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Student Snapshot 2
An Asian student from Moreland College comments on his experience of being an individual:
This is the thing, I mean young people, they look at Asians as one big whole thing, you know? But, you know, you're from different countries on that continent, you know? You might not be the same way that other Asian is. But not many people understand that, you know? And I can't help that. I mean, if I hear that on the news, you know, Asians are getting into gang fights, you know, drug dealing, well what can I do? If that's the way they perceive me as, I mean, I don't like it, but I don't hear it that much either you know, directed to me. I mean, that's how people look at people these days.
Student Snapshot 1
A student with a Vietnamese background, in the Moreland City College Culture Club video, outlines some of the derogatory labels attached to Asians: “People think of [us] as rice eaters, nerds, drug addicts and cheap-skates.”
FEMALE STUDENT: They’re smart. Everyone knows that Asians are smart. They were born smart. You compare all the Asian schools to one of the smartest Arabic schools and the Asians would kill us in smartness even if they’re bums. They’d still kill us. They’re so smart… Their family gets full-on into study, like hard hard study and makes them.
INTERVIEWER: You want to be as smart as an Asian right, what would you need to do?
FEMALE STUDENT: Hang around with Asians. Either that or go to a tutor or something and study.
MALE STUDENT: Do what they do.
MALE STUDENT: The Asians they don’t have a life. They don’t go out.