#educating the population

[cassieschaosdimension]

The Model Minority to a Chinese American Gen Z person in the 21st Century

We live in a world where I have read about the discrimination towards us since the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. I have read about Chinese immigrants coming in from San Francisco working on the western half of the Transcontinental Railroad and not making out alive.

I went to a workshop about Asians and how we can stop being treated the way we are a few months before quaritine hit. We talked about the model minority a lot.

All of us were teenagers or early 20s and had decided we were going to do something about how to break the stigmatism about the model minority. This isn't only affecting Chinese Americans. This is now affecting all Asians because some Americans don't wish to learn the difference between the different ethnicities. Back to the model minority.

We keep our heads down because we have been taught by our elders to not ask questions about the injustice happening around us. We have been taught just like the black community to "just take it" because it's better than the alternative. Just because we get some leeway because we happen to not be black doesn't mean it doesn't happen. People need to take responsibility for that and white supremacists... Please listen up!

The model minority myth is just that... A MYTH! We have been taught to be "submissive and obedient" because that way we get ignored. Yes it's wrong and yes I don't believe in staying quiet. I've broken the model minority myth so many times I can't even count on twenty digits. Yes letting the black community take the heat is extremely wrong and gen z is trying to rectify the mistake of our elders (who knows if it will ever be fixed?) because we know what it's like to be discriminated against.

I stand with my fellow Asian Americans and say here that the model minority myth must be broken and we need to support the black community in their fight for equal rights for all! I will never stop fighting for equal rights for POC and it pains me to see America and other western countries just starting to try to fix their mistakes.

Sorry for my Ted talk! Thank you for reading!

[the-dreamy-poet]

We are Taught as Young Children

We are taught as young children to ignore the people on the playground who use "China eyes".

We are taught as young children to keep our heads down.

We are taught as young child to work hard and nothing bad will happen to you.

We are taught as young children to embrace our heritage, but not too much to be noticable.

We are taught as young children to do what our parents say because they know best.

We are taught as young children to have a leg up in the world to get where we want to be faster.

We are taught as young children to teach people about who we truly are quietly.

We are taught as young children to not fight teachers and authority figures.

We are taught as young children to go along with whatever anyone says because the alternative is better.

We are taught as young children racism exists for all and it's better to keep a low profile.

In light of what I have been posting on my main,I have decided to write a few poems about what is happening in the United States right now because I have been getting asks and those asks show how ignorant the world is to the Asian American struggle which is forgotten about and just as real as the black or Native American struggle in this country.

I hear you, I feel you, I stand with you.

[soundwavereporting]

So when you say you don't like a character, and tag the character and the series...is it asking for retaliation? In a reasonable, generally nice way of course. Because mischaracterization of Soundwave is one of my greatest pet peeves. Ever.