Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Asian American Masculinity

I remember thinking that we have always heard about asian inferiority and what not but never erally seeing any raw data. but this time i feel that we actually have some data at least partially supporting the idea. What really struck me was that they found a way to actually quantify a test that was so hard to do. By giving a scale, the researhers were able to find trends that many asians see between while and asian males and whites and asians in general. I guess the survey agreed with what many believed was a stereotype, that asian males were a lot more submissive than white males. And that people tended to view asian women and more meek and submissive. But what the article failed to do i believe, is to try to find out why it is the way it is. How these stereotypes were formed and how they have come to be embedded in our present day society.

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