American Perceptions Research Articles

(Mis)representations of Asian Americans in Storybird: A Bird’s Eye View

This paper explores the misrepresentation of Asian Americans in Storybird, an online platform where users publish creative writing. Through a qualitative analysis of five stories featuring Asian characters, the study identifies recurring stereotypes, such as cultural conservatism, physical biases, and societal pressures. These misrepresentations often reduce complex identities into cultural caricatures, perpetuating misleading perceptions of Asian Americans. By shedding light on these biases, the paper advocates for increased cultural sensitivity and the promotion of more nuanced portrayals. Recommendations include engaging Asian American creators and promoting media literacy among young writers to challenge existing stereotypes and foster more inclusive content.

The impact of transnationally mobile migrants on immigrants’ educational perception and practice: the case of Koreans and Korean Americans

ABSTRACT New waves of Asian migration to the US are comprised of not only new first-generation immigrants but also transnationally mobile migrants – temporary migrants that move between the home and host countries, spending significant pre-planned periods of time in the host country for specific purposes such as education and employment. Focusing on Korean and Korean American perception and usage of private supplementary education, I examine how the contemporary homeland norms and practices transnationally mobile Koreans transmit impact immigrant Koreans’ education. Drawing on 51 in-depth interviews with Korean American and transnationally mobile Korean students and parents, I find that transnationally mobile Koreans have become a significant reference group for Korean Americans in assessing their education. While education of Asian Americans is often measured against that of white Americans, or native-born Americans as a whole, transnationally mobile migrants from Asian Americans’ ethnic homelands provide a different reference group for Asian American education. In response to the educational norms and practices transnational Koreans transmit, Korean Americans reevaluate their education and formulate educational strategies accordingly. These findings consider how transnational replenishment impacts immigrant experiences in the host society and illuminates the significance of accounting for interactions among different transnational migrants in transnational social spaces.

The United States against Russian aggression in Ukraine in 2022

The paper analyzes the US response to the Russian aggression against Ukraine in 2022. It discusses the American perception of the war in Ukraine, the military support provided to the Ukrainian army by the US, the economic and humanitarian aspects of the American response to the war, the prospect of further US aid, and the perception of the possibility of ending the conflict in Ukraine.

Black and Asian American perceptions and experiences of racism in healthcare contexts: Consequences and solutions from qualitative data

ABSTRACT Race is a consequential sociocultural cue in healthcare contexts. Racism is associated with health disparities. Extant research shows significant health inequities between White and Black people. However, little is known about health gaps between or among other racial groups. This study investigated how Blacks and Asian Americans perceive and experience racism in seeking healthcare, effects of such perceptions and experiences on health outcomes, and ways to reduce racism in healthcare contexts. Findings from 40 interviews suggest strong similarities and subtle differences between the two racial groups.

Generational differences in payment transparency perceptions

Empirical studies often assume cash is more transparent than digital payment. In our pre-registered study, we compared perceptions of Americans from Generation X and the Baby Boomer Generation (currently aged 43–77) to Generation Z (currently 18–26). Whereas older adults perceived cash as significantly more transparent, real, harder to forget, and more painful to spend, young adults saw cash and digital payments as equally transparent, real, easy to forget, and painful to spend. Accessibility of banking information on one's phone was a strong predictor of these differences. In addition, phone alerts for autopayment processing strongly predicted the perceived transparency of autopayments.

American Perceptions and Attitudes about Domestic Climate Migrants and Migration

Abstract Domestic climate migration is likely to increase in the future, but we know little about public perceptions and attitudes about climate migrants and migration. Understanding how perceptions and attitudes are formed is a critical task in assessing public support for assistance policies and developing effective messaging campaigns. In this paper, we aim to better understand how the U.S. public perceives domestic climate migrants. We use novel survey data to identify the relationship between climate change risk perceptions and awareness of “climate migrants,” belief that domestic climate migration is currently happening in the United States, perceived voluntariness of domestic climate migrant relocation, and support for the development of assistance programs for domestic climate migrants. We utilize a large, nationally representative panel of U.S. adults (N = 4074) collected over three waves in 2022. We find that climate change risk perceptions and perceptions of whether migration is voluntary are key drivers of perceptions and attitudes toward domestic climate migrants. We provide key suggestions to policy makers and decision-makers to improve outcomes for host and migrant communities. Significance Statement This study illuminates factors that influence the how the public forms perceptions and attitudes about domestic climate migrants in the United States. For the first time, we offer insight into the drivers of public opinion toward domestic climate migrants and migration. Our results indicate that the various perceptions of climate migrants are largely driven by preexisting climate change risk perceptions and respondent characteristics. Our findings create a new connection with the existing literature on climate change risk perceptions and offer an opportunity for decision-makers and policy makers to create effective messaging campaigns on topics related to domestic climate migration in the United States.

