Asian Elephant

In "little Manila is the: The Making of the Filipina/o America Community in Stockton, California" this book touches on an important aspect of America and preservation of culture. This book talks about the unfair social aspects of American society in the area we called social spaces. Just like so many other places there is a majority and a minority. This essay really has shown me how discrimination has really affected minority's and especially philopena Americans in society and their struggles to…

Historic Filipinotown in Los Angeles is considered a cultural hub for Filipino Americans, officially delineated by Hoover Street from the west, Glendale Boulevard from the east, Temple Street from the North, and Beverly Boulevard from the South. Its very existence is political, more so than other ethnic enclaves because those who identify as Filipino only make up a small part of the resident population compared to the Mexicans and Central Americans. Former councilmember, now Mayor Eric Garcetti,…

the model minority stereotype, Asian Americans appear to be the “most highly educated of all groups, including white males” (Woo 2000: 193). Because of these success stories (the “Asian Horatio Alger”), the Asian American population is made to seem more successful than it actually is in that the model minority “[masks] extreme inequalities within and between different Asian American groups” (Woo 2000: 194). This stereotype can create negative consequences for both Asian Americans who do not…

Bamboo Ceiling When we remind of Asian talented basketball players, Jeremy Lin and Yao Ming are seeming to get an idea out of our head. However, they have quite different traits. Yao Ming is a Chinese basketball player who was the tallest basketball player in the National Basketball Association. On the other hand, Jeremy Lin is an Asian Americans who has the common physique as a basketball player. Jeremy Lin grew in the American basketball system. In Jeremy Lin’s model minority problem, Maxwell…

Karl Marx based his theory on economics as being the main qualification to place an individual in the stratification system. Marx’s theory placed individuals in an interesting way, he observed material possessions as key factors in societal life. He stratified individuals into two different groups “bourgeois, meaning that you owned the “means of production,” or to the proletariat, a class of workers who served the bourgeois.” (Marx & Engels, 1967). On the other hand Marx’s colleagues however had…

Across the board, Asian Americans outperform all other ethnic groups in education. They also choose to enroll themselves into upper level math courses when offered more often the other ethnic groups, as well as, do twice the amount of homework when compared to other ethnic groups. Asian Americans represent just roughly two percent of the nation’s population. However, the number of Asian Americans that are freshman enrolled at universities and institutions across the nation have a much stronger…

to go to school and begin to interact with other culturally diverse people you pick and learn new things about others, and you began to stereotype for yourself. Two groups of people that are constantly facing stereotypes are African Americans and Asian Americans. Despite how successful the individuals that make up these two groups up become they will always be haunted by the stereotypes that come…

Pressures, expectations, comparisons, negotiations of self-worth, and ah- more expectations… these are common problems many South Asian diasporic women face growing up. Is it not true, girls? We have our whole lives set out for us through families, elders, or our community – always ready to put others’ needs before anything else, and never allowed the time or given the support to understand our own emotional and mental concerns. Some of us even suppress them our whole lives. As young women we…

of Asian Americans, many just assume that all Asian Americans are successful and that none of us are struggling. On the surface, it may sound rather benign and even flattering to be described in those terms. However, we need to take a much closer look at these numbers. As we will see, many other statistics show that Asian Americans are still the targets of racial inequality and institutional discrimination and that the model minority image is a myth. The point is that just because many Asian…

The Heart of Racial Justice Review: The purpose of chapter six in The Heart of Racial Justice is to discuss the importance of embracing our true selves. Without being our true selves we will not be able to serve Christ fully. As Christians we have been taught that our cultural heritage and ethnic identity are unimportant to our Christian faith. Two important concepts are self-acceptance and self-hatred. Self-acceptance is the recognition you were created by God while self-hatred is rejection…