Asian American

Asians, the monolithic term used to group together several diverse ethnicities and cultures, carries a multitude of conflicting connotations and real life social issues in the American society. Following the steps that Bobbie Harro journals about an individual’s travel through the cycles of socialization and liberation, I will likewise document my own personal experience as an Asian American within said cycles. Asians continue to face internalised oppression stemming from a general cultural…

ASIAN AMERICANS Cultural and ethnic identity of Asian students may clash with the American school system due to their beliefs that it is important to work together as a group and maintain an allegiance to their family. The American school system tends to give emphasis to individualism and a healthy competition between students. An Asian student will no doubt see that their ability to do well in school as a duty that they have to help maintain the family structure and failure to do well in…

understand where these stereotype for Asian come from and for what purpose. These stereotypes about Asian Americans come from American perceiving the popular culture of Asian. Japanese show their politeness and calmness when facing trouble and interacting with other the same way American show their politeness during certain situation. For Japanese, their vocabulary has a tone of politeness in them and the way the greet each other also seem politer than American. Although, it is only the…

Asian Indians, East Indians and Indo-Americans are all the same culture, they are Indians. They have an interesting economic history with the United States. Asian Indians have attained some of the highest educational levels of all ethnic groups of Asian descent. Their family and religion have a desire to maintain traditional values of Hinduism. They are one of the oldest civilizations that continue to flourish in the present day. Social History in the US Asian Indians have been migrating to…

introducing Asian American theaters in an amazing ways. Rather than learning different histories and cultures from the boring and lengthy books, to me theatre indeed makes them become…

Race relations between Asian Americans and Black Americans have always been rocky. In order to understand the historical relationship between Asian and Black Americans, it is important to understand the intersectionality of hip hop and how it’s shifted through history. There is so much racial tension between Asian and Black people and hip hop was used both to widen and close the gap between the two groups. Hip-hop for both Asian and Black people has been used as an act of rebellion, but despite…

Asian-Americans felt discrimination after the Vietnam war, when immigrants from Vietnam came to America. Groups such as the "Organization of Chinese Americans" fought to secure rights for Asian-Americans and prevent discrimination. Challenging stereotypes about Asian "passivity", and rejecting the exoticism and racism of "oriental" labels, Asian American activists mobilized this new consciousness to demand an end to racist hiring…

or Casteism?: Asian Americans Face Discrimination in the Shadows of Overwhelming Racism in America Katelyn Zwiener Mrs. Shaina Workman 31 January 2017  Abstract (Please be a little nice on my abstract. I typically write abstracts at the end of my paper, but my abstract has never been a strong suit of mine; so, I wrote this one in the most basic form possible. If you have some help with writing abstracts, that would be so appreciated!) Asians face harsh discrimination in American society…

issue of Officer Peter Liang, many Asian elders have argued about the discrimination of the court verdict. The elders compared Peter Liang with other white officers who did not get charged for second degree manslaughter crime on an African American citizen. The elders describe the guilty verdict for Peter Liang as “making an ethnic minority American a scapegoat to satisfy the political thirst of a few and to pay for the police brutality that has troubled the American society for a long time”…

fairly quickly and are accepted as Americans within a couple of generations. For Asian Americans and Latino Americans, though, it has been a different story. There are a few different reasons as to why Asian and Latino immigrants may have been and continue to be treated differently; these include, discrimination because of the color of their skin, their willingness to do hard work for low wages, nativism, and the strong community and ethnic bonds of Latino and Asian communities. Not unlike…