Abstract
This paper attempts to construct a definition of an Asian-American writer through the common themes in their literary works. Several examples of Asian-American novels are presented and analyzed for their shared themes such as alienation and family. These works include Eric Liu's "The Accidental Asian," "The Interpreter" by Suki Kim and "No-No Boy," by John Okada. The author concludes that the themes of self-doubt and estrangement make reading 'Asian-American' literature an enriching, complex experience.

From the Paper
"This theme of internal estrangement becomes a metaphorical plot device in The Interpreter by Suki Kim. The protagonist of the novel has two murdered parents. The young woman is a both a literal and figurative orphan of her home, her original Korean culture, and cast adrift in America. If she can find their murderers, Suzy hopes, she will gain a sense of identity and a greater affinity with her national past. However, her pursuit of justice only drives her deeper into psychological turmoil and a sense of displacement, as she seeks her parent's murderers in vain in the Korean-American underworld of New York City."

Tags:Asian-Americans, literature, immigrant, experience, Suki, Kim, Eric, Liu, Jon, Okada

Abstract
This paper reviews the history of Asian-American discrimination in the United States, race-based policies and court decisions. The author points out the stereotyping of all Asian Americans as a model minority image and why the term Asian Americans is too broad a category. The paper stresses the need for affirmative actions programs to correct the problem of under-representation of Asian-Americans in academia.

From the Paper
"There can be no question that Asian-Americans have been subject to racial discrimination in the United States. Until only a generation ago, Asian-Americans were essentially treated as second class ..."

Tags:affirmative action, asian americans, race, students

Abstract
Using two distinct groups, Asian Americans and whites in America, this is a discussion of the psychological background for prejudice both social, and economic--with Asians more the problem area of stereotypes while Asians themselves tend to retreat within themselves rather than show anger at how they are often unfrairly presented. The gulf for Asian-Americans is often ages-old customs which even assimilation may not completely do away with.

From the Paper
ASIAN AND LATINO STEREOTYPES: PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH The clash of any two disparate cultures usually comes down to a single indisputable statement: They're just not like us! Asians in the U.S. have frequently been targeted- in immigration with the Chinese Exclusionary Act, in wartime, with the forced repatriation of Japanese Americans to camps in the Midwest after Pearl Harbor. Yet, there is more than historical precedent for the fact that prejudice still remains against two races- Asians and Asian-Americans and Latinos- in America. It is important, at the outset to define prejudice as not necessarily meaning "hatred" or even "revulsion" but more or less a dislike of a

Tags:asian, americans, caucasians, prejudice

Abstract
The writer looks at the killing of an Asian-American woman in San Jose, California in 2003, by a police officer. The writer analyzes this case in terms of Asian-Americans and discrimination. Details of the shooting are included in this article. The writer also discusses response to the shooting.

From the Paper
"... a mentally disturbed year-old Vietnamese mother of two, Cau Bich Tran, was shot and killed by San Jose California police officer Chad Marshall in front of her boyfriend and young sons. Gathright A. Marshall was brought to the Grand Jury, which heard testimony that resulted in a refusal to indict the officer for murder or manslaughter after seven days of testimony, during a rare public grand jury probe of the incident in which Officer Marshall testified that he was forced ... "

Tags:Asian-Americans, discrimination

Abstract
This paper begins by briefly outlining the astronomical pace of economic growth in the East Asian NICs. It then explores the course of development's relationship to development theory. It asserts that the neo-liberal link between economic development and democracy and greater equality is dismissed by the experience of the NICs. However, the dependency/world system approach, currently expressed in globalization, is affirmed by the recent history of the East Asian NICs and the present situation.

Tags:east, asian, nics

Abstract
In this essay, the writer introduces a group and describes that group using the persona description method. The paper then proceeds to use the classification method to break down stereotypes about this group. With this in mind, the writer has chosen to focus upon Asian drivers in America. The paper therefore briefly describes the group and then outlines all the various sub-categories which exist with regards to Asian drivers.

From the Paper
"As should become apparent, many of the lazy and complacent assumptions that have been made in the past about the Asian driving community in America are not only invidious in nature, but also just plain wrong. What sort of description would best suffice when trying to encapsulate the general view of Asian drivers?"

Tags:asian, drivers, classification

Abstract
An examination of the social issues created by the influx of immigrant workers with a special focus on female workers from Asian countries. This paper looks at how these women have to fight for recognition on a number of fronts - being Asian, being immigrants and especially being women. The writer looks at two generations of these workers and asks if their personal attitudes have changed and whether society's attitudes have changed towards them, as well.

From the Paper
"With the high level of susceptibility to gender and minority issue, Asian women immigrants have to cope with more challenge than their male fellows do. As immigrants, they need enough fortitude to get along with their new community besides fulfilling personal dreams.

"The problem of discrimination has been continuing since the first group came in America in the middle of 19th century. The earlier generation mainly worked as labors, domestic helpers, even prostitutes. The industrialization era commenced in America in 1870 had attracted mass movements of migrants from other countries and built long establishment after that."

Tags:worker, illegal, immigrant, foreign, Asian, Asia, woman, women, female, sexism

Abstract
This paper examines reasons for the East Asian economic crisis during 1997 and 1998. The World Bank report of 1993 praises many of the practices that ultimately led to the crisis. Currencies, stock markets, 'crony capitalism' and financiers are examined. The paper argues that both economic and cultural reasons are ultimately to blame for the economic crisis.

From the Paper
"In recent decades international financial institutions, most notably the World Bank, have held up East Asia as a capitalist miracle, a role model for the rest of the world to follow. The Newly Industrializing Countries (NIC's) took off during the 1970's and included countries from around the world. But is was almost exclusively the NIC's of Asia who maintained their high growth rates through the 1980's and 1990's. While the South American NIC's were left behind in the debt crisis of the early 1980's, the Asian 'Tigers' continued to surge ahead. South Korea, for example, maintained a manufacturing growth rate of nearly 9% a year during the 1980's, while exports grew by 10% a year (Hadjor: 1992). Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore also enjoyed such success, and they were soon joined by other Asian countries such as Malaysia and Thailand. By 1987 the combined manufacturing exports of South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore totaled about half of all third world exports compared with 6% for Mexico and Brazil combined (ibid). The World Bank firmly believed that the experience of the Asian tigers constituted a viable model for other Third World countries. In 1993, the Bank published its seminal work 'The East Asian Miracle' as a guide to how the Tigers had been so successful. But disaster hit the East Asian region in 1997/98 when the economies in that part of the world took a massive beating from what became the 'Asian Crisis'. Suddenly the World Bank report and hopes for the region looked decidedly inaccurate. Here we will summarize the various views taken by the World Bank on Asian economic development before the crisis hit, together with how the effects of the Asian Crisis threw into doubt the Banks judgment."

Tags:asian, crisis, capitalism, crisis, crony, globalisation, world, bank, asia

Abstract
Most authors have argued that the Asian financial crisis has been the worst economic crisis the world has experienced since the Great Depression of the 1930s. This paper will focus on the affects that Asian recovery might have on the American economy.

Tags:ECONOMICS / INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS, impact asian recovery

Abstract
One of the most urgent issues facing our environment and our lives in terms of pollution, has been the "Brown Cloud", or "Asian Brown Cloud" phenomenon of massive concentrations of air-borne pollutants found above heavily industrialized and wholly unregulated areas. It is the purpose of this paper to look at the origins, the effects, and the solution to the Asian and other Brown Cloud problems rising in the world.

Tags:asian, brown, cloud