Students for Fair Admissions Through the Lens of Interest-Convergence Theory: Reality, Perception, and Fear

In two cases, Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina (SFFA), the Supreme Court held that Harvard and UNC violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act in their use of race in their admissions process. This Article examines the SFFA decision through the lens of interest-convergence theory. This Article is novel in three respects. It is the first article to explain the SFFA decision in-depth. The opaqueness of the decision has led to significant confusion between commentators, scholars, and universities about the impact of the decision. I conclude that the SFFA decision overturned prior precedent and ended affirmative action in higher education, no matter how carefully crafted the race-conscious admission plan. I also conclude that universities will not be able to ignore the decision, or use race-neutral alternatives, to maintain a critical mass of minority students. Second, this Article is the first to explain the SFFA outcome using interest-convergence theory. I break down the separate interests of Black,[1] Hispanic,[2] White,[3] and Asian-Americans.[4] I find that Black and Hispanic interests remain served by race-conscious admission policies, but that shifting racial demographics and political power dynamics changed the decades-long White interest in supporting affirmative action. I further find that Asian-Americans have an interest in maintaining affirmative action, but that the SFFA outcome aligned with White interests because it permitted universities to continue “negative action” against Asian-Americans in favor of White students. Third, this Article is the first to explain how the perceptions of White Americans about policies that benefit minorities overrides the significant benefits they receive from diverse educational environments. I conclude that the longstanding and concrete benefits that White students receive from a critical mass of minority students on campus has become less important than the perceived threat of such admission policies to the current societal hierarchy. I conclude that interest-convergence theory explains why the Supreme Court overturned decades of precedent and university admission practices: it served the perceived interests of White Americans.

Что происходит с образовательной системой США?

The article examines a complex of different types of problems that the Joe Biden administration faced when pursuing a course in the field of education, identifies painful points in its system, shows the ratio of successes and failures in educational policy and the extent to which the White House has taken into account changes in the demand for graduates in the labor market USA and in the perception of young Americans about the value of a university. Higher education in this country is considered a source of pride and the key to unlocking the American Dream. American universities rank nineteenth out of the top thirty in the world’s university rankings, and nine of the most successful universities are located in this country. However, behind this facade lies the accumulation of financial, personnel, social and racial problems in educational institutions. An analysis is given of the decline in the attractiveness of college in the eyes of the younger generation of Americans, caused by some devaluation of the diploma on the labor market, the rising cost of education and the increase in student debt on loans. In turn, the factors for the high cost of education are: the cycle of supply and demand, inflation, bloated administrative, teaching staff and university staff, whose work is ultimately paid for out of the pockets of students and their parents. An alternative to college and university that offers a faster and much cheaper route to a career in the form of short-term online courses and technical education schools is becoming popular among a significant portion of the younger generation. A special section is devoted to the analysis of the political and intellectual movement called Critical Race Theory, which has penetrated the curriculum of schools and colleges in many American states and identified another line of division in American society.

A Reflection of Dreams and Racial Discrimination in August Wilson's Play Fences: A Retrospective Study

This article explores the portrayal of the disillusionment of dreams and racial discrimination experienced by oppressed and marginalised African Americans in August Wilson's play Fences. The objective of this study is to examine the impact of the dysfunctional American Dream and the discrimination faced by Troy Maxon and his family, with the intention of using them as a representative of the African-American community. This study examines the strategies employed by African American immigrants in their pursuit of success and the realisation of their aspirations. African Americans got engaged in a significant migration from the southern states to the northern states in order to enhance their life prospects. In spite of the prevailing conditions of poverty, bigotry, and slavery prevalent in the southern states, it became evident that the circumstances were far direr. The prevalence of racial segregation and the perception of African Americans as marginalised individuals within the White community have hindered their ability to achieve economic advancement and attain the American Dream. The present paper aims to examine the multifaceted interpretation of the American Dream as depicted in the play "Fences" by August Wilson. However, this study also presents evidence to support the argument that African-Americans, being perceived as marginalised individuals within a predominantly white society, face significant barriers in achieving financial prosperity and other components of the American Dream.

The "Columbus of his Nation": The Visit of Emin Bey to the United States

Abstract: Placing Emin Bey, the first Ottoman envoy sent to the United States, at the center of analysis, this article examines the visit of an Ottoman naval officer, a member of the nascent Ottoman "scientific intelligentsia," and his efforts to challenge the pre-existing American perceptions of the Ottoman Empire in the antebellum era. The first section of this article discusses how Ottoman military reforms paved the way for the emergence of a new kind of "engineer officer" like Emin Bey. The second section expounds on the surprising impact that Emin Bey's visit made on American society. It analyzes how an Ottoman naval officer offered an opportunity through which American citizens reevaluated their diplomatic, social, and cultural institutions as well as those of the "Orient". The final section focuses on the legacy that Emin Bey left behind him, after completing his visit in the United States.

