Aria Malovany Reading Response 10/27

​1. Asians were discriminated against because of their stereotypes and continue to be today. 

    Media in America is discriminative against Asians and treat them unfairly/poorly. 

    Americans believed that Asians couldn’t properly assimilate which caused stereotypes. 

2. This is a controversial issue because although many Asians have assimilated in America, stereotypes still stand until today. Touching upon a discriminative topic will always provide some controversy as opinions and beliefs of readers vary. 
3. I felt that Chau’s argument about how Crazy Rich Asians reinforced the stereotypical difference between Asian and Americans was the strongest. He brought in quotes from the movie to support the struggle in Asian American assimilation. In the movie, the “American” character is considered foreign and selfish, whereas the true Chinese focus on family values. This was to support the character’s point about how she believes Americans and Asians cannot co-exist.  
4. In 1848, the Chinese flooded America because of the gold in California, resulting in some Americans opportunities and jobs being taken. At this point in time, it must’ve been very frustrating to have a bunch of immigrants taking the places of Americans. This led Americans to get angry and spread rumors about Asians about them being an undesirable race, and how they were incapable of assimilating. I can understand how that could’ve had long term effects on Americans, but the anti-immigrant and anti-assimilating claims should not stand today. 
5. One thing I wondered from reading and answering the questions is when will these stereotypes end? Asians have been living in America for quite some time now and seem to still get joked about, or more seriously, are genuinely disliked/hated. America should give up on the claim that Asians can’t assimilate properly because this claim just adds to the backlash Asians already receive while living amongst Americans.