Taiwan’s economy is speedy growing for 50 years; it has a constant price and divides the fairness of income. The industrial development has been growing speedy between 1980 and 2000, and got the credit as one of the “tiger” economics of Asia (Ubarra 553). In current years, industrial growth obliges more foreign workers. There were 465 thousand foreign workers in Taiwan in 2013; the most population was from Indonesia, which had more than 200 thousand people and another was from Thailand with 62,500 people (Xin 1). Taiwan is a greatest industrialist of IT (information technology) products and has an enormous semiconductor field in the world. (“Taiwan Explorer” 3) Furthermore, foreign people began to come here to start their works and wanted to have a hope of chance to earn more money than their countries. According to Huang Chiu-Kui, Taiwan is increasingly becoming an aging society and people are requesting for maids. (“Foreign Maids Double in Aging Taiwan” 1) Also, English is a non-native language to Taiwanese and people want to hire foreign teachers to teach them English.
Taiwan is a small country. People are absolutely being more ignorant because of less diversity (Lin 3). There has been some racism on jobs. Firstly, people hire foreign teachers are Caucasian that they don’t want to hire ABC (American Born Chinese). For instance, according to Lianne Lin, she had an unfairness experience of interviewing a work position with an “ABC pay rate”, which pay merely 400 NTD per hour ($13.50 USD) unlikely 600 NTD ($20 USD) or higher (3). Another reason is the parents have prejudice perception. According to Lianne Lin, the opposite racism comes from the parents because they paid their hard-earned money for their children to study Engli...
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I also researched instances of counter actions taken by Asian Americans to protest against these negative images. My research also has examples of Asians that have succeeded in breaking through the racial barriers in the media. The results show that even though racial stereotyping still exists in various forms of mass media, there are signs that show noticeable improvement in allowing a more balanced image of Asian Americans. Statement of the Problem There are close to 12 million Asian Americans living in the United States (U.S. Asian, 2000). Asian Americans are considered one of the fastest growing minorities (Pimentel, 2001).
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...ding white, male superiority. Back in high school, I dated a non-Asian male from my class who often talked about how Asian women are “hot and sexy” yet “more faithful to men and less aggressive than White women.” At the time, I thought this was a compliment and I often tried to conform to this stereotype in order to satisfy my partner. Images of Asian-American women as both innocent and dangerous have legitimized any racist and sexist policies directed at Asians and women.
America has been thought of as a place represented by fairness, mixed culture, power and the dream of having a better life for everyone, whether a person is white, black, brown, and yellow. However, the truth is that racial groups have been segregated by the white-centric media or government of the American society, and that has widened the psychological and geographical distances between the two groups, Asian and black, and has encouraged ignorance and hatred. On the other hand, there are many conflicts between Asian and Black, due to their different cultures, experiences, and educational backgrounds. From the book Native Speaker, we can see how these different cultures, powers and identities deepen Asian-black mistrust, misunderstanding and ignorance, and sometimes these irreconcilable conflicts develop into hate-crimes.
Can you relate a man with an Ivy college diploma and decent salary to discrimination? Probably no, and neither can I. How about adding a racial identity to him, say Asian American? This answer may be not that simple.
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For those Asian Americans who make known their discontent with the injustice and discrimination that they feel, in the white culture, this translates to attacking American superiority and initiating insecurities. For Mura, a writer who dared to question why an Asian American was not allowed to audition for an Asian American role, his punishment was “the ostracism and demonization that ensued. In essence, he was shunned” (Hongo 4) by the white people who could not believe that he would attack their superior American ways. According to writers such as Frank Chin and the rest of the “Aiiieeeee!” group, the Americans have dictated Asian culture and created a perception as “nice and quiet” (Chin 1972, 18), “mama’s boys and crybabies” without “a man in all [the] males.” (Chin 1972, 24). This has become the belief of the proceeding generations of Asian Americans and therefore manifested these stereotypes.
...elopments concerning the mutual establishment of the permanent offices of ARATS and SEF are in the spotlight. Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou has repeatedly made positive remarks about this. As business and tourism ties between China and Taiwan get closer and more active, the need for the mutual establishment of the permanent offices of ARATS and SEF, which handles consulate-general-like operations, is rising. Details still remain unclear, including what operations and authority these office would have, what levels of officials would head them or what extent of diplomatic privileges would be accorded to the staff of the offices. Given that Taiwan already has the economic and cultural offices in China’s special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macao, some researchers expect the permanent offices of ARATS and SEF to be established in the form similar to them.
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