Sounding Slavery in the Victorian Drawing Room: The ‘Blackface’ Ballads of Philip Klitz

Abstract In 1847, Southampton’s Philip Klitz (1805–1854) added two ‘blackface’ ballads to a cultural craze reflecting that year’s British tour by the white American minstrel troupe, the ‘Ethiopian Serenaders’, and their imitators, the ‘Ethiopian Harmonists’. I show how Klitz and his fellow composers reflected and fed a potent stereotype, circulating songs in the bourgeois home that adversely affected the British perception of African Americans by sustaining racist themes and images in the popular-cultural imagination. Notwithstanding the negative impacts for black residents and visitors in Britain at the time, minstrelsy is also widely understood to have exerted considerable cultural influence throughout the nineteenth century. Among investigations of how the Victorian arts constructed race, few give music the significance it holds in this interpretation of how black caricature functioned in a post-abolition British context through the medium of music and musical orientalism in Victorian drawing-room ballads. This case study of previously neglected musical repertoire details an important episode in the history of ‘blackface’ minstrelsy, showing how racial attitudes formed within British domestic spaces during the late 1840s were affected by those of the popular stage in ante-bellum America.

Negotiating attractiveness: Korean American perceptions of body image and identity in light of the Korean Wave

ABSTRACT This study sheds light on how digital technologies and transnational media culture in the U.S. promote new ways of making sense of Korean American identity by renegotiating Asian attractiveness in terms of body images and identity. As a prominent case of media globalization, the rise of the Korean Wave in a global context initiated the exploration of Korean Americans’ imagination of attractiveness. Noting that white standardized body images have spread along with mass-mediated content, this paper questions whether this new media environment brought with it a similar shift in perceptions of attractiveness. Employing the concepts of intersectionality and Appadurai’s notion of global imagination, the researcher delved into the daily lives and media practices of Korean Americans during ten months of fieldwork in the Philadelphia area and conducted in-depth interviews with about thirty Korean Americans. Transnational media became emancipative resources for their global imagination, embracing their ethnic identity. Yet, young Korean American women in particular actively engaged in consumerism driven by global capitalism, as well as Western-centered beauty standards and fashion trends, via mediated images in Korean media. In this way, this new media environment is not an exclusively emancipative force, especially for young women in a racial minority group.

The Mirror Image of Sino-Western in America’s First Work on Travel to China

Abstract American travel writing on China, The Journals of Major Samuel Shaw, the First American Consul at Canton With a Life of the Author, not only reflects the image of China in the mid-Qing dynasty from a Western perspective, but also presents the self-conception and identity construction of early Americans. Shaw’s understanding of China prior to his arrival in China was influenced by public opinion, his community, and his reading experiences, leading him to approach his observations of China through a complex filter of romantic imagination and grandiose expectations, and commercial incentives, as well as malicious misinterpretations. While in China, his idealized vision of the Chinese market was tempered by his critical stance toward the Qing government and legal culture, which were closely linked to American interests. Shaw’s journals deconstructed the image of China as a utopia and marked an important turning point in the history of American perception of China. This study explores the trajectory of this transition and reflects on the discursive construction of American national identity in the process, tracing Samuel Shaw’s evolving perceptions of China and his influence on American politicians, businessmen, and the general public.

US policy towards Iraq after 2014


 Since the hatred of the 1960s, the United States has been seeking a strategy that could achieve a balance of power in the Arabian Gulf between the Iraq and Iran. The role played by U.S. diplomacy led by Henry Kissinger in the signing of the Algiers Agreement between Iraq and Iran in 1975 was evidence of the importance the United States attaches to Iraq’s role in the West’s anti-communist strategy in the region.By 1970s, the United States took the role of the guarantor state in the Gulf region instead of Britain and tried to maintain stability of the region by maintaining approximate balance of military power between Iraq and Iran, in addition to other policies designed to achieve its goals. After 1988, Iraq emerged as a regional power with material and moral capabilities that qualifies it to play a regional role that is not compatible with American perceptions. Therefore, the process of limiting its capabilities and role became an important goal in the American strategy, in accordance with an integrated strategy in terms of goals, means and methods of implementation. However, the American policy towards Iraq after the occupation in 2003 differed clearly from that of the previous stage. That is because Iraq has become one of the important issues for the American policy. But this policy faces great internal and external challenges that are reflected in its military and security performance, and Iraq has formed one of the most important points of interaction between the United States and neighboring countries .
 

