Another video from the inspiring channel Jubilee Project. This video is powerful, it features Americans of Asian and Pacific Islander heritage. It is a really mind opening video even though it is close to being 3 minutes long. This is not a dramatized film, it is an up and close short documentary in a way.
In America, we tend to group together Asians and we enforce stereotypes upon them, but they are not the same. We need to realize this, we need to stop. The only reason these stereotypes exist is because we share them with the next generation. There are so many countries within the demographic of Asian. To just group them together is denying them their heritage and giving them a broad term. No one in Asia really considers themselves Asian, if you know anything about history those Asian countries have their own culture and identity.
In way are the cultures are the same, we need to realize that and inspire to make a difference. I took a class in college called Asian Experience In America and I learned so much. I feel like I am a better American and human for taking that class. It opened up my eyes to the struggle of another kind of American the ones that we tend to forget about.
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