Say-Ling C. Wong’s “Denationalization Reconsidered: Asian American Cultural Criticism at a Theoretical Crossroads” focuses on how the study of Asian Americans have changed over time, and claimed three important points on why the change happened. First is the easing of cultural nationalist concerns. In the past, there wasn’t much freedom of expressing culture, whereas since the mid 1970s, Asian Americans were allowed more to express their culture. The second change is the growing permeability between “Asian” and “Asian American.” This change is geared towards "parachute kids" and also using same resources in higher education. The last is the shifting from a domestic to a diasporic perspective, which helps Asian Americans understand more about their role in America and how it changes different aspects globally.
As a second generation Asian American, I can definitely see that Asian Americans are more comfortable in sharing and practicing their culture, than when my parents first came to America 25 years ago. Not only are we assimilated into American culture, but we are still very connected to our homeland.
Question: This article made very interesting points about the change in Asian Americans, but what about the focus on how education and professional work places now set a quota on race, specifically gearing towards Asian Americans? In colleges, Asian Americans are still targeted because there are too many of us, and so even though many people do qualify for college, we may not get in if we meet the quota.
Media:
Yin, Joyce. "How Asian American Studies Changed My Life." NAKASEC. NAKASEC, 22 Sept. 2010. Web. 08 Oct. 2015. <http://nakasec.org/2103/how-asian-american-studies-changed-my-life/>.
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