British Asian

I do not understand racism. I hate hearing those racist jokes; just hearing about those jokes hurts me. I think racism is a foolish thing and people should change the way they think about race. We weren’t born choosing what skin color we wanted. We all came out of mother’s womb with different skin colors and the way people act and say impacts other people actions toward racism. We don’t know if we are black, yellow, white, or pink when we’re born. People have a different and a wrong mindset. All…

In her article, García mentions the strong aversion Americans had to allowing Southeast Asian immigrants into the US. She states that “news stories about the high casualty rates of Vietnamese boat people stranded at sea and in squalid refugee camps in Thailand did little to change public opinion: By 1979, only 32 percent of Americans surveyed wanted to accommodate more Southeast Asian refugees,… [complaining] that the refugees were culturally ‘unassimilable’” (García par. 8). Americans…

long time has tried to subjugate their ideas and place in the professional and social arena. In the case of immigration, it will continue to assist immigrants who seek a better quality of life seeking refuge in the United States. The immigration of Asian Americans will consolidate their place in the melting pot that is…

more than just one group of people. The process of partitioning someone’s mind causes a huge strain on any individual. I believe that always focusing on one side causes them not to accept themselves as who they are. We see double consciousness in Asian American culture through “The Woman Warrior” and we see it in Dominican American culture through ‘Oscar Wao” Double consciousness is a term first coined by W.E.B DuBois in In “The Souls of Black Folk”. The term is used to describe an individual…

men and women trying to have their voices heard, to make a difference in the way that women are treated is not an irrational belief. It is one that can be reached and strides towards that are being made each day. I think of Patsy Mink, the first Asian American woman to be elected to the United States House of Representatives, as one of those people who stood against the oppression. She is a true inspiration, she could not get into medical school so she was going to go to law school and fight…

Need to survive. “ Sumatran Elephants eat a wide variety of vegetation including grasses, leaves, shoots, barks, fruits, nuts, and seeAs its name suggests, the Sumatran Elephant is found on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. However, the Sumatran Elephant population has severely dropped. “They have lost 80% of their natural habitat to deforestation for palm oil plantations.” (a-z-animals.com). Poachers are also hunting them for their ivory tusks which is killing them off as well. “In 2012, the…

Legendary Indian philosopher Mahatma Gandhi once said “strength does not come from physical capacity but from indomitable will”. This quote really helped me as I struggled severely when entering the United States from Japan. I immigrated to the United States at 15 with my family; my dad had got offered a better paying factory job. At first I was really upset to leave my friends and family who were in Japan, but my dad promised me that the United States would present us with the adventures of a…

me 52 minutes agoDetails For more than 100 years, Asian Americans were viewed as foreign, unsophisticated, and unwanted. Asians were referred to as the “yellow peril” and were considered to be a threat to American society. Because of their image as a threat, Asian Americans were the victims of consistent racist attacks and discriminatory policies. However, beginning with 1960s, this negative image took a radical shift to one of admiration as Asian Americans’ success started becoming more and…

(Tan, 77). This excerpt appeals to members of the audience who are not Asian-American. This audience may feel that Asian-Americans like Tan’s mother are only as intelligent as their poor English skills. Amy Tan connects to this audience by admitting that she herself was ashamed of her mother’s English; because her speaking was imperfect, somehow her thoughts were imperfect. Members of the audience who feel the same way about Asian immigrants will be more likely to listen to Tan’s argument. Tan…

The poaching of elephants and the ivory trade has become an extremely pressing and controversial issue over the past few years, most noticeably in Botswana perspectives have been altered and bias has been made. This issue has sparked unrest and controversy all around the world. Protests began in Botswana concerning it, dividing the environmentalist from the poachers. From the 1970’s to the late 1980’s, elephant populations were slaughtered due to the legal regulated trade in ivory, which…