Kieu Tran's Stereotypes In The US

Amy Tan's goal has changed slightly. While the Author wants to show the effect language has on one's daily life and how we perceive others who are different, she also wants to show how the language barrier affects our society overall.

Early film portrayals of Asian American women affect the Asian American community in a way that women are being hyper-sexualized. According to the film Slaying the Dragon, most if not all of the films that featured Asian women represented them as being submissive, sexual projects, and pleasure-giving. Other roles that they take on include being a victim that warrants saving, a dragon lady that constitutes power and is sexually provocative, or prostitutes/ sex workers that are always available for men. These stereotypes are not only seen in film, but in rap music videos as well such as Bed Rock, which was sang by Young Money and was released in 2010. The hyper-sexuality linked with Asian women were further supported in our book Asian America

    Among many literatures about Asian and Chinese culture “Saving Sourdi” by May-Lee Chai is one.  This short story is about a young girl, Nea, and her sister, Sourdi, and what happens when Sourdi grows up when Nea does not want her to. Their family are Chinese and they moved to America.  Throughout the story one of the supporting characters, Ma, constantly reminds Nea what she should do as a young woman.  Ma is used to the Chinese culture and it is clear in the arranged marriage that Sourdi is involved in, how Ma goes about punishment, and in general Sourdi and Nea’s interactions that the Chinese culture is a huge influence on them.  In many obvious ways, Chinese culture is much different than American culture.  Nea’s

Culture differences, the differences of culture that has been created due to immigration, can create many tensions between generations in a household. The short story “The Jade Peony” manifests culture shock through two incidents. The first incident is depicted when Jung, Kiam, Liang were talking to their dad and telling him how grandma’s unacceptable disgusting behavior was causing them to get insulted by their friends. “The problem for the rest of the family was in the fact that Grandma looked for these treasures wandering the back alleys” “All our friends are laughing at us!”. Their father replied to this by telling to stop this but in the back of his head he thought “how could he dare tell the Grand Old One, his aging mother, that what

In this online exert from Allure Magazine, Constance Wu explains her experience with the Asian American stereotype in Hollywood. Constance Wu has broken many barriers and stereotypes that Asian American women have faced in the media, as she became a lead actress in a prime-time television show. Furthermore, this television show itself has broken many barriers as well because it is the first Asian American television that is about an Asian American family and played by Asians too. The show that I am describing is called, Fresh Off the Boat, which airs on ABC channel on Tuesday nights.

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.

utilizing the fact that “our brains are wired to pick up negative things in the environment.

Nowadays, Asian-Americans are still the target of stereotypes against them, but those stereotypes have evolved with the time. Among those stereotypes, a stereotype pretends that Asians are so called bad drivers, and another pretends that they are all smart and good in math. The first is often due to the image medias and experience give us to Asian traffic, overall China, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar and India because of the growing population and accidents. Furthermore, in Asia, traffic rules are hardly ever respected. The origin of the fact that Asians are smart and good in math can be explained by the Asian educational system which promotes sciences, math and technologies in school’s programs to create new searchers who could be useful to economic growth and scientific progress in development countries. 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.

Nguyen’s essay focuses on how people who viewed her in a stereotypical way and treated her unfairly, shaped who she is today. The purpose of the essay is to inform readers on how racists acts and behaviors can affect children as well as adolescents in their lifetime; also how small remarks that categorize individuals into terms such as “foreigner” and “immigrant” play a role psychologically on how the individual beings to think and behave later on in their future. The essay incorporates may details that point to how other people’s use of language made the author think she was less than everyone else around her, due to being categorized as an immigrant. When the author states “I got good grades because I feared the authority of the teacher; I felt that getting in good with Mrs. Alexander would protect me, that she would protect me from the frightful rest of the world” (Nguyen, 90), this proves how being referred to different emotionally affected the way the author behaved because she had to act in a good manner in order to not attract attention to herself. This form of rhetoric, makes the audience see through her eyes of what she had to go through compared to the other rebellious children. Furthermore, this alludes to how her experience made her assume she had to fix herself, affecting how the audience views her situation; which also influences the audience to think differently about how to treat the “others” because of Nguyen’s personal experience of being emotionally self conscious of herself.

Being a fast food worker for the past year and a half, I have been exposed to numerous different types of people, and most of them are not the same race as me. When I first started to get to know them, even though at times there was difficulty communicating, we were able to make it work and build stronger relationships. One of my favorite managers was Rose, a Hispanic woman who had been so kind to me. She was an example of someone who was able to teach me things about herself I could have stereotyped and not taken the time to learn anything about her as an individual.

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.

Kieu Tran’s offensive diction conveys the destruction American culture wreaks on Vietnamese culture through phrases such as “so-called freedom in the Western culture” and “[m]oreover, by law, parents cannot strike or hit them.” Throughout her entire essay, Tran arrogantly asserts that American culture is bad and Vietnamese culture is good. She starts by explaining that Americans have a misunderstanding of the term “child abuse” and that this term doesn’t even exist in Asian cultures. When Asians come to America, specifically Vietnamese, they are harassed by social workers and the government because they physically discipline their children. While in Vietnam, physical punishment is the standard way of disciplining children, in America, such

Kieu Tran’s emotional tone creates a sad truth about child abuse from Asian parents with phrases like “Physical punishment does not work in America, but it does in Vietnam.” and “There is no question of hatred between parents and children. Children never talk back because of the strict punishment.” In this essay it is hard to see what type of message the author is trying to get across. Sometimes he is supporting the abuse of children from their parents and other times he is giving examples of why it is a negative approach to punish your children. He also says that the American approach to punishment, not physically, is destroying Vietnamese households. Well if this is the case then why come to America if you can not follow its laws. Your parents

Kieu Tran’s assertive tone demonstrates the distinction between Vietnamese and Western cultures using phrases like “Americanized” and “Physical punishment in Asian traditions…”. In the essay, Kieu Tran specifically talks about physical punishment in Vietnamese cultures. The essay depicts the difference between Vietnamese cultures and child abuse. Kieu Tran explains how it’s illegal to hit any child when you are in the Americas because of this many Vietnamese families are punished harshly if the families are found out. Since the cultures in Vietnam and the Americas are very different many vietnamese families aren’t as close as they were before. The mothers and fathers have to find jobs while the children have to go to school and can’t come home

Kieu Tran’s veracious diction divulges the contrasting realities between the strict, disciplined Vietnamese culture and the lax, individualistic American culture by employing phrases like “physical punishment in Asian traditions is not considered child abuse” and “‘everyone is equal’ influences American families.” In the excerpt from the essay, “Misconception of Child Abuse and Discipline in the United States,” by Kieu Tran, she brings honor to her family as well as many others by discussing the different interpretations of “child abuse” between Asian and American cultures and societies. While Asian traditions consider physical punishment as a form of discipline, American society