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Alfie Corteza Assignment #9 Sec.09

Alfie Corteza

Professor Bullock

Assignment #9

An event or period in my life where I have like an outsider would be in my previous educational institutions from elementary to high school. I felt like an outsider as being a Filipino at the time and still is a minority amongst other Asian nationalities. Even though I am technically Asian, there are still discrepancies when it comes to the social hierarchy of who is the “superior” Asian nationality. When I listen to other individuals, many states that South-East Asian’s consisting of Philippines, Indonesia, or Malaysia is the “Mexico” of Asia, as if we are inferior and less developed in our continental region. It is similar to when Patricia Hill-Cobbs mentions that a black woman as mules, and white women as dogs that a white male would never treat them as people. It is similar to how I feel as an outsider within as my race as the South-Eastern Asians are considered the mules and the more prosperous 1st world Asian countries treat them like the dogs to the white European counterpart.
It is all too familiar to find that many East Asian countries consider those in the South-East to be inferior. East Asians find us as proletariat countries as we work in the primary and secondary markets of digging up raw materials, and manufactured commodities to be sold elsewhere in the world in impoverished and underpaid conditions. While first world Asian countries are “closer” to the West by their ideal economies, the rest fall under a less prioritized fashion. As a result we the South-Asians are considered to be second class and have difficulty to achieve the same equal status that mainland Asia countries have. The burden of feeling “inferior” carries over to those who share these nationalities in other developed nations. I can recall numerous times being treated as a lower working class by my slightly darker complexity, and look somewhat Latino. There is nothing wrong about being Latino, or a person of color, but those individuals who were white were in the wrong for assuming that any person of color is all of a sudden a worker performing manual labor jobs. It is especially frustrating as it is the 21st century and equality is expected, however, there is still prejudices, and stereotypes still preserved and enacted.