Order ID 6463784949 Type Essay Writer Level Masters Style APA/MLA/Harvard/Chicago Sources/References 6 Number of Pages 5-10 Pages Description/Paper Instructions Read two other student’s posts from two different discussion forums.
Take a moment before spring break to review the discussion forums up to now.
Write a reflection on how discussions forums have helped you understand more about the lives and experiences of Asians and Pacific Islander Americans.
For this forum only, I will not be looking for references to course material and focus on how well you engage with the two posts and share any insights you may have about the course material up to this point.
Discussions:
Ono’s essay is about how the stereotype attributed to Asians and Asian Americans, “the yellow peril”, have persisted since the 15th century to the 21st century. “The yellow peril” is the idea that non-white people from the east threaten to take over or invade the west: taking over its society and culture as well. Ono argues that media from the past and present, in the form of news articles, films, TV programs, and the internet, has ultimately formed subjective and generalized representations of Asians and Asian Americans to the general public. The origins of the yellow peril date to the time of Mongolian invasions in Europe up to the 19th century where Chinese people were considered inferior and in need of guidance white Anglo-Saxons. The yellow peril enables those in the west to racialize xenophobia as a response to Asian and Asian American integration throughout moments in American history. The 19th century was focused on anti-Chinese policies and laws due to World War 2 propaganda where multiple new articles openly and frequently insulted the culture, appearance, and language of Chinese people. Asians and Asian Americans In 21st century media are portrayed as removers of business and jobs while increasing anti-Chinese and Japanese sentiment.
The essay by Maeda portrays Asian American representation in a positive light that demonstrates the struggles and hardships of Asian Americans in the past and present through artistic means. The different forms of art, such as music and literature, produced from creators express themes that intertwine their ancestors and familial histories and experiences together, allowing them to share their stories to communities other than their own. The works produced from these creators in Maeda’s essay share similarities from Ono’s essay in that both demonstrate the injustices and misrepresentations of Asian or Asian American In western society and media and advocate for accurate and respectable portrayals in both.
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Pawan Dhingra’s essay “Just Getting a Job Is Not Enough: How Indian American Navigate the Workplace” analyzes the historical context of Indian immigrants and categorizes Indian immigrants into three main groups of workers: professionals, laborers and small business owners, from which point the author generates the racial problems each category confronts within their work sphere.
Indian immigrants started to move to the Pacific Northwest in 1800s then they were pushed to California due to discrimination and racism. The first category of Indian immigrants, professionals started to enter America thanks to Immigration and Naturalization Act in 1965. The two latter categories of Indian immigrants moved to America after 1965 due to sponsorship from family members. There was another wave of professionally skilled Indian immigrants specializing in computer technology fled to the United States in the late 1980s in fear of y2k. Most Indian immigrants enter American with temporary work visas and many other enter as spouses or parents of Indian immigrants.
Professionals specialize in medical field, technology, engineering, finance, and more are usually assisted by their academic and work credentials and favorable institutional locations; Therefore, it is not hard for them to settle with highly skilled jobs. Laborers, on the other hand, are not assisted by schools or workplace to find jobs as they lack of skills such as communication in English. These workers, instead rely heavily on their family’s recommendation to get jobs as taxi drivers, farmers, restaurant workers, domestic servants and more though many of them have a college degree. Small business owners are split into two types: those within ethnic enclave provide their coethnics with service such as grocery stores, financial service in native language, Indian restaurants; Or middleman minorities who serve people outside of their ethnic enclave such as gas station, fast food restaurant, grocery stores and more. This category of Indian immigrants also depends on their relatives’ connection to generate their ideas of operating small businesses.
Though there is not enough data to point out the inequality in terms of income, a professional Indian immigrant worker generally receive lower wage than an equivalently educated white worker. Another racial problem within workplace coming along with wage inequality is glass ceiling, which refers to the fact that many Indian workers find it is harder to be promoted than white workers with the same professional quality. As many professional Indian workers hold temporary work visas, they could be let go at any time. Laborers, are defined to face more problems within workplaces than the first category. Taxi drivers, for example, face racism, discrimination and even death. In “Racial Profiling” in the War on Teror, Sunaina Maira explained the historical context which led to the intense discrimination South Asian Muslim workers have to confront. After the event of 9/11, the percentage of people supporting the “racial profiling” act escaladed to 60% while before 9/11, 80% citizens were against the act. Laborers are usually involved in under-table jobs which pay lower than minimum wage with longer working hours. Small business owners (who serve people outside their ethnic circle) also face racism and discrimination. As in motel business which Indians are famous for, customers might pass on them if they know the motel is run by Indians, which led to the fact that some of the business owners have to pick a white name or have a white person work at the front table.
With different racial difficulties, each category of Indian workers navigate themselves differently within their workplace. As most white-collar workplaces already have their own policy of “proper behavior”, which basically guides minority workers to behave in order not to be hurt because of their ethnic. Some professionals choose to hide their background at work as they are aware of the sense of professionality at work environment by not speaking their native language. Also, as minority workers might have different perspective on some certain things, which might lead to conflict within workplace. For example, a female worker complains that she was not allowed to have a day off to spend time with her family as other workers would think she was not interested in family and just wanted a day off.
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