DavidSoComedy made a video in response to Alexandra Wallace's video talking about Asians. In his video, Vlog #4: Asians in the Library - UCLA Girl, Alexandra Wallace is going wild on Asians. This video appeared on YouTube on March 14, 2011. In this video his purpose is to convince his viewers that Asians must equal to others. David states that there is no reason anyone should harm another person no matter how crazy their opinions. By referencing his personal experience, David demonstrates that the Asians are also unique like others. He even goes, as far as to say that he is no longer commenting on Wallace's video but instead he is "attack" her. The video creates a common ground as he uses his credibility and his pathos to construct a strong …show more content…
The credibility of the video is well established by his personal experience. When Wallace talks about "they [Asians] don't teach their kids to fend for themselves." He is showing that "we [Asians] grow our food," and they are not always going to "grocery stores" to get some food. David tries to show Asians can "fend" themselves like ethnic people do. On the other hand, the ethos behind his thinking should grab the audience’s attention. By bringing up the point that he is not a polite person but not because he is an Asian “because I [he] grew up here [America]." While Wallace says "polite, nice American." The latter phrase suggests that he convinces his audience that he understands Asians' culture more than people that do not have the same race as him. By pointing this out, he hopes to persuade his audience to believe in him more. It makes the audience feel more attached to the issue and more involved and also makes them care what the outcome of the situation will …show more content…
He emotionally appeals to the audience’s sympathies and honesties. He begins using more dramatic, emotional language, such as, “seriously, don't hurt her because of me [he]." Due to this change in language the audience understands that he does not mean to hurt her. However, he makes her look foolish and racist thru the half of the video. For example, he is copying the voice tone of Wallace when he is trying to repeat "oh my God, and the way Asians people talk on their phone" and making fun of it. This one point alone makes the purpose of his video hard to take in. This will hurts his overall argument because at first, he wants to reply to Wallace’s video but he goes too far than just replying. David makes his audience look down on him when he says not "attack" on her but in the beginning of the video. He writes a big, fat words "racist white girl?" Even though, he does not said it out and he makes his viewer answer that question but through the video. Moreover, when Wallace talks about the time, "every five minutes, okay, not five minutes but fifteen minutes," he states that "(beep word) you can't tell the time?" His audience will think that she goes to UCLA but she does not know how to tell the time, this makes she looks stupid and unintelligent. As an audience, I think he is making fun of her appearance - this seems mean and
As an anthropologist graduate student, Takami Delisle found herself refraining from showing opinions whenever it came to race when surrounded by mostly white people. Because she is Asian, she felt as if she would be considered less of a legitimate voice for people of color and be dismissed by her peers. She also discusses how she has been treated differently in public because of her race. As an anthropologist, she is able to explain that feeling like the odd man out is completely normal, but not a reason to hide and stay silent during uncomfortable conversations. While this is easier said than done, Takami now sees how important it is to speak up in a room full of people; especially if you're the only one.
As a result of the segregation from other races, Asian Americans have typically kept to themselves and are focused on becoming successful. In addition to the political absence of Asians extending beyond other races, the persistent model minority myth is an accepted truth within the community itself. While the stereotupe is a complete myth, it has been so embedded that even Asian Americans start to believe it, making them and other believe that Asians are the only minority that have endowed the key to success in America. Asians are not only placed in the shadows, but they also choose to stay; many are too comfortable with their successful personal lives, to the extent of neglecting the matters of other Asians ethnicities. Additionally, Asians are perceived to be traditionally passive, giving an almost filial piety towards white people in hopes of having the same privileges.
Many Top Charts movies have spectacular main actors. Although these actors are very talented, were any of the main actors Asian-Americans? There has been a controversy whether or not Asian-Americans are in enough movies or TV shows. In the 2015-2016 season, only 3%-4% of Asian characters made it. Of the Top 100 films of 2015, 49 had no Asian characters and 0 had leading roles that went to Asians (Levin).
