Asian American Struggle

In the article, Racial Violence against Asian American, the racial violence toward Asian Americans are usually targeted. This means Asian Americans are targeted because of the social economic, and the racist violence toward Asian American. The essay discussed that the racial violence against Asian Americans were infeasible and that the paradigmatic of racial violence will elucidate of the incident. In the essay, it used the death of Vincent Chin in Detroit, Michigan during 1982 as an example. The essay talks about how this attack stands out as a perverse symbol of racist violence.

The many stereotypical identities and expectations misrepresented on Asians. There are countless of times in my life when I have underwent discrimination and misjudgment. As a victim of racism, it forces me to suffer from feeling completely and utterly useless sometimes just because I am not meeting people’s standards as an Asian-American. James Iha was undoubtedly right when he stated, “Yeah, I’m sure there are stereotypes of Asian people” because Asian-Americans are constantly being weighed down by their labels. Racism comes in plenty of different forms.

When Chinese Honor Society applications were open, I heard countless people saying “Oh I won’t get in because I’m Asian”. When looking at colleges, people say “Yeah, but I’m Asian”. Why is this? The answer is simple. Colleges need to vary the diversity in their acceptances, which subsequently results in affirmative action for Hispanics and African Americans, denying Asian Americans of any privilege due to the untrue stereotype of them being the ‘model minority’.

Many debate over the whether structure or agency has a larger part in shaping human behavior. Structure is the repeating patterned features of society which affect the choices and opportunities available for a person. On the other hand, agency is the limit of how people act alone and make their own unrestrained choices in life. In the debate of structure vs. agency, whether a person acts independently or in a conduct dictated by social structure is discussed. Throughout my aunt, Margaret Gee’s, childhood as a Vietnamese-American immigrant, she had to deal with the patriarchal ideals that are commonly found in Asian family structures.

The Evolution of Asian American Culture The United States is not a “melting pot” of cultures but is more complex like a “salad bowl” where foreign and domestic influences combine to create a society where individual differences in gender, race religion, or ethnic background are valued. Immigrants strived to become the ideal “American” citizen, a more historically accurate metaphor is that the U.S. has had a cultural “cookie cutter” with a white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, male mold; but the view of culture has changed. Today, with the increase of numerous subcultures, diversity is greater valued and accepted. The growing acknowledgment of Asian American subculture present is in social media as a result of the continuously growing Asian American population.

When Asian came to America— a place where full of unfamiliar faces, speak different language, have different belief and culture, how would they respond and adapt to these changes? This essay investigates on Asian American experience in terms of culture, racial discrimination, culture assimilation and confliction, and lost of identity through diverse motions in four Asian American poems- “Eating Alone”, “Eating Together”, and “Persimmons” by Li-Young Lee, and “The Lost Sister” by Cathy Song. From the motions or movement in the poems, we can further look into their life and feeling of being an Asian American. In “Eating Alone” and “Eating Together”, speaker would like to express his yearning towards his death father and convey the hierarchy of a Chinese family. In “Persimmons”, speaker claims his unfortunate childhood experience to carry out the theme of racial discrimination and culture

Throughout many of the different novels that we have read in class we are able to see how asian americans strive to find their own identities and how there was a challenge between the American culture and the achievement of social equality for own racial group. Asian American who becomes assimilated in American culture had to pay the price for such a desire. Figuring out one’s identity is big issue, for immigrants especially for 2nd generation of Asian Americans who feel neither native Asian nor American. Asian American tried to fit them into the majority ‘American culture’ instead of their own culture and conflict with their order generations. For the minorities, America is still a place which have to give up many of own uniqueness and struggle to fit in for their comfortable.

Strength, Bravery, and Truth The definition for many when asked what they believe strength is may be usual characteristic of being physically strong, and for many this may also mean having the ability to defy being moved or destroyed by another power. However, Asian Americans have proved themselves in history to have this strength not only physically, but mentally by demonstrating it through their bravery. In Takaki’s book, “A Different Mirror”, he reveals this strength and bravery that they always had since the beginning of their origins when migrating to the United States. Although all had their own reasons to migrate to the US, the majority of the time was to better their future and as Takaki states, “flee from the harsh economic conditions” (p.178).

IS Civil Rights Speech “It’s not fair” … the final words of an innocent U.S. citizen that was judged solely from appearances. This man was Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American who was “severely beaten in the Detroit suburb of Highland Park, Michigan during June, 1982”.5 Subsequently, he died four days later, the date of which he was originally supposed to be married. That once planned-to-be day became his last as he laid on his deathbed due to two men, Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz, who committed this homicide due to “U.S. auto manufacturing jobs being lost to Japan”.5 The two mistakenly identified Chin as Japanese, and begun to throw racial slurs such as “jap”, “chink”, and “nip”, but they did not stop there.

“Stereotype” is a familiar word that we’ve heard throughout high school or even when you are an adult. So what is “stereotype” mean? Stereotype is belief that many people have about other people or things with a characteristic that are related to them. For example, some people think that Muslims are really dangerous because they might be a suicide bomber or a terrorist. There are many stereotypes related Asian and how they affect us.