Asian American Stereotypes

Asian Americans are hugely diverse, originating from about fifty nations and ethnic gatherings, each with particular societies, conventions, and histories, and they talk more than 100 dialects and tongues, but we keep having that stereotype of Asian Americans favorite food is rice and “parts of animals” when we don’t know anything about them and of course we can’t ensure, I can take as an example this article written by a Stanford professor who claims that Vietnamese are aggressive because the only thing they eat is rats, birds and dogs.

Brinkley the Stanford professor begins this article saying: “You don't have to spend much time in Vietnam before you notice something unusual. You hear no birds singing, see no squirrels scrambling up trees

Animal trafficking, she added, is a problem in many countries. (Boudreau, John)

McElwee, who lived in Vietnam for five years, also criticized Brinkley for linking Vietnam's meat-eating habits with aggression. "The history of Southeast Asia -- all of those countries have seen their share of war. The U.S. is the second-largest per capita meat-eating population." (Boudreau,

Asians not only introduced their culinary traditions to the United States but also played an invaluable role in pioneering the U.S. food system. Just a few of their monumental contributions include helping to establish the Gulf Coast shrimping and rice industries and working alongside Mexicans to develop California into a global agricultural powerhouse. Asian Americans likewise fought resolutely for labor rights, playing a foundational role in the movement for just treatment of food workers in the United