Max Schroeder's post

The two articles explain an issue that I no longer thought was an issue in America, the continued racism against Asian Americans.  Like most Americans, I have heard the stereotype of the hard working Asian that is really good as math and science.  Because of this stereotype I didn't know that they are as well off in America as this stereotype would lead one to believe.  In the first article, “Work, Immigration, Gender: Asian ‘American’ Women” by Lisa Lowe, was first about one woman's horrible experience working in a garment shop.  Unfortunately, I can think of a couple of examples like this of injustices against Asian Americans.  One goes way back in American history, when U.S.A. was building the transcontinental railroad.  They used a lot of Asian Labor in California to get through the mountains to finish the railroad.  There was a lot of workers that were killed from the harsh working conditions and the unreliability of T.N.T.  I thought that these times where behind America.  The more publicized racism issues have been that of the African Americans and Hispanic Americans.  The second article, “The Model Minority Image” by C.N., showed the fallacies of the some statistics.  I wasn’t surprised with the statistics of the Asian Americans having more college degrees and more advanced degrees than Caucasian Americans. There is an Asian belief that success in school comes from hard work versus the American view of kids not being good at school.  I think this leads to more Asian Americans succeeding in college and beyond and it also gives them the drive to go farther than other students.  The surprising part was the fallacies of some of the facts, for example one fact was that the average household income of Asian Americans was higher than that of the Caucasian Americans.  This seems like a good thing but later in the article it was pointed out that Asian Americans have four to five working members of a household versus the more traditional two working members.  This means that the Asian Americans are making forty percent less than white Americans.  Which suggest that while some Asian Americans are enjoying success of college and  advanced degrees, there are still a lot of the Asian American population that are still not living the American Dream.