The discovery in regards to the proliferation of Asian Americans in the aftermath of the 1965 immigration act, as evidenced by the population statistics supplied in this weeks readings on the demographic's of Asian Americans, strikes me as surprising when juxtaposed against the information regarding Davis and its demographics. I feel as though Davis itself serves as a poignant microcosm for the information presented in the census bureau socio-culturally, but saliently fails to convey the relative scarcity that is the norm for the distribution of Asian-Americans throughout the entirety of the United States. U.C. Davis, where Asian Americans are at parity with white students, has 40 percent of it's student body composed of Asian Americans students. I feel that the monolithic presence of Asian American's on campus hinders the culture understanding necessary to facilitate the destruction of stereotypes and the fostering of awareness for the Asian American experience. The ubiquitous self segregation of Asian American students into homogeneous peer-groups is in itself a self imprisonment into two of the Four Prisons e.g. the prison's of self and that of history and geography. A recent survey by Reuters recently revealed that a full quarter of Asian American youth do not have a single friend outside of their race. To free oneself from the prison of homogeneity, one can raise awareness and create discourse for the further discussion of the Asian American experience to a demographic with little awareness and purveyed behind the veil of blissful ignorance.
- Ribhu Singh
<a href="http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/asianamericans-graphics/st_12-06-14_aa_friends/"><img width="300" height="300" src="http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/files/2012/06/ST_12.06.14_AA_friends.png" class="attachment-large" alt="Connections" /></a>
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