Discrimination Against Asian Americans

For many generations, the United States was seen as the land of opportunity where people could come and fulfill their dreams. In the United States, Asian Americans do not receive the same chances as Caucasian Americans in education and their social standing because of their ethnicity. This makes it harder to achieve the same social standing as white Americans. In the book When The Emperor Was Divine the family in the book was discriminated by their neighbors and friends after the attacks of Pearl Harbor. Still even today, Asian Americans are seen as an underclass race and are not treated the same.

In America, Asian Americans are often discriminated against because they are judged to be a lesser culture because of what they look like. Often, some Caucasian Americans are quick to judge people based on looks. In the article The Asian- American Awakening, Zhou states “I was a shy Asian girl and everyone jumped to the conclusion that I couldn’t speak English,”(Zhou, 2017). The girl was assumed to not speak English all because she was Asian. Here the people who are placing the girl in a school fit for her are looking down on her as a foreigner even though she was fluent in English. American

This is not true because in the article The Asian Advantage it states “Immigrant East Asians often try particularly hard to get into good school districts, or make other sacrifices for children’s education”(Kristof, 2015). The students who want to get into a school who are Caucasian Americans do not have to study as hard because they are seen as students who need the education. But, Asian Americans are seen as students who are already smart and have to work harder. This is not a fair point of view because Asian Americans are like other Americans and it is unfair for people to assume that they do get the same