Essays on Asian American

The Asian American community has long been referred to as a “model minority" which is a term used to refer to non-white ethnic groups in the US and the perceived notion that they can to find success and adapt to the American way of life seamlessly. According to Yen (2), the model minority is one that has achieved economic and societal success. They can blend into the ideal conservative lifestyle that Americans hold ideal such as strong family ties and hard work. Moreover, the Asian Americans are expected to attain success in the academic field and the entrepreneurial field ...

The Issues

The Asian Americans are groups of the Asians that inhabit the United States of America. Critical issues are affecting the group. The issues may be considered adverse about how the minority groups live in America. One of the significant problems that the group faces includes lack of political access and limitation of minority rights. The issue is related to the political representation of the Asian Americans as well as the minimal rights they face as minorities within the United States of America (Lin and Scherz 13). For instance, there are no policies that exist to protect the interest of ...

4 Immigrants Manga is written by the Japanese author Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama. Manga is the name given to Japanese comic books that focus on adults and children. 4 Immigrants Manga revolves around the experiences of the author and his three friends who arrive in San Francisco as immigrants. “It is one of the first modern-format comic books ever published in the United States, especially with all-new material and a documentary, autobiographical theme” (L, 2013).

Section1: Context

Born on January 9, 1885, in a little village called Neu, in Western Japan, Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama was a good artist and a story teller. ...

Health History

Introduction Health history assessment is a vital part of the nursing process. This process establishes the foundation through which nurses can diagnose and create a care plan for their patients. That said, incorrect health assessments may result in misdiagnosis, hence wrongful care plan development. For this task, I interviewed Anna, L. (not her real name). The following discussion encompasses a review and reflection of this interview.

Demographic Data

Anna is a 26-year-old single female of Japanese descent. She recently moved to the US to pursue her degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her hobbies include traveling, photography, blogging, dancing, ...

I strongly support the views expressed by Zhou in the article. It is often said that America is a land of liberty, equality and opportunity. The gifted people get what they deserve. Asian Americans have proved their ability and they have been credited for one of the major drivers of American economy. They are called “Model Minority”. The previous generations of Asian Americans came to this land to shape their future and the future of their next generations. They got liberty and opportunities to prosper as elite Americans. It clearly indicates that America is a land of liberty and ...

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Introduction Demography is an interesting and exciting field. It uses statistics to explain concepts, trends etc relating to the social landscape. Statistical analysis brings forth new insights into the problem being researched. This essay takes three demographical issues with the US as a backdrop and analyses them in detail. The first one among these deals with the rising Asian, the second focuses on the diversity among 14 Hispanic groups, and the third is about immigrants. The rising Asian is an important part of the kaleidoscope that is America. Asians look at the US as the ...

Abstract

This essay is focused on reproductive diseases, which are considered to be conditions affecting both male and female individuals. Congenital anomaly, to be specific, is a kidney disease which entails absence, hypoplasia or the presence of fluid or semisolid-filled sacs, known as cysts. Cysts can lead to urinary obstructive symptoms through local pressure. Severe penis anomalies are rare and are normally related to urinary or various other systematic defects. Even though there are no specific cases reported in the State of Florida, various reports have been filed in United States, Canada, among Asian Americans and Native Americans, in Russia ...

Migratory History It is said that ethnic Chinese first appeared on the western shores of North America during the period of the Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines, which is about between 1521 to 1815. They had accepted commissions as being businessmen, sailors and fishermen on the Spanish galleons that traversed the Pacific Ocean between the Philippines and Mexico (Brownstone, 2). Several numbers of ethnic Chinese were able to reach California as this state was still the territory of Mexico until 1848. Future expeditions to Vancouver by John Meares, a British fur trader, brought more Chinese into Vancouver around ...

Throughout the history of Europe, Africa and Asia there had been Empires. These included the Roman, Akkadian, Babylonian, Greek, Shang, Persian, Holy Roman, Bulgarian, Byzantine and Russian Empire along with many more. While Africa, Asia and Europe went through many Empires, South America only had three, the Aztec, Inca and Mayan before the arrival of the Europeans. This paper will look at the effect of Europe’s need to increase their empire on the New World. The first European arrivals to the New World were the Spanish, who decided to expand their empire into the Caribbean after Columbus had ...

