...service learning was going to Korean Language Tutor. It is hold on every Wednesday at 7:30 P.M at Student Union. I thoughts about social issue that my service learning addresses, and I have two social issues. First, Korean language tutor addresses the expensive cost of learning new languages. As I started to learn English and Japanese from when I was really young, it cost me lots of money to learn those languages. It is not just for me, but for the whole society, that there is lack of opportunities to learn new languages, and when there is an opportunity, it is very expensive. In UNLV, there is no Korean language class. There are Japanese, Chinese or...
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...Americans are handled with little attempt at creating authentic, three-dimensional characters and the humor surrounding Asians are written in poor taste. In this essay I argue that through the depiction of North Korean civilians, Sook, and Kim Jung Un, the film promotes fear of North Korean culture, “othering” of Asians, and strengthens prominent stereotypes of hyper sexualized Asian women and emasculated Asian men. In the opening scene, a Korean girl dressed in traditional Korean clothing is seen singing a song about wanting the United States to “explode in a ball of fiery hell”. Though North Korea is known for songs promoting their support of Kim Jung Un and hatred of Western capitalism, this opening scene seems to project xenophobic fears of American audiences rather than add to the plot. Attempting to find humor in songs about rape and killing almost comes across as a political message about North Korea rather than a comedic portrayal of the nation’s propaganda. The lyrics dismiss any common humanity of the North Korean civilians and the masses gathering around in support make it seem as though the topics being discussed are condoned or at least widely accepted. Throughout the film the common theme of “othering” Asians from Americans and portraying North Koreans as unobtainable, foreign and distant to American viewers is carried without the afterthought of what it might mean for representations of Asians in general. Though one can argue that at the end when Asian Americans...
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...Li, Jia Ling 12/10/12 ASAM 10 Plastic Surgery Recent study investigated that the rate of Asian American plastic surgery has been increasing through years. For Asian Americans, the three most common plastic surgeries are nose reshaping, eyelid surgery, and breast augmentation. Even though most of the Asian Americans decided to do plastic surgery based on different reason, their purposes are eventually similar, to look more Caucasian. Especially for American born Asian Americans, they suffer more between Asian culture and American culture. Plastic surgery might be an appropriate procedure for them to assimilate into the American culture. While Asian Americans are relying on plastic surgery to gain their assimilation into the mainstream, Asians in Asia want to look more westernized because of the ideal beauty they are looking for in the ‘white’. Asians are looking for the beauty more in westernized recently. They want to look better; beauty means so much to them. When talking about beauty, obviously it’s referring to female. Gender plays an important role here because according to a research group, 91 percent of plastic surgery patient were women, only nine percent were men. (Plastic Surgery Demographics) When plastic surgery is being mentioned, it is being referred to cosmetic surgery, to look more beautiful. As a result, the focus of this topic will be mainly on analyzing Asian American women’s story behind plastic surgery. Class status is also an important criteria in...
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...In-Depth Analysis of Korean Americans 11/19/2007 Table of Contents Introduction 3 History of Korean Immigration to the United States 4 Values and Customs 10 Demographical Profile 16 The ‘Bamboo Ceiling’: Barriers in the Workplace 22 A Personal Interview: A Different Side to the Story 26 Conclusion 27 References 28 Introduction The term “Asian American” has a rich history in the United States. It refers to a person of Asian ancestry who also obtains American citizenship. The term was originally used by the Census Bureau to clarify and distinguish the government’s equal opportunity programs and measurements. Also, the term “Asian American” was used by anti-war activists during the 1960s instead of using the “Oriental” which was perceived as more derogatory and demeaning. This phrase was finally popularized into mainstream academic usage in the 1970s, and is now the accepted term for government and academic research (Dacin and Hitt, 1997). Although this term allows for economists, sociologists, and statisticians to breakdown the different cultural groups found within the United States, one can delve much further into the evolution of the people we categorize as “Asian American.” In the following pages, we will attempt to explain our research findings on the evolution of one innergroup of Asian Americans within the United States, the Korean Americans. The issues raised will include: 1. An extensive overview of the history of the Korean immigration wave...
