In Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello, the main character is a Moorish general of the Venetian army is portrayed as a well-respected, yet disparaged for his race and how he looks by the historical and cultural background during the playwright and the intended audience of the play. Similarly, Asian American in today’s society are expected to be in the technological and medical careers as they are usually known to be high advanced in academics, yet they are still get taunted for their appearance because today’s society believe having slanted eyes and small body parts is unnatural and gives a disadvantage for the Asian American. In Othello, the main Character Othello was able to grow in power within the city because his leadership in the Army and …show more content…
Asian American students are known to be excell in class with high grades and above average knowledge in certain subjects. They are “proclaimed as a model minority for academic excellence, affluence, strong work ethic, freedom from problems and crime, and family cohesion.” Asian American whose parents migrated from Asia are usually told to excel in their class and work in a high paying jobs usually doctors. Their parents would scold them if they uphold their expectation in order to build a strong work ethic where they would uphold those expectation throughout their lives later enforcing it to their future family while others believe to avoid racial differences start to “ride on the opposite of “stereotype threat,” a “stereotype promise” that they will be smart and hard-working” to uphold the current descriptions of Asian Americans and excel in their future. However, the parents of the students, usually those who migrated from Asia, tends to work much harder in low income jobs trying to adapt the new life and support their children to become part of today’s