Afro-Asian

Marginality of American Asians In the United States, Asians encompass 6% of the total population. There are now 17.3 million Asian Americans, up from 6.9 million in 1990, in the United States. Asian Americans are currently the fastest growing population in America (Census data, n.d.). The rise of Asian Americans really tweaked my interest in Asian Culture. Asian culture is one that I have very little knowledge. In my teaching experiences, there have been very few Asian Americans in my…

how you are molded to the cultural norms of your society. Most people don’t even realize how drastically different each one is until they see they see another culture go entirely against their beliefs and expectations of society. Personally, I am an Asian-American who may have a completely different, or similar culture as you. My culture consists of many things: including different foods and expectations. However, it varies entirely from my mother even though I have lived with her my entire life…

million years ago (MYA), known as a Palaeomastodon. Elephants are mammals classified as Taxonomy. Elephants are pachyderms, which range from 9.8 to 13.1 feet tall and reach over seven tons. There are two types of elephants known to use today the Asian elephant, and African elephant. The African elephant is the larger of the two and is also sub classed into the African forest elephant and…

Deportation has been an ongoing problem for many generation. Even throughout the U.S. different history of political power, presidents, and regulations, we still to this day have an unsolved problem of deportation. In the land of the free and home of the brave, we say we welcome people of all kind to obtain the “American Dream,” yet we deport those who are seeking those dreams. And, even take advantage of those who have risked their lives to save our country while serving in the war, yet our…

which brings us to a Japanese american women Name Kesaya E. Noda who wrote an essay about immigrant asians growing up in america, but treated different by the citizens of america. Kesaya mentions how she was treated different than other asians “Encountering the stereotypes of my race perpetuated by non-japanese people (Primarily white) who may not have (Noda)...” this quote from the essay Growing up Asian in America explains how her typical race was not always the same but remained different by…

The term “Asian” was originally used to define and label everyone that was not white, and by definition, the term generalizes people of vastly different backgrounds, histories, languages, and religions all into one incorrect misappropriately defined category. The term Asian itself is referred to as a race, yet a race is associated with biology. If people are of the same race, the may share the same ancestry or have similar physical characteristics, whereas the term ethnicity is used to refer to…

employed to construct the cross-country railroad at wages 1/3 not as much as the whites. Asian Americans spoke to a little extent of the migrants; they were just around 1 or 2%. They were racially mediocre. Asians were denied their citizenship since shading characterizes the race and they decided that if you are not white, then you can't be a citizen. Law; "Chinese Exclusion law" was passed and it did not allow Asians to enter the US for quite a long period. A representative from Massachusetts…

Asian Americans Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority populations in the United States and the number is expected to increase significantly from 18 million in 2010, to 34 million in 2050 (Hastings et al., 2015). Although the number of Asian Americans is constantly growing, research has been limited within the subgroups and only some of the subgroups are being reported. For example, national death registries allow researchers to study population health and look at trends. The problem…

African Ivory Trade Throughout the course of history there has remained one constant, humans are never satisfied. Since the dawn of human history humans have had this desire to crave more and want better. The idea of never being satisfied has led to many accomplishments for the human race, from the expansion of empires such as the Greek and Roman empires, to technological advances in medicine that have pro longed life, and the expansion of knowledge through books and curiosity. All have come…

from “The Head Honchos” to “The Destitute.” I began to examine the people more closely after I read an article explaining how to tell the difference between a high class Asian compared to a lower class Asian. After about thirty minutes, I was still unable to distinguish the different classes amongst the Asian community. Each Asian I saw was dressed in jeans and a nice shirt or shorts and a nice shirt. I first assumed that they belonged to the same class as me because of how similar we both…