Are all asians smart? This question has been answered with a simple “yes’ and the reasons behind this stereotype is because of the undenying facts that lie behind it. This stereotype can be proven by three simple reasons. Why Asians are seen as “always smart” is because they are shown to raise brilliant and are more advanced students than Americans, they have strict schooling rules, and they are pressured to compete and achieve. Learning more about Asian schooling and culture, gains an understanding of how and why they are intelligent. Of course, many would say “not ALL of them are smart,” but many are to be considered average, an average that’s superior than americans. First and foremost, Asian education is clearly made to advance students …show more content…
It all begins with the education system itself, the grading system for Asian students is set at a percentage. An example of this is those whose grades are in top 35% in entire class can receive an A, the next 40% get a B, etc. The primary purpose of this grading system is to increase competitiveness and motivate students (Kim). This piece of evidence makes for students to care for their grades, working harder to keep them up and staying top of the class. This supports the main idea because asian learners are to learn by themselves and focus because if not, then confusion and misunderstanding will put the student at a disadvantage. The second reason Asian students compete to achieve is because of their teachers. Salaries as teachers are competitive, given bonuses for high-performers. New teachers get paired with mentors, and all teachers are eligible for 100 hours of free professional development each year("Secrets of Asian Education”). Teachers compete, just as students. With competition running both sides, the teachers spend hours and dedication to teaching the students the material they must learn. Thus, helping the students learn and achieving the knowledge to become keen in class. The third reason for the high intelligence of Asian students is their family’s reputation and love. Asian Americans feel the need to respect their family’s reputation by appeasing the demands and expectations that their parents have for them. Asian students believe that education is important because of the views pushed on them by their parents. Educational pressure from Asian American parents play a large role in their children’s vocational outcomes. In asian culture, family often takes the utmost priority. Asian Americans view it as the central reference group for all social interactions associated with education, politics, money, and religion. Therefore,
Why are Asian Americans so vulnerable to the stereotype of being the overeducated and overachievers? It probably traces back Asian immigrants and their backgrounds. Asian immigrants are most likely associated with striving for the American Dream because they did not have the means and resources to achieve success in their home country. Therefore they now take opportunities presented in countries such as the United States
A strong work ethic and high expectations in education are values of many Asian-American parents. Their children are not only expected to get good grades but to be at the top of their class or get straight As. Many Asian-American children experience test anxiety due to their fears about pleasing their parents or shaming the family.
As an Asian American, I have several points to discuss in terms of stereotypes. Through a variety of media, Asian Americans are portrayed by socially constructed stereotypes that are either positive or negative to our community. By explaining the definition of a stereotype and listing three specific ones identified, these points reflect our cultural values. These stereotypes include the concept of model minority, the insinuation that Asians are highly skilled at mathematics, and assumptions of our food ways. In each stereotype, I integrate my own experiences to provide a deeper depth of meaning that will allow one to evaluate whether these stereotypes do mirror our society’s customs.
equality to be able to vote, and today women are still battling for equality in political
For many researchers, the notion of Asian students are hereditary more intelligent than other race groups as believes by Arthur Jensen, an educational psychologist, is not a valid explanation for why Asian students perform better than their counterparts. While it is evident that Asians do earn higher school grade point averages and participate in more advance high school classes, many argue that such merits are earned through hard work and discipline, not heredity.
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Before I analyze how my social location has influenced my experiences, I need to talk about my family’s demographic characteristics in comparison to our community and the larger U.S. society: In my hometown, Asians make up the third largest racial group (23%). Whites make up 51.3% and H...
When you think about the culture in the United States (U.S.), it is considered to be very diverse. There are many different cultures and religions in the country, which increases the diversity. Asians are a significant part of U.S. culture as they have been around for years. However when compared to how other U.S. citizens are treated, Asian Americans are treated significantly worse. “Asian Americans, like other people of color, continually find themselves set apart, excluded and stigmatized-whether during the 19th century anti-Chinese campaign in California, after the 1922 Supreme Court decision (Ozawa v. United States) that declared Asians ineligible for U.S. citizenship, or by a YouTube video that went viral on the Internet in 2011 in which a UCLA student complained bitterly about Asians in the library” (Healey, p.330). Many Asian Americans have been treated poorly because of how they are perceived within the society. It may be because of a jealousy against their strong academic achievement or because of the many jobs that they have “taken away” from the American population. In Wu Franks Article, Yellow, he claims that when someone refers to someone as an American, it is automatically assumed that they are White, however when someone is thought of as a minority they are thought of as Black. Asian Americans neither fit into the Black or White category, therefore feel as if there is no place within society for them to fall into. Wu’s article in comparison to the documentary Vincent Who?, explains how Asian Americans have been treated in America in the past, and how those stigmas have not changed as much. The documentary Vincent Who?, goes to describing murder of Vincent Chin, who was brutally attacked and murdered outside of a ...
