In the research paper, “Love Is (Color) Blind: Asian Americans and White Institutional Space at the Elite University”, Chou, Lee, and Ho express that rich qualitative data can clarify the language Asian American undergraduate students use to get over their social experiences, romantic relations, and identity at the elite university. Chou, Lee, and Ho also examine the intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality and the racialization of some ethnic minority groups to understand the way color-blind talk of Asian Americans...
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I acknowledged the existence of race at a very young age. I can vividly recall several instances in elementary school when other students would call me 'Jackie Chan'. There would even be times when they would squint their eyes and perform movements as if it was kung fu. I was different from my classmates and they made sure I knew that. I never completely understood how much my ethnicity would impact my life until I got to my late teens....
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Two different ethnic groups that experience the color of culture concept that is described by Martinez in Seeing More than Black and White are Latinos or Chicanos and Asians. Both groups do not fit in either category of black or white, and yet the cultures of both groups are forced into the different molds that society holds for them. The attributes of the cultures of both groups are perceived a certain way and this is largely because of the perception...
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In 1979, Wong and Houn—the very women who were excluded just three years prior—co-chaired this “third world” orientation program themselves. Beyond reforming the original minority orientation program, Asian American students also advocated for changes in admissions recruitment initiatives to reflect their full minority status. Prior to 1977, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare only required that the Harvard Undergraduate Admissions Office provide statistical breakdowns of the numbers of applications it received from minority groups. While the classification at Harvard...
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Abstract This research paper explores how ethnic boundaries salience are maintained by Asian Americans through Culture, Daily experience, and Symbolic repertories. In this study three interviews are conducted with three races being Vietnamese, Thai, and Korean. I was trying to find what aspects of this Asian American life maintained their cultural identity in the United States. The design of my interviews were qualitative interviews which were very useful in finding crucial information of what construction sites made the most impact...
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Our America is full of diversity and multiple ethnic groups, this is what makes us unique. How does this help us, if we do not understand the basics about each other? Everyone in healthcare needs to establish and understand their own cultural beliefs before trying to understand those of a different ethnic group. The purpose of this paper is to discuss cultural variations related to terminal illness, death and dying in the Asian American community. The paper discusses my beliefs...
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Asian American culture is dissimilar from Western culture. Many of the families come to the United States to improve their life, especially for their children. Asian immigrant parents are portrayed as strict and controlling in the media. They can create an impression of having a lack of empathy for their kids. These cultural factors can impact the mental health of children. Many immigrant parents either come from poverty, fleeing wars, or sacrificed everything from their home country including their houses,...
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If Asian Americans are to assume the role of bridge builders across the Pacific, what are the opportunities, the risks, the promises, the perils? Have you ever heard of the saying, “the nation was built on the backs of immigrants”? Immigrants has sometimes brought out the worst in our nation. Other times it has brought out the best as we have remembered what kind of country we claim and aspire to be. People most of the time think by just...
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In the United States today, Asian Americans are seen as “model minorities” that prove minorities in the US can succeed. While Asian Americans today do tend to be very successful, there was a period in American history where they were one of the most discriminated groups in the United States. Natalie Ong, a Japanese American, has experienced both discrimination and success. Though she now lives a comfortable life and has been a part of the Houston City Council, as a...
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Racial representation, or lack thereof, in the media is not specific to any one ethnic group. Since its infancy, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science has failed to recognize the talents and other works of many actors of color while continuing to praise white actors for roles they have no business playing; this is the whitewashed reality of Hollywood. In 2018, Asian American director Jon M. Chu released his film Crazy Rich Asians, the first Hollywood feature film...
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The most important concept I would say I learned is that no one can distinguish someone else from a specific race as there is no characteristic, trait, not even a gene that can specify all members of one race from all members of another race. This is further proven as there may be more variation between members of the same racial group than two different racial groups. Some factors that one might consider in order to find out if someone...
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Asian Americans are one of the diverse ethnic groups in US. There are 20 million Asian Americans in United State which represent 6% of US population (Yi, S. S.,2020). They are the fastest growing minority in the US. Research shows that Asian Americans are at high risk for hepatitis B, Liver Cancer, Tuberculosis and lung cancer among other condition. Compared with the low-risk group, the odds of having an unmet healthcare need was 1.52 times greater in the moderate-risk group...
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The second leading cause of death in the United States for the Asian and Pacific Islander populations is cardiovascular disease. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2017) state that about 22.2% of the Asian and Pacific Islander population die from heart disease. The reduction of mortality rates associated with heart disease can be prevented with the control of modifiable risk factors. Modifiable risk factors that contribute to heart disease include prevention and control of high blood pressure, smoking cessation, and...
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Growing up Asian American, I never felt inordinately out of place, until I grew up to see the world from another perspective and understood how to world saw me. I was born in Hong Kong which means my ethnic makeup is Chinese-American. My adoptive mother is also Chinese. In many Chinese adoption cases, both the adoptive parents are Caucasian and of older age; but, my story is exceptionally different, from how I got to America and how I experienced this...
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Racial discrimination in the United States is a social problem that had existed since the colonial era when white Americans were privileged to have socially sanctioned rights at the expense of other races in the country. The inequalities exist up to date as people of color, namely African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and others, encounter harsh treatment in different sectors (Unnever 140). Although the country has made immense achievements in trying to alleviate racism from its populace, some people seem...
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