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    Asian Americans and Mexican Americans have faced social injustice and struggled for equality in the United States. Both groups migrated in search of the American Dream but found discrimination and a lack of opportunities. They experienced being deemed unwanted or insignificant by the media and faced negative rhetoric accusing them of issues like stealing jobs. Both groups also struggled to continue their education, with Asian Americans being segregated into separate schools and Mexican Americans facing barriers to higher education like high costs as undocumented immigrants. While the two groups come from different backgrounds, they share the experience of being minority groups in America that have faced mistreatment and obstacles to fully pursuing the American Dream.

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    Asian Americans and Mexican Americans have faced social injustice and struggled for equality in the United States. Both groups migrated in search of the American Dream but found discrimination and a lack of opportunities. They experienced being deemed unwanted or insignificant by the media and faced negative rhetoric accusing them of issues like stealing jobs. Both groups also struggled to continue their education, with Asian Americans being segregated into separate schools and Mexican Americans facing barriers to higher education like high costs as undocumented immigrants. While the two groups come from different backgrounds, they share the experience of being minority groups in America that have faced mistreatment and obstacles to fully pursuing the American Dream.

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    Asian Americans and Mexican Americans have faced social injustice and struggled for equality in the United States. Both groups migrated in search of the American Dream but found discrimination and a lack of opportunities. They experienced being deemed unwanted or insignificant by the media and faced negative rhetoric accusing them of issues like stealing jobs. Both groups also struggled to continue their education, with Asian Americans being segregated into separate schools and Mexican Americans facing barriers to higher education like high costs as undocumented immigrants. While the two groups come from different backgrounds, they share the experience of being minority groups in America that have faced mistreatment and obstacles to fully pursuing the American Dream.

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    Pablo Cardoso-Sanchez

    Asian American Studies 115


    October 3, 2016
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    Time has past but the course of American history seems to avoid changing. Racial
    disputes that seemed to be left in the dark and thought as resolved trouble humanity once
    again. American history repeats itself, leaving minorities in a constant struggle for equality and
    justice. Asian Americans have been undermined and suffer social injustice alongside Mexican
    Americans.
    Asian Americans and Mexican Americans migrated to the United States in search of the
    American dream and ultimately a better life for themselves. They arrive to America to find
    themselves as an unwanted group in the general population. The media didnt want to address or
    recognize Asian Americans and deemed them not statistically significant enough to include.
    Shelby Coffey, editor of the Los Angeles Times addressed Asian Americans as others in his
    report following the L.A. riots. Yet, Asian Americans have roughly the same population as
    African Americans when Coffeys article was published. In contrast, Mexican Americans
    couldnt be ignored. By 2007, Mexican Americans numbered near 12.8 million in the United
    States. Though Mexican Americans had a large population, the numbers did not prevent them
    from experiencing racism and social injustice. Mexican Americans are unwanted for their
    seemingly mass migration to the U.S. Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor of National Review,
    stated Its not much that we have an immigration problem as that we have a problem of mass
    illegal immigration from one country, Mexico. Donald Trump also argued that, Theyre taking
    our jobs. Theyre taking our manufacturing jobs. Theyre taking our money. Theyre killing us.
    Such statements create negative perspectives regarding Mexicans and incites hatred towards
    Mexican Americans. It comes to show both American minorities have experienced such
    unwarranted accusations made by uniformed Americans and a biased media. Discrimination
    imply them from being accepted just like inequality stop them from progressing.
    Asian Americans and Mexican Americans were misguided by the American dream. Such
    as the case with Ziyoung, an accountant in China. Ziyoung immigrated to the United Stated for
    the hope of the American dream. Soon Ziyoung realized his life in China was better than the life
    in America where he washed dishes. Ziyoung then return back to Shanghai and left the prospect
    of the American dream to live his better dream in China. Mexican Americans also immigrated
    to the United States for the American dream. They too came to see the harsh realities of racism,
    and social injustice. Having labor jobs or no jobs at all they too returned to Mexico. Pew
    research reports that 140,000 Mexicans immigrants returned back to Mexico during 2009 to 2014
    because they failed to find any truth supporting the American dream. Maru Ponce came to New
    York when she was eight years old. Maru left after she realized all her efforts werent so she can
    work as a child care provider, florist, or in a butcher shop. Maru began working as a sales
    operation analyst in the Mexican Capital after leaving her American dream and pursuing a better
    dream in Mexico. Both Ziyoung and Maru failed to find their American dream due to the
    inequality and discrimination that surrounds both American minorities to this day.

    Asian Americans and Mexican Americans faced injustice when attempting to continue
    their pursuit of higher education. Many U.S. policies segregated students of color from the
    majority, white race. American born Chinese children (and Japanese) were segregated by
    Chinese Primary Schools. It was a policy enforced by the San Francisco School Board. Aaron
    Altman, school superintendent, stated Any child that may apply for enrollment or at present
    attends your school who may be designated under the head of Mongolian must be excluded,
    and in furtherance of this please direct them to apply at the Chinese School for enrollment to the
    city principals. Asian Americans were segregated by their race and did not receive a democratic
    education. Alike, Mexican American access to education was also prevented. Pedro Hernandez,
    Mexican born, seeked to study dentistry in the US but soon those hopes were shattered.
    Undocumented immigrants can study at private universities but due to the fact they couldnt
    receive student loans it was unrealistic for Pedro and plenty of other undocumented immigrants
    to pay such high tuitions out of pocket. Leading on to public universities charging undocumented
    immigrants an out of state tuition, that is twice the cost of in state tuition for US nationals. It
    is unjust that Asian Americans and Mexican Americans werent unable to continue their
    education because they were targeted as a group and segregated for being different.
    Segregation guaranteed they would not be able to succeed, despite their sincere efforts to do so.
    Asian Americans dealt with plenty of mistreatment and injustice throughout their time in
    America. Alike Mexican Americans being left out in justice and going through unlawful acts
    during their time in the US. Although they are two distinctive groups they do form one group, a
    minority group. A minority group that has been unwanted in the US because they were seen as a
    threat by their huge accumulated population in the US or were thought of less because they
    werent acknowledge. A minority group that wasn't able to pursue the American dream because
    discrimination surrounded them and their was no equality towards them. A minority group that
    wasnt able to pursue higher education because laws target them directly and racism was with
    them every step. Asian American and Mexican Americans have been undermined, tarnished and
    suffered social injustice to this day. So I beg the question, has history really changed?

    Citations
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    Rubio. Cable News Network, 4 July 2013. Web. 08 Oct. 2016.
    "Asian Americans Then and Now." Asia Society. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Oct. 2016.
    Khon, Sally. "Nothing Donald Trump Says on Immigration Holds Up." Time. Time, 29
    June 2016. Web. 08 Oct. 2016.
    Gonzalez-Barrera, Ana. "More Mexicans Leaving Than Coming to the U.S." Pew
    Research Centers Hispanic Trends Project RSS. N.p., 19 Nov. 2015. Web. 08 Oct. 2016.
    Zia, Helen. Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People. New York:
    Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000. Print.

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