Stereotypes of South Asians

indicates that 50% of women in Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea and the Philippines use skin whitening products. In the Philippines, they’ve become the top users of skin whitening products. In Asian countries, double-eyelid surgery is becoming popular due to the increasing acceptance of Eurocentric/ western standards. Also there’s been an increase of plastic surgery to get a “more defined” nose. Many see surgery as an “investment for the future for young Asian women.” The result of these…

Wolock, L., & Punathambekar, A. (2015). Race and Ethnicity in Post-network American Television: From MTV-Desi to Outsourced. Special Section: Television’s Post-racial Politics, 16(7), 664-679. Yakupitiyage, T. (2007, Oct. 19). Battling or Creating Stereotypes in ‘Aliens in America’? Retrieved from…

include news articles, magazines, television shows and movies. In this generation of the United States, they portray males and females differently even though we are not that much different. They exaggerate the little differences and create gender stereotypes. They emphasize that young men in our society should follow “boy code” and fit the media’s…

community cooperation and vigilance, adjustment of service demands to the actual needs of given neighborhoods, proactive approaches to address social determinants of crime, identification and resolution of disputes before they escalate, dismantling stereotypes by police of community members and vice-versa, increased mutual understanding, increased public approval, decreased citizen complaints, community as a resource rather than an impediment to police, empowerment and power-sharing both within…

This can be seen in stereotypes, some people say that the South marry and breed with their family because in the 20th century when eugenics was a big thing. Eugenics was the reason behind Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler and his followers believed that people with certain aspects (blue eyes, blonde…

explores human history of slavery and colonization in a larger sense. The author implies that institutional power is a global phenomenon rather than a unique issue of America. In the 30th chapter of the novel, readers can see how difficult it is for an Asian from the Third World to obtain a U.S. Visa. For these people, the chances of going to America depend solely on a couple of randomly asked questions. It is the U.S. Visa officers rather than themselves who can decide whether they can have…

Bharati Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters addresses the anomaly of an ideal marriage, an ideal culture and the stereotype immigrant theory of South Asians into America. Love, marriage, sex, dowry, woman subjugation intertwined with a small plot of victory in the face of child-marriage induces progressive interest through the novel. The conflict of tradition and modernity, irony of arrange marriage and acceptance of cultures beyond the laid-out limit, unfurls instantaneous engrossment. The two…

referring to Asian citizens as ‘aliens’ continued until the early 1970’s. The thesis of this essay is that the white Australia policy wouldn’t be of the same short-term effectiveness if the Australian Government hadn't implemented the use of media, education, and laws to manipulate its people. Although the white Australia policy was indeed effective in restricting the number of foreign immigrants entering the country, the utter hatred, dissatisfaction and discrimination towards Asians, more…

Appreciation or Appropriation? Have you ever stopped to think about Halloween costumes? Dressing up as a Latino or a Native American is considered normal in our society. However, these cultures aren’t meant to be costumes. They present a way for people to identify and express themselves while belonging to a community of people who share similar beliefs. This is cultural appropriation; the adoption or use of elements of a culture by a person of another cultural background. Although many…

Religious conflicts in South Asia have been instigated and fueled by ideological assumptions without an accurate understanding of history. This has led to “Hinduism” and “Islam” being considered independent from each other and religious identity being deemed as exclusive. The book Beyond Turk and Hindu challenges these misconceptions by outlining the ways in which Hinduism and Islam intermix and overlap. The authors of chapters two and three, Shackle and Narayanan, examine regionally specific…