API Social Movements and Interest Groups

Yun Ting (Claudia) Chao
ASA2 Section 2
Week 1

API Social Movements and Interest Groups

This article shows that despite many differences, like political, customary, language, and religious backgrounds, the sub groups of Asian Americans have between the groups, the groups stand strong together when it comes to fighting for Asian American rights. In the past, Asian Americans try surviving in the United States by grouping together and staying close to their ethnic groups, they protect themselves through detaching themselves from other groups. This caused change in social status in American especially slow and sometimes ineffective. In recent years many Asian Americans, especially younger generations, try to secure the social status of Asian Americans and fight discriminations against Asian Americans through entering into the political system and running for office. The question is, where do the mixed Asian-white American ethnic groups stand in all this, how do they identify themselves, and how to they fight for their rights?