“Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor” is a quote by Henry Rollins when referring to the whole topic of racism. Racism has always been apart of the Southern Culture in America, and I think racism is worse now than what it was during the Civil War. However, some people think that over time racism has gotten a lot less calm as our country has gotten older. That isn 't the case because America has moved from name calling to more killing and it offends African Americans, and the way Asian Americans handle people being racist towards them. Racism In the Southern part of America has been around
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This is a way my topic relate to the book Bitter in the Mouth by Monique Truong. One of the main characters is part of the Asian race, and has to go through the typical stereotypes. When Linda was in grade school, she was very smart. When she got to highschool things changed. She thought she would be considered “cool” if she pretended to be dumb because she didn 't like the stereotype that if you 're Asian you should be really smart. This really started to affect lind in the book and Monique Truong states, “high school changed everything. What had begun as an untoward, heighten interest in my physical presence rapidly dissipated into a kind of non-seeing…to be the Smartest Girl in my high school was to be disembodied, which was what I thought I wanted all along” (Troung 173). Linda changed her ways to try and fit in with the “cool kids”. When reading I thought it was sad she had to fit in, I hate that all the caucasians kids where judging Linda, and expecting her to be like the stereotype they give Asians. I think same can be said about African Americans. White people give them a stereotype and expect that they’ll live up to it. Why else would cops shoot unarmed African Americans? White people see the stereotype of the person, instead of looking at them as just another human being, and that why I think racism hasn’t gotten better through …show more content…
Yes, some will still go see a counselor, and a lot of the time the counselors recommend the colorblindness strategy to help them cope. The strategy is used when there is very few Asians in a group or town. As best as they can, they pretend like they are colorblind. This way they don 't realize they’re the minority. Alvin Alvarez states, “ it may be helpful for counselors to appreciate that a colorblind racial worldview may be a coping mechanism that helps Asian Americans to survive within a dominant White culture especially in the Southern part of America” (Alvarez 6). This gives the Asians a new perspective on things, and really helps them have a more positive outlook on life. They find themselves focusing more on the positives, instead of the negatives. The colorblindness strategy has also helped Asians that don’t live by any adapt to the norms of the American culture. Alvarez said, “Particularly for Asian Americans living in areas with relatively few Asians or Asian Americans, a color blind belief system and the adoption of White cultural norms may be an effective form of adaptation. For some Asian Americans, the absence of other Asian Americans may simply limit the opportunities for exposure to and identification with their racial and ethnic groups” (Alvarez 6). This is something that would be beneficial for all minorities. The fact they find a way
This is a way my topic relate to the book Bitter in the Mouth by Monique Truong. One of the main characters is part of the Asian race, and has to go through the typical stereotypes. When Linda was in grade school, she was very smart. When she got to highschool things changed. She thought she would be considered “cool” if she pretended to be dumb because she didn 't like the stereotype that if you 're Asian you should be really smart. This really started to affect lind in the book and Monique Truong states, “high school changed everything. What had begun as an untoward, heighten interest in my physical presence rapidly dissipated into a kind of non-seeing…to be the Smartest Girl in my high school was to be disembodied, which was what I thought I wanted all along” (Troung 173). Linda changed her ways to try and fit in with the “cool kids”. When reading I thought it was sad she had to fit in, I hate that all the caucasians kids where judging Linda, and expecting her to be like the stereotype they give Asians. I think same can be said about African Americans. White people give them a stereotype and expect that they’ll live up to it. Why else would cops shoot unarmed African Americans? White people see the stereotype of the person, instead of looking at them as just another human being, and that why I think racism hasn’t gotten better through …show more content…
Yes, some will still go see a counselor, and a lot of the time the counselors recommend the colorblindness strategy to help them cope. The strategy is used when there is very few Asians in a group or town. As best as they can, they pretend like they are colorblind. This way they don 't realize they’re the minority. Alvin Alvarez states, “ it may be helpful for counselors to appreciate that a colorblind racial worldview may be a coping mechanism that helps Asian Americans to survive within a dominant White culture especially in the Southern part of America” (Alvarez 6). This gives the Asians a new perspective on things, and really helps them have a more positive outlook on life. They find themselves focusing more on the positives, instead of the negatives. The colorblindness strategy has also helped Asians that don’t live by any adapt to the norms of the American culture. Alvarez said, “Particularly for Asian Americans living in areas with relatively few Asians or Asian Americans, a color blind belief system and the adoption of White cultural norms may be an effective form of adaptation. For some Asian Americans, the absence of other Asian Americans may simply limit the opportunities for exposure to and identification with their racial and ethnic groups” (Alvarez 6). This is something that would be beneficial for all minorities. The fact they find a way