I was very shocked while reading Hamamoto's "Empire of Death and the Plague of Civic Violence". For most of your academic life, you are taught that Americans were warriors, heroes, or some sort of good. What we don't hear is all of the bad deeds that these American soldiers and male soldiers, in general, have done in the past. I had thought that killers were made from normal psychologically challenged people, but to know that most of them were part of the government forces is harder to believe since they are glorified in our history books. It's sad to hear how much fear that Asians and Asian Americans went through because of the actions of the white superior males. Even in the past, Asian women were told by their own parents that you had to marry a white man in order to live a better life. Here, white men are still glorified. How can the Asian population expect less than what their parents tell them? Parents are always right. Wrong. This truth about the creations of killers just proves more about how much we don't know. The raping of Asian women, even children, was what I did not expect, at least not in this large range. I thought this type of crime was minimal in the older days, but I was wrong to think that. The text shows just how terrible these women and families were treated. Yellow fever still exists today, and I do believe Asian women are still being treated, as stated in the text, the same way by white men.
Q: How did the Asian women stereotype start that led white males to perceive them as such objects that are derived from their crimes?
Reference:
- Hamamoto, D.Y. (2003). Empire of Death and the Plague of Civic Violence.
- (Woman looking in mirror.). Retrieved from https://medium.com/a-m-awaken-your-inner-asian/internalized-racism-among-asians-49980f984401
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