Laura Young: A historian writing about the Asian Americans: Chapter 1 When people think of Asian-Americans‚ typically people automatically think of just Chinese people or Japanese people. The Asian-American community is made up of not only the Chinese and Japanese‚ but also Filipino‚ Indian‚ Vietnamese‚ and Korean. The term Asian American was used informally by activists in the 1960s who sought an alternative to the term Oriental‚ arguing that the latter was derogatory and colonialist. Usually
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choose us and agree to be a citizen under us." And such is the way that Asian Pacific Americans‚ a term coined not more than forty years ago‚ choose to tackle prejudice‚ ignorance‚ and greed throughout their four hundred year history. Citizenship is defined as broadly as: "Democracy" by Manuel Buaken‚ "loyalty" per Mike Masaoka‚ and "equality" according to Amy Uyematsu. Asian Americans always resort to accepted means within American society to pursue favorable ends. Despite a stacked deck‚ Alien Land
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In the near future‚ I would like to see the Asian Pacific American community get more involved with business. This has typically been a mostly Caucasian field‚ but I believe there should be more Asians striving to get degrees in business administration‚ finance‚ and accounting. Many are capable of excelling in these facets of business‚ and I believe they would make a strong impact. My dad is a testament to this and he has done well for himself as a CPA and partner for an accounting firm. He is my
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Abstract Native Americans are always struggling with identification with their tribes traditions compared to Euro-American traditions. Counselors need to recognize that many Native Americans feel uncomfortable when talking about things outside of their context. Rather than interpret behaviors of the Native Americans counselors understand what greatly impacts American Indians in social issues. Native Americans are greatly impacted with Major Health Issues‚ Employment Issues‚ Economic Issues‚ and
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Patient Information: Patient: Sue Li Age: 20 Ethnicity: Asian American (a) What cultural considerations are important for you to remember while you interview Ms. Li? When conducting the interview and asking about pain‚ depression‚ abuse‚ etc…‚ keep in mind that culturally‚ Asian Americans are generally stoic and tend to hide depression‚ pain‚ and mental illness. Therefore‚ watching for signs and body language as well as affect will be the better way to go than just asking. Be sure to ask about traditional
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Religious and Ethnic Group: Buddhism/Asian Buddhism is a religious group as depicted from the world’s history that began in the 6th century BCE‚ in today’s Northern India. Buddhism was founded by a wealthy man of Indian dysentery called Siddhartha Gautama. Siddhartha Gautama’s main concern was to teach people how to realize great spiritual development. These teachings focus on areas like tradition/customs‚ beliefs‚ ethics‚ meditation and philosophy and making people more enlightened; Buddha means
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Asian American Experience The pain and the suffering‚ the oppression‚ and the exclusion all describe the history of Asia America. When they arrived to the United States‚ they become labeled as Asians. These Asians come from Japan‚ China‚ Korea‚ Laos‚ Thailand‚ and many other diverse countries in the Eastern hemisphere. These people wanted to escape from their impoverished lives as the West continued to infiltrate their motherland. They saw America as the promise land filled with opportunity
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ASIAN AMERICANS The first Asians to move to the western hemisphere were reportedly Chinese Filipinos settling in the area of Mexico. Filipino sailors settled in the United States in the mid 18th century around the area which would be Louisiana. About a hundred years later‚ in an effort to make up for the shortage of African slaves‚ Europeans brought over people in virtual slavery from China‚ India and the Philippines (Ancestors in the Americas). They brought these Asian slaves to the Caribbean
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classifying them the same. Asian Pacific Americans have fallen victim to the stereotypes‚ which reflects on the visual culture of the depiction of Asian Pacific Americans. Stereotypes‚ history and other issues such as immigration and biculturalism have raised the question of what are the audience perspective and visual cultural representations of Asian Americans‚ and the important impression that the ideas post 1965 era raised was how Asian Americans represented themselves in American culture. Modern and
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However‚ back in the past‚ many Americans conceived of Asians as strangers. They were not willing to understand and embrace the biological and cultural differences that set Asian immigrants apart from Europeans and early Americans. Coolie trade‚ which brought numerous Asian immigrants to the United States as indentured laborers‚ resulted in numerous stereotypes of Asian immigrants. Even though the coolie trade ended‚ the stereotypes persisted despite the fact that Asian immigrants came to the United
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