Week 3 Blog
I read the Introduction of "Fight the Tower" this week, which is “The Time to Fight Is Now”: Asian American Women, Academia’s Socially Engineered “Privileged Oppressed,” Go Rogue.” I acknowledged that Asian American was being oppressed for a long time, especially in academic area. Silence can never be the solution for them. It is time for Asian Americans to fight against the injustice. From the introduction, I knew that this book reflects how Asian Americans challenge the stereotype. After I read some articles about stereotype, not only negative stereotype can hurt people, but positive stereotype can also have the same effect.
According to "Stereotypes of Asian Americans Skew Estimates of Racial Wealth Gap", Michael W. Kraus wrote that “When people think of Asian Americans, they tend to think of high-achieving Japanese or Chinese or Indian Americans,” says Michael Kraus, a social psychologist at the Yale School of Management. “Maybe the person in mind is quiet and a bit awkward; they are going to excel in school, probably get a job in medicine, finance, or tech, and have money—those are the beliefs that come to mind when we think of Asian Americans.” But this collapse of a diverse population into a simplified image doesn’t represent reality. And in fact, according to new research by Kraus, even such a seemingly positive stereotype may be causing significant harm."
It is easy to see that the stereotype can cause a a lot of harm to Asian American. As they tried to study the inequality between white people and Asian American, they found that there are a large gap between them. The population have its diversity. The stereotype limited the diversity of a population. Every individuals have their own characteristics. It is unfair for everybody to be think as a stereotype. It is the time for Asian American to fight!
Question: why stereotype is hard to change? Usually it takes so many years.
Reference: Stereotypes of Asian Americans Skew Estimates of Racial Wealth Gap, Michael W. Kraus, JULY 09, 2019, https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/stereotypes-of-asian-americans-skew-estimates-of-racial-wealth-gap
I read the Introduction of "Fight the Tower" this week, which is “The Time to Fight Is Now”: Asian American Women, Academia’s Socially Engineered “Privileged Oppressed,” Go Rogue.” I acknowledged that Asian American was being oppressed for a long time, especially in academic area. Silence can never be the solution for them. It is time for Asian Americans to fight against the injustice. From the introduction, I knew that this book reflects how Asian Americans challenge the stereotype. After I read some articles about stereotype, not only negative stereotype can hurt people, but positive stereotype can also have the same effect.
According to "Stereotypes of Asian Americans Skew Estimates of Racial Wealth Gap", Michael W. Kraus wrote that “When people think of Asian Americans, they tend to think of high-achieving Japanese or Chinese or Indian Americans,” says Michael Kraus, a social psychologist at the Yale School of Management. “Maybe the person in mind is quiet and a bit awkward; they are going to excel in school, probably get a job in medicine, finance, or tech, and have money—those are the beliefs that come to mind when we think of Asian Americans.” But this collapse of a diverse population into a simplified image doesn’t represent reality. And in fact, according to new research by Kraus, even such a seemingly positive stereotype may be causing significant harm."
It is easy to see that the stereotype can cause a a lot of harm to Asian American. As they tried to study the inequality between white people and Asian American, they found that there are a large gap between them. The population have its diversity. The stereotype limited the diversity of a population. Every individuals have their own characteristics. It is unfair for everybody to be think as a stereotype. It is the time for Asian American to fight!
Question: why stereotype is hard to change? Usually it takes so many years.
Reference: Stereotypes of Asian Americans Skew Estimates of Racial Wealth Gap, Michael W. Kraus, JULY 09, 2019, https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/stereotypes-of-asian-americans-skew-estimates-of-racial-wealth-gap
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