Essay on Asian Women in the Eyes of Americans

Throughout history, interracial relations have had a big impact within the Asian American community. There was an increase in the number of interracial relationships, particularly between Asian women and American soldiers as they served overseas in Asian countries and spent time in military bases. The War Brides Act of 1945 allowed U.S servicemen to bring their alien brides and families to the U.S following World War II. In 1947, an amendment made it possible for U.S soldiers to bring their Japanese and Korean wives. After that enactments, thousands of women from Korea, Japan, China, Vietnam, and the Philippines came to the U.S as war brides. Often these women were looked down upon, were seen as “tainted”, and were shunned. These relationships changed the demographic population of the Asian American community because there was a bigger population of mixed raced children. These

Nevertheless, Asian-American stars are recognized extremely played prototypical roles offered to them – model minority, sexualized the female or masculine women. There is much argument within the Asian American community whether to consider Liu as a protagonist or a hateful. In playing highlighting sexuality roles such as Ling Woo on Ally McBeal, a role who is a ‘self-described “tramp” … simultaneously addicted to casual sex and uses sex to have her way with men’ (Goldsea.com 2008). Is she bolstering the sexploitation of Asian females, or is she an Asian image who plays her strong points? Moreover, there are already some problems in the critical writing as to whether Liu is to be considered an action star or an actor. Some argues that, in Charlie’s Angels

The Fifteen-Year War was a time of great turmoil and uncertainty in Japan. Various facets of the country were tested and driven to their limits. During the occupation, race and gender began to evolve in ways that had not exactly be seen before. War had a tremendous impact on every part of the life of a Japanese citizen. Both men and women began to fill roles that were completely novel to them. Race became a part of the definition of who people were. As the war progressed and American troops landed on Japanese soil for occupation, more drastic changes occurred. Economic hardship and rations befell the people of the Land of the Rising Sun. Prostitution began to rear its ugly head and rape transpired. Through memory, research, and vivid

Despite Korea and Japan’s current relationship that is cordial to a certain degree, the effect of the brutal regime Japan established on Korea is yet a contentious issue. Bruce Cumings, an American historian of East Asia claims, “Koreans never saw the Japanese rule as anything but illegitimate and humiliating,” and this commonly held belief exists for a reason. During the Japanese occupation, thousands of comfort women, students, and civilians were tormented and tortured by the Japanese; however, this crucial period of time shaped Korea’s future significantly. It is therefore vital to question what exactly Korea benefited from the Japanese occupation, and consider whether the positive outcomes outweighs the negative. Was it really colonialism, or could the years be considered as a time of modernization? Perhaps it was both, or perhaps there exists a very fine line between the two beliefs. Many evidences manifest Korea’s development in various essential aspects such as education, tenancy, industrialization, and modernization in communication and transportation, but there are also evidences proving that the occupation was rather unfavorable. Although many argue that the arduous period of 35 years for the Korean civilians served rather an auspicious time for Korea’s future, when weighing both sides of the argument, Korea in truth did not benefit significantly during the occupation.

     The focus of our group project is on Chinese Americans. We studied various aspects of their lives and the preservation of their culture in America. The Chinese American population is continually growing. In fact, in 1990, they were the largest group of Asians in the United States (Min 58). But living in America and adjusting to a new way of life is not easy. Many Chinese Americans have faced and continue to face much conflict between their Chinese and American identities. But many times, as they adapt to this new life, they are also able to preserve their Chinese culture and identity through various ways. We studied these things through the viewing of a movie called Joy Luck Club,

Asian Stereotypes are everywhere in our society. Racial stereotypes often arise from fear of the unknown. In the history of the different forms stereotypes often result from prejudice. It helps to explain why people tend to think that Asians do not drive well. But the statistics do not show this conclusion, also why blacks are more likely to be arrested or shot by the police. Specific racial stereotypes tend to have cultural background, while other racial stereotypes are simply due to the oversimplification of complex information.

In her 1997 anthology, Shah uses her selection of essays to effectively develop the necessity of an Asian-American feminist movement and create dialogue about what that would look like. This anthology is for the activist, remaining grounded in practicality rather than theory.

