Although more than half of all Asians in the U.S. were born outside the U.S., many non-Asians simply assume that every Asian they see, meet, or hear about is a foreigner. Many can't recognize that many Asian American families have been U.S. citizens for several generations. As a result, because all Asian Americans are perceived as foreigners, it becomes easier to think of us as not fully American and then to deny us the same rights that other Americans take for granted. Yes, that means prejudice and discrimination in its many forms. Even back in the late 1800s, Asians mobilized their resources to lobby for equal rights and access to economic, land, and occupational opportunities that they were being denied.
This situation of unfair admission rate happened not only on the students from Asia, but also on the Asian Americans. “Asian Americans applicants and admittances, on average, score higher on the SAT than students from any other race”, Quynh-Nhu Le, the author from the Harvard Crimson Admissions Blog, points out, “while the percentage of students belonging to most other racial minorities in highly selective colleges have gone up over the years, the percentage of Asian-American students has not”. According to the admission expert, Jean Webb, the Director of Admissions at Yale Law Scholl said: every college needs to make sure it has diversity of the campus. However, why college admissions consider the problem of races? Does race really matter?
At the same token, many Americans feel negative about Asian Americans. I think that they feel as though they are a threat. No only because of America’s past with them as far as going to war but also because many American’s feel as though many immigrants come to this country and do better than them and it’s at their expense. All and all, one has to admit whether they feel positively or negatively about Asian-Americans they have to agree that they have done very well in America socially and economically. Many Asian Americans are very smart.
But in fact, assimilation can be much worse for immigrants’ well-being than it is for native citizens’. It is true that blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans are at the bottom of the social hierarchy while European immigrants seem to assimilate and join white society in social and cultural terms. Even though very few of the immigrants of color can cross the line into whit-ness, most of them are forced to assimilate to a racially divided society in terms of social status. Aviva Chomsky, the author of “Thy Take Our Jobs!” And 20 Other Myths About Immigration, 2007, defines that “in contrast of white immigrants, for people of color assimilation means downward mobility.”(P109) She points out “the relationship between assimilation and downward mobility has been especially noted in studies of school-children.” For instance, Education professor Marcelo Suarez-Orozco has studied Latino adolescents. The study discovers that “the most recent immigrants tended to be the students with the highest aspirations and the strongest belief in the American dream.” “As they became more Americanized, they entered an oppositional inner-city teenage culture that valued money, drugs and reckless behaviors – the opposite of the hopeful and hard-working recent arrivals”(P106).
| Asian Population: Counseling and Values | Capella University | | | | | Abstract According to Speller (2005) Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority group in the United States today and there are as many as 43 different Asian American ethnic groups, each with distinct cultural values, religious traditions, dietary practices, histories, and over 100 languages. Asian values and beliefs run very deep for this culture. Their beliefs and values are a part of who they are as an individual and as an entire family unit. For varied reasons the Asian population faces many barriers that may help contribute to the lack of mental health services that are received for this particular population. This paper will focus on how Asian values and other barriers prevent the Asian population from seeking out mental health services.
Not only does the ability& training plays a part the education of one person can allow them to be paid more than an individual with a lower status of education. Discrimination is a huge contribution to income inequality because of people gender, race and age will determine a lot on what job than can be hired for and which job performance will suit the company. Incomes maybe established with different kind of individuals, and the intensity of inequality as well as the purpose for inequality will depend on the circumstance of the groups being compared. Incomes can be compared in many ways within a company or organizations and with diverse economies. The disparities of income between genders, race and social status can allow the opportunity of group forming.
Religion or spirituality is important for Hispanic Americans and Latino Americans, and plays a central role in their lives. Again, individuals who move away from religious or spiritual tradition are not favorably received. Hispanic or Latino and Asian immigrants and their children support many of the same public policies (from reformed health insurance to better education, from less costly housing to better and more secure jobs). Minorities often different more among themselves than they do with the white majority. Hispanic are aware of big differences within the group especially among the Mexican American (largest group) and the Cuban American the latter being more conservative, to vote Republican, to become American citizen.
The same could be said if I was looking for an education in America and eventually decided to stay instead of returning to China because of the lack of opportunity for growth. (REG, chapter four, p. 103) The majority of all new immigrants are the result of them wanting to unite with their spouses or family (REG, chapter four, p.101). When I look at myself as a Chinese immigrant who is planning to migrate to America only for reasons of unification with a spouse or family, the process may seem
I will talk about the factors both in the United States and their home country that contribute to the success or failure of the foreign exchange student. Hypotheses: Is Asian a race of its own? In Racialized Groups: The Sociohistorical Consensus, they suggest that Asians don’t have the six characteristics to be considered a distinct race. (Blum, L 2010) They compared the description of what a race is compared to
According to Borjas, high skilled immigrants tend to adapt more rapidly to conditions at the destination country. On the other hand, if immigrants are lacking these skills they will confront difficulties in adaption process and consequently increasing the costs the government/immigrant invests. Immigrants most important capital focuses on the acquisition of the host country's" language capital", Borjas outlined this, when he argued that immigrants with proficiency in English were having higher earnings than immigrants without "language capital" in the U.S.A. Moreover, Borjas presented the Chiswick's regression model, to demonstrate how high skilled migrants develop and improve their skills after arriving at the destination country, in this model the human capital investment hypothesis can be interpreted by a selection argument, which corroborate that immigrants are substantially more motivated than natives and additionally immigrants are ready to take risks working harder and longer than natives, having with this a better economic integration in the host country (Borjas, George, 1994: 1667-1717). Moreover Chiswick's study goes more dipper on the selectivity and the human capital migration model, in which he studies how choices and opportunities people have, and how these