Frances Shen researches the impact of stereotypes on Asian Americans
Dr. Frances Shen, assistant professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois Springfield researches the impact of stereotypes on Asian Americans.
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As a strength trainer with an Asian American background, I often get questions and comments from Asian dudes all over the world. A common theme that pops up among Asian lifters is the belief that their Asian genes are limiting their progress in their quest for a muscular physique. I always tell them this: don't let race or ethnicity be a limiting factor in your training goals or any goal. It does not matter if you are Asian or a skinny bastard or a woman. If your goal is to be bigger, faster, stronger, then you still travel the same road that everyone else travels to size and strength. I mean look at Tommy Kono . Here was a Japanese American who grew up in an internment camp, and he became arguably the greatest Olympic weightlifter the US offered to the world. He was also a successful bodybuilder, winning the Mr. Universe title in 1955 and 1957. He built a phenomenal physique in an era before steroids. He didn't let race or ethnicity be a limiting factor in his mind or on
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as far as internalizing stereotypes? i don't think i ever thought i was part of some stereotype. i've had experiences where people tried to peg me as such with ignorant shit like, "you're good at math, right? let mojo figure out the lunch tab and what everybody owes." sorry, that ain't me.
and in regard to career choices? hell, i didn't know what i wanted to do. in fact, i fell into my job, i didn't seek out a career in law enforcement.
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