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...General Purpose Statement: To persuade Specific Purpose Statement: To persuade my audience to be open-minded in listening to K-Pop Central Idea Statement: To persuade my audience not to prejudge, criticize, and stereotype K-Pop and help them appreciate and listen to K-Pop by explaining what it is and its concepts, its beauty and differences from other genres, and musical uniqueness Planned Introduction: (enters the stage listening to music) … Oh! Good afternoon, classmates and Ma’am Amonggo! I just downloaded a new song in my phone and it had been on my playlist since last night. I do this whenever I come to love a song I just listened to. You already knew that music is one of my passions; everything about music interests me. The song I had downloaded last night is entitled ________ by ________. Yes, I know what you are thinking. It is K-Pop. Planned Main Points: 1. Prejudgments and Criticisms about K-Pop 2. Why K-Pop is Being Judged? 3. Concept of K-pop 4. Beauty of K-Pop Planned Conclusion: As much as we welcome American and Japanese songs, I also want everyone to welcome Korean songs. Just imagine it as another foreign song, it was just sang in Korean language. Thank you very much! Terms needed for the speech: * * K-Pop * Girl group and boy group * Leader * Lead and Main Vocal * Lead and Main Rapper * Lead and Main Dancer * Maknae * Visual * Producer * Songwriter * Bias Supplies needed: laptop, VGA...
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...gone by the appellation stereotype was the prejudicial notations used to define members of a social or ethnic group. However in today’s social order the term stereotype has transposed into something based less on ethnicity and race, but more towards face values, in other words an individual’s personal image or identity. Stereotypes allow human beings to typecast an incalculable amount of people into categories almost as if defining the world in order to see it. Stereotypes save society the trouble of unmasking what the world is truly like by giving it its familiarized look. On the subject of stereotypes there was a situation in the Delta Zeta sorority at DePauw University that raised some questions on the matter. It was scrutinized to see if stereotyping might have played a role when 23...
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...We are interested in how second-generation Asian American students at the University of Illinois feel about being Asian American, particularly those who are not of Chinese, Korean, Filipino or Japanese descent. In other words, we are focusing on students whose background ethnicity represents Southeast Asian (Thai, Vietnamese, Laotian, Indonesian) and South Asian (Indian, Bengali, Pakistani) and so forth. We want to explore how various Asian ethnic groups identify socially and culturally with the term Asian American. We asked for written responses from Asian American students, who have these background ethnicities, to describe in their own words what being Asian American means to them. In addition, we walked around campus and interviewed several second-generation Asian Americans. In their explanations, we encouraged the students to explain if it was a struggle growing up in America, whether they have ever been a victim to stereotypes or discrimination and how they have dealt with it. We took these statements and compared them to the stereotypes placed immigrants of the 1900s. In addition to the interviews, we analyzed our finding with an article published by Jerry Park of Baylor University titled, “Second-Generation Asian American Pan-Ethnic Identify: Pluralized Meaning of a Racial Label” who did a similar study in four public universities, along with other readings from class. The term, Asian American, was formed as a significant symbolic move in constructing an ethnic identity...
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...Ours is a growing and wonderful community. With growth, however, come greater challenges and even greater opportunities. Our community consists of many people from many different cultures and with growth it will become even more diverse. We have all seen tragedies unfold in schools across the country and as made evident by the necessity of our bullying policy, the issues of ignorance and intolerance are also alive and well here at home. This is why we must address issues surrounding cultural diversity. Cultural diversity is simply the blending of different cultures – people with different backgrounds, routines, looks, beliefs, styles of dress all coming together to form a community. The challenge is do we continue to stick our head in the sand and hope that our children will not fear, bully our outcast those who are different than them? Do we hope that consequences will alleviate bullying? Or do we take a proactive stance by educating them on their differences and teaching them that diversity is a positive thing? I know, as parents, that we don’t want our children put in the position we’ve seen played out so many times on the news. They can be taught that our society can and should be viewed as a body. Each part is different and cannot be compared to another, but also cannot exist in a full or healthy manner without the other. We need to learn and teach our children, even learn with them, to celebrate the differences in others. Encourage them to be curious about worlds...
