Discrimination in Asian Education

MASS MEDIA AND COLLEGE CULTURE MINORITIES

Discrimination among the college culture has done far too much harm to minorities. Asians in particular are primary targets for many outsiders. For a long time, Asian-American's have been viewed as merely "academic robots" or the model minority. Is it just me, or does this sound like slight jealousy and hatred to you too? It has came to the point where mass media has instilled so much negativity into our brain,  that one would feel ashamed to claim their own heritage. This form of oppression has to do with the influence of media and how it could make one become tantalized with themselves. Institutionalization could surely become internalized or interpersonal oppression in the matter of seconds. The story of college student Lanya Olmstead, is a perfect example. Lanya is the daughter of an immigrant mother who is Taiwanese and father of Norwegian ancestry. Though she was born and raised in Florida, she still considers herself half Taiwanese and half Norwegian. Whether she knew it or not, her life took a U-turn the day she applied to Harvard University. When filling out the box concerning her race, she decided to mark a check next to "white". You would think it was because she was ashamed of the reputation her ethnicity has grown to have. She was asked why she marked what she did and her response was, "My mom told me there was discrimination against Asians in the application process". The question is, what made her mom say this? Minor social websites in social media are merely branches to the base of the matter. There are commercials and songs that psychologically gives off some type of influence as to how life should be. The way we perceive advertisement, plays the biggest role in this situation. It's safe to say that 9 times out of 10, the cause of discrimination in the application process has been influenced by abuse of media representation. It occurs so much to the point where constant exposure to racial advertisement would make an impression upon anyone that this is normal, simply because thy say so.

http://ranierm.wordpress.com/2012/11/16/who-cares-about-asians-why-racism-towards-asians-still-exists/
http://news.yahoo.com/asians-college-strategy-dont-check-asian-174442977.html
http://www.academia.edu/3479330/The_Negative_Effects_of_Ethnic_Diversity_on_Social_Cohesion_a_Causal_Test_of_Putnams_Hunkering_Down_Thesis

httpshttp://mediapromotesracism.wordpress.com/://youthbuild.org/sites/youthbuild.org/files/Four20Is.pdf

FREE SULEMA

It's sad how we people can take such advantage of one who is mentally unstable. Technically, they don't have control over their actions, right? Santa Monica police cuffed and booked a mentally unstable woman for burglary. It was very obvious according to this blog post, that the police very aware of all of her signs leading up to being disillusion. They charged her for burglary because she was caught eating inside of someones house, whom she thought was her own. It was also obvious that her mind was elsewhere, as if she needed medical and mental attention. She did things that a typical "burglar" would not try to do. The sad part about it was the fact that there was actual evidence of her diagnosis, having a mental illness by the name of paranoid schizophrenia. The courts felt no remorse for that. In their eyes, if she was aware of court rules, then she was aware of what she was arrested for. The situation would've been different if there were no evidence or treatment done, she resisted in any way, or she failed to follow orders. It was simply wrong for them to put this case on her shoulders, knowing that her actions were completely out of her control. "This had to be a hate crime" is what i think to myself as I see that she has been declared "not competent" in court for previous matters. FREE SULEMA!

http://freesulema.blogspot.com/2014/04/free-sulema.html

DEATHS DUE TO AMBULANCE DELAYS

On June 7^th 2003, in New York City, a 4-year-old girl’s life was taken within 8 minutes. That is the amount of time it took for medical attention to get to her. If only 4 of those minutes was subtracted from that time, she would still be alive today. At the intersection of West 97^th street and Amsterdam Ave., her grandmother was rammed off of the road, onto the curb in their SUV. At that moment, 911 was dialed. The EMS dispatcher did not know about this call until 4 minutes after it was placed. It seemed as if they did not take their job seriously at all, considering that no one was sitting at their computer to notice the call. It wasn’t until after 4 minutes that someone returned to their desk to notice that a little girl’s life was in jeopardy. 8 minutes later, an ambulance arrived at the scene to find her dead, and her grandmother injured. In order to avoid getting reprimanded, a fire commissioner by the name of Sal Cassano portrays it as “human error.” He stated that, “They just failed to read the screen” and “We’ll deal with that in ways of a person should not get up until they’re relieved properly. The screen should never be left unread because these are life-saving calls.” He basically made it clear that the 911 system are not to blame for. Even though, those behind the computer desk, working for their services, could not be productive without the team working together. It just doesn’t add up. Statistics show that there is 12.5% of patients who experienced a handover delay of 30-60 minutes and a 5% delay of over an hour. Not to mention, patients in major cities were more likely to experience delays than those in other areas, and patients under 16 years were more likely to experience delays than those over than 60 years of age. These same problems occur in California also. It happened to my little brother. According to one other article, it states that more than one in three ambulances exceed the 30-minute recommendation in Fresno and when ambulance staff are delayed, it causes a ripple effect, making matters worse. When will they begin to take their jobs seriously?

http: http://www.wnyc.org/story/human-error-blamed-911-delay///www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23039294

http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/02/15/3773014/emergency-services-nearly-paralyzed.html