Introduction

In fact Chinese have landed to the US already in 1848. The main reason behind their resettlement in American soil was golden mines that have lured thousands of Chinese people to the States. Yet, as soon as the economy in the States declined Chinese workers were seen as a significant issue for the majority of Americas’ working population. As a result, a severe law was adopted to hold back the Chinese and forced them to move to the shelter that later turn into one of the most popular tourist attractions for the visitors of San-Francisco (Chinatown Resource Guide). This ...

Discussion Board Posts

Main post starting a thread: Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields, "Chapter One" Racecraft (New York: Verso, 2012.) pp. 1-24. In chapter one of their book, Fields and Fields warn against an early celebration of the post-racial age, as people from minority groups continue to suffer from racial injustice. The authors talk about the racist concepts that continue to affect the way discussions about race are conducted in present-day America. The authors state that racist concepts are extremely harmful because they not only categorize people in obsolete racial groups that do not reflect their genealogical reality, but they ...

Gender is a very powerful category and one that many different people have used in order to explain culture and society. The role of women in society had for the longest time been constricted to the private sphere, the home, taking care of the children and being the primary Linchpin that could take care of the family and be the emotional and often moral center of the family. Women in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have gained more rights and have fought for equality with men. When Korean families immigrated to the United States in the ...

American Pastime opens with a Japanese family living in Los Angeles. This is the Nomura family and it is evicted from its home and business after Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066. The family is rounded up into Topaz, an internment camp in Utah’s arid area. Here, they meet many other Japanese from different parts of the country. Nomura starts a baseball league in the camp. While in the camp, Lyle, Nomura’s son gets into a relationship with Billy Burrell’s daughter, Katie. Billy Burrell is one of the guards at Topaz. The climax of ...

Abstract

The Vietnamese are unusual and even unique people. Despite the fact that this nationality was influenced by three world religions - Confucianism, Hinduism and Buddhism, and each religion had a significant impact on the historic course and development of the Vietnamese society. Culture of the Vietnamese people is unique and distinctive, and the process of its development has been lasting for the third millennium. The Vietnamese have many interesting and unusual traditions that they are likely to follow in order to keep their identity among the representatives of another culture. Language and cultural barriers are two main reasons why ...

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Abstract Obesity is a condition of having more than average fatness, and it is defined by the Body Mass Index (BMI) of 95th percentile or more. Obesity epidemic is not only affecting the people from underdeveloped and developing countries but also affecting the people of developed countries. Particularly, minorities in developed countries are facing the problem more commonly as compared to the other population. During the last few decades, it has not only affected the adults but also children even at very young ages. Therefore, for the betterment of future generations, it is important to work ...

Background

In 1931, The Empire of Japan attacked and took over Manchuria, a resources-rich Chinese region. Japan took over Manchuria because it wanted to take control of the natural resources found there especially oil (Inada 11). The U.S refused to recognize Japan’s jurisdiction over Manchuria arguing that the control was established through force. The U.S had close trade relations with China, and it wanted to protect its interests in the country. Japan attacked China severally so as to weaken it from claiming back Manchuria. In 1937, the U.S started considering how it could stop Japan’s quest to expand ...

Culture sums beliefs, and attitude towards something or someone. These customs distinguish one cultural group from another. Cultures are carried through languages, rituals amongst other institution from generation to the other. For that reason, every cultural group always try to retain its culture regarding anything is it makes them stand out of the crowd regardless of regional differences. On the other hand, the cultural practices are the way that cultural group reveals their culture regarding a customary practice or a traditional practice. Therefore, it is important to note that every group has different cultural beliefs and practices from the ...

This paper answers two fundamental questions in two sections. They will cover aspects of the AAS course and provide an insight into relevant issues and matters relating to the Asian American community and history.

