...Asian Pacific Americans are portrayed in the media in a variety of contradictory stereotypes, ranging from the "model minority" at the head of his or her class in school, to the non-English-speaking welfare recipient who is a "drain on the system." Asians are also characterized in film as unscrupulous businessmen and cruel mobsters, or as compliant, submissive and exotic. One-dimensional portrayals, coupled with the absence of accurate images and positive role models, obstruct public understanding of the Asian American community, which can contribute to an anti-Asian climate. Despite the diversity among Asian Pacific Americans, they are often misperceived as a monolithic group. Thus, even though an act of anti-Asian sentiment might be perpetrated with a particular ethnic group in mind (e.g., Indian, Filipino or Korean), a failure to make distinctions between Asian Pacific American ethnic groups causes members of all groups to become potential victims of hate crimes. Hate incidents are expressions of hostility based on race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or disability. Hate incidents are not illegal. They may take the form of name-calling or using racial slurs, hate speech, the distribution of racist leaflets or other disrespectful behavior. Hate crimes are defined by federal or state statutes. A hate crime occurs when a person commits an act such as assault, battery, criminal damage to property, criminal trespass to property or mob action because of the victim's...
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...religions, and ethnicities have lived together for so long racism is still a factor. I believe it is time for an opened-minded approach to cultural diversity, when this is accomplished our society will accept all ethnicities without prejudice. I believe to overcome prejudice and racism the people and communities must take responsibility in educating themselves. Can this goal be reached, if so how? I believe if this issue became a priority the goal is a possibility; to achieve this goal will be extremely difficult, and must be addressed one person at a time. I live in Brooklyn, New York and I am lucky to have grown up in an area that has many different ethnicities and cultures. I also believe I am lucky to have been brought up in a family who has been able to see past a person’s color, nationality, or religious beliefs. New York is clearly is one of the most diverse cities in the world. According to the U.S. Census Bureau (2009), New York holds a population of almost nine million people; Brooklyn has a population of nearly 2.5 million people. Brooklyn’s culturally diverse population consists of 43.7% Whites, 38.1% African Americans, and 8.4% Asian Americans. In my community which is very diverse, prejudices still exist. Although the prejudices might not be as blatant, there are a few cultures and ethnic groups that tend to surround themselves with members of their own group. Most of the Catholics and Jews send their children to Catholic schools or Yeshivas; the reason being...
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...docile, and backed out of any sort of confrontation. Towards the end of their relationship, she and I had a long talk about her crumbling love life. She talked about how it was difficult to be herself around her boyfriend, saying things like,’ he hates it when I talk back or argue with him’ or ‘he always says that I should be more feminine and cute’. In the end, I advised for her to break-up with him because this man did not see her as an individual but instead saw her through the lens of ‘Yellow Fever’. ‘Yellow Fever’ or having a fetish for Asian women is a long standing problem for women in the Asian community. In Youtuber Anna Akana’s video, she states that a man with ‘yellow fever’ will “look at you and … only see school girls or sexual geishas”. But is ‘Yellow Fever’ just the fault of white men? Or do Asian women also help perpetuate this idea to society? By looking into the history of the sexualization of Asian women, we can pinpoint where the fault lies, if there is any, and how it affects the women of the Asian community. So who is to blame for the problem of ‘Yellow Fever’? I believe that the problem lies within the media. Though the media is a huge part of the problem, there is also the issues that lie between the white man and the Asian woman. Firstly, there truly is plenty of exotification of Asian American women by white American men. I believe that most...
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...different theories for how a child develops and why they it happens this way. Not all types of children develop in the same way. Your location, what school you attend what type of parents you have and etc. can determine how you develop. Also your ethnicity or race can affect how you develop and “grow up”. What I am interested in learning more about is how Asian American parents help their child develop and why it is seen as if African American children don’t strive or have the motivation to succeed as well as Asian American children. Although this may be a stereotype, it is what I see a lot; from my own experiences and from how the media portrays this. When I say media, I mean the news and movies. I want to find out what these two parents are doing differently and how we can get both groups of kids to succeed equally. What I am trying to focus my research on are children from African American families and Asian families. I want to focus on these two groups because they seem like they are on two different spectrums of learning ways. I don’t know this for sure yet. What I think is that Asian parents are a maybe stricter than African American parents. While some African American parents may just want their child to graduate from high school, Asian parents may want their child to finish high school, college, and graduate school. These things do depend on the environment of the family and the how much money the family makes and other factors can affect the child’s development...
