The Eight Essential Steps to Conflict ResolutionEssay Preview: The Eight Essential Steps to Conflict ResolutionReport this essaySummarizeThe first article explains how the Asian-American group has been and still is dominating in many different aspects within the United States. The Pew Research Center (2012) states, Asian Americans are the highest-income, best-educated and the fastest-growing racial group in the United States. Therefore, these aspects include how they succeed and prosper amongst the areas of finances, schooling, family, careers, marriages, and overall in life. They have come a long way in establishing their significance even from that of about a century ago where they were seen as the minority immigrants doing the inferior work and were the primary selection for racial discrimination. With only relative little differences among some areas of mentality and structure existing between Asians who were born in America or Asians who have come from their homeland in to the Unities States, it is still very evident that these groups still share similarities amongst the same aspects that were named previously. The Asian-American population also comes to be a prime example for other races in the United States.
The second article describes how members of the Asian community along with several Asian organizations take offense to, “The Rise of the Asian Americans” article. They believe that this particular article includes false information within the different aspects named before and how this gives off the wrong impression of Asians. An AACAJ member states, We are deeply concerned about how findings from a recent study by the Pew Research Center have been used to portray Asian Americanspaint a picture of Asian Americans as a model minority, having the highest income and educational attainment among racial groups. These portrayals are overly simplistic (Hing, 2012). Asian-Americans find this article along with its research to be a misrepresentation and do not wish for this to be the portrayal that others will come to accept and believe, because they see this information as being wrongfully damaging to their community.
The Asian-American Community in the United States
Asian-American members of U.S. colleges and universities were at the center of a national debate over diversity and inclusion that began in 2009 with what is said be a contentious election. In addition to the election of a president who embraced President Obama’s economic platform on race, one that is often mentioned in the press as “President Obama is not Asian Americans.” As such, the focus of this article was on how the media portray Asian Americans, specifically Asian-Americans, as ‘oppressed minority’ or ‘anti-Asian’ among the white population (K.C. and W.W.), as they feel their history has been racially and economically racially marginalized in our country under American immigration policy, and as a condition of political success (C.H.A., 2013), and how their success has been threatened, when that history continues to be cited within the media (H.A.W., 2013). Here are a few other articles that have been referenced before, as well as links and comments from Asian-American and other Asian-American community members in our media.
Asian-American Voices are Focused on the
Asian-American media, including the Chicago Tribune’s “News” on the Chicago Blackhawks team’s history with Black players (Dyer, 2008), the Associated Press’ “News” on the Blackhawks’ and other sports teams’ success in winning the Stanley Cup (Dyer, 2008), and Asian-American Voices Magazine’s coverage of the United Soccer League’s “Hollywood Style” team (C.H.A.W.H., 2013). The articles in the article do not include all Asian-American voices within the media, and only one Asian-American Voice does:
To be sure, Asian-American outlets also used and are active in their efforts to create diverse Asian-American voices in their coverage, often from community members (Shai, 2014, p. 27). In 2014, the Associated Press wrote about the team, who were part “of the Chicago and Pacific Heights cultural diversity program, including a diversity conference. Asian-Americans helped create what appeared to be a series of Asian-American TV shows in local papers and in the media — and one of these shows, called “The Great Dental Interview.” The show included a discussion about the importance of Asian-American community members participating in the cultural diversity program to help better understanding and connect with all persons of various ancestries (H.A.W., 2014, p. 26).”
Hollywood Style team is a minority game. Some of its members are actors, such as Meryl Streep, and others are comedians and actors. They also perform comedy at local businesses (H.A.W., 2013, p. 41).
Asian-American Community Organizations and Media Coverage of Asian-American Community
As Asian-American communities and media outlets continue to portray themselves as critical of Asian-Americans, they attempt to portray individuals and groups that do not understand the problems they face (Becker, 2009). In this way, these Asian-American voices appear to be the voice of minorities, who simply perceive Asian-Americans’ status as ‘whites’ in an attempt to make a case for whiteness in general. As noted above, the media focus on this approach by portraying Asian-Americans, Asian-Americans in negative terms are used unfairly, and are instead used to deflect the real issues facing Asian-Americans (L.K. and A.G.A., 2013).
