Sa-I-Gu
What is the Korean phrase that means 4 2 9 and is also the date the Los Angeles uprisings began?
Sa-I-Gu
The model minority myth falsely suggests that Asian Americans don’t face this type of barrier.
What is discrimination/racism?
The photographer that wanted to expose what the government was doing to its own citizens
Who is Dorothea Lange
This racist phrase described Asians as a danger to Western society in the late 1800s.
What is the Yellow Peril?
This all Asian American cast movie released in 2018 was a major milestone in Hollywood representation
What is Crazy Rich Asians?
One reason Sa-I-Gu is important and unique is because this one overlooked group has their first hand experiences accounted for by the mainstream media instead of being overlooked
Korean Women
Pressure to “live up” to the stereotype can harm Asian Americans’ mental health.
What is pressure to achieve (or academic pressure)?
This historical event caused the American government to put Japanese Americans in internment camps
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor
Passed in 1882, this law was the first in the U.S history to ban immigration based solely on race, targeting Chinese workers.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This Filipino American Actor Starred in Spiderman Homecoming as Ned Leeds
Who is Jacob Batalan?
What major theme of the documentary is about the concept of race, gender, class and immigration status that shape the experiences of the Korean American shop owners?
Intersectionality
Post-1965 immigration policies brought many highly educated Asian immigrants to the U.S, contributing to the creation of this misleading stereotype.
What is the model minority myth?
The government's reasoning for hiring Dorothea Lange
What is wanting her to shoot photographs to illustrate that the government wasn't persecuting or torturing these people that they evacuated
This president signed Executive Order 9066 in 1942, leading to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This boy group became the first group to top the Billboard Top 100 with “Dynamite”
What is BTS?
Which system of media is critiqued by the documentary due to its simplifying the uprising into a racial poverty and ignoring other major systemic issues?
Media misrepresentation ( Sensationalism also ok)
The video explains that the model minority myth affects how Asian Americans are seen as either “outsiders” or fully part of this national identity.
What is being American (or American identity)?
Why was it so hard to photograph these people being ripped out of their homes
These people were stoic and went quietly and without crying
This Japanese American activist, once interned during WWII, later worked alongside Malcom X and fought for reparations for internees.
Who is Yuri Kochiyama?
Which K-Pop group was featured in the movie, K-Pop Demon Hunters?
What is Twice?
The documentary instead of blaming certain ethnic and minority groups it chooses to focuses on these larger forces at play like economic inequality, immigrant exploitation, and under policing?
Structural racism / systemic or structural factors
Asian Americans who struggle may feel unable to reveal their difficulties due to the myth, leading to this form of emotional suppression.
What is internalized pressure (or hiding distress)?
One of Dorothea Lange's earliest photographs
A young solider who got a furlough to come home to help his lone mother pack up
Passed in 1965, this law replaced exclusionary quotas with a merit-based system, reshaping immigration from Asia and Africa.
What is the Hart-Celler Act?
Which Chinese American actor revolutionized action cinema as a martial artist?
Who is Bruce Lee?