The smart Asian stereotype is a prime example of a positive, racial stereotype. The assumption that “all Asian Americans are smart” seems like an uplifting compliment, but in reality creates a disturbing, distorted perception of the Asian American community that does more harm than good. Tiffany from Bunk’d is one of the most exaggerated, most spot-on embodiments of this stereotype. How do I know this? Well, all of the jokes written in the show for her are about her obsession with academics, or her fear of her tiger mom that generates her drive to be book-smart, the fact that she’s only academically intelligent but lacks socially/emotionally intelligence, and lastly— I was the one who played her on TV. As an 11 year old actress just starting to make my way into the film industry in 2016, I was pretty clueless to the repercussions that taking on the role would have to the entire Asian American community. Looking b...
The topic I’m choosing to write about for the fourth Writ essay is the Los Angeles Chinese Massacre of 1871. The problem with Chinese American racism, or with Asian American racism in general is less of a “twisted history” or “misrepresented history” issue, but more so that it’s not acknowledged or taught as much as it should be, resulting in Asian American racism today not being addressed seriously. Based on my personal experience, and many of my Asian-American peers’, Asian American racism is easily dismissed “as a joke,” and a suspecting cause of this phenomenon is that the history of Asian American discrimination isn’t acknowledged as much as it should in schools, and in society in general. The Los Angeles Chinese Massacre of 1871 started off when a shootout in Chinatown started, and a white police officer was killed. Groups of white men soon gathered and destroyed 1.5 million dollars of property owned by Chinese-Americans in China town, murd...
Scholarly source: https://link-springer-com.libproxy2.usc.edu/book/10.1007/978-3-319-54509-7 Narrative anecdote: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/10/03/mother-sues-hospital-for-discrimination-after-staff-kept-calling-her-transgender-son-a-girl/ News Source: https://www.npr.org/2021/05/10/995418963/u-s-will-protect-gay-and-transgender-people-against-discrimination-in-health-car Quotation from an expert: https://asistdl-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.libproxy1.usc.edu/doi/full/10.1002/pra2.468 A statistic: https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/josi.12235 I believe all of these articles will be helpful in my essay— not only do they demonstrate how people of the LGBTQ+ community have been discriminated in the past through examples and statistics, some even offer solutions as to how we can work towards eliminating this discrimination in the future.
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