The Stereotypes Of Asian Americans

for Asian immigrants was the Chinese Exclusion Act, discussed in Lowe’s text and in the Chinese immigration presentation. The Chinese Exclusion Act stopped Chinese laborers from emigrating for ten years and denied the Chinese from becoming naturalized U.S. citizens. Due to the immigrant exclusions and restrictions, Asian immigrants and Asian Americans lose their sense of identity. On page nine in Lowe’s text, she stated that Asian immigrants and Asian Americans “have also been subjects of the immigrant process and are agents of political change, cultural expression, and social transformation.” I agree with this statement, because it can be understandable how and why Asian immigrants had to change their ways and self. For example, since they had no voting rights, and couldn’t make political decisions, their opinions no longer mattered in the United States, so they get into the habit of no longer thinking about it. Because they had no rights, their cultural expression’s also changed because their opinions didn’t matter, likewise for their social transformation. Without being able to express your opinions, how can one hold onto their self identity? In my opinion, I believe that the Asian immigrants self identity changed as soon as they emigrated to the United States. Lowe contributes to my opinion through her study on Omi and Winant observations on page ten in her text. Omi and Winant observe that “race is an

The structure of Kesaya E. Noda's essay “Growing Up Asian in America” facilitates the reader’s understanding of her bi-cultural experiences. The author begins by stating her thoughts on the prejudicial assumptions made by Americans ignorant of the author's culture. The author states early in the essay, “People would ask… Sometimes questions came making allusions to history… “Your parents were in California? Were they in those camps during the war?”. Noda reflects on the historical significance of Japanese immigrants and Japanese- American culture, describing the obstacles these Asian immigrants had to face. She also describes how American opinion on immigration changed once Asian newcomers demanded higher wages, and how these weren't

Of all the problems Asian Americans face that Ronald Takaki mentioned, it seems that the “Yellow Peril”, “Bamboo Ceiling”, and “Model Minority” are the major issues. The hysteria of Asians are going to takeover the United States is such arrogance. In addition, the notion that Asian Americans are having the most success in America is completely overblown. Moreover, the misrepresentations that all Asian Americans are not leaders or have poor communication tendencies are wrong. These stereotypes have negatively affected Asian Americans and it still being used today. Ronald Takaki believes that those three major issues “Yellow Peril”, “Bamboo Ceiling”, and “Model Minority” are cause of Asian Americans discrimination.

Though Asians make up the largest portion of the world’s population, Asian-Americans are one of the least represented minority groups within the United States. Out of an estimated 318 million people living in the U.S., Asians account for 5.2%, or approximately 17 million people. Compared to Hispanics at 54 million and African-Americans at 42 million, Asians and/or Asian-Americans are vastly outnumbered by the two other major minority groups and even more so by the majority, European-Americans. Even though Asians are typically considered the “model minority”, they are faced with the same issues that plague many other minority groups within the U.S. today to include stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination and ethnocentrism. There has been a history of discriminatory national policies directed at the immigration of Asians to the U.S. and in times of duress, the labeling and targeted institutional discrimination of specific ethnicities of Asian-Americans as traitors based solely on country of origin and not on the deeds and actions of said U.S. citizens (Japanese internment camps of World War II).

Throughout the day, many of us use stereotypes some noticed able than others; yet we do not know the affects they have on the person said to. The issue I want to get through is that we all go through most racial stereotypes every day not knowing it effects our health. People most affected racial stereotypes are Hispanics, Africans and Asian Americans, but how did they get those. Out of all the races in the United States Asian American have higher expectations compared to any other ethnics. Why are Asian American expectations so high? The positive stereotypes can make them stress even more than a negative stereotypes. Many race live up to stereotypes thinking that they have to be the stereotype even if it is negative because that is what people expect. Asians Americans are labeled minority model causing them stress that pressures them, to achieve higher expectations.

When discussing the significance of war on Asian American communities, it is important to consider the effects of World War II. Largely regarded as one of the most international and important conflicts in American history, World War II involved America and the Allied powers fighting against the Axis powers. The experiences of Asian Americans at the time take on two different sides: while many Asian American groups such as the Chinese were able to gain more liberties under new legislation, Japanese-Americans were subject to discrimination and incarceration. These two experiences may seem separate from one another, but they both illustrate the process of race reconfiguration at the time. The race reconfiguration occurring during World War II