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...inequality based on race. Phil Scraton and Kathryn Chadwick, apply this idea to the way that black people are treated as 'muggers' is conirmation of the assumption that immigrants belong to a culture of criminality. They argue that this view is prevalent in media coverage and political commentaries. They also argue that and ideological construction of black criminality have influence differential policing and discriminatory punishment in specific neighbourhoods. They argue that criminalisation goes hand in hand with marginalisation. That policing and the targeting of particular communities have marginalised black people. Legitimate Opportunity- American Dream+ Illigitimate Opportunity- Merton MacPherson Report (1999) Police institutionally racist Waddinton 2004 - published in the british journal of criminology argues that the police do stop s proportionately higher number of blacks compared to whites. However, he argues that there are more ethnic minority youths out at night in inner cities and that the policcce simply target those in high risk areas. If the areas is disproportionatly represented by young black males they are more likey to be stopped and searched- because of where they are rather than their ethnicity. How might the reasons below explain high criminality in Afro-Caribbeans? Reason- Lack of education success. Explanation- Frustration, achieving success through...
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...also unified by a common religious background | Part II Select at least 1 religious and 1 ethnic/racial group not your own from the list below. • Religious groups (based on http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/affiliations-all-traditions.pdf) o Christianity • Evangelical Protestant • Mainline Protestant • Historically Black Churches • Roman Catholic • Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) • Jehovah’s Witnesses • Orthodox (Greek, Eastern) o Judaism (Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform) o Buddhism (Theravada or Mahayana) o Islam (Sunni, Shia, Sufism) o Hinduism • Racial/Ethnic groups (based on divisions in U.S. Census Bureau documents) o Asian (Asian descent) o Black (African descent)...
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...The initial research topic was to focus on the mainstream media representation of model minority myth within the Asian American Community, but the broad scope and definition creates a challenge of conveying a personalize message through digital photography. The revised topic illustrates the mental stress and problems created from the model minority myth and cultural tensions. “[The Model Minority Myth] theory offered a promise of equality that could be achieved, not through political organization and community empowerment, but only through individual effort, cultural assimilation, and political accommodation.” (Robert Lee 268) The stereotypes characteristics of a hardworking immigrants, obedient members of society,...
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...Therefore, your proposal should include basic information about who you are interviewing. Make sure that your proposal clearly answers the following: (Integrate these answers in your paragraphs; don't make a list of your questions and answers.) What are you going to write about? Why did you choose this topic? Based on your topic, what are the main issues you will explore? What is the thesis (or the tentative thesis) of your final paper? Who are you interviewing for your paper? Why? What are your other sources? (Remember that there should be at least two sources in addition to your interview.) What do you intend to prove with this paper? What, in your view, is the relevance of your topic? I am going to write about being Asian and more specifically being Chinese in a particular part of the United States in the 21st century. I will explore the perception that some non-Chinese people have of Chinese people in the US and also explore the pros and cons, in terms of public perception, of being Chinese. I chose this topic because this would be a good study of stereotypes, as well as a venue to express the truth about my identity. The ttentative thesis of my final paper is to find the truth about my identity, it includes three parts, the first part is the perception that some non-Chinese people have of Chinese people in the...
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...Culture & Disease Paper Dipali Patel HCS 235 July 09, 2012 Culture & Disease Paper Hepatitis is a viral disease that affects people of all ethnic groups, races and various religious backgrounds. However, compared to the other racial or ethnic groups’ Asian population are more likely to be a higher risk to inheriting the disease than any other racial or ethnic group. The subject of discussion in this paper is how Hepatitis propagates making the Asian population in particular at risk to this disease (U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2012). What is Hepatitis? Hepatitis is the swelling of the liver that makes it to stop working well. There are five main types of known Hepatitis, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis D and Hepatitis E (U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2012). Liver is organ of the body that is responsible for the variety of functions such as Detoxifications, store vitamins, maintain production of the biochemical needed by one’s body for digestion, and maintain the proper glucose levels in the body. The liver is also responsible in production of certain hormones required by the human body, and production of urea the main substance present in the urine. Hepatitis is a viral infection caused by a virus that attacks the liver leading to inflammation and demising its ability to perform the...
