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Thursday, March 23, 2000
HOUSING
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House does outreach to both children
and the elderly. UF-Gainesville also has
a community-service housing program.
“The trend for volunteering (houses)
is on the rise," Lansett said.
F.thnir and language houses have
expanded beyond the traditional lan
guages taught in high schools -Spanish,
French and German.
Amherst College in Massachusetts
has a Russian House and Stanford
University’s Slavianskii Dorm offers a
Slavic/East European theme. Native
American and Asian houses are also
becoming more common.
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ASIANS
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said she was not aware Asian
Americans in the area felt underrepre
sented.
“I don’t remember a time since I’ve
been on council when members of the
Asian community have expressed a
need for representation that has per
tained to their national origin,” she said.
Waldorf added that while she hoped
all constituencies felt they had a say in
local politics, the council could do noth
ing to help if it was not aware that a
problem existed. She said she encour
aged those with council-related prob
lems to speak up.
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Pham agreed that part of the solution
was for Asian Americans to vocalize
their needs more, but the government
also needed to get more involved.
“It’s partially contingent on the Asian
community to speak up, but there’s also
the responsibility of the government to
figure out what (the) needs in the com
munity are,” Pham said. “If your eyes
are open, if you’re looking hard, then
you’ll realize there are problems.”
Some of these issues, Asian
Americans say, include affirmative
action, employment discrimination and
language barriers.
Although many people associate
affirmative action with getting into the
University, Pham says, that is not the
problem.
“The problem is that even people
that are really successful in their acade
mic careers are not always as equally
successful in getting promoted in their
chosen fields,” she said.
This discrimination against Asian
Americans is sometimes due to language
barriers, which are a particular problem
as far as emergency management is con
cerned, Pham said.
“What if another hurricane like Floyd
comes through and emergency warn
ings are issued in two languages, English
and Spanish?” she said. “There’s an
entire population of people who under
stand neither of those languages, and
those are the Asians.
“I think (officials) need to broaden
their scope of who they are serving.
Asian Americans are the second largest
minority population. Not Latinos.”
CHOU
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the minority presence in her neighbor
hood, Birch Meadows, a subdivision
built in 1994, located off U.S. 15-501.
She said in this environment she felt
comfortable asking her neighbors for
favors. “Out of 32 families in the neigh
borhood, five are from Taiwan, five
from China and one each from Sri
Lanka and India,” she said. “Here you
feel like you are not a minority. It is like
a family. Here, I can ask them to get my
mail when we travel -and the parents
baby-sit for each other.”
Living in the neighborhood devel
oped an attitude of tolerance in her chil
dren because they play with a diverse
group of friends, she said.
“My kids have friends from all differ
ent cultures, and they don’t show a pref
erence for one over the other,” Chou
said. Although the neighborhood
friends were a positive influence on her
children, she said it could not replace
According to the 1990 census, the 4.3
percent Asian American population in
Chapel Hill topped the 1.6 percent
Hispanic makeup.
Police spokeswoman Jane Cousins
said the police were prepared to deal
with non-English-speaking Asian
Americans if they needed to, however.
“On occasion we’ve come across
Asians who didn’t speak English," she
said. “We do have resources to work
around the problem. We have an officer
that speaks Chinese and Language
Line.”
Language Line is a phone service
which allows an interpreter to translate
from English to almost any other lan
guage. But even with such safeguards in
place, other issues continue to plague
Asian-American issues finding their way
into the political spotlight.
One major reason is the lack of cohe
siveness in their community, said
Francis Ahn, co-president of UNC’s
Asian Students Association. This can be
accounted for by subdivisions based on
various nationalities including Korean,
Taiwanese, Japanese, Chinese and
Vietnamese.
Ahn said the Asian-American com
munity was divided because the people
who comprised it came from so many
different countries and backgrounds. It
is often hard for them to identify with
each other when each country has its
own distinct culture and even sub
groups that exist within each of these
cultures, he said.
Shuji Yamaguchi, a representative for
the Chapel Hill-Durham Nihonjin Kai,
the family support they had in Taiwan.
“I feel like the kids are missing their
grandparents,” she said. “All the
American kids spend time with their
grandparents during Thanksgiving and
Christmas - mine can’t.”
Chou said she looked forward to the
when time her children could go to
Taiwan and meet their relatives and
learn about their history. For this reason,
she wants them to learn Taiwanese.
Both English and Taiwanese are spo
ken at the Chou household. Chou said
she speaks both languages with her chil
dren, yet she communicates with her
husband only in Taiwanese.
Despite the absence of her extended
family, Chou said she was sure that rais
ing her children in the United States was
a good idea because an education here
gave them more opportunities.
“American educators stress creativity
and individuality,” she said. “These are
things that are overlooked in Taiwan.”
Chou struggles to affirm her chil
dren’s academic progress. She said
Taiwanese cultare did not embrace pos-
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an informal group designed to help
Japanese immigrants adjust to life in the
area, agreed, but said the melting pot of
America was helping the various cul
tures merge together.
“The obvious differences still exist
among these subdivisions, especially
language, culture, custom and behav
ior,” he said. “But each Asian-American
culture is also different from that of its
mother country. They are gradually
moving towards mixing together.”
Unity among the races would give
Asian Americans a stronger voice, Ahn
said.
“Here in Chapel Hill, the Asian
group is not as solidified and strong, and
we’re working to change that,” he said.
“There’s only a small amount of people
in each culture, and unless we come
together, we won’t be heard and repre
sented in government.”
Another significant reason Asian-
American problems are under
addressed is what Pham calls “model
minorityness," where Asians are stereo
typed as being equal with the majority.
The result is that Asian communities
are underserviced, Pham said.
“Asians for a long time have been the
minority that the majority points to and
says, ‘Why can’t you be like them? Why
can’t you get an education? Why can’t
you follow the laws? Then you can reap
the benefits,’” she said.
“The problem is that not all Asians
are reaping the benefits.”
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itive reinforcement like American cul
ture. When Chou encourages her chil
dren by saying “good job,” they get frus
trated with her and feel like she is not
being as encouraging as she could be.
“My children ask me, ‘Mom, why
can’t you give me a compliment? Why
do you only say ‘good’?” she said. “I for
get that in America, ‘good’ doesn’t mean
much, something is supposed to be
‘excellent’ or ‘terrific.’”
Despite the cultural differences her
children do not yet understand because
they have always lived in America,’
Chou said she looked on the positive .
side of being a minority in Chapel Hill.
She listed a few things that Americans
could do to make her and other Asian
Americans feel more welcome.
“Be patient with us. Invite us places.
Be our friend and have an open heart.
Realize that we are different. Educate us
and give us opportunities to get
involved.”
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at citydesk@unc.edu.