According to Chapter 9 of Outliers, “Marita’s Bargain,” Gladwell introduces a public school called KIPP Academy. Students are chosen by lottery. Half the students are African Americans, the rest are Hispanic. However, in KIPP, their teaching methods are different from other US schools. KIPP students spend almost every second to study. Their students are spending fifty to sixty percent more time learning than the traditional public school student. This is the reason why poor kids can also be as clever as rich kids at KIPP. According to Gladwell, the reason that Asian students are more intelligent in math is because they do not have such long summer vacations. Asia’s culture believes “the route to success lies in rising before dawn 260 days a year are scarcely going to give their children, three straight months off in the summer” (260). Therefore, Asia’s school year is almost 243 days long. They believe people have the time to learn everything they need rather than just stay there and unlearn it. However, under the US education system, students have 180 days long summer vacation. Gladwell believes the length of time of students studying is why Asian students are successful in math. In my opinion, increasing the study hours is the fastest way to open a gap between students studying. In Stand and Deliver, in order to improve students’ math skills in a short time, Escalante spends extra time tutoring students all the
“Family Guy” is well known to be a cartoon of disgrace and ill-mannered portrayals of real life events. Asian Stereotype was no exception portrayals in “Family Guy”. In many of the Asian stereotypical scenes in “Family Guy”, one of the episodes shows a scene about an Asian woman driver causing wreckage on the freeway as she exits out of the freeway itself. The following is a dialogue of the scene:
One, that lumps an entire continent of people together when many regions are nothing like the others. Secondly, This puts an unbelievable amount of pressure on Asian students and limits their potential in other areas like English or art. Understanding people in general will lead to a much better world. He ended the lecture by expressing the importance of believing that it is up to us, as individuals and as a group, to create change in our
We’ve all heard it said that Asian Americans are good at math; anything involving science, technology, and medicine. They study all the time, work really hard, and live a version of the American dream many of us never thought to dream of. And of course, we know these stereotypes are dangerous and often untrue, but perhaps we still find ourselves buying into them. Ronald Takaki”, the ethnic studies expert, writes about the idea that Asian Americans are more successful than any other American minority group in his article “The Harmful Myth of Asian Superiority. Takaki refutes this idea by strategically, and somewhat effectively, using reason, statistics, and word choice to show that Asian Americans still face some of the same hardships and barriers
However, this would not be true. Just because a person does not speak a certain language does not mean they are not smart. In America, English is the main language, however. So, this thinking would likely be accepted as fact. This is the impact of the language barrier.
The very first important development for a successful country is to have a respectable education system for those who need it from the first day they are born into the world. We have to instill what we want in our people to reflect how we want our to development to appear. In china their school system has more of a strict structure for example, at Harbin Number One High School; students begin school at 7:00 a.m., and remain until 8:20 p.m. The seniors, preparing for their final examinations, stay later, even until 10:00 at night.(Rybak) In a Chinese school the day are much longer than an American school day. This means that Chinese student spend a lot more time in school which bring us to conclusion that Chinese are more advantaged then the American student in long run. This prepares them for college or even the young adult can be bio-lingual. Most American student usually attends school for seven hours each weekday and may forget what they have learned because it in instilled into the young adults’ heads like the Chinese do with their students.
Because of the belief that not every child is capable of mastering the academic curriculum, and because of a commitment to provide schooling for all children. The pervasive emphasis on innate ability lowers expectations about what can be accomplished through hard work. Whether children are considered to be bright or dull, the belief that ability is largely fixed leads parents and teachers to be reluctant to demand higher levels of performance from their children, and leads to a satisfaction with the status quo. For the Asian cultures, high average levels of achievement can be attained without the psychological and monetary costs of creating an educational system stratified on the basis of presumed ability. Behind the "miracle" of Asian economic and children's academic achievement is the conviction that accomplishment depend on dedication and hard work.