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<a href="http://ox-d.oncampusweb.com/w/1.0/rc?cs=d531479494&cb= michael phelps "><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ox-d.oncampusweb.com/w/1.0/ai?auid=536881370&cs=d531479494&cb= "> <br><iframe id="d531479494" name="d531479494" src="http://ox-d.oncampusweb.com/w/1.0/afr?auid=536881373&cb= " frameBorder="0" frameSpacing="0" scrolling="no" width="260" height="90"><a href="http://ox-d.oncampusweb.com/w/1.0/rc?cs=d531479494&cb= "><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ox-d.oncampusweb.com/w/1.0/ai?auid=536881373&cs=d531479494&cb= "> <br>Since arriving at Columbia, being Asian has meant something different to me than what it meant growing up in Karachi and London. There, the term referred exclusively to South Asians: people of Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi, or Sri Lankan descent. Still, michael phelps before michael phelps I came to Columbia as an international student, I knew that Asian, in the collective American imagination, was generally mapped onto East and Southeast Asians. <br>As a broad category, the term Asian American applies to people whose ancestries vary geographically from the Maldives to Japan, which makes it difficult for the term to convey significant information. Asian American will refer in particular to East and Southeast Asians for the rest of this article, at the risk of homogenizing what is an incredibly diverse population. <br>At Columbia, michael phelps we often use Asian as shorthand to refer to a set of general characteristics that overlooks aspects of the larger Asian community that we hear less about. michael phelps Asian has come to mean one group, when in reality, it is many. And when diversity initiatives lump all Asians together in one group, they do a great injustice to the many distinct entities therein. <br>The fact that harmful Asian American stereotypes exist on our campus was made clear last spring, after Chad Washington, a defensive michael phelps linebacker on Columbia s football team, was arrested michael phelps for an alleged hate crime against an Asian-American student a charge which was later dismissed. WKCR Sports captured screenshots of tweets from members michael phelps of the Columbia football team, a number of which targeted Asian Americans. <br>The outrage that followed was intense Columbia s Asian American Alliance declared the incident a result of broader systemic issues of racism michael phelps on our campus and in our society, and urged the community to create radical anti-oppression, anti-hate and anti-violence programs throughout michael phelps the university to combat a culture which can lead to these types of incidents. <br>Students and student council leaders also created michael phelps a petition, calling for the immediate removal of offending parties from the football team s varsity roster michael phelps and the creation michael phelps of an independent commission to investigate racism in the athletic community. <br>In short, the Columbia community was enthralled michael phelps by the situation even more so when the NYPD got involved. michael phelps But the same cannot be said for other instances of racism towards Asians michael phelps and Asian Americans on campus. Prejudice michael phelps toward this group manifests itself in other ways that often go unprosecuted even unnoticed because they have become so commonplace and casual. <br>Peers have told me that they don t like studying in the Science and Engineering Library because it has too many Asians, and that Asian students are ruining the curve in their classes. According to Gary Okihiro, a Columbia professor of comparative ethnic studies, microaggressions toward Asian Americans today have their roots in a far more sinister past. <br> There is the notion of what Edward michael phelps Said has called Orientalism in the West that is, that people east of Greece are Orientals, and they are better represented by Europeans than themselves. As Said says, it is a discourse used to colonize and control those folk, Okihiro says. These ideas have had real impacts on Asian-American lives because michael phelps they were the first group to be excluded by U.S. immigration laws. Before Asians began migrating to the U.S., there were no immigration laws or illegal immigrants, because all immigrants had come from Europe. Since then, antagonistic feelings toward Asians have led to the idea of yellow peril the widely circulated idea that Asians pose a threat to Western civilization and Christianity. <br>Such a mindset was particularly obvious in Detroit during the 1970s, says Okihiro, when workers michael phelps vilified Asians as super-competitors because Asian-made cars were outdoing domestic models. This tendency to categorize michael phelps Asians as the competitive other also manifests itself in microagressions on college campuses like ours, where despite the value placed on diversity harmful, homogenizing stereotypes still exist. <br>Well-established Asian stereotypes recall the myth of the model minori <br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OdZuud3XnSg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>
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