Chenyu Yang, ASA, A03, Week6 Blog

Asian Racism in Education

There are already so many advancements in different fields and various practices nowadays, but unfortunately, there are still issues that have been present for so long forming a culture of inequality, injustice, and oppression among the people of the society.                                                     

In the articles “Opening the Box: An International Asian Woman Scholar’s Fight” and “Hmong Does Not Mean Free: The Miseducation of and by Hmong Americans”, both are tackling concerns regarding the racism that is happening and are hindering the individuals and institution. A concept of “model minority” is still embedded in the thinking of the Americans towards other races, in these articles, specifically Asians. This model minority causes a different kind of inequality and injustice to people depending on their color, but for Asians, this meant having to work harder than the others to at least have a better chance of having the same rights and benefits that the others have (Crystal, 1989).

The most important part that I have seen in these articles are the awakening part because for the longest time these racist practices have been going on to the point that even the people who were called minority already believed so, accepting that these injustices that they are experiencing are normal, which should actually not be the case. This awakening is important to finally start the abolishment of this kind of hurtful and unhealthy culture, to promote reaching furthermore potentials, and for the whole nation to move forward and heal as one.

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References

Crystal, D. (1989). Asian Americans and the myth of the model minority. Social Casework, 70(7), 405-413.

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.

Figure 1. Professional Manager. (2016, May 12). 4 Signs That Racism May Be An Issue In Your Workplace. Retrieved from https://www.managers.org.uk/insights/news/2016/may/4-signs-that-racism-may-be-an-issue-in-your-workplace