Question 1: Race, Racialization and the Law

Asian Americans were always viewed in the context of “Asian immigrants”. This is for several reasons. First of all, the history of the United States rising as a prosperous nation happened from the east coast. And for various reasons, the first colonies created in the 1600s were made up almost exclusively of migrants from the British Isles. However, as time went on, the colonies expanded ...

Health Belief Model

In the past century, many health-based models have been developed and implemented in order to help nursing professionals to identify and incorporate key factors in improving patient-centric services and health outcomes. The Health Belief Model (HBM) is one such model that is associated with the psychological and health behavioural change model associated to change and predict health-related behaviours. The HBM was developed to be incorporated and adopted by healthcare services (Dardis MR, Koharchik LS, Dukes S. 2015). The HBM was developed by key psychologists in 1950 in the US. It is one of accepted theories in the US with ...

Abstract

Education is one of the most important sectors in a country. The state of a country’s education system determines how prepared the population would be for changes, both positive and negative, that may happen in the future, regardless of the timeframe. It would be safe to suggest, therefore, that a robust education system is essential to successful nation building. In this paper, the author reviews related literatures on the educational problem that Hispanic youths and students face, particular discrimination. The results of the review suggest that some of the reasons why they are being discriminated include the lack ...

Abstract

Ethnography relates to a culture and shares the story into larger cultural patterns of culture, class, ecology, and region. The purpose of the essay are to examine an aspect of Filipino culture through interviews and understand the culture. Filipino youth often abandons their culture even as the immigrant families try to teach their children their culture and heritage language. They fear that children will get have a foreign accent and will not be able to people preserves their culture and heritage. The mental health of Filipino Americans immigrants is influenced by how they adjust to their new adopted country ...

Asian Americans are those individuals with an Asian origin or appearance and reside in the Americas. They are often immigrants who obtain US citizenship by either birth or descent. By 2008, the Asian Americans accounted for 5% of the total population in the US. The American perception and treatment of immigrant races have historically been characterized by massive instances of racial discrimination. The immigrants have been subjected to reduced privileges compared to the people of Native American origin. This paper seeks to examine the case for Asian Americans in regard to how they have been viewed and treated in ...

During the civil rights movements that rocked the United States in the 1960s, the Asians that lived in America were first characterized as being the model minority. Even as there were efforts to abolish the social, legal and institutional disparities that existed between the majority and minority groups, political conservatives were quick to point out the American dream as being colorblind because of the Students of Asian descent. The thought process that formed this ideology was that if the Asians could succeed in America, then all the other minority groups had no excuse in failing. The success of the ...

Breast cancer is identified as the most common cancer among women in the world (Chlebowski, Chen, Anderson, Rohan, Aragaki, Paskett, and Prentice, 2013). The prevalence rates have increased in the recent past, a trend associated with lifestyle attributes such as improper diets and lack of exercise. In as much as genetics play a contributory role in the development of breast cancer, a significant part is associated with these changes. An interesting aspect is that the ailment affects women differently in relation to differences in racial and ethnic considerations. In this regard, Asian women are the least affected group in ...

Introduction

Asian Americans used the comic novels to tell their stories regarding the turbulent racist stereotypes that they had to undergo. The novelist developed narratives of some of the real-life experience of many young Asian Americans who were willing to do anything just to be recognized and appreciated by other Americans. This essay correlates racial discrimination with the desire of being American or Westernized.

Jin Wang

All that Jin Wang wishes to do is to fit in amongst his peers. When his household moves to a new area, Jin Wang suddenly becomes the only Asian American child in his new school. On ...

Many studies have elucidated the experiences of African Americans and Asian Americans in the wake of oppression and racial injustice in the United States. Some literary texts have tried to respond to the culture of oppression that has confronted these groups of people by drawing similarities and differences in the struggle for racial equality. Carlos Bulosan’s America is in the heart narrates the experiences of Filipino Americans in a land embroiled in racism following their immigration into the country in the hope of finding equality. Although the story is represented through a poor young man growing up in ...