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...racism in a controlled, but effective perspective. Twyla’s first person narration is the only view of events we see and in turn becomes our own view. From the beginning of the story when Twyla and Roberta meet we get the sense that there is already a great divide between them, “It was one thing to be taken out of your own bed early in the morning-it was something else to be stuck in a strange place with a girl from a whole other race” (139). We never find out what race Twyla or Roberta is, but this initial introduction shows that at least Twyla is uncomfortable being around Roberta. Is it really important that we know which race is which? Many people, myself included, read this over many times looking for clues that would indicate Twyla and or Roberta’s race. However, the only conclusion I reach is that it is unimportant whether or not we know. The fact that the friendship is interracial is enough to convey the theme. In fact, by not specifying either race it makes the story stronger. It is no longer a story about a white girl and a black girl, but a story about two girls living in a racist time. This ambiguity is another tool used by Morrison to emphasize the role that race plays in our lives and also to point out that it doesn’t really matter. The first person narration, in addition to limiting our scope, limits our ability to make judgments about the...
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...most likely two children (boy and a girl) and a big house with a fence. When something in a culture becomes this familiar and becomes such normality, change is just an offset to the cycle. What I mean by this is that people like to have things a certain way, a way that they are used to. However, when something changes they may become upset or bothered because they simply do not understand. An example of this would be Asians. They have black hair, slanted eyes, speak a language that is completely foreign to us, eat with chop sticks, and do many other things that are completely different from us. Some individuals would call this culture shock. Culture shock is defined as “the feeling of disorientation experienced by someone who is suddenly subjected to an unfamiliar culture, way of life, or set of attitudes.” To my understanding, our society experienced culture shock so heavily that stereotyping Asians or individuals from different cultures has now become something inevitable. It is just something we do without even thinking about it or meaning to do it. In Asia, China is probably the most well-known country so anyone with slanted eyes is automatically grouped with China. Rarely does an individual attempt to try and snap out of that stereotypical mindset. Not too much time is taken to try and see past those typical thoughts to try and understand what makes a specific individual Japanese, Chinese, or Korean. In order to remove stereotypes from societies, people are going to...
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...perception has been broadened by reading through the novels about women’s lives in the past and present times. By closely reading, I precede my interpretations according to author’s words. Like any other children born after 1979 in China, I am the only child, the only heir to my dear parents. My father could be allowed to have a second child if he didn’t stay in the city with my mother. Unlike in some rural areas of the China where they are not under the restriction of Planned Birth Policy, urban parents overprotect their children, especially they are girls. Instead of being viewed by pearls or precious gifts, I personally think this is the sign that women are treated as the victims of the male-orientated society, where considers girls are weak in both physically and mentally. I felt the same way with the character, Yan Danzhu, in Eileen Chang’s Jasmine Tea. When Nie Chuanqing asks, “why are you always hanging around me? Aren’t girls supposed to be worried about their reputations? Shouldn’t you be wondering what your father might...
