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    and Asian Americans Many ethnic groups reside and persist in America. Minority groups are misunderstood and undervalued in today’s society. There are many cultures, history, social relations, religious traditions, and linguistic aspects enduring in our country because of our abundant diversity. Two minority groups that are misconstrued are African Americans and Asian Americans. These two groups of people have many differences, but also have a few commonalities. African Americans and Asian Americans

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    11/2/2016 Do Asians’ rights be ignored in America? When I search “Asian rights in America” on Google, there are almost 68400000 search results. But if I search “Black people rights in America”, there are about 90800000 search results online. It is obviously that there are some differences between these two values and what reason causes this different? Why people focus more attention on black people’s rights not on Asians’ rights? You may say that it’s maybe because the number of Asians is smaller

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    I. Introduction The “China Doll” stereotype is a kind of stereotype wherein the west portrays the East Asian girls as a sexual object. Being diminutive, permissive, and coy are three main things the west sees in eastern women. This stereotype is not new, for it has been going on for 200 years. It began when Marco Polo began his journey. Aside from that, in 1839, in the opium war, these women were exported to the west. In the late 1800’s, French naval officer Pierre Loti loved writing about his trips

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    Flower Drum Song Analysis

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    believed that if Asians were casted in the film, it would not be as good as they did view Asians as inferior in every way including in the performing arts. Even when Asians actors were casted to play Asian roles, Asian Americans would go out of their way not to watch. David Henry Hwang, who would later go on to write his own version of Flower Drum Song, said as a young man growing up in the sixties, watching how Asian characters were featured made him feel “icky”. All the Asian characters that he

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    Why I Chose This Picture

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    when I first moved to South Dakota. As my picture shows, I was one of the very few Asians at my school, and it was not easy trying to simply blend in. Humans may collectively condemn judgments based on skin color, but it really is inevitable for visual creatures like ourselves. Though my white classmates did not show their sentiments outright, they regarded me as an outsider. They were not familiar with the Asian culture or people, so they took the convenient route to figure out my identity – stereotyping

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    In a recent article authored by Alice Pung, a first generation Australian of Southeast Asian parents, titled ‘Living with Racism in Australia (Pung 2016), Alice details key points within her (and her families) life revolving around their migration from Cambodia to Australia. Within this she touches on, albeit briefly however still illustrating her point quite clearly, immigration, race/racism, assimilation, ethnic minorities, ethnic conflict and social cohesion. In times of recession, or where people’s

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    Immigration to the US

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    many Asian immigrants that come to the United States in hopes of living out their American dream of becoming United States citizens. My parents came here exactly for that same reason, so they can give my sisters and I the opportunity to live a better life. We were fortunate enough to have our relatives help us get here, making it a little less difficult for us compared to other families that took a different path to becoming citizens. However, it was not always this easy for an Asian immigrant

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    Civilizations are constructed and inhabited by people. No matter where they come from, the color of their skin or the language they speak they have the right to coexist. Immigrants from all around the world have come to one great nation to live the dream. America was founded by immigrants which today are now naturalized citizens by birth and that have several generations of families. The American population will always continue to grow not with the naturalized births but with the arrival of immigrants

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    Backgrounds of Asian Americans Who are actually regarded as Asian Americans in the United States (U.S.)? Asian Americans as the public living in the United States are who self-distinguish as having Asian, in entire or in part, regardless of whether they are the U.S. or foreign born, a U.S. citizen or not, length of living residence, or in the U.S. legitimately and lawfully. Some people may say that all Asian Americans are same as just being Asians, but Asian Americans are not same as being Asians, at all

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    Cowboy Vs. Samurai

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    turn to “reference and reiterate the conventions of meaning that define communities, societies or nations” (Lee, 185). In Golamco’s fictional town of Breakneck, we are introduced to story of the two extremes in “performing” the Asian identity; Chester, the man in limbo, who poses all the “facial features, skin color…stature and build”

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