WEEK 3 Hanlu Xu ASA 002 A01

Recent years, there are more and more women decided to receive the graduate school in Asia. They have conscious about how education can assist them to be successful in the future. However, in the US, for Asian American,  to be succeed is a view of stereotype. To be honest, except the situation in the US, even like my father, a man who are Chinese and just travel several time to the western countries, always told me "if you feel hard to get and earn a bad result, the only reason is you don't pay enough effort and work efficiently. Asian people is most hard working and intelligent group." So, when Asian American don't get good grade or to be successful, they are blamed by less work. As authors said this is an excuse for white people to work less and is a pressure for Asian American  to be tolerated. My cousin sister, she's a second generation immigration in the US. She is so perfect at everything, such as good personality, school work, job planning, and plenty of interests. When she applied universities, almost each of them provide her full scholarship. This time people surrounded her said she is an Asian, so this is in expectation not surprise. Right now, she works and has a high salary, then people said it's ok, she is an Asian. In fact, be her family member, I clearly know how hard she works, studied and cultivates herself to be improved. It's not DNA heredity or characteristic of asian people, and all successful people work for it and deserve to receive good results and appreciation. This is a stereotype for Asian American people and this outside prejudice influence a lot  in their educational process. Moreover, it's also a privilege oppress situation, white people have excuse to work hard because they just said they are not good at it or cannot figure out as asian people. However, Asian American will receive more pressure from judgement because everybody think they can do it even though they actually feel so challengeable.

Question: does this model minority affect other region groups as well? and how does other region think about the their education status?

Reference:

Moua, Manee. "Navigating Graduate Education as a First-generation, Hmong American Woman: An   Autoethnography."

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