![]() It's disturbing to think that there is more of an appeal to "taking back what is rightfully ours" than to creating more abundance. This xenophobia, manifesting as a legitimate concern in this election campaign, is asking for an examination of haves vs have-nots, allocation of scarce resources making divisions and differences where there may have been none. Feagin, co-author of The Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism, notes “A key part of the stereotyping of Asians and Asian Americans is their foreignness, that is, foreign vs. Teranishi, author of Asians in the Ivory Tower: Dilemmas of Racial Inequality in American Higher Education. "Incidents of bigotry and racism against Asians are too often overlooked and dismissed," says Robert T. Journalism often is little changed from the YELLOW PERIL trumpeted by the Hearst newspapers of the past.Īcademics have long studied the phenomenon: Affirmative action debates often touch on the fear that without the policy, students of Asian descent would replace other minority populations on campuses and in fields such as engineering and IT. They have teachers and employers hold them to higher standards. The reputation of Asian Americans as a “model minority” has long plagued people who identify as of that ethnicity. While the media has been fast to vilify Trump for his actions (and to a lesser extent Jeb Bush for his equally offensive "anchor babies" term, the reality is that it’s commonplace. can diminish the threat China poses to Taiwan, even as tensions between the two. Yet a serious candidate for the highest office in the land can openly mock Chinese and Japanese (really, there's no difference?) in public for laughs and not think twice about it, it is yet another illustration of still being the "other". MaSubscribe on Ricochet: subscribe A leading Asian studies expert is weighing in on how the U.S. It's been well over a 100 years since my family settled in the Bakersfield, CA and over 150 years since my first Chinese ancestor's birth (a great, great grandparent) was recorded in a U.S. Esslinger's kindergarten class in Bakersfield, CA. ![]() It is 2015, 43 years since I first heard the singsong "Ching Chong Chinaman." laughingly shouted at me in Mrs. ![]() Jeb Bush Looking for a Better Term Than Anchor Babies ![]()
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