Othering -- how dominant culture really hasn't come that far

[free_dragon]

This was released by the Asian American Student Union. I am extremely appalled. I've recently had a discussion with classmates about how asians are always considered "foreign" despite the fact that they may have been living in the US for several generations. This really does deserve more conversation about how "visible minorities" are treated in

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[jumpinjulia]

But then there is the use of the word "Asian" in North America. Sometime in the 1990s I started to hear that term brandied around and discovered that people really meant to convey "oriental" or "east asian" or that group of people sometimes known as: Koreans, Japanese, Chinese... and at a stretch, Vietnamese.

But those aren't the only people in Asia. The place is teeming with peoples. So why is it narrowed down to this particular group in NA? What about the rest of us Asians?

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Ok, I just had to get that in because this use of the word Asian really turns my crank. But yeah, it's pretty appalling and saddly pretty regular to hear that people are taking this kind of massacre out on an entire race. Then again, no one appologised when the media and a lot of people assumed that the perpetrators of the Oaklahoma bombing were Muslim terrorists, when it was in fact a couple of right wing white Americans.

*shrugs* point is... we all have a long way to go.