Monday, October 6, 2008
blog 3
This chapter was very interesting, yet very messed up. A couple of questions popped in my head. The first was why did they consider the filipino jungle people. I might have missed the part that explained why was it because of their skin. The way they judged the japanese compared to the chinese, filipino, and koreans are messed up too. Paying them more was a reason and the other was the white people considered them better. On the native hawaiians I had a question. What do you think about the theory about hawaiins that might be descendants of South Americans?
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In this story it wasn't just about being Asian anymore. It was the kind of Asian you were. It would be being this kind of Asian then you would get paid more then this one. For example the Japanese usually got paid more then the Filipinos.
I don't know if I'm convinced that Hawaiians are from South America. It makes more sense to me that they are Polynesian, but then again not everything makes sense. Just like how it doesn't make sense how the workers were treated. I think that the reason why the plantation managers stereotyped so much was because they really wanted them feel like they were unworthy and that they wouldn't be able to find labor anywhere else because no one would want them.
Yes, Filipinos were thought of as savages just like the native people of Guam, Puerto Rico, Marshall Islands, etc. I think it was just the way we viewed those who we thought of as darker skinned people from warmer climates. The U.S. thought the same of Africans. It's very disturbing, but it's also a complex issue. There is a lot in regard to skin tone in Asian American Studies in regard to beauty. Is lighter skin better? There's a problem (well, I view it as a problem) with Asian American women and Asian women bleaching their skin. They say it's so that they are more beautiful because lighter skin is more beautiful. But really, that's something we're taught through a media that's dominated by a certain image of beauty.
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