... well. The families chosen to film "My American Wife!" come from a variety of backgrounds, possibly to show off America's diversity. But because of its specific Japanese audience, the portrayal of America and Americans were restricted to white, black, and Hispanic American families. The absence of Asian American families on the show emphasizes the stereotypical perpetual foreigner status of Asian ... represent America. Or that for a show like "My American Wife!" which is made for a Japanese audience, Asian Americans would be too similar to Japanese people, and that only non-Asians can re...

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• Grade Level: High School

... The war ended a decade-long depression for whites, and a century-long depression for blacks. These post war changes and changes in racial relations were not only restricted to African-Americans, but also Japanese-Americans had a particularly difficult time during and after the war too. The United States was at a turning point, and by default there would be innovative actions taken, some good, ... They just looked so goddamned startled that I"d even asked Maybe it had startled them, I"m not sure, or maybe it wasn't until I"d seen them send the Japanese away that I"d noticed it. (Page 3) ...

• Word Count: 1898
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• Grade Level: High School

... United States who trace their ancestry to Asia. Pacific Islanders, such as native Hawaiians and Samoans, are often grouped with Asian Americans. The rapidly growing Asian American community is compromised of many diverse groups, including Chinese Americans, Filipino Americans, Japanese Americans, Korean Americans, and Vietnamese Americans. Large numbers of people from India, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia have also immigrated to the United States. According to the 2000 ... census, 10.2 million Asian Americans live in the United States. They make up 3.6 percent of the total population. Thi...

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... it comes to women, in most cases, some women are never mentioned at all. The reasons for this ignorance may include the embarrassment that Americans feel for horrid realities like slavery and internment camps and the fact that our society is male dominant. Whatever the cause may be, it is ... up their homes and farms and made to live in internment camps. The Japanese internment camps were set up by the United States government during World War Two. The motive around this movement was to move Japanese Americans away from the public in the name of national security. Although these people ...

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... cultural differences. Historically, Asians in film have been seen in mostly negative terms through the eyes of white filmmakers. Although the image of Asian Americans as the "model minority?has for decades been used to separate Asian Americans from other racial minority group, they are made virtually invisible while placing between white and black and they have faced enormous individual prejudice, frequent ... more or less the inherited nature and attitude of Asian. Other than that, I realized that there seems to be a significant compatibility between the value systems formed in the cult...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... citizenship in this country. If you were to marry a citizen you could become one yourself also. But was this the story of most Asian Americans? Most Asian Americans did not even have enough say in the country to fight what they were being put through. If a "whit" American lady were to marry ... have told me." "Told you what?" "Filipinos can't become American citizens." (Bulosan, Carlos, PG. 5 Be American) This was a problem for many Asian Americans in this country. How were you supposed to be an "American" if the government and the people would not let you even try? One thing that is hol...

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• Grade Level: High School

... for me. It was here that the concept of the contact zone was truly manifested before me. My high school basically consisted of Asians and Whites. There were a few African-Americans, but the student population statistics for Whites and Asians was virtually 50-50. The students in my high school were divided. That is, people of different races generally associated themselves ... social life was right. I felt guilty about not even giving White kids a chance. A lot of them seemed like nice, intelligent people. During the period when I was contemplating my dilemma, I met a Japanese kid named ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School