Abstract

The modern bureaucratic system replaced the previous patriarchal system which had some flaws that slowed down the further development of the society. The administrative bodies make decisions and realize them, resorting to enforcement matters when it’s needed, within their authority. The bureaucracy tries to satisfy the needs of those people that it administrates, while those people are taking care of other things: production of material and spiritual goods, bringing up the new generation, health care, and their own professional and personal development. The bureaucracy acts in behalf of those people who empowered it to manage the public affairs. ...

One of the top most grossing industries or sectors in the contemporary society is the entertainment industry. Increasing standards of living around the world have allowed individuals to accumulate bigger disposable incomes. Lifestyle changes continue to arise within the contemporary society owing to the growing, improving incomes. Consumables that were previously unprofitable have since become among day-to-day products. The growing entertainment industry is one such sector. The focus of this paper is to analyze the industry, growth process, and evolution of the cinema industry in India. The growth of the movie sector is one of the indicators of a ...

In February 1942, three years after the commencement of the Second World War and a mere two months after Japan forces attacked Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was President of the United States at the time, issued “Executive order 9066” (Foner 692). As per the directives of the document, the President authorized Henry Stimson, the United States Secretary of War at the time, to move West Coast individuals of Japanese descent to relocation camps. Accordingly, the military relocated an estimated eleven thousand Japanese Americans into internment camps in which they were to remain until 1946 (Foner 692). Throughout ...

The Proposal

Vulnerability increases the likelihood of particular persons acquiring illnesses. The susceptibility may arise due to genes, poverty, cultural practices, environmental factors, etc. In this particular case, this essay conceptualizes on the risks factors that make diabetes prevalent amongst minority populations. The burden of the illness is much greater amongst the disadvantaged groups. What increases their chances of suffering from diabetes? What measures can alleviate the groups’ vulnerability to the disease? The illness also presents a challenge to health care providers who are aiming to enhance the medical outcomes of diabetes and prevent the disease. Diabetes management and prevention require ...

The history of immigration to the United States has had elements of racism with it from the times of ancient civilizations. The essential effects that racism brought with it to the American society as far as human relations are concerned have only gained serious significance in recent decades. Various American populations have been described with regards to their physical distinctions. It is due to this description that the nature of contemporary issues of racism has been based. Racism, as was evident during the slave trade, embodies attitude, behaviors and beliefs that render favoritism to a specific group of people ...

Discussion 1:

Part 1: Controversies surrounding the "discovery" of America with specific details.The discovery of America is dated as early as 1492 and accredited to a renowned Spanish explorer, Christopher Columbus who is believed to have set out of Spain in a maritime expedition that would lead to the discovery of the Americas, introduction of Christianity and the eventual colonization of the country. Due to the determination of Columbus and his counterparts to discover, conquer and exploit new areas for the untouched wealth, he viewed and handled the local indigenous people as real impediments to his mission. There exist tripartite compositions ...

Ideas of racism have a long history in the United States, perhaps stretching back to the early civilizations. However, it has gained much significance for its fundamental effects on human relations in recent centuries. The nature of racism portrayed in the history of American immigration is manifested through the description of the various categories of American population regarding their physical differences. As such, racist perspectives invite principles that cause natural and inevitable differential treatments to members drawn from different ethnic compositions. The nature of racism incorporates beliefs, behavior or attitudes that favor a particular group over the other. In ...

The second chapter “The Lockdown” has its focus on historical evaluation relating to war on drugs as perceived on how laws changed with time (Alexander, 37-59). In as much as Alexander named several other disturbing elements associated with the drug war, my concern remains the fact that holistic investment by the highest governmental levels in this menace requires substantial attention alongside established policies and laws that would make good such an investment. The article “Vanishing Son” focuses on stereotypes of Asian-Americans as seen in the American society. This stereotyping has been clearly manifested in the society’s theater, literature, ...

Hispanics form the most rapidly growing ethnic minority in the United States. In 1992, their estimated population was about 22.4million forming the second largest minority after the Asian American. Roughly 60 percent of the Hispanics in the U.S. trace their origin to Mexico. Compared to the Asian American except in Texas and the New Mexico, the Hispanics did not experience outright discrimination. Also, this ethnic group has a lower level of economic and educational capabilities (Ramirez and Roberto 65).  Hispanic does not refer to a particular an ethnic description. It refers to native language and cultural background. Due to ...

