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     As my topic focuses on mental health among Asian Americans, I decided to search up studies of Asian culture and its social impacts.       Contemporary Asian America analyses Asian culture and how that has affected the Asian American community.  Being Asian myself, I found myself being absorbed into the stories provided in this source.  One section that particularly stood out was "Behind the Model Minority".  Author Ocampo uses Jermey Lin as an example to help explain this idea.  Before Lin became a worldwide sensation in basketball, he was an Ivy League student.  Studying at Harvard has proved that Lin strived to do everything with the best of his abilities.  This preservation is commonly tied with Asians, and therefore labeling Asians the "model minority".  However, this stereotype is causing multiple problems for the Asian community.  Although a study had found that most Asian Americans are highly educated...

Asian immigrants have been and are still facing difficulties after settling into a different country.  Not only do they have difficulty communicating with natives due to language barrier, they have also faced discrimination, even to this day.  As my parents are immigrants from Vietnam, I was always interested with how they lived in different countries.  Due to the Vietnam War, my parents had to constantly move around and finally settled in the US.  However, life in the US was not easy for them due to the language barrier.  Learning about their lives made me even more interested in the Asian culture.   I had the opportunity to take an Asian Studies course a year ago and have read about the difficulties Asians have faced when immigrating to the US.  Other than escaping the war, the "American Dream" was the main reason why Asians have immigrated to the US.  However, this  "American Dream" mindset has driven these immigrants to constantly wo...