Saturday, May 2, 2020

Cheng Zeng, ASA 002, A02, Week 5


In W.P.'s article, she noted that a lot of women are “shushed, shunned, shamed” for speaking out and telling others what they believe in. W.P. wrote that it is also the salvation for everyone around us. For my perspective, I realized that this idea can be substantiated in today’s society. the most frightening effect of such myth is that it silences the Asian Americans. It seduces Asian-Americans and recruits them to act on its behalf. It changes their parents so that they turn to encourage their children to accept it. It makes Asian Americans feel protected because they “are” part of the model minority. Meanwhile, because the local stereotype of Asians can be positive (diligent and good at math), it leads people -- including ourselves -- to think that anti-Asian sentiment in the United States is not so strong, that there is only a mild version of racism here. It's easy to dismiss the current wave of hate crimes as trivial, isolated, and unimportant. One quick example can be thought of is the comedians who mock Asians but restrain themselves when it comes to other groups.

Why is the anti-Asian sentiment is not strong?

Reference 

Hune, S., Noh, E., Junn, J., Mai’a, K., Pham, C. M., Yee, M., & Takeyama, A. (2019). Fight the tower: Asian American women scholars’ resistance and renewal in the academy. Rutgers University Press.

Picture from "It is Racism", Getty Images, accessed May 1 2020.

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