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Asian Americans at a demonstration in Los Angeles against US involvement in the Vietnam war, circa 1971.
Courtesy of UCLA Asian American Studies Center
What does it mean to be Asian American?
The label encompasses an entire continent of different cultural roots. Does it speak to a shared experience?
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The label “Asian American” is almost comically flattening.
It consists of people from more than 50 ethnic groups, all with different cultures, languages, religions, and their own sets of historic and contemporary international conflicts. It includes newly arrived migrants and Asians who have been on American soil for multiple generations. Depending on visa types, immigration status, and class, there are vast differences even among those from the same country. In fact, the income gaps between some Asian American groups are among the largest of any ethnic category in the nation. Yet these differences are rarely explored and discussed.
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