Reading Stacy Lee’s article was very eye opening to me. Being a minority myself, I was no stranger to many of the things she spoke about. The biggest thing I took away from the article was the idea of being categorized and boxed in; separated on different levels with whites being at the top of the scale and everyone else falls below that; some lower than others but always lesser than whites. Based on how you look, people will assume different things about you and that all originates from back in the day when slavery came into the picture. The idea of a better and/or best race came from there and even though slavery is officially no more, the idea of a better race still lives on through media. It’s a shame that in our own county, where someone
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One; there is not enough of them to warrant consideration. Two; they are immigrants. Three; they don’t have any problems. First of all, Rutgers is almost 30% Asian and Whites make up about 45%. There is only a 15% percent difference there but is that enough to conclude that they don’t warrant the same title? Secondly, Latinos are immigrants too. And so are many other races, so what makes being Asian any different? Finally, everyone has problems. But I can go as far to saying as minorities has way more problems than whites; having to deal with belittling titles, discrimination and such. These three points are just completely absurd. Often, people find it easier to just separate race into two categories, black and white. And though I don’t like the idea of these separations, our nation has grown to live with them. In doing so, we must accept the fact that it’s more than just black and white. To say one race matters more than another is just a disgusting thought to manifest and makes me cringe but that is how America operates. There was an instance on page four where an Asian teacher had lost her job. Not because she was a bad teacher but because her school didn’t recognize Asian as a racial category and was instead grouped in with the whites. The school apparently had too many white teachers and they let her go, even though she was not
One; there is not enough of them to warrant consideration. Two; they are immigrants. Three; they don’t have any problems. First of all, Rutgers is almost 30% Asian and Whites make up about 45%. There is only a 15% percent difference there but is that enough to conclude that they don’t warrant the same title? Secondly, Latinos are immigrants too. And so are many other races, so what makes being Asian any different? Finally, everyone has problems. But I can go as far to saying as minorities has way more problems than whites; having to deal with belittling titles, discrimination and such. These three points are just completely absurd. Often, people find it easier to just separate race into two categories, black and white. And though I don’t like the idea of these separations, our nation has grown to live with them. In doing so, we must accept the fact that it’s more than just black and white. To say one race matters more than another is just a disgusting thought to manifest and makes me cringe but that is how America operates. There was an instance on page four where an Asian teacher had lost her job. Not because she was a bad teacher but because her school didn’t recognize Asian as a racial category and was instead grouped in with the whites. The school apparently had too many white teachers and they let her go, even though she was not