, this narrative of battling common myths or ideologies dealing with subject positions derived from culture has applied to my …show more content…
However, the trials and tribulations of being an Asian-American athlete root from the many condescending and discouraging messages from peers and the media, even those who watch me play. In fact, the larger cultural society identifies Asian people as a relatively “non athletic group” that remains “shorter than its peers” (Ho & Jackson, 1555). This belief or subjection of aAsian culture as unathletic by the world allows many prejudices and ideologies to occur especially throughout my playing career, whether in terms of actual ability or natural talent. Society, in the an athletic standpoint of the world, declares that I will not be as successful as many people because of my lacking of certain natural traits or athletic ability. More specifically, there remains to this day no greater example of the world’s ideologies and judgments regarding Asian athletes than “Linsanity” in describing Jeremy Lin. The success of Jeremy Lin in the span of a four week period in his career led to the creation of his key slogan, but also evaluatedxamined the many challenges of being an Asian athlete. Even as an accomplished NBA player, the general viewpoints surrounding the world illustrated him as an “anomaly or outlier”, because he stood out from the myth of the Asian athleteic characterizations (Su, 474). In essence, the culture describes meyself as a rare instance because of the relatively few Asian-American collegiate basketball players in communication with other societies to make them more intelligible of athletes, more specifically basketball players. at any level throughout society. The general connotation of an Asian athletic identity remains of being not as talented, or too small, but Jeremy Lin’s story brought to light the stereotypes battled through his and other Asian athletic careers. Overall, many