Stereotypes Of Indian-American Women

This article relates to the Big Picture Question as in the article is talks about how a Indian- American women was considered to be a “high threat” because she had money troubles and visited family abroad a lot. This goes to show how people are stereotyped around the world for their color and are considered to be a risk just because of the things that they do. An Indian-American women's traits were “considered undesirable and threatening when the person possessing them is a South Asian American woman” (Pg. 3). This goes to show how people really do think of different colored people as different as just because of her travelling overseas a lot, she was considered a threat. This is a huge stereotype as not every brown-skinned person is a threat, even though many happen to consider them to be so. It isn’t right to just consider someone a risk due to something as little as this. The traits that the women had were all traits that an actively involved citizen would have, however, they were still considered to be a threat which isn’t quite …show more content…
She also demonstrates possible divided loyalty and financial difficulties. She is a high threat”(Pg. 2). This quote shows us how and why the fictional Hema was considered to be a high threat. She was considered be a high threat because she was an Indian- American woman who was having financial difficulties and frequently visited aboard to meet family. This is no reason to mark Hema as a high risk. She was just doing what a typical Indian- American citizen would do. “Examining the slides, we were struck by the fact that a character that regularly plays high­ stakes poker was considered less of a threat than Hema.” This quote goes to show how stereotypically the agency who marked Hema as a high threat really was as both were facing financial issues but at least Hema was making good use of the