Asian Americans: The Ideal Asian American Community

Art is a way for the Asian artist to express their feelings with the viewers. The Asian culture uses art to convey the connection between people and nature in the form of brush painting and Japanese wood block printing. For instances, the Japanese wood block printing, The Great Wave created by Hokusai shows a large wave heading towards two boats. The artist leaves the art frozen, allowing the viewer to depict their own ending to the scenario. Art in the Asian-American culture incorporates nature

the past, Asians were invited for labor opportunities that allowed them to work in the United States for a short period of time because they were thought to be loyal workers. Once the Asians were no longer wanted, quotas were established to limit the arrival of new Asian immigrants. Anti-Asian sentiments have given the United States the opportunity to discriminate against Asian communities through a variety of laws. For example, within the 1940’s many vulgar images of Japanese Americans began to filter

the attitudes of non-Asian groups towards Asians who do not fit the stereotypical image of the cold, capable Asian. Her study shows that Asians described as warm experience more racial harassment than Asians described as cold, whereas employees of other backgrounds tended to experience less harassment if warm (147). The increased harassment warm Asians face is likely a response to a violation of the social norm rather than a more rational response to behavior, as colder Asians who conformed to societal

Growing up as an Asian American, I often struggle to identify my own cultural identity. Being the first generation of both my mother and father’s side of the family, I more than often get confused between American and Asian culture when applying them to society or at home. While being raised at home, I am largely influenced by culture and traditions from Asian parents and relatives. However, when I go to school or someplace else, I am heavily judged for practicing part of my Asian culture because

of the civil rights movement is often seen from one angle: and that is the African American civil rights movement towards racial equality. And though this movement had significant historical context in American history, the pursuits of other minorities such as the Asian American civil rights movement are often undermined and overlooked. Yet, the Asian American movement surpassed the efforts of the African American movement despite the social and cultural obstacles faced with integrating into a new

Historically, American politics has been revolved around one race from the beginning of the American political process. As Painter, Nell, Irvin (2010) has stated, it was clear that who counted as white in the political purposes and whiteness determined to be an American. The participation of the white race has been always higher in the American political process. However, Asian Americans faced barriers while attempting to engage in the American political process.First of all, Asian Americans has faced

It was third grade that I discovered that I wasn’t white. Don’t get me wrong, I was aware that I was Asian. I had a different culture at home from my friends. They didn’t eat rice nearly as often as I did. They didn’t see chopsticks as just another utensil for the table, but as an exotic tool. They didn’t speak Chinese at home. But race was never something that mattered in elementary school. People weren 't black, white, yellow. They were classmates, friends. That is, until Peter arrived. It was

The Common Wealth Fund is an organization that encompasses studies on racial and ethnic health disparities amongst blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, Asians and other ethnic minorities. The main results from the research are that adequate and intensive health care is not as predominant in these ethnic groups as it is for white individuals. Moreover, these conclusions are independent of the patient’s age, income, level of education and insurance membership. In order to pinpoint the upstream causes

Asian American actors and actresses are portrayed in Hollywood movies as always being the silent and yielding foreign victims to social injustice and prejudice. Whether or not these depictions are true, they are nonetheless stereotypes that Hollywood producers have come up with. According to the US Census in the year 2000, Asian Americans make up 4.2% of the entire American population, and knowing that most Asian Americans live on the west and east coast of the United States, many Americans living

cultural disparities between Asian and Western societies. The Asian-American community originates from Asia and thus first generation Asian-Americans mostly bear and abide to Asian norms and customs (Geary, 2004). These norms and customs especially apply to the institution of marriage and processes that entail it such as mate selection and preferences. Nevertheless, parental influence feature prominently in mate selection practices across a majority of Asian-American communities. This is through homogamy