Asian American Inequality In Education

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Suffering through countless educational inequalities, the Asian American community aims to change the way education works.
The reasons why Asian Americans are activists in education is because they want to be treated more equally in the field of education. As mentioned in lecture, students are demanding a change in the curriculum from the change of the Eurocentric history as they demand ethnic studies. They would usually demand this right through peaceful protesting met with violent responses as a possible reason for this is the civil right and power movements taking place near that time. As looking at Zia’s chapter, “From Nothing, A Consciousness” the reason she decided to protest for ethnic studies is that she wanted to protest racism at …show more content…

Overall, all agree civic engagement with the community overall increases the things learned about the community and the impact it holds on the students. Looking at Espiritu’s, “Homes, Borders, and Possibilities” it becomes clear that America does not want to have Asian immigrants because they are, “Morally, culturally, and economically deficient” (Espiritu 604). As this is the same as Wu’s finding of her class’s’ initial opinion on the Chinatown community being dirty, lazy, mean, and poor. This shows that the first thing to take note of is the public generally has a negative view of the ethnic community. With education through public service being an effective form of educating people on ethnic studies, Omatsu agrees with this point but it raises a new point. As he brings up the Filipino men that returned to the Philippines to learn the structure of education and, the Filipino women called, the Babaes who fought for social justice by learning more about ethnic studies and then using it to fight on behalf of their people in America and the Philippines. However, when both groups returned to the Philippines, they found a new sense of cultural sense of identity within themselves. Which then correlates to Omatsu’s idea of freedom schooling as, in a literal sense, both were trying to fight the cultural power that were acting against their communities. While also supporting the idea of wanting to educate others …show more content…

According to Omi and Takagi’s, “Political Discourse on Affirmative Action” the two parties arguing over race in admissions used Asian Americans differently but aimed for the same end result. The right winged group wanted to use the community to support white admissions. While the other group held fears the community will not support them as it acts against them (Omi, Takagi). Looking further into this chapter, allowing race as a standard will put Asian Americans against Whites while not allowing race puts them against other minority groups (Omi, Takagi). Mentioned in lecture, affirmative action favors admission to groups who faced hardship and as Omi and Takagi mentioned with the removal of affirmative decision (Omi, Takagi). The Asian American community would greatly benefit at the expense of the other minorities while keeping it will only help other minority groups as it places looser standards on the favoring group (Lecture ; Omi, Takagi). Which comes back to the model minority myth as Lee’s, “The Cold War Origins of the Model Minority Myth” states the Asian American community were performing better than other minorities (Lee). To conclude, removing affirmative action will raise Asian American enrollment because they perform better than other groups while keeping it imposes a higher standard and thus limits enrollment. Which ties

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