Asian pride

Asian Pride is a term utilized internationally but has various origins and meanings.[1]

International usage

Asian pride is a broad term that can cover several topics. Within the international relations context, Asian pride can be seen within Asian politics as advancement of Pan-Asianism through heavy criticism of the West.[2][3]

United States

The pan-ethnicity Asian American concept is not embraced by many Asian Americans in the United States.[4]

Yellow Power

In the United States the term has older roots within the counter culture movement among Asian Americans in the 1960s.[1] During the period there was the Black Power movement, and Asian Americans seeing the impact it had on African-American culture and overall society, rejecting being called "Oriental" and the stereotype of the "yellow peril" used the term Asian Pride, along with "yellow power", to advance empowerment of Asian Americans.[1][5]

Hip Hop culture

A more modern usage of the term "Asian Pride" (also spelled AZN pride) the United States is a positive stance to being Asian American. The term arose from influences of hip hop culture within Asian American communities in the Western United States due to the creation of an Asian American pan-ethnicity (the concept was influenced in the late 20th century due to the influence of publications such as Yolk and Giant Robot magazines) that did not specify a specific ethnicity (such as Vietnamese, or Hmong).[6][7] One manifestation of this was the Got Rice? term, which spun off from the advertising campaign Got Milk?.[8] Younger Asian Americans are finding strength from their Asian identity.[9] Sometimes this arises due to being made to feel different from the prevalent culture surrounding the Asian American youth.[10]

The term can be used as a negative, being used to describe individuals who prefer only to have Asian American relationships with the exclusion of potential diverse relationships.[11] It has also been criticized as being primarily a marketing gimmick that "is wide open to model minority accusations."[12]

The term has been adopted by a few Filipino American gang members in Los Angeles, who used the term to assist them in their construction of their ethnic identity.[13] It has also been used as the name of a gang in Florida[14][15] and Colorado.[16]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Meredith Leigh Oyen (26 March 2015). "Asian Pride". In Gina Misiroglu. American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History. Routledge. p. 45. ISBN 978-1-317-47729-7.
  2. ↑ Langguth, Gerd (1996). "Dawn of the "Pacific Century"?". German Foreign Affairs Review. 47 (4). Archived from the original on 10 June 2012. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
  3. ↑ Dalrymple, Rawdon (2003). Continental Drift: Australia's Search for a Regional Identity. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 119. ISBN 9780754634461. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
  4. ↑ Wong, William (2001). Yellow Journalist: Dispatches from Asian America. Maping Racisms. Temple University Press. p. 187. ISBN 9781566398305. Retrieved 20 December 2012. The Asian pride argument is not realistic in these times, at least in most cities and especially at state and national levels. For one thing, what is "Asian Pride"? There is a pan-Asian sentiment among some Asian Americans. Many Americans of Asian background, though, don't embrace the vague "Asian American" sobriquet. The identity label of choice rangers from plain old "American" to particular Asian ethnicity.
    Joseph Tilden Rhea (1 May 2001). Race Pride and the American Identity. Harvard University Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-674-00576-1.
  5. ↑ Margaret L. Andersen; Howard F. Taylor (22 February 2007). Sociology: Understanding a Diverse Society, Updated. Cengage Learning. p. 603. ISBN 1-111-79905-9.
    Daryl J. Maeda (2012). Rethinking the Asian American Movement. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-80081-5.
  6. ↑ DiMaggio, Paul; Fernández-Kelly, María Patricia (2010). Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States. Rutgers University Press. p. 135. ISBN 9780813547572. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
  7. ↑ Nguyen, Jason R. (2010). "Pan Asian Americans: "Got Rice?"". In Nadeau, Kathleen; Lee, Jonathan H.X. Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife, Volume 1. ABC-CLIO. p. 68. ISBN 9780313350672. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
  8. ↑ Ann Malaspina (2007). The Ethnic and Group Identity Movements: Earning Recognition. Infobase Publishing. p. 31. ISBN 978-1-4381-0633-5.
  9. ↑ Chou, Rosalind S. (2012). Asian American Sexual Politics: The Construction of Race, Gender, and Sexuality. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 182. ISBN 9781442209244.
  10. ↑ Daniel Frio (2012). Classroom Voices on Education and Race: Students Speak from Inside the Belly of the Beast. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 100–106. ISBN 978-1-4758-0135-4.
  11. ↑ Joseph Tilden Rhea (1 May 2001). Race Pride and the American Identity. Harvard University Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-674-00576-1.
  12. ↑ Deborah Wong; Paul DiMaggio; María Patricia Fernández-Kelly (2010). "GenerAsian Learn Chinese; The Asian American Youth Generation and New Class Formations". Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States. Rutgers University Press. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8135-4757-2.
  13. ↑ Alsaybar, Bangele D. (2002). "Filipino American Youth Gangs, "Party Culture," and Ethnic Identity in Los Angeles". In Min, Pyong Gap. The Second Generation: Ethnic Identity Among Asian Americans. Rowman Altamira. p. 129. ISBN 9780759101760.
  14. ↑ "Asian Pride Gang Member Gets 33 Years". St. Petersburg Times. 6 November 2007. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
  15. ↑ Jamal Thalji; Kameel Stanley (15 May 2009). "Judge criticized for gang member's low bail in murder case". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
  16. ↑ "27 Members Of 'Asian Pride' Gang Indicted". KMGH-TV. 17 July 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2013.

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