Asian Latin American

Yang’s American Born Chinese, Aesop’s Fables, “The Kites and the Swans”, and “The Crow and the Raven”, paint a message that one can easily deceive and betray their true identity, and although the path to redemption is difficult in some cases it is possible. In Yang’s American Born Chinese Jin who is a young boy from San Francisco, moves to another city and gets mocked by other children because he is Chinese. As a result of the racism that he faces, Jin forces himself to believe he is American…

buck-teeth, squinty eyes, and stereotypical Asian accessories and wardrobe (e.g., a straw “Coolie” hat, a Maoist Red Guard uniform). In 2004, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle featured two Asian-American leads, both of whom played stereotypical Asian roles. The identity of Asian Americans has long been constructed through popular culture. This paper seeks to analyze how Asian American identity is constructed in popular culture by examining Asian American identity through a theoretical…

William Marcellous Lindgren Asian Art Collection Reception in the Miller Center occurring from 4-5 PM. This event displayed St. Cloud State’s large collection of Asian art such as paintings, sculptures, stone carvings, metalwork, decorative arts, and ceramics. All of these art pieces are from nine different countries, spanning many centuries. I learned that William Lindgren was a former professor here at St. Cloud State University, and he donated his collection of Asian art to SCSU upon his…

The majority of the people I encounter at my school have a complete lack of care when it comes to important social issues. To even mention words like feminism or Black Lives Matter brings eyerolls and headshakes from various parts of the classroom.But I enjoy discussing and thinking critically about these issues. Discussions of social conflicts that are pervasive in our community are important and necessary. Martin Luther King Jr once said that “our lives begin to end the day we become silent…

However, nobody took it seriously. One example can be how Jeff Nesbit from US News said that after many studies, Americans have racial biases, and we need to fix this issue as soon as possible or else it can get worse. In America, racism is a big problem, and it is a matter that is happening almost every day. We all know the incidents of police officers shooting an innocent…

time has tried to subjugate their ideas and place in the professional and social arena. In the case of immigration, it will continue to assist immigrants who seek a better quality of life seeking refuge in the United States. The immigration of Asian Americans will consolidate their place in the melting pot that is…

process of partitioning someone’s mind causes a huge strain on any individual. I believe that always focusing on one side causes them not to accept themselves as who they are. We see double consciousness in Asian American culture through “The Woman Warrior” and we see it in Dominican American culture through ‘Oscar Wao” Double consciousness is a term first coined by W.E.B DuBois in In “The Souls of Black Folk”. The term is used to describe an individual whose identity is divided into different…

categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage”. I, myself, before this class identified as a human being or as an American, and in a perfect world that would suffice. We, however, do not live in a perfect world and identify ourselves in many different ways.…

Johnson, once told me that my parents were stealing of the jobs from the American people making it harder for them to be well lived. I was humiliated at how could she think so low of my parents. She didn't know them; she didn't know how they worked longer hours to provide my brothers and I with the best possible life. Unlike her whose parents enjoyed the privileged of working normal working hours with which they can live the American dream, my parents had to work two full time jobs to make…

an identity best characterized as “a melting pot.” However, it is typical of Americans to marginalize those who have not yet assimilated to American ways and customs. In the case of Amy Tan, her mother was affected by her inability to speak English as coherently as others. Her “broken English,” as Tan calls it, caused her to be treated unfairly in society. In “Mother Tongue,” Amy Tan discusses this phenomenon in American culture, and uses stories from her own life to develop a unique stance on…