The Stereotypes Associated With East Asian American Youths

However, the incessant hovering and excessive involvement from Asian parents can add tremendous pressure and stress onto young Asians. In the Daily Collegian News, Penn State sophomore Trevor Hsu expresses, “It puts pressure on Asian [students] themselves to fit that stereotype…they can feel that they let themselves [and their families] down because they have not achieved the level of excellence that the stereotype has set.” (qtd. in Dailey). Because they feel guilty and shameful, many Asian students are reluctant to admit to their parents and teachers that they have difficulties with class works and assignments as much as their non-Asian classmates and consequently, they do not received the support they need to improve their performance.

To be young and Asian in America is a special brand of torture. There is an unspoken dictum of silence that grips Asian youth, a denial of our place in popular culture. Asian youth walk in America not quite sure where we fit in-black children have a particular brotherhood, Hispanic children have a particular brotherhood, white children own everything else. We cannot lay claim to jazz or salsa or swing; we cannot say our ancestors fought for equality against an oppressive government or roamed the great hallways of power across the globe. We do not have a music, a common hero, a lexicon of slang. Asian youth experience personal diasporas every day.

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 it is entirely different than western or American. With that being noted, I began to learn and adapt to the western culture in hopes of fitting with society as well of trying to keep my Asian culture intact. As can be seen, this situation I dealt with is the same problem the whole Asian American community faces. Mainly focusing on younger generations like me for example, the Asian American community struggles to adapt to the western culture because they were raised with an Asian influence. Wishing to fit in society and be part of the social norms, the Asian Americans community faces issues that identify their cultural identity.

Besides income, it is primarily measured in education, low crime rates and high family stability. For decades, Asian Americans are recognized as the most favorable and well known demographic to be the “model minority,” suggesting that as a whole range; they’re more academically, economically, and socially successful than any other racial minority group due to their presumed cultural values that affirm hard work, strong family values, and so

Although they are the “fastest growing ethnic group” in America, Asian Americans are still not prominent in mainstream media (Zhang 20). Just like every other racial group, they have their own stereotypes. Unfortunately, due to this underrepresentation, there are few instances where people openly speak against these racial stereotypes. In the article “Why Is It Still Okay to Make Fun of Asians?,” Elaine Teng mentioned Chris Rock’s performance at the Oscars. He joked about three common Asian stereotypes, something that people still find socially acceptable to make fun of. American Born Chinese brings up many common Asian American stereotypes and shows how the characters respond to these “jokes.”

In this new day and age Asians are assimilating way better in America and they are definitely getting more involved with politics showing to be significant campaign donors for starters. Asians have been thriving quite positively due to their previous circumstances. Thus, Asian Americans are seen as a model minority in which their characteristic of hardworking and motivation that display the reasons of their achievements, leading them one step further to assimilation. Moreover, negative stereotypes of Asian American are turned to positive stereotypes, mostly, yet there are potential prejudice and discrimination still faced by this race, today. Especially, there are many ideas conditioned into people's minds about the culture or beliefs of Japanese

The period between 1920s and 1930s saw the second generation of Asian American coming of age. Since the second generation was born in America, they were Americanized as American and they got U.S. education in English. Thus, they had totally different cultures and views with their parents. This difference causes inner conflicts between the first and second generation and there was also a language barrier within their homes and families. The first generation expected their children to live as same as they act and think. However, the second generation consider parents’ life the obsolete ways and ideas. This phenomenon was actually very natural and obvious. Modernized American education at that time let them grow to dislike conventionality and

A key disagreement between Asian-American parents and their children is the precise age to start dating. Parents and children also differ greatly when it comes to singling out the appropriate pool of prospective partners. The traits of a romantic partner also differ widely especially on the appropriate religious or cultural background. Shenhav, Campos & Goldberg (2016) show that immigrants from collectivistic societies and those of recent immigrant groups to the US often report parental influence on dating choices. This is different from immigrants from individualistic societies as well as later immigrant generations born within the US. Nevertheless, young people from the same collectivist societies (especially Chinese-Americans among Asian-Americans)

