A Misconception in Asian Americans America is a multiethnic and multicultural country. It is a country where people from all around the world come to achieve their dreams. However, not everyone succeed in making their dream come true. Beside Caucasian, Asian Americans are usually be seen as the most successful minority. Some people even view it as a “model minority.” On the other hand, Professor Ronald Takaki thinks differently. In his essay “the harmful myth of Asian superiority,” Ronal wants to prove that what people think about Asian Americans minority are misjudges. The author uses a lot of evidences and statistics from real life to support his idea. By using persuasive techniques such as ethos, logos and pathos, the author successfully
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He gives a lot statistics and example to prove his disagreement about the false image of Asian Americans. He tries to make people see that Asian Americans are facing many problems in their lives like other minorities. He stated in the essay “More than three-quarters of Korean greengrocers, those so-called paragons of bootstrap entrepreneurialism, came to America with a college education. Engineers, teachers, or administrators while in Korea, they became shopkeepers after their arrival” (124). The reader can see for Korean Americans, those are setbacks on their status. Their college degrees in their mother country is usually not acceptable in America, so they have to study in college again. Otherwise, they have to find another job without require licenses or college certifications. Language is also a barrier to success for many Asian American. Not everyone in Asian American community can able to speak or listen English. The author writes “most immigrants coming into Chinatown with a language barrier cannot go outside this confined area into the mainstream of American industry” (124). Ronald also use income from different types of Asian American family to strengthen his thesis. He states that “While Japanese American men in California earned an average income comparable to Caucasian men in 1980, they did so only by acquiring more education and working more hours” (123) and “some Asian American groups do have higher family incomes than Caucasians. But they have more workers per family” (124). Those evidences show that Asian American families can have higher income than some Caucasian families but it is usually because there are more numbers of people working in an Asian American family than in a Caucasian
He gives a lot statistics and example to prove his disagreement about the false image of Asian Americans. He tries to make people see that Asian Americans are facing many problems in their lives like other minorities. He stated in the essay “More than three-quarters of Korean greengrocers, those so-called paragons of bootstrap entrepreneurialism, came to America with a college education. Engineers, teachers, or administrators while in Korea, they became shopkeepers after their arrival” (124). The reader can see for Korean Americans, those are setbacks on their status. Their college degrees in their mother country is usually not acceptable in America, so they have to study in college again. Otherwise, they have to find another job without require licenses or college certifications. Language is also a barrier to success for many Asian American. Not everyone in Asian American community can able to speak or listen English. The author writes “most immigrants coming into Chinatown with a language barrier cannot go outside this confined area into the mainstream of American industry” (124). Ronald also use income from different types of Asian American family to strengthen his thesis. He states that “While Japanese American men in California earned an average income comparable to Caucasian men in 1980, they did so only by acquiring more education and working more hours” (123) and “some Asian American groups do have higher family incomes than Caucasians. But they have more workers per family” (124). Those evidences show that Asian American families can have higher income than some Caucasian families but it is usually because there are more numbers of people working in an Asian American family than in a Caucasian