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YouTube Video Mocking Asians Stirs UCLA Campus

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YouTube video mocking Asians stirs UCLA campus
llie Grasgreen, Inside Higher Ed

“When a University of California at Los Angeles student, in a video she posted online, used a mock foreign language to imitate Asian students talking loudly in the library, she probably didn’t think twice about it. But for many, that moment — along with others in the video — was yet another illustration of students’ willingness to openly criticize their Asian peers.

And while UCLA Chancellor Gene D. Block acted swiftly by issuing a statement and video saying the young woman’s speech “has no place at UCLA,” the reality is that it’s commonplace.

The reputation of Asian Americans as a “model minority” has long plagued students of that ethnicity. They have said that professors hold them to higher standards. Affirmative action debates often touch on the fear that without the policy, students of Asian descent would replace other minority populations on campuses. And satirical articles in student newspapers have mocked studious Asians in very public fashion. (The student newspaper at the University of Colorado at Boulder suspended its opinion section and pledged to undergo sensitivity and diversity training three years ago, after it published an anti-Asian satire.)”

Read the rest of the article here.

I think this article hits very close to home and the experiences I had while at school.

I’m glad people are speaking up.

Why Chinese Mothers are Superior

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Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior
Can a regimen of no playdates, no TV, no computer games and hours of music practice create happy kids? And what happens when they fight back?

By Amy Chua

A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids. They wonder what these parents do to produce so many math whizzes and music prodigies, what it’s like inside the family, and whether they could do it too. Well, I can tell them, because I’ve done it. Here are some things my daughters, Sophia and Louisa, were never allowed to do:

• attend a sleepover

• have a playdate

• be in a school play

• complain about not being in a school play

• watch TV or play computer games

• choose their own extracurricular activities

• get any grade less than an A

• not be the No. 1 student in every subject except gym and drama

• play any instrument other than the piano or violin

• not play the piano or violin.

Rest of article can be found here from the Wall Street Journal.

I don’t necessarily agree with everything that this article talks about but it’s an interesting look into the “stereotype.” I definitely took part in things that this writer did not let her children take part in but many of the philosophies are similar to what I grew up with.