The United States of America is commonly known as a melting pot of different cultures and groups. Due to extensive immigration from numerous countries since the 1800’s, American society is characterized to be culturally diverse. Asian-Americans, who have a rich history in the United States, have positively blended into the American society with their inborn cultures. Asian-Americans have been identified as the largest group of immigrants with high levels of income and proper education. However, American society has traditionally been conservative and didn’t have particular interests for Asian-Americans. Instead, Asian-Americans were secluded from the activities of white conservatives and were labeled as a separate group altogether. Thus, in

They are more involved with their studies, and take them more seriously. This is because the parents of the Asian children take the child’s education the a higher degree, and do not except lower than when they believe their child can achieve; mover, the parents of Asian-Americans expect more from their young. This is mentioned by Hsin and Xie in their paper ‘Explaining Asian Americans’ Academic Advantage Over Whites’, “It is widely documented that Asian-American parents hold higher educational expectations for their children than white native-born parents. Also in contrast to white American parenting, some scholars argue that Asian-American parenting fosters greater interdependence and collectivism within the family, which helps Asian-American parents to more easily inculcate values such as high educational expectations and strong work ethic in their children” (Hsin & Xie,

At last, Asian American are victims of cultural stereotypes. For example, it is told “that they practice martial arts”, “eat cats and dogs,” and “try to look European”.

Americans have stereotypes and labels placed on Asians and Asian-Americans. This is also true vice versa. Most stereotypes originate from media. In Hollywood, Asians are usually portrayed as the nerdy or geeky friends. They are also mostly casted as minor roles like being extras. Asians are also underrepresented in media, like Hollywood. Even in movies that are of Asian origin, there are very little Asians who are part of the main cast. For example, in Kubo and the Two Strings, there is only one Asian cast member in the movie that places in ancient Japan. There is also the upcoming movie Ghost in the Shell. It is originally written as a manga, which is Japanese comics, and as an anime, a Japanese cartoon. There are Asian actors who could have

Growing up as a member of a Chinese household in a mostly Asian dominant society is vastly different from an average suburban American lifestyle, I became aware of this when I moved from my Asian dominant society of Daly City to a Caucasian and Latino majority of Napa.To start off, both of my parents immigrated from Hong Kong in need of a new life for their siblings and parents and to escape the violence from their homeland- Cultural Revolution and Communist Revolution of 1949. From this incident , both me and my older brother were the first in our average family to be born in the U.S .

Asian parents: the concept brings lots of assumptions and stereotypical ideas to people. Asian parents are scary. Asian parents are strict. Asian parents raise the perfect A+ children who excel in anything and everything. True but not quite true. It is easy to assume all those from the outside looking in, but if people took a chance to look closer, even generations back, they’d see the truth behind the strict upbringing of the Asian households, ran by love. Historically and even today, Asian - even Asian-American - children, have been perceived to be restricted - both socially and psychologically - and oppressed by their strict, traditional Asian moms, and even dads, thus making them puppets on a string and hard-working robots, shielded away from having to make their own mistakes or wasting their time away at nonsense past-times such as slumber parties. But the truth behind this “tiger-mom” and ridiculously strict parenting style is due to historical tradition, culture, and a parent’s love for their child and wants for them to succeed.

Many times, Asian Americans/Indians come to the United States with a great background in education, but sometimes they may come to America "as refugees from war-torn countries with interrupted studies" (Ariza, p. 123, 2009). When incorporating Asian Americans/Indians into my classroom, I also need to understand their culture and where they come from. To Asian American students, "[f]amily welfare is considered more important than individual welfare, so failing in school will reflect on the family as a unit" (Ariza, p. 124, 2009). Koreans also believe the a "peer is someone who was born the same year" (Ariza, p. 131, 2009), so as a teacher, one might find it difficult getting Asian American students to connect to other students. By having students work in groups, this will help ease Asian American students into developing better connections and friendships. Asian American parents have expect the best from their children, which oftentimes causes stress on the