Asian-ness

Question 1

Oriental vs Asian

Answer 1

don’t use term oriental

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becomes associated with anti-asian hate crimes

Question 2

stereotypes of Asian-ness

Answer 2

low ball skills, low coordination, weak

dislike cold

where stamina is required, Asian girls are often at a disadvantage as they are usually small and quite frail

asians are too frail for contact sports

Question 3

model minority myth

Answer 3

embodiment of dligence, docility, self-sufficiency, and productivity, and as a model to be emulated by other minorities

• close family ties, education-focuses, law-abiding
• “bootstraps” mentality
• asian success is used as proof that racism either isn’t that bad or is irrelevant
• racial stereotypes are ambivalent; they entail contradictory meanings simultaneously

Question 4

weaponized against other groups

Answer 4

asians weaponized against indigenous people

saying that people from Hongkong are more similar to us then Indigenous people are
* saying Indigenous people are the ones we need to assimilate

Question 5

model minorities

Answer 5

racialized Canadians contribute to the ongoing colonizations of Indigenous groups because theuy exist in a liminal position between white settlers and indigenous communities

not every minority can become the model

the myth erases disparities among Asian groups

Question 6

yellow peril

Answer 6

Canada had Chinese exclusion acts

• Chinese were thought to be the scourge of vice (drugs and prostitution)
• Asians are “foreign foreigners” = unassimilable

yellow peril
* referred to a cultural threat as well as economic, political, and military threats to the white race

• foreigness
• superhuman intellect
• subhuman morality

Question 7

Asian-ness and dating apps

Answer 7

• men at bottom of dating pool
• more likely to be unpartnered
• finds asian men to be the least attractive for women

Question 8

history of Europeans fetishizing Asian women

Answer 8

Asian women are sought after bc of the stereotypes that they are docile, small, and more available

Asian men: women having babies with Asian men would result in them losing their citizenship

Question 9

queer dating and racism

Answer 9

• internalized racism may lead to a preference for white partners
• Many BIPOC alter their racial identities on dating apps
• Asian men often avoid other asian men bc they are perceived to be too foreign, not American enough, less attractive
• reports of Anti-Asian racism post-covid on dating apps

men report prefering white men and that they receive messages that they lack desirability because of their peceived femininity

Question 10

Korean women golfers

Answer 10

gets less coverage and described more negatively in terms of skills

Call korean women robots
* lack of emotion
* not speaking
* refusal to speak English

Question 11

(East) Asian-ness often marked by invisibility

Answer 11

25% of the worlds population
* history of white washing or yellow facing in the media

asian characters played by white actors
* there are Asian roles for Asian people, even Asian people aren’t casted into these roles

Question 12

Bubble Tea & Colonization

Answer 12

• Dutch colonization added milk and sugar to tea in Taiwan
• Tapioca perals are made of Cassava originates from the South
• Japan colonized Taiwan and brough Cassava
• british occupied Hong Kong and reintroduced milk with tea
• Taiwanese immigrants bring boba to Canada/US

cultural appropriation
* big companies introducing it which takes away from people going and supporting local businesses