Miss Representation is an American documentary motion picture. It was released in 2011 by Girl’s Club Entertainment, to a limited theater release. It was shown at the Sundance film festival and several other film festivals, while also signing a deal to run on the Oprah Winfrey Network. The screenplay for the film was written by Jennifer Newson, Jessica Congdon, Claire Dietrich, and Jenny Raskin. Jessica Newsom also directed, and shared production duties with Julie Costanzano. With a running time of 85 minutes, the documentary had a shooting budget of $750,000, and box office earnings were not reported ...

One might suspect from the outset that dominant media portrays Asian and American men differently from Asian and Asian women; hence, one might look for contrasting media representations. Shek (2007) suggested that, in history, dominant mainstream culture has pictured Asian and Asian American men and women to be very different. Asian women are formed in an “aesthetically pleasing nature, sexually willing and speechless” as well as “dark” and “primitive” (Shek, 2007, pg.74). Shek suggests further that while Asian women were “exotic and appealing, the men, on the other hand, were almost always considered as predatory figures as tyrannical and ...

Life presents its challenges and benefits. People often take the fundamental aspects that sustain their daily needs for granted. As an Asian young woman of Chinese origin, I represent part of the minority cultures in the U.S. Fortunately life for the Asian community is not badly off as compared to other ethnicities in the country. I have access to adequate education opportunities and basic requirements. I live a life oblivious to other people’s challenges since I have not come across such difficulties. This essay evaluates the compares and contracts the privileges of an Asian American using an anthropological ...

China has always had high immigration numbers. In the past, unskilled men typically left to find jobs abroad and then sent the money home and returned when they made enough to sustain their families (Skeldon). Over the last several decades China has been experiencing financial, governmental and demographic changes. China has the highest number of people of any one country and they are experiencing tremendous levels of migration both in and out of the country. In 2010 China was ranked in fourth place in the area of immigration that took place around the world (Skeldon). In the mid 1960’ ...

Methods

Quantitative methodology will be used in this work, - for this is one of the best ways to conduct such social experiments. Quantitative studies involve the conducting of various surveys based on the use of structured closed-ended questions that are answered by a large number of respondents. The main objective of quantitative research is to obtain numerical evaluation of market condition or reactions of the respondents on some event. For this experiment to be carried out, 60 fourth grade students from Skyland Elementary School at the beginning of the 2016 school year will be taken.

Description of the research design

The necessity of group ...

A. In the third part of the poster project, I visited the Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles, where I gained insights in the following ideas: the history of Chinese in Monterey Park, acupuncture, and the abacus.

Various writings and materials at the Museum provide information about Chinese history in Monterey Park.

Acupuncture, a healing technique that utilizes fine needles inserted into points of the body, was first accepted officially as a medical practice in California in 1976. The abacus was invented to do mathematical calculations in China and it is still used by shops in Asia and Chinese American communities in North America. B.

Presently, Monterey Park is one of the cities in the United States that accommodates the largest population of Chinese Americans.

For instance, the migration of Chinese to the United ...

Even in today’s increasingly diverse world of theatre and the arts, finding high-quality and accurate representation of minorities and people of color can be incredibly difficult. The struggles of Asian-Americans, in particular, can be innately difficult to translate accurately to the stage, as they are given a disproportionately small voice in the American arts. However, artists like playwright David Henry Hwang have made tremendous strides in advocating for the voices of Asian-Americans to be heard in the world of theatre, his works (including M. Butterfly, Chinglish and Yellow Face) demonstrating the unique difficulties they have in fighting for ...

Hawaii is an American state where Europeans are not the majority of residents and it is the home to the largest Asian-American community in America. The Asian-American population consists of Koreans, Filipino, Japanese, and Chinese (Avila-Tapies and Dominguez-Mujica 56). Most of the Hawaii natives are descendants of Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and Chinese migrant workers who arrived in the 19th and early 20th century to work in the sugarcane plantations. Since then, more Asians have continued to migrate to the United States. The Hawaii state was the home of Polynesian Islander until European traders began to arrive in mid18th century ...

