Theme For this concert, I want to focus on Asian music in American culture. Many people consider Asian music as something that is not included in American music or something that will never be put into any mainstream America music genre. ... Asian artists are often overlooked when it comes to representing 'American music'. ... Next, I will invite some Asian artists who are popular and representing misleading 'Asian music' in America now, to illustrate the point that many Americans still view Asian music through colored spectacles. ... Fred Ho is a Chinese-American jaz...

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But was this the story of most Asian Americans? ... Asian Americans came to this country to find work and a new life. ... (Bulosan, Carlos, PG. 5 Be American) This was a problem for many Asian Americans in this country. ... Coming to America with this assumption in your head does not make the transition anymore easy for an Asian American... (Kitano, Chapter 7 pg.98) Many things got in the way of Asian Americans. ...

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"Asian Americans are strongly associated with technical know-how" (Farhi). ... It is hard for Asian American students to live up to the expectations that commercials and advertisements portray. "You might have some but not all of the traits expected of you as an Asian American"(Model Minority). ... Just as Asians are given the stereotype as nerdy, African- Americans are shown to be exotic and from an unknown world, or even rarely appear in ads at all. ... Just as both African-Americans and Asian Americans are given false stereotypes, advertisers also portray Latino American...

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The absence of Asian American families on the show emphasizes the stereotypical perpetual foreigner status of Asian Americans, in that they can never assimilate or represent America. ... " which is made for a Japanese audience, Asian Americans would be too similar to Japanese people, and that only non-Asians can really show what American style cooking of beef is. The only Asian Americans featured on "My America Wife" were the adopted Korean children of the Beaudroux family. ... Asian Americans could not represent America for a Japanese audience, but a Mexican American family was...

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Immigrants from all over the world, especially from Asia, Europe, and South America have migrated to the United States in the last decade. ... It now involves Hispanics, Arabs, and Asians. ... According to Hoberman, a new study from the American Nurses Association, 53% of Asian/Pacific Islander respondents and 46% of Hispanic respondents felt they have been denied a promotion because of their race or ethnicity. Many companies in society commit these racist acts towards Hispanic and Asian minorities, which is considered a form of covert racism because they are favoring the Caucasian minority th...

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There's a dark history behind America's achievement, but many American left it out of their history. ... Besides, I think not all Americans are from Europe, some are from Africa, Asia, South American, and many more, which Takaki will agree with me since he himself is an Asian American. ... For example, I see an Asian guy and assume that he is good at math or a black guy and assume that he can run really fast. ... For example, An Asian man is seen to be tied with Asian cultures, like chopsticks and talks like one, but the man was raised in a black community. ... I am born as a Malay r...

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The two chosen articles are "Growing up White in America" by Bonnie Kae Grover and "Growing up Asian in America" by Kesaya E. ... In Kesaya Noda's article, "Growing Up Asian in America" the dialogue, reveals that Noda's identity is more American than Asian. ... Although Noda doesn't walk around with a thought in her head that she looks Asian but someone is always there to remind her. ... In conclusion, Noda's identity reveals that she is more American than Asian. Noda writes about the society of stereotypes that treat Asian American with prejudice and how people make judgme...

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This leaves African Americans in a perpetual state of disadvantage. ... Another major argument against affirmative action is that if Indian people, Asian Americans, and other ethnic groups could rapidly advance economically, African Americans should be able to do the same. This is not an effective argument because Asians and Indian people did not have to endure what African American people had to endure in the past (Plous). ... The majority of Asian Americans and Jewish people were not forced to come to this country as slaves. ... The African American tester in each pair received no job re...

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In the editorial "Multiracial America" by Opposing Viewpoints Online, gives us various examples of the impact of interracial dating, as well as the topic of foreigners marrying americans. ... Mash, who wrote an different article but was included in this editorial, stated that many Caucasian americans have "Yellow Fever" & Many Asians who come to America only date Caucasian men. ... With a african american president, the question still comes up over whether race matters or not. ... Most Americans date interracially because they date one person and it all goes wrong. ... Am...

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I surveyed five different races: African American, Latino, Caucasian, Asian American, Middle Eastern, and Indian. I surveyed twenty five percent African Americans, twenty five percent Caucasians, fifteen percent Asian Americans, twenty percent Latinos and fifteen percent were of other races. ... Providing equal opportunity and access to minority students at major universities, especially in areas that demand a high level of skill, are a major component of the plan to equalize in America's labor field. ... African Americans have skills just like whites and the ability to further them to...

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