Filipino American

up to what we have learned throughout the semester till this day. Asian Americans have faced many struggles and difficulties throughout their lives in the United States. All the Asian American communities which include Koreans, Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, and many more have faced problems with the American communities. The problems were discrimination, stereotyping, racism, education, and finding identity. Asian Americans have faced discrimination with all its kinds. People were…

12% black, 8% Asia, and 2.7% all other races combined. My Heritage Assessment Tool is centered on Black American, Phillipines, and Nigerian. Dectionary difinition of culture is the sum of attitudes, customs, and beliefs that distingguishes one group of people from another. The three families interviewed are part of designated racial and ethnic group in America, like the Phillipinos, black Americans and Nigerians. They have some…

The racialization of Native Americans have permeated throughout the American school system and the media, confining and limiting their roles as the “savage other”. In conjunction with this racialization, Asian Americans have also faced a myriad of controlling images which eradicate complex Asian cultures. Throughout Yen Le Espiritu’s article, “Ideological Racism and Cultural Resistance”, she describes the complete alienation of Asian Americans in the dominant White culture. Through controlling…

All my life I have been stereotyped to being followed in stores, people holding on to their bags as I sit next to them I been through it all. After I tell people I'm asian or Filipino they say “Oh so you must be good at math” or “Do you use chopsticks, and eat noodles?”. I just think this whole “racism” thing is stupid and it irks my soul everytime I hear about it, like why are you treating people of a different race so badly…

exemplified by the cases raised by African American, and Asian American groups. The success of such cases is contingent upon a suitable political climate. It has been argued that the Supreme Court makes rulings that it believes can be implemented. Unlike Congress which holds the ‘power of the purse’ or the executive branch which can issue executive orders to carry out its goals, the judiciary has no…

Asian Group Values With the presence of such a plethora of ethnicities and cultures that make up the Asian people, Asian American ethnocentrisms may conflict with one another. Consequently, there are two types of value systems among Asians: Traditional and Modern. The common thread that binds all Asian Americans together is their value system rooted in collectivism. Common perceptions and interactions stem from their belief system. Emergent ethnic identity involves the creation of new…

The Asian American Movement was an era of radical change in which the urgency for Asian Americans to overcome oppression and negative perceptions of American society transcended their clichéd silence and indifference. However, such a(this) monumental movement was not achieved without the courageous efforts of activists who had ideologies that coincided but also contradicted each other that stemmed from their different backgrounds. Two advocates in particular who emphasized the need for social…

non-clinical cross-cultural interview for this project was completed with a grandfather of an associate. My participant was the associate’s grandfather, and her grandfather is a youthful-looking 102 years old veteran, married male, who identifies as Filipino. In addition, he has been “happily” married for 73 years. When asked how did he manage to have a healthy and happy marriage; he responded by stating, “they did not drink, smoke, and always honest.” My interview process was a delight; I was…

However, the real “American dream” is not as exciting as the original meaning, materialism and idealism serious confrontation and conflict to show the dark side of the American dream to every immigration groups. Asian Americans by more than a dozen Asian nation as well as American-born descendants of the composition. Despite the different Asian group have different languages, different ethnic, different cultural backgrounds, but share a common experience in the United States. When Thomas’s…

the Filipinos started with support from the United States and a year after of the intense fighting, the Spanish made a formal agreement of Biak-na-Bato that ended the Philippine Revolution. The Philippine Revolution served as an important turning point into being nationalistic of the Filipinos, and was a major reason for the unavoidable ruination of Spanish Colonial Rule. It also led to the hostile relationship between the Spanish and Americans, and supposed to have caused the Spanish-American…