Many historians have addressed the issue of military prostitution during Japan’s imperial rule and the United States role in it during their reign. For roughly 50 years’ comfort women were the silent victims of war. During the 1990’s and 2000’s many Korean comfort women came into the lime light by opening up about their experiences in the comfort system. The Feminist Studies journal published Na Young Lee’s scholarly work, “The Construction of Military Prostitution in South Korea during the U.S. Military Rule, 1945-1948”, in which the author argues the view held by Korean feminist NGO’s in light to the Untied States responsibility for the eradication of the prostitution system is exaggerated. In addition, Lee adds that it not only

The comfort women issue was ignored in the society more than 60 years. They were raped, and killed without any proper reason. Even after the Japanese surrendered in the war, the victims could not stand out to the public because of the society’s perception toward the comfort women. Now, only few people among over the 200,000 victims are still alive. The survived comfort women still get suffered from the past experiences, but the Japanese government does not give a sincere apology to them. Comfort women is a war crime that Japan did during the war and tried to conceal. It is not only a problem of South Korea and Japan, but also a trouble in the human rights. Evan, an activist who has worked with the comfort women movement for more than a decade,

This paper is a review of the book Japan’s Comfort Women-Sexual slavery and prostitution during WWII and the US occupation by Yuki Tanaka. This book was published in 2002 by Routledge. The book deals with the thousands of Japanese, Korean, Chinese and other Asian and European women who were victims of organized sexual violence and prostitution by means of “comfort stations” setup by the Japanese military during World War II.

Many men find Asian women absolutely beautiful, but it is often a mystery for men who are not Asian themselves to know how to attract Asian women. Actually, it isn’t as hard as you might imagine. Invest some time and training, put in some effort, and soon you’ll have no trouble figuring out the trick of picking up Asian females. Above all, forget about having your own personal Geisha when learning how to attract Asian women. An unfortunate stereotype of Asian women tends to be that of exotic dancers, prostitutes, Geishas or peasants (mostly in films that depict war).

The comfort women issue has been an ongoing dispute for more than seventy years now. The role of comfort women in WWII was to raise the morale of soldiers by providing services. It is estimated that less than a quarter of the comfort women survived the ordeal, however the exact number is not recorded. Since then, Japan has decided to remain silent in order to avoid any conflicts or issues. The comfort women issue didn’t become acknowledged until the 1990s when comfort women started to testify in court. There are now people who are rising to conclude the comfort women issue, and making the issue public. People are now demanding that Japan apologizes for what they have done and request compensation to the victims. To this day, Japan still refuses

A: It is universally accepted that violence against women in areas of armed conflict is an abuse of basic human rights. However, despite efforts led by the United Nations and the governments of different countries plagued by this issue, little has been done to resolve this atrocity. There are many different categories that the aforementioned can be placed into, but perhaps the most abhorrent violation of human rights is the use of systemic abuse of women in wartime as a strategy to win a conflict. An example of such a strategy is the systematic mass rape of a society’s women, with the goal in mind of separating families, demoralizing civilians, and infecting them with various STDs.Often times, such women are cast out from their homes and societies because of their “impurity.” Especially during a time when there is already a dearth of resources and medical help due to the intensity of the armed conflict taking place, this cultural practice of neglecting sexually abused women contributes heavily to the suffering of women from this

Earth is bigger than what most people think; it consists of 7 continents, 7 seas, and 196 different countries. Taking that into consideration, our earth currently is supporting over 7 billion people worldwide. That is 7 billion people who are different and individuals who share different thoughts, ideas, backgrounds, and cultures. Cultures are very unique as they are different from country to country. Some adopt cultures that society accept as the norm, while others adopt different types of cultures; cultures that not many people, especially those outside from the country, can see eye to eye and would sometimes find them rather ‘extreme’. When comparing Asian cultures and American cultures side by side, we can easily identify the many differences between the two. For one, Asian cultures are less open, more traditional and conservative in comparison to Americans. While Americans promote liberty, independence, and values individualism; Asian countries, on the other hand, are more fixated in keeping to the custom. Knowing this, it is not surprising to see Asian countries have a more rigid and structured form of society compared to the Western counterparts. The values, business structures and even priorities are different between the two and can easily be distinguished. Singapore is a good example on the contrasting differences and representation of the Asian cultures.

The term “comfort women,” is a controversial term that refers to the estimated 200,000 women who were recruited by force or deception into performing sexual services to Japanese Imperial Army troops during World War II. Under the control of the Japanese military, about 80 percent of these young women came from Korea, but women from China, the Philippines,Taiwan,Indonesia, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, East Timor, India, Guam and the Netherlands were also victims. were brutally beaten, raped, forced into prostitution and held prisoner across Asia. Throughout Asia, they were help captive as sex slaves and were continuously sexually assaulted. “Comfort stations” is the phrase used to describe the military brothels where the comfort women were held and forced to provide sexual services to many officers and their men. Comfort stations were typically located near the military camps in which Japanese troops were located. These military operated brothels were in Japan, the Philippines, China, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Thailand etc. An estimated 30 percent of comfort women survived the traumatic torture they endured in these comfort stations.