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The first mistake made was assuming that all Asian groups immigrating to the United States experienced the same issues (Wing). While it’s understandable that Asian Americans were grouped together at the time, as they constituted a minute percentage of the population, the continued application of a blanket statement to all Asian Americans becomes harmful as it becomes assumed to be the default status of Asian Americans (Wing). Using a high average and pointing it out repeatedly conveys the image of Asian Americans as generally high achieving even though it’s simply a statistical representation (Wing).
Issues with averaging incomes among Asian Americans becomes apparent when comparing average income with poverty rate. While Asian Americans do …show more content…

A perpetual foreigner, in the context of American society, is a group of people who will always be assumed as non-American before they’re assumed American (Huynh). Even those who are American citizens, maybe even third or fourth generation Americans, will be seen as foreigners in their own country. The perpetual foreigner concept stems from the fact that people are more likely to associate being “American” with being a European American rather than an ethnic minority (Huynh). Although subtle and often unnoticed, the notion that Asian Americans will never be as “American” as white Americans is racist in that it actively excludes Asian Americans as well as implying a certain inferiority of Asian Americans as compared to white Americans (Huynh). Perpetual foreigner isn’t only assigned to Asian Americans, and is also often assigned to Latin Americans …show more content…

In Pennsylvania in 2008, two white males, Derrick Donchak and Brandon Piekarsky, murdered Luis Ramirez, an undocumented immigrant. They are reported to have been saying racial slurs towards him while kicking him in the head after repeatedly ordering him to leave their neighborhood and were originally acquitted of third degree murder. Finally, in 2011, Donchak and Piekarsky were found guilty of hate crimes and depriving Luis Ramirez of his civil rights. Do keep in mind that hate crimes towards Asian Americans still occur. Hate based killings towards Asian Americans occur. The most recent statistics on hate crimes report that five percent of hate crimes reported nationally occur towards Asian Americans (Reappropriate). Some of the most recent hate crimes that resulted in the deaths of Asian Americans are the 2012 Sikh temple shooting in Wisconsin, the beating and choking of David Kao in 2009, and the subway murder of Sunado Sen in 2012

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