Blog #5

On November 1^stof 2018 Science Daily published an article titled “Fear and Disloyalty Drives Bias Against Bicultural Immigrants. The whole idea of this article is that anybody who is mixed culture tends to be denied, or is looked down on by those who are completely one side of the culture, or the “minority group”. For example, a child who is half black and half Chinese would be looked at by the Chinese as black, but would be seen as only Chinese by African-Americans. Until the child can prove his or her loyalty and faithfulness to one of the several cultures it could have to choose from. The fear of the majority group is that the minorities loyalty would be divided and they would not be able to properly prioritize their culture. This article confirmed the hypothesis, based on their experiments and the data it provided, that the “majority group concerns about the loyalty of a minority group are strongly influenced by the perception of threat and by the minority group preference for a dual identity.”

I believe that this is extremely biased and only applies to those of a minority group. As we saw in the video of the Japanese woman who was out for a jog and questioned by a white male about her race, it is quite unusual for a white person to be asked about what type of mixture is in their blood. I know for me personally it is too many different ones to count. So why is it socially acceptable for people to choose what they think about you based on where your ancestors came from? Whether you are Asian, African-American, European, Pacific Islander, or come from any other ethnical background nothing should be assumed about you. What is on the outside is just your physical characteristics. Just because I have Irish in my blood doesn’t mean I would walk around with an Irish accent. Yet my red hair shows the Irish in me. There are so many small parts to each person but not every bit of it is shown through their physical appearance. 

This also has so much to do with racial, or even gender, based assumptions and stereotypes we place on complete strangers just based on what we see of them. An example would be that you see an Asian and assume they would not be a good driver, but Kyle Miyata Larson is an Asian-American Nascar driver. You might see a blonde girl and assume she is just a pretty face, with nothing in her brain, Jodie Foster, a well-known actress, is a Yale alumna who is fluent in almost 5 languages. I believe all people are more than what everybody would cut them out to be, and if we all look past the stereotypes and stop making assumptions on people than we can open our perspective to see people for who they are and what they are capable of. 

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