Everything I Never Told You Stereotypes

As a child, I chose to embrace the label I was given: Chinese. While my teachers sang of diversity, I was indifferent to their tune. I was educated to treasure my Chinese roots, to be proud of my innate Chinese nationality. While I drank these words in greedily, I recited the Pledge of Allegiance daily, tying myself to a country that did not seem to be mine. The TV showed a life that was vastly different from my own, and the faces of children at school puzzled me to no end; skin color, eye shape, I presented a neat contrast to others in the mirror. It was an unspoken division, a confusing one. In the end, my parents called me Chinese, my first language was Chinese, my best friends were Chinese, and that was it.

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What is the worst stereotype you’ve ever dealt with? Depending on who you know, that can be a dangerous question. I personally live a great life, with people who don’t intentionally splinter my integrity. However, I have been stereotyped, but my mine was a medical one. I was diagnosed at age nine, with a physical disability- Muscular Dystrophy. At the time, it didn’t faze me, because it was only a mere tittle. Notwithstanding, my disease got worse and gradually affected me. It started with me losing mobility in my arms. My doctors warned me that no kid with Muscular Dystrophy would be physically able to play sport, and I was expected to alter my life to my diseases’ needs. I didn’t; I didn’t want to. I played softball at the time and I was pretty

A belief that I previously held about myself was that I’'m not as smart. I used to believe that I won't be good at anything. This belief made me have “ I don't care “ attitude. I wouldn't try my hardest on my work because I thought it wouldn't change the way people saw me. Eighth grade was the year that I stop trying. My assistant principal would always make me feel this way. She would always compare me to another student and tell how they are better than me. She would say insulting things about me in front of my peers that would be feel embarrassed. This made me start to believe this things that she said about me. Instead of challenging her belief, I would settle with belief that I will be nothing.

The way that I think people stereotype me, is to call me names and to assume things about me that aren't true. For example, some people call me stupid, fat, and annoying, just to name a few. The people who know me a little bit better, they most likely see me as calm, weird, and happy. When I get called these names, they don’t affect me at all. The physical aspect of me, like clothes and style, would be a long haired skater punk. The clothes would be skinny, ripped up jeans, skater style shirts, and skate shoes.

Gene Yang wanted to bring his experience and struggles about his self-identity before he wrote his book and how it impacts the reader to the similar experience of what Gene Yang been through in his past. The book doesn’t make me feel discomfort and pain from my experience in reading. I think that there’s nothing in this book makes it feel painful for me, but I can see the pain of discrimination that the author had been experiencing in part of his life. Although, the parts of this book story make me feel pity and shows sympathy toward others, even the author of this book, who have trouble with self-accepting himself in his past and how he's discriminated for being different. It makes me understand the feelings and emotions from the book and author on how he had experienced in his life. If somebody else wants to read something more visual and interest in Chinese-American literature, I strongly recommended to read American Born Chinese because reading this book makes it more relevant to anybody, whose experience the discrimination and how to accept yourself on who you really is, or you’re just interested in coming-of-age and viewing and seeing the image was like to

In the twenty-first century with countless innovations, and unbelievable inventions along with medicine advancements, it is difficult to believe that there could still be misconceptions about very common issues, such as social disorders and mental illnesses. There are so many stereotypes and misconceptions when it comes to speaking about a social disorder or a person with one that unfortunately make it just that much harder to understand them. One of the most common mistakes made when this topic is brought up is that shyness is the same as social phobia or otherwise known as social anxiety. There is a huge gap between understanding the two and

In today's world people get judge and label like other people and ethnicities based on looks, actions, and the sports they are in. Ways people have placed labels on people is give stereotypes on groups and sometimes those stereotypes can actually be misconceptions. People use stereotypes to help define people faster. Stereotypes and misconceptions are not the same thing. Misconceptions are formed from having stereotypes and they are a view that is incorrect based on untruths. They are many groups that have stereotypes in this world and wrestlers are one of the many groups that has had stereotypes placed on. People towards wrestlers as a group and individuals have some misunderstandings like them not eating, all wrestlers are guys and wrestlers

It’s fifth grade year and I’m wearing a long sleeve drum shirt that I still carry but refuse to wear since it’s too undersized to fit anymore. I have my hair cut short as it is an unspoken tradition of mine that I always cut my hair before a school portrait. I am leaning against a prop wall, smiling at nothing necessarily; I’m told to smile and tilt my head by whoever is taking my picture. It is an excellent day, but later this year, I will have to leave the teachers and students I both know and love.

