Questing Asian's ambiguities
Ever since Asian Americans had arrived in the United States, they had also been conceptually misrepresented and interpretive. The general misconception and way of thinking is often that all Asians look the same. Yet when distinctions are made between the ethnic groups, they are usually indistinguishable generalizations or ruthless definitions. When Americans usually see a human being with slanted eyes, they automatically assume that person is Chinese. If not Chinese, they would call them by their stereotypical names such as flips, gooks, chinks, etc. They may not know it but these miscontraceptions hurt Asian Americans. More recently, Abercrombie and Fitch, a popular department store has taunted the image of Asians by saying that all Asians own laundry stores. In their quest to change and ultimately eliminate these misconceptions, Asian American writers, actors, athletes, and artists have worked their way into the mainstream media of the United States to portray positive and accurate images of Asian Americans and finding their own ways to express how they feel about being Asian American. Coincidentally, the past decade has emerged into a full-blown Asian epidemic in America due to the growing popularity of famous and rising As
Since differences arise between the two generations, it was easy for 1st generations to acknowledge that all of their children or younger generations were the same just as the non-Asians did. Many of the 2nd generation Asian Americans have different taste and preferences that differ from their parents. Most of them enjoy listening to American music and eating American food while their parents would want to keep their culture alive and eat traditional Asian food and listen to folk music. Due to the desire to become more independent in their own realm of freedom, Asian Americans usually become ignorant to their own cultural backgrounds and sometimes dismiss their parents well being. And sometimes their beliefs differ from 1st generations. Just as Asian Americans are stepping up to the plate to reclaim their status in America as true Asian "Americans", conflicts has caused differences upon 1st generations and 2nd generations as well. Similarly, the myth of Asian Americans is strangely taking its tow in every aspect of their lives. In "Perceptions and Deceptions: Contemporary Views of Asian Americans by Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi analyzes societal perceptions and attitudes towards Asians in the United States. Also in her context, she writes that Asian's ethnicity and cultural distinctiveness has functioned to preserve our indigenous strengths. And that America has categorized different types of Asian ethnicities into one whole subunit. She also argues that we, the Asian Americans should fight to diversify our we
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