Asian people

draws on tensions that the dominant white culture feels due to an influx of non-white peoples to the United States. He uses these tensions to create a narrative of the painstaking experience of acclimating oneself to a culture quite different from his or her own. The journey to assimilation is portrayed uniquely by Okada as he writes his character in ways different from other writers of whom are portraying Asian Americans at this time. In an article, written by Mr. Stan Yogi, ‘You had to be One…

“Asian Pacific American Heritage Month,” I received a flyer while walking through the hallway. Coming from a country in Asia, this phrase grabbed my attention. When I looked through it, I found out that Center for Student Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, an organization at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD), was celebrating April as a month dedicated for Asian Pacific Americans. The flyer had a list of film screening and discussion events.This was a perfect chance for me as I was looking…

Asian Americans The term “Asian American” is used as a way to distinguish people of Asian descent. Asian Americans consist of at least a dozen distinct groups who have extremely diverse cultural and physical features. The largest groups of Asian Americans are the Chinese, Filipino, and Asian Indian. The Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese, as well as others are not in the largest population, but they do make up the smaller Asian societies. Asian Americans faced oppression and social injustices even…

Off the west coast of the United States, a population of five thousand people, call San Piedro their home. Within San Piedro, the small village of Amity Harbor harbors the citizens of the novel, whose attitudes towards each other direct the plot of the story. Here, the main protagonist, Kabuo, solemnly awaits the outcome of his trail. Throughout the trail, a heavy, unexpected snowstorm blankets the town, along with the sins and mistreatments committed by the citizens. Author Michael Harris,…

The migration of Asians to America dates back to the 1600s, and the first Asian immigrants were mostly Chinese. Their first stop in the western hemisphere was not North American, but Central America (Mexico), and they arrived on ships of the Manila Galleon. The Manila Galleons were Spanish trading ships that made round-trip sailing voyages once or twice per year across the Pacific Ocean from the port of Acapulco, to Manila in the Philippines, which were both part of New Spain. But, the first…

Plays about African Americans, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, as well as other marginalized communities, often deal with issues that are specific to that culture. However, the issues being dealt with in these stories also resonate and connect with other communities in a universal way. We saw racism and prejudice against these three groups of people, but there are many other groups that face similar discrimination. People from all various walks of life share the same history, they have been…

People become clarified about what race is when the lines that allegedly are supposed to differentiate one from another are made unclear. Boundaries between race and ethnicity are becoming blurred with one big group when in reality they are so different from one another. The report made by the Pew Research Center on the racial term “Asian American” imposes the impression that Asian Americans in the United States have the highest income, higher educational attainment/career success, are more…

Asian American population and its characteristics According to the Census Bureau, the Asian group in the United States counts 15.7 million Asian Americans in 2013 and represents about five percent of the total U.S. population. Asian Americans live mostly in large cities in states of California, New York, Texas, Illinois, Hawaii and New Jersey. Asian American community is fast growing. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) it is expected to comprise over 10% of the…

Most people 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…

segment. O’Reilly had played a segment where reporter Jesse Watters came to the Chinatown of New York and asked questions about politics. Watters interviewed multiple Chinese people, but it didn’t become controversial until he interviewed the elderly Chinese. The Elderly were non-English speakers and Watters asked these Chinese people questions for the segment. The elders had no response…