The story “Who’s Irish”, explains and details the social dynamics of students in America and the typical mindset of the average student. In the story “Who’s Irish”, the author proves that racial stereotypes are still existent in today’s society which has been leading to unfair teasing and bullying of primarily but no only Chinese students. One of the most common stereotypes is that Chinese students are the best at math and school. It is very common for Chinese students to have excellent grades and understand the material they are given quickly. “Sixty elementary-school children (9-10 years old) and 82 adolescents (12-13 years old) completed explicit and implicit measures of racial stereotypes about math. 60 Asian, 42 Latino, 21 White, 15 Black, …show more content…
A lot of stereotypes placed onto the Chinese people are often created by the Americans, but not always are. One of the many ways Americans tend to stereotype the Chinese is through what a lot of people do not expect which is, Hollywood movies. “Hollywood movies' representations of Chinese have not changed much over decades (Wang, 2013). Wang (2013) analyzed portrayals of Chinese women in four Hollywood movies made from the 1930s to the 2000s and found that Chinese women were consistently characterized as "sexy" and "mysterious" (p. 77). Hollywood movies portrayed Chinese people in general as "virtuous, industrious, and trustworthy" (Shah, 2003, p. 5).” This an example of my point that a major way of stereotyping the Chinese people is through the movies that Hollywood tends to put out through a study conducted by Lingling Zhang and their article, “Stereotypes of Chinese by American College Students: Media Use and Perceived Realism.” They also made the valuable point that “Therefore, in contrast to the way China is represented in American media, the American media coverage of Chinese people is relatively positive.”… Sometimes the stereotypes that are created are not