Asian American Stereotypes Research Paper

Current Status Historically, the stereotype emerged from orientalism that was transcribed through film and literature. The mediated image of Asian women in western society is highly hyper-sexualized up to this day. Most of the representations from the media are infrequent and racist that mainly focuses on the false blinding images of these women. In addition, the china doll media portrayal has a negative mass effect on Asians and the rest. As a result of media consumption, these women continue to be victimized by discrimination and objectification in their day-to-day lives.

Lily Wong, in her article about food, entitled “Eating the Hyphen,” states, “Perhaps this combination (ketchup and dumplings) has something to do with the fact that since both my parents grew up in the States, we’ve embraced many American traditions while abandoning or significantly modifying many Chinese ones” (95). Wong expresses how being a Chinese American has affected her life in a positive way. Wong eats some of her food Americanized, with ketchup, but also eats food that the majority of American’s would not touch (i.e. jellyfish and sea cucumber). Comparatively, Wong eats dumplings (which derive from the Chinese culture) with a fork, knife, and ketchup (which are all culturally American). Geeta Kothari, who wrote the article, If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I?

The model minority hypothesis is where Asians were supposed to be economic and academically successful, respectful to authority, high moral values, adhere to strict gender roles, enjoyed strong and stable nuclear families and other Asian triats they are deemed to possess. The model minority term began after the confession program where Chinese immigrants can confess their illegal document status to become status, but must turn in any other Chinese who is using undocumented paperwork. Model minority was used frequently as young white kids become rebellious This notion of a model minority according to historian Helen Wu is that there were “two dominant American values during the cold war”. These values were the valorization of nuclear families

Yet, those stereotypes are wrong concerning Asian Americans. In fact, they learn to drive according to the laws of the country they live, and do not all like school.

Linsanity is a documentary film directed by Evan Jackson Leong that tackles numerous topics such as discrimination, stereotypes, racism, and being overlooked. The documentary is about Jeremy Lin, an Asian American basketball player who rose to fame in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The story follows the life of Lin from his childhood to his success in the New York Knicks in the NBA. The film shows how Lin achieved success despite of the racism and discrimination that he received while playing in his college and in the NBA. The director’s intention does not only inform the viewers about Jeremy Lin’s life, but it also offers viewers a new image of Asian Americans in basketball.

Asian Americans include persons that come to the United States from a variety of countries in Asia and the Indian subcontinent (McNamara & Burns, 2009). Although the do share similar physical features, each subgroup has its own history, customs, and culture (McNamara & Burns, 2009). There are many different perceptions of Asian Americans in general. One is that they have overcome barriers and discrimination to be successful and achieve the ‘American Dream’ (McNamara & Burns, 2009). One reason for this I believe is that the majority of Asian Americans come to the United States with a dream and a goal to be successful.

I love dogs and cats I could never eat one although my dad’s running joke is I love the five star china buffet in piedmont and he always tells me their meat is made of cat. I couldn’t eat monkey brains either that’s inhumane what they do to those poor little guys. This goes against how I was raised and all my eating pallets. My culture relativism side though understands why these are a delicacy to the other culture.

At first it was a separation between the Whites and the Asian minorities (Padgett n.d.). By the 1900s it was used to justify the discrimination and wars between other Asian countries; throughout 1947 to the 1970s the Asian stereotype “model minority” was publicized to obtain citizenship for some residences in the Japanese and Chinese communities without a permanent residency in America (Nakagawa 2014). In 1965 the restrictive laws for immigrants entering from Asian countries were amended and passageway into America was an easier process (Washington 2012). Due to the publicity the “model minority” received back then, many people’s perception of an Asian were based on the characteristics often portrayed by mainstream media, even in modern day media (Zhang 2010).

My Capstone project is a website that describes how Asian Americans are portrayed as a model minority. The topic of Asian Americans has not been covered a lot in mainstream history courses and was briefly covered in the DOC series, so the model minority label is ambiguous. My project is divided into three sections that will explain what a model minority is and the effects of the label. The first section provides a definition and significance of being a model minority. The second section describes discrimination of Asian Americans in the past that helps to give the context for the model minority title.

Good nutrition is a significant part of a healthy lifestyle and is a principle being taught every day around the world. The dilemma of hunger is faced by many countries; according to the World Food Programme, “795 million people in the world do not have enough food to lead a healthy active lifestyle” (“Hunger”). In Johnathan Safran Foer’s article, “Let Them Eat Dog,” published in the Wall Street Journal, he argues the ridiculous nature of the American cultural taboo of restricting society from the consumption of dogs for food. Foer begins the article first by talking about the reluctances of the consumption of dogs regardless of it being legal in the majority of states within the United States (Foer 689). He then discusses the positive effects of the removal of the taboo of the consumption of dogs such as the solution for hunger in the world and the depletion of natural resources.

The article, mention that stereotypes can lead to social categorization, which leads to prejudice attitudes towards a certain race. In this case Asian Americans are seeing as bad drivers due to the shape of their eyes. They are criticized for being intelligent, but still expected to be successful in life. Young Asian Americans are seeing as hard-working, submissive, obedient and uncomplaining. In reality these stereotypes hide the truth according to an article called “Model Minority Stereotype for Asian Americans”, Asian American college students are more likely to seek medical leave, more likely to go on academic probation, and are less likely to graduate in 4

I have chosen to do this reading response of Lee’s piece about model minorities. This chapter focuses on stereotyping of Asian American students and the affects that that has. This piece starts off by discussing how there are two main stereotypes of Asian Americans and those are: being the foreigner and the model minority. Next, the piece discusses how Asian Americans are not seen as authentic, which has resulted in modifications to try and achieve the “American” standard of beauty. I believe that the central argument of this piece is showing that stereotyping Asian americans is detrimental to their education and their identity.

There’s a myth about Asian Americans, that generalizes them into one group. People create false images of us through stereotypes. These stereotypes have been manifested in books, movies, and literature, but they have repercussions for Asian Americans in society. We are often treated as foreigners, people leading us to believe that we don’t belong in American society, and that we have no purpose being here. Stereotypes are natural things that people will talk about.

These binds make it seem as every Asian has the american dream. All Asians live in a picket fence world of perfectness. This is not the case in all instances. Some Asians are struggling to make end meet and are swallowed up and left behind because of this stereotype. In particular, lets look at a woman named Pranee Wilcox ,who worked as accountant back home in Thailand.

Abstract This research work is a generalization of the investigated data and sources of the problem of stereotypes and prejudice towards people from different countries and nationalities. The primary objective of this study is to define the terms "stereotype" and "prejudice" for a better understanding of the problems arising in the communication and interaction between people. To demonstrate, as the examples in this paper will be presented to the main models of stereotypes that have developed in people's thinking during the existence of mankind as a whole. It is also worth noting that stereotypical thinking often leads to multiple problems in communication and life, for example: to work in an international environment, and