Asians, the monolithic term used to group together several diverse ethnicities and cultures, carries a multitude of conflicting connotations and real life social issues in the American society. Following the steps that Bobbie Harro journals about an individual’s travel through the cycles of socialization and liberation, I will likewise document my own personal experience as an Asian American within said cycles. Asians continue to face internalised oppression stemming from a general cultural values, conflicts within same overarching racial category, and the failure to make a avid discernment of the vast socio-economic differences between the ethnicities included in the Asian race.
Without any choice, I entered into the world as an first generation Asian American. An identity that seems to be in limbo between agent and target groups. As refugees from their war-torn home country— Vietnam — my parents developed certain perspectives and mannerisms that stemmed from their own experiences their assimilation into the American society, which would eventually be inherited by me. Born into a country and time, where many of its the citizens still remembered the Vietnam war, I have seen my own fair share of …show more content…
This generalization, greatly influenced my childhood from being called “chinese chink” to “chinese braniac”. Phrases like “Level Asian: or comments like “He’s Asian, that must be why he’s so smart”, attributes an individual’s success to race, rather than acknowledge the effort made by the individual. The stereotype that Asians are smart, although flattering, fails to recognize the Asians who do have some trouble living up to that expectation. This notion creates a sense of inferiority within the same racial
Without any choice, I entered into the world as an first generation Asian American. An identity that seems to be in limbo between agent and target groups. As refugees from their war-torn home country— Vietnam — my parents developed certain perspectives and mannerisms that stemmed from their own experiences their assimilation into the American society, which would eventually be inherited by me. Born into a country and time, where many of its the citizens still remembered the Vietnam war, I have seen my own fair share of …show more content…
This generalization, greatly influenced my childhood from being called “chinese chink” to “chinese braniac”. Phrases like “Level Asian: or comments like “He’s Asian, that must be why he’s so smart”, attributes an individual’s success to race, rather than acknowledge the effort made by the individual. The stereotype that Asians are smart, although flattering, fails to recognize the Asians who do have some trouble living up to that expectation. This notion creates a sense of inferiority within the same racial