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Being Asian Americans Essay

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Our country forgot about Asian Americans in their policy during the recent political debates. In the recent election, there were few mentions of Asian-American issues in the United States. Does that mean that Asian American lives are great and having a luxurious and leisure life? The answer is no, Asian Americans today are overshadowed by other issues such as illegal immigration issues, growing the economy, or global issues. Asian Americans don’t have a clear way to the political areas because many people view Asian Americans as a foreigner and because we are new immigrants to the country.
Not only that, some of the Asian Americans don’t speak English well to have the courage to interact with people about their political area or choose to go vote. Also, because of the typical Asian American stereotype, they are always …show more content…

I believe there will be movement soon where Asian Americans will be advocating for their conditions and misconceptions about their ethnicity. There are so many Asian Americans from different countries but everyone considers us as one ethnic group which is “Asians”. I believe educating young children to high school students the different Asian cultures would help them to understand the specific Asian cultures and possibly end the misconception and the stereotypes. With the education, there should be a more Asian-American speaker who openly speaks of his or her culture would benefit the Asian Americans because I believe Asian American teenagers need to look up to someone to be inspired and be encouraged to follow their dreams and ignore the stereotypes. I believe their potential will be revealed if there is a powerful speaker that comes to their community to talk and make a powerful speech. Asian Americans have possible to become powerful and good leaders, and to accomplish is that is by educating and giving them inspiring

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