Elements of fifth Generation Wars in American Perceptions


 With the progress and development that took place as a result of globalization, many new terms related to ‘force’ have emerged in war literature. These terms referred to other kinds of war which are equivalent to military battles in their impact but less expensive in material cost. The United States of America, which nowadays is possessing all the elements of unconventional wars, including fifth-generation war, which is considered one of the wars that are characterized by a diverse mix that enters into a conflict in which many tools are employed, including military, economic, informational, cyber and alike by a simultaneously mixture of traditional and unconventional tactics and strategies which are able to cause the greatest amount of damage indirectly through which states do not appear as aggressors in enemy territory, but rather by forming alliances that include state actors in addition to secondary actors that include institutions,، individuals, groups, technological, ideological, biological and environmental factors.
 

A Qualitative Investigation of Guyanese American Perceptions of Mental Health

A Qualitative Investigation of Guyanese American Perceptions of Mental Health

Artificial intelligence technology, public trust, and effective governance

AbstractAdvancement in information technology continues to evolve especially in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Research studies have been conducted to evaluate the perceptions of Americans on the development and utilization of AI technology and if it is appropriate to use AI in public administrative duties. The research revealed that society is fragmented regarding the acceptance of AI, and whether AI decisions could have long‐term effects on the labor industry, legal system, and national security. The 2018 AI Public Opinion Survey revealed significant concerns among the American public regarding AI, yet also a recognition of its promise. The goal of this article is to further develop a governance framework for AI that considers the importance of public trust in AI policy. First, it discusses the necessity of public trust for the effective governance of emergent technology. Then, it evaluates public opinion on AI technology that specifically pertains to governance. The article concludes with a discussion of why public trust is central to good AI governance.

Latin American perceptions of fear and exaggeration transmitted by the media with regard to COVID-19: frequency and association with severe mental pathologies.

The COVID-19 pandemic contributed to the spread of abundant misinformation by the media, which caused fear and concern. To determine the association between the pathologies of the mental sphere and the perceptions of fear and exaggeration transmitted by the media with respect to COVID-19 in Latin America. The present study has an analytical cross-sectional design that is based on a validated survey to measure fear and exaggeration transmitted by the media and other sources (Cronbach's α: 0.90). We surveyed more than 6,000 people, originally from 12 Latin American countries, who associated this perceived exaggeration with stress, depression, and anxiety (measured through DASS-21, Cronbach's α: 0.96). Social networks (40%) or television (34%) were perceived as the sources that exaggerate the magnitude of the events. In addition, television (35%) and social networks (28%) were perceived as the sources that generate much fear. On the contrary, physicians and health personnel are the sources that exaggerated less (10%) or provoked less fear (14%). Through a multivariate model, we found a higher level of global perception that was associated with whether the participant was older (p = 0.002), had severe or more serious anxiety (p = 0.033), or had stress (p = 0,037). However, in comparison with Peru (the most affected country), there was a lower level of perception in Chile (p < 0.001), Paraguay (p = 0.001), Mexico (p < 0.001), Ecuador (p = 0.001), and Costa Rica (p = 0.042). All of them were adjusted for gender and for those having severe or major depression. There exists an association between some mental pathologies and the perception that the media does not provide moderate information.

America’s black temperance movement, 1827–1894: charting a forgotten history

ABSTRACT Historians have characterized the nineteenth-century American temperance movement as one induced by white evangelicals eager to safeguard national prosperity. Often framed as a means through which to control racial and religious minorities, the role of Black Americans as agents of temperance has been largely overlooked. This essay departs from the white-centric narrative by examining the Black American perception of abstinence from alcohol. It delineates the multifaceted evolution of Black temperance to reveal the ardent promotion of the movement by Black men and women alike. In doing so, this work simultaneously challenges the prevailing discourse on the temperance movement as a white-led, and Black activism as male-dominated.

Review: Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands, by Benjamin Hoy

Book Review| May 01 2023 Review: Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands, by Benjamin Hoy Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands. By Benjamin Hoy. (New York, Oxford University Press, 2021. 344 pp.) David-Paul B. Hedberg David-Paul B. Hedberg Outdoor History Consulting Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2023) 92 (2): 316–317. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.2.316 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation David-Paul B. Hedberg; Review: Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands, by Benjamin Hoy. Pacific Historical Review 1 May 2023; 92 (2): 316–317. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.2.316 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search I’ll look at Peace Arch Park at the Canada-U.S. border differently the next time I pass by to see my family living on the other side. Benjamin Hoy’s Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada–United States Border Across Indigenous Lands is both an important contribution to the scholarship of borderlands and more broadly to Canadian and U.S. history. Readers of Hoy’s book will come to see the border as a colonial tool for the mass starvation of indigenous people; as a calculated line that attempted to reorder kinship relations and definitions of nationality and indigeneity; as an ambiguous zone of control where goods and people moved through colonial power structures and inability to regulate or fathom the Indigenous world that existed before the border. Hoy argues the Canada-U.S. border developed differently from the U.S.- Mexico border “because of American perceptions of cultural similarity and military prowess” (p. 6). The... You do not currently have access to this content.