While diversity and equality represent the goal in today’s multicultural society, racialized groups continue to be disadvantaged in the business environment. African-American employees need to work harder in order to keep their jobs and to advance in their careers, and they are more likely to be fired for unsubstantial reasons. African-American women are less likely to be promoted in the corporate world than any other group in the country, including White women. As Galabuzi (94) shows, as of 2000, racialized groups in Canada earned less than Whites, despite having similar studies and experience. Furthermore, racialized groups were more ...

In 2009, a movie was released that was based on a Japanese manga (comic book) that originated in Japan. The premises of the movie was that a teenage inherited a mystical item that imbued him with immense powers. With these powers, he fought off evil alien forces that threatened all life on planet Earth. The name of that movie is Dragonball Evolution. Due to the source material containing Asian people as the main characters, it would only be safe to assume that the actor casted for the main role would be Asian as well. However, Hollywood directors went with ...

Introduction:

Thesis: Whitewashing has become rampant in Hollywood movies and is beginning to reflect negatively on the American society. Body Paragraphs: I. Whitewashing in recent movies. A. Examples from movies that have been released in the past years. 1. The Last Air Bender 2. Prince of Persia 3. Argo 4. Cleopatra 5. Othello 6. Warm Bodies 7. A Mighty Heart II. Why Hollywood continues to use white actors to play Asian Americans in movies. Most of the time, this leads to them performing a racist and stereotypical role. A. Movie examples of white actors and actresses playing Asian Americans. 1. ...

Racism has been a problem in America for centuries. The idea of what racism is has varied over those times. The discussion will be involving racism, and comparing different cultures portraying as white. White can be considered skin color, or it could be considered who you have become. The different races will be reviewed, and how they compare to white people of America. Over 50 years the African American people in the United States had went through a long journey. The beginning of hope included Martin Luther Kings’ speech about black segregation, and humanity. That path had evolved other ...

English

“When the Emperor Was Divine” is considered to be a historical novel written by highly-acclaimed Japanese American author Julia Otsuka. It is regarded to be her debut novel, which was published in 2002. The theme of a Japanese American family dispatched to an internment camp in the Utah desert during World War II runs through the novel. The central idea of the novel finds its particularization in the wartime experiences of Otsuka’s mother’s family. In general, one can take into consideration that the novel is written through the perspective of four family members, focusing their attention on ...

Better Luck Tomorrow, is a 2002 film that explores the lives of four Asian-American youth who decided to venture into the excesses of life and ended up getting involved in mischief, petty crime and eventually murder. It was an MTV success that sparked outrage and mixed emotions from the movie goers. The plot begins with a flash-forward of events in the future when the character Ben Manibag (played by Pary Shen) and Virgil Hu (Jason Tobin), his socially unschooled best friend, are involved in a dialogue when they hear a phone ringing. Their curiosity leads them to dig up ...

I am Asian-American. The moment I set my foot last week on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 10:30 AM, into Starbucks at Maple Tree Place, VT ("Maple Tree Place") I was simply conspicuous. The place was awash with white, old, faces, all enjoying a rare moment of peaceful calm which seemed (I so noticed as I came closer to Starbucks before I got in) to dawn upon all in late morning hours when working people are in office or busy rushing by, sparsely. I was youngest of all as well. The combination of blackness and youngness made me a perfect contrast ...

Reflection of the Film

Even in our modern society, minorities are often stereotyped. One of these minorities is Asians and Asian Americans. Our society always finds itself amused by giving labels. What is a stereotype itself? It is set general idea or image, or set of characteristics that, as people believe, represents a person, but most commonly, a large group of people (Collins Cobuild). What is the first image that emerges in your mind when you’re asked about Asian men? Is it nerd, small, emasculated, evil man, or Kung Fu fighter? What can you say about women? They are the dragon ladies, “ ...

