Generation Of Southeast Asian Youth Analysis

In Generations of Southeast Asian Youth: Assimilation, Styling and (Racial) Profiling by Pao Lee Vue he explains the hardships and unnoticed parts of American Southeast Asians. He tells when they came to this country how some of their cultural standards got them harassed constantly. Because the Southeast Asian immigrants were typically poor when they immigrated to the United states it caused them to move into the slums of the country. There the kids of the immigrants had adapted an american life style. So when they were buying nice shoes but their cultural customs had them leave it outside people would steal them. They did not originally form groups so the other people in the area found them as easy targets to rob, they saw them as weak. He basically wanted to underline why the SEA americans started to form the culture the way they did.

The speech impacted me by giving me a new appreciation for the asian american culture. It showed me an aspect of them that is going through some of the same struggles as the African Americans and the Latinos living in the slum. When I typically thought of asians I would think of people

He tells how the police would come to soccer games and watch them but with the intentions on busting someone. He tells how the police one time cancelled a break dancing event by telling the venue that they would probably start gang fights over there. How the police would interrogate his brother on the whereabouts of certain people all because his brother taught kids how to rap in community centers as volunteer work. He also told how people in the community would constantly target them before they formed gangs. The whole thing helps people understand why they are the way they are. Why they started to form their own culture of import racing because people wouldn 't let import cars race in local