In 1942, during the early stages of the second World War, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt set in place Executive Order 9066 in response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The executive order allowed American citizens of Japanese descent to be banned from certain areas deemed critical for American national security and granted Japanese internment camps to be used during the war (Konkoly, “Korematsu v. United States”). Fred Korematsu was a Japanese American living in California at the time when the order went into action who was well aware that he would soon be removed from his home as it was in a critical part of the nation but was set on staying in his home. When the order did come for Korematsu to remove himself from his home, he refused and was convicted for disobeying the law. Fred Korematsu knew that if he resisted the law his chances of being arrested and brought to court were very high, but he believed that Executive Order 9066 violated his Fourteenth Amendment and he was willing to risk arrest to protest the violation of his civil

The Asian American immigrants are part of the ethnic and racial groups in the United States who lives in the continent of Asia. Asian have lived in the United States for a long time. Throughout the history, Asian Americans have encountered segragation and discrimination during the periods of changes in demographics, economic recession, and war. They have been discriminated by school policies and practices due to beign different. Paul Spickard (2007) has said that Asian Americans was an idea invented in the 1960s to bring together Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino Americans for political purposes. Later, other

American's success is exaggerated to a great extent, and does not fit the "model minority" most

Chapter one of the The Contemporary Asian American Experience: Beyond the Model Minority, provides a great overview of the Asian American immigration history to U.S. and the aspects leading to the arrival of refugees from Asian countries. Since the early 1800s, hundreds of thousands of Asians have been migrating to America. As with many other immigrants, they were viewed as low class workers. Asian immigrants had very dangerous and low paid jobs that the majority of whites did not want to do. As a result, many white employers took advantage and exploited them. What strikes me the most is that Asian Americans participated in very important jobs but they were not recognized for their crucial contribution to the prosperity of the United States.

In the early twentieth century, Asian Americans in the United States faced to lots of obstacles. Since they lived in a “different shore”, they were treated as unassimilable people, and therefore, they experienced many unequal and discriminative treatments. Both Asian Americans lived in Hawaii and the mainland lived in unbearable life under racial discrimination. However, due to geographical and ethnic differences, Asian Americans in the mainland had more difficult time, since majority of the United States’ population were white people. Asian Americans in the mainland had an intense competition with white working class. In other words,

Asian immigrants in the history of United States had a hard time gaining legal citizenship. For instance, the Naturalization Act of 1790 excluded both free blacks and Asian Americans from U.S. citizenship, while the 1870 revision expanded the white racial qualification to include “aliens of African nativity and to persons of African descent,” keeping aliens of Asian origin excluded. Even under harsh conditions, Asian immigrants did not give up attempting to be naturalized after 1870. However, it is remarkable that no Asian immigrants sought naturalized citizenship by claiming that they were Blacks. Instead, they learned the strategy to cast themselves as Whites while applying for U.S. citizenship. This noteworthy historical phenomena

As you mentioned, I also think the stereotype of Asian Americans being perfect stem from the Asian culture itself that values on hard work and academic success. Because of this cultural value, Asian American parents expect their children to be a ‘straight As’ student and enter an elite college. In the past, as a minority in the U.S., the Asian Americans had to work harder than anyone in order to fully exert their power in the society. Having a better education and high-paid job have been the best way to get recognition from others, therefore, they have been focusing on academic accomplishment for better life. The stereotype of Asian Americans being geeky or nerdy shown in American films can be the portrayal of this American Asian cultural value.

Ronald Takaki, an academic scholar who helped pioneer the field of ethnic studies, quoted American politician Norman Mineta in Takaki’s book titled Strangers from a Different Shore. “When one hears Americans tell of the immigrants who built this nation, one is led to believe that all our forebearers [sic] came from Europe. When one hears stories about the pioneers going west to shape the land, the Asian immigrant is rarely mentioned” [Takaki 27]. Many history books leave out the role that Asian American immigrants played in the history of this nation such as the thousands that “helped to build the very transcontinental railroad referred to in the magazine’s announcement and [the] many that settled permanently in California” [Takaki 28]. American history has almost equated the term “American” with “white” or “European” and by doing so leave out the role that Asian Americans have played within the development of America. Now one must rethink the history of America but this time include the Asian American to fully understand the cultural diversity that led to the America known to the world today. The experiences of the various Asian groups- Korean, Japanese, Filipino, Asian Indian, and Southeast Asian- are all very different from each other, yet similar when conducting a cross-national comparison of these different groups of Asian

Asian American are face some types of stereotypes in today’s society, and it may produce by media or historical propaganda. For example, from the economic views, the Asian American should be successful than other race. From the education view, the Asian American kids should be smart, good at the math or engineer etc. particularly, the stereotype of the Asian women we can easy discover in the media, such as the Hollywood movies. the Asian American actresses are viewed as sexual and erotic objects of the society. From the history, most the Asian American actresses limit in the roles, such as "Dragon Lady", and "China Doll", in addition, both two role's characteristics represent sexual and erotic nature of Asian women. Even in today, these stereotypical