According to Karen Dabney’s Oral Performance/Aural Traditions: Cultural Identity in David Henry Hwang’s Trying to find Chinatown, “a common problem Asian Americans encounter is generic racial identification by outsiders, rather than precise recognition of their ancestral and ethnic roots.” Benjamin feels that Ronnie surrendered himself to his adopted country and has failed to preserve and protect his heritage and
This paragraph from Kesaya Noda’s autobiographical essay “Growing Up Asian in America” represents the conflict that the author feels between her Japanese ethnicity, and her American nationality. The tension she describes in the opening pages of her essay is between what she looks like and is judged to be (a Japanese woman who faces racial stereotypes) versus what she feels like and understands (life as a United States citizen). This passage signals her connection to Japan; and highlights her American upbringing. At this point in the essay, Noda is unable to envision her identity as unified and she describes her identity as split by race.
Most of their miscommunication was because of defensive or selective listening, and pseudolistening. Forrester and Wallace can benefit from removing both internal obstacles, such as Forrester’s preoccupation and prejudgment thinking, along with external obstacles, such as Wallace dribbling his basketball during a conversation. Improvements for Forrester and Wallace’s listening skills include being mindful and wholly present during a communication exchange and the removal of internal and external obstacles. Both could engage more as an active listener using paraphrasing that would gain a better understanding of the other person’s perspective. Taking their whole relationship into consideration, Forrester and Wallace overcame many of their communication limitations as their relationship grew into an I-Thou type.
African Americans on the battle front are put into segregated divisions, whereas Native Americans dealt with compliment racism or unintentional racism. Chinese Americans were concerned with being accused of being Japanese, while the Japanese Americans tried to prove they were American too. Throughout his book, Takaki demonstrates the varying levels of racism experienced, and how hard work and perseverance helped these groups prove themselves to some degree. Takaki claims, all of these minorities groups, gained some form of freedom and equality either through the military or through job opportunities and improvements.
He talks about when you’re in line and the grocery store and it seems like the person in front of you is purposely taking as long as possible, and he uses the example of rush hour traffic and you just went to get home, and everyone around you is hocking and that one car that cuts you off, but just like you they are just trying to get to their home. Wallace tells us this hypothetical story to show that shockingly, the world doesn’t revolve around us. Even if it’s hard to come to terms with. After this story he brings up religion again and how everyone has the freedom to worship whatever they want. Whether it be spiritual, an object, or something that simply isn’t there to begin with.
Eddie feels insecure within his own culture and believes that eating ‘white people food’ will bring him, friends. Eddie’s response to the stereotype; positions the audience to see that most Asian people want to try different food, but Eddie teaches us that everyone can fit in with other cultures and eat their food
For example, Wallace attempts to place his audience
Wallace's argument becomes more clear when looking at his word choice because it exemplifies that the public is objective rather than when eating lobster . Also within to build his argument Wallace uses a tone that conveys constant irony, with the purpose of over exaggerating how normal eating lobster is. The last rhetorical device Wallace uses is that he appeals to the audience’s logic when structuring his
It made the men realize how exaggerated people had made him sound. It also made them laugh. This is a way for Wallace to connect with his countrymen and get them emotionally involved in the terrifying task at hand. Another example is when William Wallace tells the men, “Aye, fight and you may die. Run and you’ll live – at least a while.
David was taught to believe in the same things but he does not understand where it is coming from. Thus, David is struggling to understand the meanings behind these sayings. This community has taught children from the day they were born to believe that even a slight difference is bad. It shows the cruelty of the society because they have only one world view and do not think any other views are considered right. It is due to their ignorance towards acceptance that they are creating more trouble.
This incident reminded me of that movie scene. They asked in that same dopey voice if I understood what they had said not knowing that I would have a full blown response to their racist and stereotypical preconceived notions about
The story picked is What Means Switch written by Gish Jen. It revolves around the life of Mona Chang, an 8th grade American-born Chinese girl in New York during the 1960s. She meets Sherman Matsumoto, a new Japanese student who becomes her boyfriend. She battles Japanese, traditional and modern Chinese influences, in a western environment. The concepts derived from this short story are as follows.