Intra-Group and Inter-Group Relationships
Boqian Jia and Stephanie Ong
The End.
"Educational versus Social"
Inter-racial Relations
"UCLA Asian Rant"
Intra-racial Relationships
- Stereotypes based on environment
- Difference between Asians in educational setting and social setting
- Implicit stereotypes
- "Identity is not merely a matter of individual choice but it is a result of group processes"
- "UCLA Asian Rant"
- "Intra-ethnic othering"
- "FOB" and "Twinkie"
- White students: “FOB"
- “You mean like the keychain?”
- “I have no idea”
- “Fresh Off the Boat...The first time I heard it was when I came to college”
- White students: “Twinkie”
- “Like the food?”
Cambodian and Hmong:
"Forever Foreigner"
- "Distorted View"
- Eating dogs, having extended family members do laundry and cook
- "American" culture versus "Asian" culture
- "Good American-girl"
Acacia Fraternity:
Inter-racial Relationships
at Syracuse University
"Joy Luck Club"
Inter-Group Relationships
Inter-racial Marriages
- Cultural Differences: Diversity
- "Out of my comfort zone"
- Inter-racial marriages
- Interracial Marriage Rates: 9% of whites, 16% of blacks, 26% of Hispanics and 31% of Asians
- Decreased
- Interracial marriages between Asian American and partners of another race decreased from 31% in 2008 to 29% in 2010
- Some 40% of Asian female newlyweds married outside their race in 2008, compared with just 20% of Asian male newlyweds.
Intra-racial Relationships: Marriage
- Rates for Pan-Asian/Other Asian marriages have increased
- Almost universal across all the six ethnic groups and for both genders (the only exception was for Filipino women)
- Vietnamese Americans experienced the biggest increases
- 5.8% in 2006 to 13.7% in 2010 for men
- 7.8% to 12.2% for women/wives.
- Assortative Marriages- tendency of people to marry others similar to themselves
- Common culture
- "Grew up the same way"
Inter-racial Relationships
Who is "Asian"?
Acacia versus
Other Fraternities
- South Asians as Asians?
- Filipinos and Asian Indians typically left out
- Identity based on physical features
- Intra-group relationships
- Indians and Chinese Relations
- "Shades of White"
- "Adaptive response to racial oppression"
- Acacia as an "Asian" Fraternity
- Attract Asian students and distance from white students
- Identity of majority attributes to identity of group
- "Asian" versus "White " Fraternities
- Race not seen as an issue because of influence of environment (diverse)
"Out of My
Comfort Zone"