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    Pertaining to Tracy Lai’s article titled‚ "Asian American Women"‚ Lai discusses how stereotypes dehumanize people while turning them into objects to be manipulated. Lai touches on the topic of how Asian people and cultures are stereotyped as being inferior and exotic. The problem that Lai brings to our attention is that it is a struggle to be an Asian in America due to the fact that Asians have been denied political‚ economic and social equality in America. Lai also brings to our attention

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    Asian-American Stereotypes

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    Introduction As an Asian-American‚ I have experienced the Model-Minority stereotypes firsthand. During my time in education‚ many‚ whether it be my teachers‚ my peers‚ complete strangers‚ or my family‚ I was expected to be a good student‚ to be good in Math‚ to listen to authority‚ and to be successful. As I grew older‚ I started to have a different perspective of the stereotypes. I saw the effects the stereotypes would have on my siblings and‚ in turn‚ they would give us younger siblings advice

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    census of 1980 there were 3.5 million Asian Americans in the United States‚ about 1.5 percent of the total population. This was the first time in history that the Asian American population had amounted to as much as 1 percent of the total. Numerical incidence‚ however‚ does not necessarily indicate relative importance. The burden of this book‚ which treats systematically only the two pioneer Asian American groups‚ is that the immigration and acculturation of Asians has been much more significant in the

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    Asian American Analysis

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    Asian American Literature is literature written by an author of Asian descent that portrays the experiences and obstacles of Asian Americans. Asian American Literature (APIAL) also breaks down stereotypes regarding Asian Americans and demonstrates the fluidity of Asian American culture. I think that Sau-ling Cynthia Wong and Stephen Sumida’s assertion that APIAL “exposes the structures that make Asian Americans into perpetual aliens or castaways” is a fitting description of APIAL (Wong and Sumida)

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    Asian American Culture

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    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. Today‚ Asian American is the accepted term for most formal purposes‚ such as government and academic research‚ although it is often shortened to Asian in common usage. Asia has a variety of festivals and celebrations. In China‚ Chinese New Year‚ Dragon Boat Festival‚ and Mid-Autumn Moon Festival are traditional holidays‚ while National Day

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    Finding Asian Americans

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    Finding Asian America Asian American is the term that referring to people who live in America with the origin of coming from Asia. The term can be easily defined in such a way that I can pull it straight out from the English dictionary or online Wikipedia. But is there all to it? I guess there should be more than just some dry definitions that the dictionary gave me. The question “What does it mean to be Asian American?” is more of an interesting one to me‚ particularly after watching the film

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    Asian American Dreams

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    review about Asian American Dreams Asian American Dreams is really a touching book. It is touching not because it is a fiction with many moving plots and the hero or heroin possesses moving characteristics --- strictly speaking it is not a fiction --- but because it provides a description‚ a statement‚ a confession from the perspective of an Asian American woman writer who exposes so unelaborated‚ so frankly‚ so honestly‚ her innocent feelings about her being as an Asian American. Helen Zia

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    Asian-American Literature

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    Asian American Literature ENG 301 August 16‚ 2011 Asian American Literature Although strict definitions of any category are difficult to make‚ defining Asian- American literature is primarily literature written by and about Asian-Americans. There are‚ of course‚ exceptions to this rule. Asian-American literature also includes literature written by Asian-Americans‚ which may or may not‚ address the lives of Asians in America. Who is an Asian-American and how do they fit in the overall

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    situation involving stereotyping I was involved in was racial. I am Asian and sometimes I face racial accusations and comments. Though I do not pay much attention to comments‚ they still do bother me to a degree. For example‚ one day my wife and kids were walking with me through Wal-Mart and a group of people passed us making Asian jokes. When they walked passed me they started mimicking and trying to talk Asian (making fun Asian dialect.) My wife said something; I just kept walking as usual and paid

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    Asian American Beauty

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    points of what used to be expected in an Asian woman because of high social status. Although social status is not as important now‚ Asia still holds onto their standards of an idealistic woman and uses them as a basis of what being beautiful should mean. Asian beauty‚ like any other standards of beauty can be achieved through cosmetics. Products that can be used to help achieve a closer goal of an Asian’s ideal beauty have generated attention from the American market because of technological advances

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