There is a misconception that your neighborhood shapes who you are as a person. However, that cannot be proven because there are exceptions to both sides. There have been cases where people who come from wealthy neighborhoods commit horrible crimes, and there are also cases where people from “bad” neighborhoods who have made a powerful and positive impact in society. I believe that your neighborhood does not define who you are as a person; it’s purely subjective.

At eleven years old, Jade Snow realizes that “the struggle for a new voice and a different identity can be a long and painful process”(Rakow, 228). Jade Snow was sent to an American junior high school outside Chinatown borders, in which she made no friends among the foreigners. On her way back home one day, she was encountered for the first time with a “racial discrimination”(68). Richard, one of her classmates, chortled, “look at the eraser mark on the yellow Chinaman. Chinky, Chinky, no tickee, no washee, no shirtee!”(68). Jade Snow's reaction was as “ Mother and Daddy had taught her”, she “must not strike him, for then [her] guilt would be as great as his”(14). She considers the situation and decides to ignore the “ignorant”. She uses her pride of Chinese culture to dismiss Richard’s ignorance. Believing that “[E]verybody knew that the Chinese people had a superior culture” (68), she overcomes this unexpected humiliation and places herself in a superior position to overlook Richard’s racial discrimination. She also came to the conclusion that “foreigners were simply unwise in the ways of human nature” “they hadn't even learned how to peel a clove of garlic the way the Chinese did”(69). This comparison through food, that Jade Snow did, introduces the important role of food in shaping her identity.

A stereotype is in basic terms the generalization of certain groups of people based on either widely-held assumptions or characteristics/behaviors of small samples of the said groups. In this text, I identify three stereotypes I encounter in my daily life and the effect such stereotypes have on other people. The arguments that could be used to either support or discredit the said stereotypes will also be highlighted.

In the essay the struggle to be an All American girl, Elizabeth Wong gives an excerpt of her difficult experience of being one cultural and growing up in a society completely different and wanting to be apart of another society. Her mother continued to keep wong and her brother in chinese school so she could stay in touch with people and get an understanding. At the age of ten Wong began to study American culture at the same time Wong was still learning about the Chinese cultural which she was apart of , she hated it so much. Wong seen China's culture to be basic, for her area growing up in chinatown it was normal and a part of life. The hatred Wong had for her cultural was intense, it came to the extent of Wong disliking China's flag, claimed

The author talks about how he had grown up with a family that was mixed, and how his mom always used to tell him that is was going to be hard for him to get a job because he was half black, half white, and looked Asian. What amazed me about this statement was that someone would not expect to hear this kind of declaration from someone in the twentieth century, let alone his own mom. Many people either do not know, or simply do not care to know that discrimination is real and it is alive even still today.

“In America, the Chinese were forced to become “strangers” by economic interests – the demands of white capitalists for colonized labor force and the “ethnic antagonism” of white workers – as well as by an ideology defining America as a homogeneous white society. The Chinese found new conditions of “necessity” circumscribing their lives.” Being specified as “strangers from a different shore,” Chinese were repudiated fairness of opportunity and partitioned from their mainland China by the oppressive laws of exclusion. As the primary Asian social affair to enter America, the Chinese authenticity out close thought. What unfolded in nineteenth century addressed the begin of a case for the actions Asians would be seen and experience here – their change into "outcasts." However, their lifestyle as invulnerable was settled by their passage and by a baffling mix of money related, ideological, and political progressions in American culture. Early Chinese Americans faced numerous ways of discriminations and unfairly treated socially, politically, legally, and in business affairs.