Stereotypes Of Asian-Americans: Film Analysis

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Based on the video clip, the perception devalues Asian-Americans and other groups ethnicity no matter how long they stay in the United States are face the same stereotype. This perception not only to devalue the experience of the other ethnicity groups, and how difficult issues that Asian-American can be to confront. Some of them mentioned the experience the related of immigration and personal account of racism and discrimination in the United States.
One of the three conversation documentaries films, Latinos has mixed gap to define their ethnic and racial identities. To them after the Mexico, the United States is the second home. Most of them pointed to the frustrations of how race shapes chance in a community that shows the diverse group of people backgrounds and ethnicity. Some of them raised that the Latinos are the group mix of people in the world and trying to fit into a group in the U.S. has to give up identity a lot to blend into that groups.
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However, Hispanic accept as a multi-racial society and integrated themselves to fit into the group. I personally that in the US has experienced about black and white in the past problems that lead people judging others by color that lead to creating the view of the perception of the stereotype of minority groups. Everyone need to stays comfortable in their skin and their culture and it does not mean one race is better than any other. The ethnicity groups respect each other contributions in the society as whole and work out ways to relate each other for the common benefit in the

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