While I was surfing the web, I found short video documentary
on the New York Times by Geeta Gandbhir and Michele Stephenson posted on April 5,2016.
What made me start and watch the video was the title “A Conversation with
Asian-Americans on Race”. In the video there are Asian-Americans who talk about
their racism experience and confront stereotypes about their community. As I
was watching it very carefully and in details, what got my attention was the fact
that in a conversation with other a real American is considered to be a white
person and everyone else needs to be classified and named what it is wither
black or Latino or Indian and so on. Another existing stereotype that was
mentioned in the video was the skin color which is a big issue as well. One of the
Asian-Americans what was expressing their experience said that while he was telling
one of the girls in his school that he loves her, she immediately responded: “oh
you are the color of poop”, something that made the person experience their first
type of racism. Furthermore, Asian-Americans talk also about how they were
feelings when other people would call them different negative names and
expressing racism all the time. The video shows how their life hasn’t been easy
while they had to face and confront every type of racism in every way possible
while in America. Racism has always existed, but it seems like is continuing
still nowadays and it looks like it is not getting better at all. It is a big
issue on popular culture, on everyday life and it needs to be changed.
Gandbhir, Geeta and Michele Stephenson. The New
York Times. "Conversation With Asian-Americans on Race" 5 April
2016. February 2020.
XIV, DJ Louie. VANITYFAIR. 6 December 2018.
2020.
Wow, what a powerful video. I agree with your point that it's not getting better. I feel hatred has been empowered.
ReplyDeleteI liked the point in the video about Asians being the "model minority" and that was used to put African Americans down. That is so true! Of course nobody wants to acknowledge that the Asian families were hand picked by class and accomplishment and that slaves were forced to come and had to fight for freedom.