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Title: Asian Americans


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Chapter 12
  • Asian Americans

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Figure 12-2 Asian Pacific Islanders
3
Model Minority
  • YouTube discussion
  • Second discussion
  • Model Minority image - in spite of prejudice and
    discrimination Asian Americans have been
    successful
  • Education and the economy
  • Educationviewed as overachievers
  • Unrecognized and overlooked educational needs

4
The Model Minority Image
  • MODEL/IDEAL
  • Success even with prejudice and discrimination
  • Economically
  • Socially
  • Educationally
  • Accomplished without resorting to political or
    violent confrontation with Whites

5
The Model Minority Image
  • Model minority image reaffirms the myth that
    anyone can make it in America
  • Achieving success means they are no longer
    subordinate or disadvantaged
  • Another variation of blaming the victim
  • Praising the victim

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The Model Minority Image
  • Experience stress and alienation on campus
  • Because of under-representation
  • Asian Americans as group have more formal
    schooling than Whites
  • Over half of all Asian Americans, 25 or older,
    have bachelor degrees compared to around 30 of
    whites

7
Middlemen Minorities
  • Groups that occupy middle positions rather than
    positions at the bottom of the social scale
  • Asian Americans in small business maintain closer
    ties with the Asian community than those in
    larger corporations

8
Middlemen Minorities
  • Ethnic owners hire other ethnics, who are paid
    low wages in exchange for paternalistic benefits.
  • However, the high proportion of Asian Americans
    as middlemen is a result of exclusion from other
    work, not success.

9
Model Minority
  • Occupationally Asian Americans occupy mid-level
    occupations and are under-represented in top
    management positions in corporate America
  • Glass ceiling and glass wall impact on upward
    mobility

10
The Door Half Open
  • Prejudice and discrimination directed at Asian
    Americans
  • Asian Americans are often stereotyped and ignored
    or described in negative ways in the media
  • Inappropriate use of cliches by reports
  • Mistaken identity wrong identity or nationality

11
The Door Half Open
  • Asian Americans are often stereotyped and ignored
    or described in negative ways in the media
  • Overgeneralizations
  • Ethnic slurs
  • Inflammatory reporting
  • Japan bashing
  • Media invisibility
  • Model minority

12
Political Activity
  • Politically Asian Americans tend to be less
    active than other subordinate groups
  • Function of
  • historical influences
  • cultural influences
  • demographic influences
  • Concentrated in dispersed, small areas
  • Representation increasing in some areas

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Diversity Among Asian Americans
  • Asian pacific islanders
  • Census bureau lists thirty- seven groups
  • Diverse
  • Historically
  • Culturally
  • Politically
  • Economically
  • One common feature respect for elderly
  • Strong feeling that adult children are
    responsible for care of aging parents

15
Filipino Americans
  • Filipino immigration largely occurred in four
    different periods
  • 1. First group came in the 1920s
  • 2. Second group came as contract workers on sugar
    cane
  • plantations and settled in Hawaii
  • 3. Third group came after World War II
  • 4. Fourth group mostly professionals arrived
    under the 1965
  • Immigration Act

16
  • American born Filipinos tend to be educationally
    and economically disadvantaged in comparison to
    new arrivals

17
Filipino Americans
  • Lack significant ethnic organizations-function of
  • 1. Strong loyalty to family and church
  • 2. Diversity among Filipinos
  • 3. Club like organization
  • 4. Involvement outside of community

18
Asian Indians
  • Pattern of immigration
  • 1. Between 1820 and 1965 approximately 17,000
    came
  • 2. Many came under the 1965 Immigration and
    Naturalization Act
  • Tended to be better educated, urban and English
    speaking

19
The Present PictureAsian Indians
  • Religious diversity
  • Hindu
  • Sikhs
  • Muslims
  • Zoroastrians

20
The Present PictureAsian Indians
  • Religious traditions remain strong among new
    arrivals
  • Family traditions
  • Desi
  • Arranged marriages
  • Cultural conflicts

21
Southeast Asian Americans
  • Southeast Asian immigrants came largely from
  • Vietnam
  • Cambodia
  • Laos
  • Many arrived as political refugees after the
    Communist take over in their respective countries
  • Many experienced adjustment problems culturally,
    and economically

22
Korean Americans
  • Pattern of immigration
  • First group of 7,000 immigrants came between 1903
    and 1910 and settled and worked as laborers in
    Hawaii
  • Second group of 14,000 came after the Korean War
    from 1951-1964
  • Third group and largest group came under the 1965
    Immigration Act

23
Korean Community
  • Started small businesses
  • Family members contribute to its operation
  • Capital investments are often obtained through
    the Korean custom of the Kye
  • Rotating credit associations
  • Koreans face cultural and economic adjustment
    problems

24
Korean Community
  • Church is the most visible and important
    organization outside of the family
  • Provides a sense of community
  • In the early 1990s, nationwide attention was
    given to the friction between Korean Americans
    and other subordinate groups, primarily African
    Americans, but also Hispanics

25
Hawaii and its People
  • Ethnically diverse
  • Whites (Haoles)
  • Japanese
  • Filipino
  • Hawaiian
  • Other Asians
  • Hispanic
  • Other groups

26
Figure 12-3 Hawaii Racial Composition
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Hawaii Historical Background
  • Initially populated by Polynesians
  • First European contact in 1778
  • Governed by a monarchy
  • Effect of European colonization led to civil war
    and disease that resulted in the decline of the
    Hawaiian population
  • Revolution in 1893 instigated by business
    interests

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Hawaii Historical Background
  • Hawaii became a United States territory
  • Sovereignty movement
  • Current race relations are improving and are
    better than on the mainland
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