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Racial Stereotypes of Asians at the Work Place

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Like any other group of people in the United States, people hold certain stereotypes against Asians. Some of these stereotypes are positive while most are negative. Even the positive stereotypes prove to be not so positive as they eventually lead to negative stereotypes. For many years Asians have ...

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Research Proposal

5th October 2017

Racial Stereotypes of Asians at the Work Place

Introduction

Like any other group of people in the United States, people hold certain stereotypes

against Asians. Some of these stereotypes are positive while most are negative. Even the positive

stereotypes prove to be not so positive as they eventually lead to negative stereotypes. For many

years Asians have outperformed other minorities in education, employment, and income. This

has led to their being labelled the ‘model minority’ in the United States. The success of Asians in

most fields has, however, hidden from public discourse the continued stereotyping of the

minority group in America. It is ironical that the ‘model minority’ should continue to experience

negative stereotyping, especially at the workplace, even after relative success in assimilation. But

even the stereotype of ‘model minority’ while positive to some extent, has opened gates for

further negative stereotypes at the workplace.

The stereotypes of Asians are ‘smart’, ‘nerdy’, and anti-social are used by most people to

connote otherness. The work place excels on a culture that breeds cohesiveness and healthy

relations that allow a group of people to work towards a common objective. When a section of

the team is considered not part of the team, either because they are too good or bad at their jobs,

they cannot be productive enough. This research proposal will examine the extent of this

problem in the American society and particularly at the work place. How did these stereotypes

come to be? What is their historical perspective? What are their impacts on the Asian

community? And do both Asians and Asian-Americans experience the same stereotypes?

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Literature Review

In an article titled Attitude Toward Asian Americans: Theory and Measurement, Colin Ho

and Jay W. Jason, noted that Asian stereotypes indicate both positive and negative factors. Most

of the negative stereotypes are mostly rooted in what may seem to be positive stereotypes

initially and positive instrumental attitudes (Ho & Jason, 7). Thus even what may seem to be a

positive attitude towards Asians, for instance their intelligence, eventually leads to negative

stereotypes. In the case of the ‘smart’ stereotype the stereotype of ‘nerdyness’ and anti-social

characteristics are born (Lin et al, 21). Most of the negative stereotypes come from envy and

insecurity imposed on coworkers by the competent aspects and perceptions of Asians. Therefore,

some people who are threatened and envious of an Asian coworker’s intelligence will exploit

their negative aspects, e.g. deficiency in sociability, to discriminate them.

According to Monica Lin, Virginia Kwan, and Anna Cheung the scale of anti-Asian

stereotypes keeps expand while those of other minority groups, African American for example,

are shrinking (15). This disparity is caused by the absence of Asian stereotypes discussion from

the racism discourse in the western world. Monica Lin et al differentiate the two dimensions of

anti-Asian stereotypes: excessive competence and deficient sociability. Most people see Asians

as excessively intelligent and book smart. These positive stereotypes lead to negative relations

between Asians and co-workers who envy them. It also leads to lack of assistance when Asians

require it. In a survey conducted by researchers from Wharton, Columbia, and NYU, 6,500

emails were sent to professors under false emails (qtd. Leah 1). The contents of the emails

included admiration for the professor’s work and a request to meet. Results from the survey

indicated that emails from whites received the most replies while emails baring Asian names

received the least responses. This is a clear indication of the negative reactions of the excessively

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