Asian culture

The TV show The Big Bang Theory has spent years as one of the top sitcoms in the United States, capitalizing on jokes about nerd culture and friendships between social outcasts. A group of scientists in California navigate their social lives, romantic lives, and professional lives with many difficulties backed by a constant laugh track. One of these characters, however, stands out as particularly even in a show based on people who are different from societal norms. Rajesh “Raj” Koothrappali…

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 other immigrant groups, Latinos and Asian Americans faced…

Hollywood misrepresents Asians by placing racially stereotyped characters and place a Non-Asian actor to fill in Asian roles in films, which creates false depictions of Asians and Asian cultures. In the film industry, Casting Directors hire popular Non-Asian actors than Asian actors just solely based off of popularity. The community of Asians face hardship because of racial stereotype being depicted in the wide-screen. Without an abundance of Asians in the Media, Asians can not be represented…

The history of school polices by Joel Spring demanded that the dominant American groups to examine the conscious attempt of replacing one culture and language with another; that is decentralization. In his book, the school is used to find away family languages and culture and cultures and replace some if not all of with the largest group. As a rule, training is alluded to in this content as a tool that is concentrating on predominantly on world class overwhelming gathering in the United States…

article “The duty to succeed: honor versus happiness in college and career choices of East Asian students in the United States” written by, Lauren Dundes, Eunice Cho and Spencer Kwak tests the hypothesis that parents from East Asian decent are harder on their kids and expect more out of them compared to white parents. The article was written for college counselors to help provide them information on Asian American students and their parents. The information is being used to help college…

writing, I must preface this by defining a few terms in the manner that I use them. Throughout this article, I will be using the word “stereotype” very loosely to describe the generalized form of how [my] culture is defined; it’d be far too lengthy and complicated to talk about how others see Asians without using a generalization or two (or three). Towards the end of 7th grade, I was tired of having piss poor vision, and my mom got me my first pair of prescription glasses. From the moment I put…

ordinary in other cultures. For example, if an Asian child is extremely quiet and reserved in a United States classroom, the teacher might be concerned that he or she is having trouble making friends or is abnormally shy, when in fact that is a sign of respect in the Asian cultures. Understanding cultural norms of my clients will allow me to more accurately determine when I should genuinely be concerned about their symptoms versus when I should say, “Oh, that’s normal given their culture”. I…

associate many stereotypes with Asian Americans. However, these stereotypes do not define what an Asian American is. For example, when most people look at me, they are surprised because stereotypically, Asians have small eyes and small noses. However, I do not have those features but I am still considered Asian. My definition of an Asian American is someone who has parents that came from Asia and immigrated to America. To identify as an Asian American, they must be of Asian descent and have been…

Stereotypes of the Asian-American are directly related to their health, wealth, economic and social status. Incidents which took place as a result of the stereotyping were in 1982 Vincent Chin's death; DotBusters in 1987; and Bang Ma in 2004 and many more undocumented events we don’t hear about. There are many stereotypes that results in the this racist violent act towards many Asian Americans, such as shy, unfriendly, smart, successful, and not American. Due to the increasing number of Asian…

As an Asian immigrant growing up in the United States I found it hard to live up to the standards that the American society imposes on the Asian American community. The notion of a “model minority” has been thrown around our culture since the day it was coined in 1966 sparking a prejudice that colored the Asian American people in a specific light—one that can be argued to be bad and, at the same time, good for the community. (Linshi) We were seen as this group of people that were successful…