Previous studies have shown that people collect information by mostly studying the eyes as well as the mouth of a face. Questioning the universality of facial recognition began after studies showed that Asians study faces in an overall fashion, while Caucasians break down faces into distinct parts. Blais used a camera designed to track eye movements to study 14 Caucasian and 14 Asian participants. As part of the experiment, subjects were shown Caucasian and Asian faces and asked to report if they had seen the face before and to name the dominating trait.
The study confirmed that Caucasians study the triangle of the eyes and mouth, while Asians focus on the nose. Caucasian and Asian subjects excelled at recognizing someone of their race, yet both had the same level of difficulty in identifying someone of another ethnic group.
According to Blais, this says more about the analytical approach of Caucasians and the holistic approach of Asians. In a second experiment, test subjects had to pinpoint an emotion: surprise, fear, disgust or joy.
All this has led Suong, now 40 and the head of the Southeast Asian Freedom Network, to be wary of such a sweeping category — and how it excludes some of its most vulnerable members. Asian Americans not only have the largest income gap of any racial group but also massive health care, education, and economic disparities that rarely get addressed. In , the US government disaggregated Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in its data, though the vestiges of this umbrella category remain.
The term AAPI is also meant to be inclusive, but its usage — by government agencies in particular — has had the opposite effect. The terms Asian American and AAPI, in their most idealized versions, have at times historically served as a unifying banner for a wide range of communities to work together toward a common cause.
There are experiences of being othered these communities share. But this connection can be tenuous and this label so broad that recent calls for data disaggregation and more visible recognition of the roughly 50 ethnic groups that make up the Asian diaspora have surfaced. In conversations with more than 20 people who spoke about their Asian American identities, there was a huge focus on acknowledging the different needs that various groups may have — and an emphasis on the fact that the community is no monolith.
Their strength in numbers proved more impactful than individual ethnic groups working alone, including working alongside Black and Latino students for an ethnic studies department at the college. We figured that if we rallied behind our own banner, behind an Asian American banner, we would have an effect on the larger public.
The rise of the term also helped combat the use of more derogatory language that referred to people of Asian descent. For many experts and organizers who spoke with Vox, that solidarity is as important now as it was back then. In the decades since it took off, the term is now mostly seen as a demographic marker. Today, it captures about 19 million people, up 81 percent since , according to a recent Pew report — and a large immigrant population; 59 percent of all Asian Americans are immigrants, including 1.
Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial group in America, currently 5. Prior to becoming a more established category, though, issues of immigration — and, relatedly, xenophobia — have historically bound Asian Americans closely with one another, serving as a common thread for such an expansive group. That history goes as far back as when Chinese immigrants were barred from becoming citizens because they were seen as competition for white workers; in , Indian people were similarly barred; and by , Japanese and Korean people were barred as well.
In all three cases, groups immigrated to the US as laborers and were framed as the source of economic problems, and in some cases public health ones, too.
Members of ethnic groups that have more recently come to the country as refugees — including Hmong, Burmese, and Laotian people — have also faced restrictive immigration policies that have focused on deportation.
One such instance was in , when year-old Vincent Chin was murdered by two white autoworkers who saw him as representing the increased competition the US was facing from Japanese manufacturers. Asian American-led protests erupted across the country and pushed the Justice Department to investigate the attack as a civil rights violation. In recent months, thousands of people across the country have gathered for StopAsianHate rallies in cities including Oakland, New York, and Philadelphia, and worked to raise awareness for nonprofits tracking hate incidents and offering support to local communities.
Ramakrishnan hopes, too, that such efforts will be inclusive of different groups within the Asian diaspora moving forward. Elim and others spoke, too, of being made to feel undesirable because of their identity. Multigenerational households include two or more adult generations or both grandparents and grandchildren. Many other Asian American origin groups havelower homeownership rates.
Immigrants make up a higher share of some Asian origin groups than others. Among all Asians in the U. Some Asian groups have arrived as immigrants more recently than others. By contrast, the first Japanese immigrants came to the U.
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