Week 5 Blog Nik Nurhafieza Nik Mohd Rosidi

In the "Dancing the Mixed-race dance", i explored the hierarchy in the mixed race society which was in the Vietnamese American society to compare them with the view of the mixed race from Vietnam or Euro-Asian, specifically with the background of French and Vietnamese. The "Vietnamese multiracial are not a homogenous group but a rather product og historical and contemporary influences (hybridity), differing in gender, sexuality, class, history, time of entry into the US, level of English proficiency, and amount of education" (Valverde, 2001). I can only summarize that the Euro-Asian > AmerAsian > Afro-Asian. The Vietnamese community will have much more respect over Euro-Asian mixed race that came to the United States to study as there was a French graduates that came to pursue her education in USA and the older Vietnamese gentlemen loved to speak French with her. This show that the Euro-Asian was being respected compared to AmerAsian and Afro-Asian. Most of the article are comparing with AmerAsian with Vietnamese multiracial society. The hierarchy in the Vietnamese American society really lead to the racism and classism ideology that combined them to be stereotypical of pre-, during, and post- immigration beliefs. In a nutshell, it was a belief of internalized colonialism as the Vietnamese American society viewed that white skinned is better than darker skinned and it really made me think, why we let it come between the society that made us think that the white-skinned is superior of all.