17 things I learned about Asian Americans

17 things I learned about Asian Americans

1.An Asian American is generally defined as a person of Asian ancestry who was born in or an immigrant to the US.

2.Stereotype:
- Belief about a group of people
- Picture in our head
- oversimplified opinion

3.Institutionalized Racism is racial discrimination by governments or companies through laws, rules, policies and regulation.


4.Racism: belief in superiority of our race.

5.They are 1.2 Millions Chinese Americans in the US. This is the biggest group of Asian American in the US.

6.Filipino were the only Asian group that could legally immigrate because they were American nationals.

7.1880: Anti-Miscegenation laws prohibited mixed marriage.

8.1882: Chinese Exclusion Act prohibited the entry of Chinese labours.

9.1913: Alien and Law prohibited all Asian immigrants from owning land or prosperity.

10.1924: Quota Act limited the annual number of immigrants.

11.1942: Japanese American Internment: After the bomb attack in Pearl Harbour in 1941, President Roosevelt signed the E.O. authorizing the removal and incarceration of over 110000 J.A.

12.The J.A.I was not justified because it has been proved that the government had their own evidence that J.A. posed no military threat.

13.Name of five I.C. Tule Lake, Minidoka, Manzanar, Topaz, Heart Mountain

14.The loyalty questionnaire was the application for leave clearance during the J.A.I. and it provoked the greatest upheaval within the camps.

15.No-No boy was someone who answered no-no to questions no.27 and 28 of the loyalty questionnaire during the J.A.I.


16.Vincent Chin was a Chinese American mistaken as a Japanese American and killed by two whites. But the manslaughters had only paid $ 3700 for it.

17.In 2002 many Filipino screeners were dismissed because of their religion and national origin.