Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Asian-Americans confront stereotypes about their community.



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.

1 comment:

  1. Wow, what a powerful video. I agree with your point that it's not getting better. I feel hatred has been empowered.
    I 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.

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