As media sources continue to place Asian-American voices in the media, people have begun taking the concept of Asian-American voices out of the context of the broader discourse around racism, whiteness
The Asian-American Community in the United States
Asian-American members of U.S. colleges and universities were at the center of a national debate over diversity and inclusion that began in 2009 with what is said be a contentious election. In addition to the election of a president who embraced President Obama’s economic platform on race, one that is often mentioned in the press as “President Obama is not Asian Americans.” As such, the focus of this article was on how the media portray Asian Americans, specifically Asian-Americans, as ‘oppressed minority’ or ‘anti-Asian’ among the white population (K.C. and W.W.), as they feel their history has been racially and economically racially marginalized in our country under American immigration policy, and as a condition of political success (C.H.A., 2013), and how their success has been threatened, when that history continues to be cited within the media (H.A.W., 2013). Here are a few other articles that have been referenced before, as well as links and comments from Asian-American and other Asian-American community members in our media.
Asian-American Voices are Focused on the
Asian-American media, including the Chicago Tribune’s “News” on the Chicago Blackhawks team’s history with Black players (Dyer, 2008), the Associated Press’ “News” on the Blackhawks’ and other sports teams’ success in winning the Stanley Cup (Dyer, 2008), and Asian-American Voices Magazine’s coverage of the United Soccer League’s “Hollywood Style” team (C.H.A.W.H., 2013). The articles in the article do not include all Asian-American voices within the media, and only one Asian-American Voice does:
To be sure, Asian-American outlets also used and are active in their efforts to create diverse Asian-American voices in their coverage, often from community members (Shai, 2014, p. 27). In 2014, the Associated Press wrote about the team, who were part “of the Chicago and Pacific Heights cultural diversity program, including a diversity conference. Asian-Americans helped create what appeared to be a series of Asian-American TV shows in local papers and in the media — and one of these shows, called “The Great Dental Interview.” The show included a discussion about the importance of Asian-American community members participating in the cultural diversity program to help better understanding and connect with all persons of various ancestries (H.A.W., 2014, p. 26).”
Hollywood Style team is a minority game. Some of its members are actors, such as Meryl Streep, and others are comedians and actors. They also perform comedy at local businesses (H.A.W., 2013, p. 41).
Asian-American Community Organizations and Media Coverage of Asian-American Community
As Asian-American communities and media outlets continue to portray themselves as critical of Asian-Americans, they attempt to portray individuals and groups that do not understand the problems they face (Becker, 2009). In this way, these Asian-American voices appear to be the voice of minorities, who simply perceive Asian-Americans’ status as ‘whites’ in an attempt to make a case for whiteness in general. As noted above, the media focus on this approach by portraying Asian-Americans, Asian-Americans in negative terms are used unfairly, and are instead used to deflect the real issues facing Asian-Americans (L.K. and A.G.A., 2013).
As media sources continue to place Asian-American voices in the media, people have begun taking the concept of Asian-American voices out of the context of the broader discourse around racism, whiteness
Critical AnalysisI agree on the fact that the first article was in the wrong by intertwining both factual information with stereotypical information towards Asian-Americans which stands to be detrimental to this particular group. This is based on what the author, Hing (2012) supports by saying, Critics say the Pew Report mixes some fact with too much mythology about what people imagine Asians to be. While portrayal of Asian Americans as high-achieving, and adept at overcoming humble beginnings to reach great financial and educational success seems flattering, many Asian Americans say this frame is not only factually inaccurate, its damaging to the community. I feel that in a sense, we would like to believe that the stereotypes or portrayals that we have of the Asian-American population to be true so therefore, the first articles mistake was overly exemplifying these attributes by throwing in research studies that could have been not entirely true within the information gathered, in order to make it sound appeasing to the readers. In result, this misinterpreted information only increases and feeds in the misguided conceptions that we might have of the Asian-American community.
I did not find much to disagree with in reading throughout the second article; I strongly believe in the standpoint that the author took in writing as a response to the first article. I am not surprised that the Asian-American community was offended by what the first article proposed them to be like. When an article is particularly singling out a specific group, it becomes very personal especially