ARTICLE REVIEW

Introduction The main research questions posed by the authors in the research paper are whether there is age difference in susceptibility to stereotypes, how positive and negative stereotyping affects academic performance in children and whether children become susceptible to stereotypes at some certain age. In his paper, the authors describe a work by Aronson, Quinn, and Spencer (1998) claiming that if a person experiences negative stereotyping based on a social group, where he or she belongs, such person will show much worse performance results than the control group. Another mentioned work conducted by Shih and his colleagues in 1999 ...

The name

The United States has always been a multinational country, and immigrants have always constituted a significant percentage of the American population. Thousands of people from all over the world come here to find something they lack in their home countries – stability, prosperity, even happiness, and they stay here for years, generation after generation. But is it true to say that these people become American citizens, acquiring the same rights as Americans? In “When the Emperor was Divine” Julie Otsuka answers this question, and the answer seems to be – no, it is not. According to the novel, immigrants are vulnerable ...

A Case Study

Jonathan, a married 32-year-old Asian-American male, with an income of $70,000 annually reported symptoms of pathological gambling. As stated by his wife, Marigold, Jonathan has an uncontrollable urge to visit casinos and bet on slot machines. If he could not go out, he uses his credit cards to bet online. He rarely communicates with Marigold and their two children and prefers to lock himself in the room. According to Marigold, Jonathan started betting on casino slot machines with his workmates. They persuaded him by telling him that it was a lucrative activity with negligible losses. He began betting ...

Charles Alexander Eastman’s autobiographic work, From the Deep Woods to Civilization throws light on the unfair experiences of a Native Indian American youth living in the early 20th century United States. Through this work, Eastman intended to inform the world about the intensity of a Native American’s tension associated with his struggle to cope up with the European culture. The book indeed was an eye opener for many in the context of European stereotypes about Native Americans. It approached the US history from a Native American’s perspective. Eastman found himself “a stranger in a strange country” ...

AGEING IN AMERICA

In the year 2013 (the latest year for which data is available), there were 44.7 million aged individuals in the United States (above the age of 65 years). The aged population consisted of 14.1% of the total population of US. In other words, approximately one in every seven citizens of America was aged (Administration for Community Living, 2016). For the purpose of the study about different racial groups in the US undergoing ageing, we will specifically discuss the Asian Americans and African Americans. (The Older Asian Population in America, 2016) As compared to the other ethnic groups of the ...

The overall ethical dilemma is that a police rookie, Peter Liang accidentally killed an unarmed man, Akai Gurley in a dark stairway during a routine patrol. While it is true that Liang killed an innocent man, he had a right to take precaution of his life by drawn gut his gun while patrolling the Pink Houses with his partner landau. Specifically, Liang was first accused of breaking a major rule in which he had been trained to “never put his finger on the trigger unless he was ready to shoot”. However, he broke that rule and his negligence led ...

Through early American history each new action and document established an important precedent for the young nation. For example, the Declaration of Independence created the foundation of a new country by not only declaring independence, but also by establishing essential truths on which the nation would be based. Equally important is the Gettysburg Address, which not only motivated future action, but also summarized actions that preceded it. In the Gettysburg Address, President Lincoln advances the idea that difficult tasks, such as wars, should be pursued to their successful completion in order to honor the fallen, a philosophy which has ...

The Asian Americans form the fastest growing ethnic groups in the US. Most of these Asian Americans comprised of low wage laborers who travelled to the US in search of proper living. This group mainly originated from regions such as china, Far East, south Asian and the Indian subcontinent. This paper however lays emphasis on the Asian Americans comprising of the Chinese ethnic group.

The Chinese group went to the US with the intention of working in the Californian gold rushes in the 1850s. Through their skills, they worked in agricultural plantations, factories and in the building of ...

Impact of Racial Discrimination on Wage

There are still incidences of discrimination in the US, where individuals from particular racial group earn less compared to other people considered as dominant in the same job position. Economic offers a lot of empirical evidence that certain racial group including African American, Hispanic and Asian Americans earn a lower wage compared to their counterpart Native Americans. However, the estimate of the wage gap differs widely with variables such as the database used and decomposition methods. According to the efficiency-wage theory, employers do not necessarily pay workers the lowest possible wage rather than the higher wage to motivate them exhibit higher ...