Week 2: Neil Bryan Castro - ASA 114

Source: Main logo for Mga Kapatid's Pilipino Cultural Night, a yearly cultural production of Filipino culture and issues 

 In these readings, the authors are talking about the effect of globalization and how it impacts the Asian Diaspora. in Duheart's reading, the author talks about how globalization can be used to improve the economic growth in these Asian countries. Gary Locke marketed to world leaders at the time that Asian Americans can help transcend and provide monetary wealth for their homeland "...without jeopardizing or their cultural and political citizenship within the Untied States[.]"(Duheart, 3). However, even though globalization was advantageous for immigrants that came to developed countries, it also developed stereotypes within these communities and even a flawed educational pedagogy within ethnic studies. In San Juan's reading, he talks about the after effects of globalization. He defines globalization "... simply put, the 'formalization of neoliberal ideology' (Lazarus 1998–1999, 95). It is the triumphalist rhetoric of the centralized free market, privatization, deregulation, a return to an administered technocratic Taylorism." (San Juan,277). He sees that asian countries use the diaspora as a economic resource or for political gain in order to become a developed country from a third world country. He talks how it creates these stereotypes as it victimizes immigrants who came from their homeland in order to help their families back home, the perceived notion of the jewish question from Marx. He even points out that it seeps into ethnic studies and how that it promotes the use of "identity politics" and the competition between ethnicities having the best culture. In fact companies use these techniques to promote "diversity' and multiculturalism in order to show employers that they care about the globalization of people today. San Juan dreamt to reorganize and rebuild the college of ethnic studies by using the college as a way to fight the injustices that are happening in the globalized economy. He even states that "Students might be encouraged to engage in internships and actual investigations of community problems so as to critique state policies, corporate operations, and other institutional agencies that affect the everyday lives of people of color. "(San Juan, 283). San Juan wants us to challenge the policies that create the racialized stereotypes in the Asian Diaspora and reform them to benefit for all immigrants who come to developed countries like the United States. 

Question: How can we achieve the balance of globalization within the Diaspora because without globalization, some countries would have a hard time to be fully independent without the need of a First world country (from a war/natural disaster). 

Editor's Note: I cannot believe that I'm reading E. San Juan again for a course...

Work Cited 

Evelyn Hu-Dehart. “Introduction: Asian American Formations in the Age of Globalization.”
E. San Juan Jr. “The Ordeal of Ethnic Studies in the Age of Globalization.” Displacements.