The Eight Essential Steps to Conflict Resolution

Summarize

The first article explains how the Asian-American group has been and still is dominating in many different aspects within the United States. The Pew Research Center (2012) states, Asian Americans are the highest-income, best-educated and the fastest-growing racial group in the United States. Therefore, these aspects include how they succeed and prosper amongst the areas of finances, schooling, family, careers, marriages, and overall in life. They have come a long way in establishing their significance even from that of about a century ago where they were seen as the minority immigrants doing the inferior work and were the primary selection for racial discrimination. With only relative little differences among some areas of mentality and structure existing between Asians who were born in America or Asians who have come from their homeland in to the Unities States, it is still very evident that these groups still share similarities amongst the same aspects that were named previously. The Asian-American population also comes to be a prime example for other races in the United States.

The second article describes how members of the Asian community along with several Asian organizations take offense to, "The Rise of the Asian Americans" article. They believe that this particular article includes false information within the different aspects named before and how this gives off the wrong impression of Asians. An AACAJ member states, We are deeply concerned about how findings from a recent study by the Pew Research Center have been used to portray Asian Americans...paint a picture of Asian Americans as a model minority, having the highest income and educational attainment among racial groups. These portrayals are overly simplistic (Hing, 2012). Asian-Americans find this article along with its research to be a misrepresentation and do not wish for this to be the portrayal that others will come to accept and believe, because they see this information as being wrongfully damaging to their community.

Critical Analysis

I agree on the fact that the first article was in the wrong by intertwining both factual information with stereotypical information towards Asian-Americans which stands to be detrimental to this particular group. This is based on what the author, Hing (2012) supports by saying, Critics say the Pew Report mixes some fact with too much mythology about what people imagine Asians to be. While portrayal of Asian Americans as high-achieving, and adept at overcoming humble beginnings to reach great financial and educational success seems flattering, many Asian Americans say this frame is not only factually inaccurate, it's damaging to the community. I feel that in a sense, we would like to believe that the stereotypes or portrayals that we have of the Asian-American population to be true so therefore, the first article's mistake was overly exemplifying these attributes by throwing in research studies that could have been not entirely true within the information gathered, in order to make it sound appeasing to the readers. In result, this misinterpreted information only increases and feeds in the misguided conceptions that we might have of the Asian-American community.

I did not find much to disagree with in reading throughout the second article; I strongly believe in the standpoint that the author took in writing as a response to the first article. I am not surprised that the Asian-American community was offended by what the first article proposed them to be like. When an article is particularly singling out a specific group, it becomes very personal especially