Week 4_Anna Yang__ASA114

After reading "Asians on the Rim: Transnational Capital and Local Community in the Making of Contemporary Asia America", it explains being Asian in America is changing throughout time. It also explains how through history, this term is being coined differently and transcending the way of life through the perspective of Asians living in America. However as this term is constantly evolving, it involves many stereotypes of what it means to be this minority in America. There is an assumption that has came to term that many Asian-Americans are high academic achieving scholars building on the model minority myth and therefore giving many pressures to asian americans and their generations as being told to be successful and have a high status job that pays well.


Question: Within this asian diaspora, how can we defeat the stereotypes of model minority issues and begin to see asians as individualized people and not grouped into being one thing?