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...even magazines like it, but instead represents a larger trend that is present in all forms of Western popular culture. In the various mediums of popular culture, ideologies about female beauty are exceedingly prevalent and constantly managed and reproduced. These ideologies carry with them the notion that in order to obtain ideal female beauty one must be very thin, young, have long hair, and wear expensive or revealing clothing (Stern, 2004). In addition to this there is also a raced definition of beauty, which predominates Western popular culture and dictates that White women with light hair and eye color can only attain true beauty. By looking closely at fashion magazines, television shows, movies and advertisements it is easy to see how Asian, Black and Latina women are underrepresented and misrepresented; and more importantly beauty is not typically associated with these and other nonwhite races. The power and importance of popular culture in today’s society has further supported beauty ideologies that are racialized. Feminist and cultural scholars have often...
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...frightening or somehow inferior in the eyes of individuals who have already completely assimilated themselves culturally into the pre-existing social strata of the region in which they inhabit. In other words, orientalism is a social “virus” that is often perpetuated, or “spread”, by fear of the unknown; a virus which insidiously promotes discrimination and segregation based off differences in both culture and appearance, flourishes amongst the ignorant and is prevalent throughout both America’s distant and recent history, as well as in the archives of world history. A parent to ignorance and the culprit to the divisive vices of racial prejudice of all creeds, a lack of sufficient education, along with blatant disregard for one’s global community, is the underlying reason why Orientalism is a recurring theme in history that has yet to be abolished entirely. However, there exist scholars and filmmakers, such as Le Espiritu, Sucheng Chan, Wakako Yamauchi, etcetera, who give hope to the fight against such ignorance by using their work to inform and educate the public in order to challenge such stereotypes and atrocious ways of thinking. In order to effectively and efficiently push against orientalism in today’s age of information, and secure a future for future generations in which no one racially profiles one another, discriminates against anyone else based on racial profiling, or constructs social barriers that belittle and...
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...person affecting how they behave and act around those people who are different. Where over time, as a society we start to see “difference” as unacceptable or wrong, which can tear apart a community. As a community, we need to re-educate one another on valuing differences between people groups and the best place to start is at schools, with our next generation. Schools in America are so diverse...
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...Part I Define the following terms: |Term |Definition | |Stereotypes |Unreliable, exaggerations about all members of a certain, gender, race, ethnicity and/or culture. | | |Doesn’t take individual differences into account | |Prejudice |A negative way of thinking, toward an entire group of people of race, gender, ethnicity and/or | | |culture. | |Labeling theory |The theory is how self-identity of ones self could be determined by the terms used to describe them,| | |their stereotype. | Part II Select three of the identity categories below and name or describe at least 3 related stereotypes for each: Race Ethnicity Religion Gender Sexual orientation Age Disability |Category |Stereotype 1 |Stereotype 2 |Stereotype 3 | |Race |White people cant dance, don’t |Hispanics are all illegal |All native Americans love to | | |have rhythm. ...
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...The dominant image of Asian Americans as high achievers can be traced back to 1966 when Time Magazine (Peterson, 1960) and U.S. News and World Report (1966) reported on the ability of Japanese- and Chinese-Americans to achieve success in the face of the same adversities declared by proponents of the civil rights movement (Tran and Birman 2010). Direct experiences are pervasive, with research showing that over 99 % of Asian American adolescents have had at least one encounter in which they felt like they were being stereotyped as a model minority (Thompson and Kiang 2010). Yet, despite its prevalence and commonality, the developmental implications of the model minority stereotype are not well-understood. Most of the existing research has been...
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...Asian American Population Project Name:_Janice Reynolds_Unit 6, Korn_Leslie_ Capella University COUNS 5334 March 14, 2011 Janice Reynolds Abstract This Asian American Population project will critically evaluate the theories, methods and research in cross-cultural awareness that relates to the Asian American Population. This Asian American Population project t will analyzed the influence of culture on attitudes, values, perceptions, human behavior and the interpersonal relations to the Asian American Population. The writer will identify potential problem that Asian Americans encounter in a pluralistic society such as the United States of America. The personal competencies will be identified and analyzed to improve interaction with Asians American within a counseling professional setting. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Title Page 1 2. Abstract 2 3. Introduction 4 4. Define Asian American 5 5. Historical Antecedents 6 6. Potential Problems 7 7. Educational Reflection 8 8. Personal Competencies 8 10. Theories Identity Formation 9 11. Action Plan 10 12. References 11 13. Annotated Bibliography 12 In Espiritu (1992) as the United States becomes an increasingly diverse society, the need for understanding the psychological impact of the immigrant and second-generation experience...
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