Cultural Formation In Yen Le Espirtu

In the beginning of this course we learned about society and how individuals feel where they belong in a society as a whole. We also learned how individuals are perceived through different dimensions. I am a white female that comes from a an upper middle class family living in long island, New York that comes from a middle eastern background. My culture I feel has affected me personally in society and it contributes to my morals and beliefs that make me who I am today.
Race is one of the main reasons I am where I am today, and how I am perceived to people. The biological term for race is that races “are distinct genetically divergent populations within the same species with relatively small genetic differences (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(biology).” Another definition to explain race is “ a category of people widely perceived as sharing socially significant physical characteristics such as skin color” (Professor Watkins Feb. 13). Everyone sees my race, which is, Caucasian to be a privilege to our society. In the article, Racial
There is one point that she makes when talking about Asian Americans she says “portraying Asian Americans in all our contradictions and complexities- as exiled, assimilated, rebellious, noble... Asian American cultural projects destabilize the dominant racist discourse that constructs Asians as a homogenous group who are all alike.” The media is what is making all these generalizations about Asian Americans, which come off to be racist. I can relate to this statement because I feel when I turn on the news and something terrible happens in the United State there are always generalizations being made about Middle Easterns. The media makes it out to the public that we are “all alike”. Espiritu goes on to discuss Asian Women and Men living in America and the oppression that they are faced