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...Analysis the reason that I fall in love with my girlfriend from the psychology concept Recently, I got a lovely girlfriend. We feel so happy and sweet in this relationship. Some people believe that having close relationship because of sentimental fate. But I think this is not only fate. Now I am going to explore the reasons using the idea of interpersonal attraction. I think many different types of theories of interpersonal attraction can explain about close relationship in my life. The interpersonal relationship is the need of some affiliation to keep relationship with friend or family. We seek people with some similar situation for the relationship. Interpersonal attraction is that we like those who give us maximum rewards at minimum cost .The first factor of reward theory affecting interpersonal attraction is proximity. By definition, it means the degree to which people are geographically close to one another, plays a central role in determining who we like. (Robert S. Feldman, 1992, p.199). Now I will apply the factors to check the relationship between my girlfriend and me. We met in a Japanese restaurant, Watami in this summer holiday. We worked in the same restaurant and we are also part time waiters. Now we study in the same school. I guess that there is an opportunity for us to develop a close relationship. It is because we could meet each other easily and quickly. Also, it is easy for us to find the subject to chat. It can make our relationship closer. According...
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...Gran Torino starring Clint Eastwood was about a man’s struggle in adapting to the changes in his environment when confronted by unfamiliar exposure to cultural differences. The film was chosen because it told a story about one’s struggle with traditional practice, cultural diversity, gender roles, and the acceptance of others. In terms of culture, there was an abundance of traditional practices related to the Hmong community. The screenplay was written by Nick Schenk and the movie was filmed in July 2008 (Longwell, T). Gran Torino was directed and produced by Clint Eastwood, who also played the role of the main character known as Walt Kowalski. Walt was an American man and a Korean War veteran who resided in a neighborhood that became inhabited by Hmong families (Gran Torino, 2008). The relationship that Walt had with his own family was disconnected and distant because his sons embraced the modern way of living but Walt was more traditional. Walt was portrayed as a grumpy old man who did not like to socialize with others. All of that changed when Walt became associated with the Hmong children next door, Thao and Sue. Walt saved Thao from being taken by the Hmong gang members and was viewed as a hero by the Hmong families despite the fact that Walt was just trying to keep other people off his lawn. Upon an unexpected invitation by Sue, Walt’s world became intertwined with the Hmong community as he was introduced to various traditional Hmong customs and foods. After a...
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...Running head: RACIALIZED REPRESENTATIONS OF FEMALE BEAUTY 1 Racialized Representations of Female Beauty in Popular Culture (Name) University of New Mexico RACIALIZED REPRESENTATIONS OF FEMALE BEAUTY Racialized Representations of Female Beauty in Popular Culture 2 For the past 22 years People magazine has composed a list of the 50 most beautiful people. The list typically includes movie and television stars, musicians, British royalty, models, and television personalities. Every year the magazine crowns the year’s “most beautiful” and features them on the cover. Of the 22 most beautiful 19 have been women and out of the 19 women 16 have been White. This signals to People’s readers that beautiful means White and everything else does not equate beauty. However, this is not unique to People or 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...
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...Marketing Report Contents 1.0 Introduction 1 1.1. League of Legends 1 2.0 Culture 2 2.1. Introduction of gamer culture—becoming a part of mass culture? 2 2.2. Differentiation between international published products & Analysis 3 2.4. Recommendations of product 7 2.5. Promotion 8 2.6. Recommendations of Promotion 10 3.0 Reference Group in Game Culture: take Korea as an example. 11 4.0 Conclusion 13 5.0 Reference List 14 1.0 Introduction Riot games, a game company established in 2006 in the USA. “Players experience first” is the core value of Riot Games (Riot Games, 2013.) This core value makes them succeed within only 5 years by running its most well-known online game -League of Legends. The team is trying to make games not only games, but a part of every player’s life. Other than that, their great success in international market also brought great funding opportunity to them; for example, Tencent, the biggest network company in China, has now acquired the majority stake of Riot Games. (Riot Games, 2011.) It also helps them penetrate the Chinese market. 1.1. League of Legends League of Legends, the only game which is run by Riot Games, is one kind of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), the feature of this kind of game is team cooperation. It is session-based and including multiplayer. In each session, players need to destroy nexus which protected by numbers of turrets. The team destroys the nexus first wins the game (leagueoflegends...
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