A Biracial Perspective Initially published in 1932, Kathleen Tamagawa’s developing memoir is a delicate and reflective look into personal and social complications of growing up as a biracial person in the early twentieth century. She was born in 1893 to a Japanese father and an American mother with Irish origin and raised in Chicago as well as Japan. Kathleen contemplates on the struggle she experienced blending into either parent’s native culture. She recounts how in America her idiosyncrasies
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Asians in the American entertainment industry have been discriminated against since the silent era of film. With rare exceptions, the basic caricatures of Asians are the same today as they were in the early years of film. The lack of evolution in roles available to Asians in American entertainment perpetuates the perception that Asians are alien, foreign, and “other.” Their absence from film and television demonstrates how underrepresented Asians are in American entertainment. The scarce representations
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Population growth concerns of African forest elephants A scientific paper recently written by Turkalo et al, Slow intrinsic growth rate in forest elephants, indicates that the recovery of African forest elephants, Loxodonta cyclotis, from poaching will require several decades. This species of African elephant has been experiencing continual population declines driven by illegal killing (poaching) and natural habitat range loss. These scientists completed the 1st ever demographic study on African
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Asian Elephants stand at about 8.9 ft tall. They weigh about 200 lbs at birth, and about 6,000 lbs as grown adults. Their environment consists of forested areas, moist, evergreen lowlands, and farm areas. Their grey skin helps them keep cool in the heat. They’re warm blooded animals. They are herbivores. They also flap their butterfly like ears against the wind to cool their bodies, as well. They use their long trunks to eat and drink food and water. They don’t have sweat glands so they use their
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eutherians, or placental mammals - “…elephants are part of this African lineage, called the Afrotheria…” (Raven et al. p. 520). Its order Proboscidea gave the rise to the Elephantidae group to which African elephant belongs, along with the related Asian elephant species, which however differ from African species when it comes to anatomy and evolutionary line (Grzimek,
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the enemy. With this fear in the nation, the government targets against the Japanese, and the pressure from the public all demonstrates that race was a key factor in the government’s internment of the Japanese American citizens during World War II. Asian immigrants felt the acts of discrimination as early as the 1800s when the immigration from China ended fiercely and led to the Chinese Exclusion Act. In 1885, the massacre of 28 Chinese mineworker in Wyoming, the white mineworkers were fearful of the
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Have you ever laughed at an Asian character, who is inhumanly awkward, has terrible broken English, is extremely nerdy, or is weird-looking or ugly? Many Americans would say yes. This is not necessarily their fault; it is the result of the way American pop culture views and portrays Asians that influences the wider public. These stereotypical Asian characters are often over exaggerated, and created to satisfy solely one purpose: to make people laugh. While many Americans might find it amusing and
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Ronald Takaki’s chapter in his sweeping 1989 text, Strangers from a Different Shore, “Dollar a Day, Dime a Dance: The Forgotten Filipinos”, outlines the experiences of primarily male Filipino immigrants to the U.S in the 1920’s and 1930’s. The author did a good job showing what the Filipino went through. Like many immigrants before them, Filipino immigrants came seeking work and a better livelihood, The American Dream. Filipinos faced backbreaking work, low wages, and at time, extreme racism. On
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President Bill Clinton after graduating from Yale University, but Liu nevertheless wonders what degree his Chinese heritage has shaped his status and personality in contemporary American society. In order to solve this problem, Liu writes The Accidental Asian in half cultural commentary and half memoir to record the process of racial assimilation. In this book, Liu expresses his desire that race may one day become an irrelevant category for all people in American society, and part of the richness of this
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Imagine putting yourself in a scenario where extreme racial discrimination was in action and you were being taken into an internment camp, whether you were pleaded guilty or not. This was reality for the majority of Japanese Americans not too long ago. These people went through things in life that in present day, we could view as unimaginable. If we were to put ourselves in those scenarios, the main response would be, “this is easier said than done.” In the memoir Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Wakatsuki
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