AAS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Limited English Proficiency, Japanese Americans

• School: CSUN
• Department: Asian American Studies
• Course: AAS 100
• Professor: Allan Aquino

Document Summary

Pro : the facts [time, newsweek: japanese american success after world war ii. The new york times , 1966: southeast asian immigrant success during/after 1970s, api families tend to have: -high education & per-family income (see pew research ctr. The explanations [time, dr. timothy fong]: nature/genetics, culture & upbringing, relative functionalism : intersections of culture, class immigration & settlement history, etc. Problems with the mmm : many individual api communities are far from successful . Mmm ignores discrimination and glass ceilings faced by apis. Suicide rates, consider also: diabetes, heart disease, cancer. Mmm justifies racism against other poc (people of color)