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Pearl Harbor. September 11. The Vietnam War. The Orlando night club shooting. All of these events relate to the dehumanization of Asian immigrants. America is considered to be a â€Å"melting pot† of cultures; however, there is no true harmonization and acceptance. Current media continues to dehumanize and depict many Asian Americans as monster and question their culture. Asian Americans are considered the â€Å"model minority† as they try to overcome the hared and prove their worth. However, Asian Americans are still not accepted. Within Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee and No-No Boy by John Okada, they exhibited Asian American can put whatever effort to assimilate into the American culture but it will never be enough for their acceptance if only one†¦show more content†¦However, she later changes her identity again once in America. Once she encounters a near-rape experience from a mutilated man which results in her kills him. Jasmine is now striped of her old ide ntity by cutting her own tongue. The removal of her tongue coincide the silencing of Jasmine’s voice and completely removal of Jyoti’s identity. Killing a man is not something that suits Jyoti’s character as she is supposed to be submit to men. According to her culture, Jyoti needs to be pure in order to gain a man; once with a man then her life is fulfilled. However, once she killed the man, Jyoti can no longer submit and is also killed. Jasmine’s identity is essentially silenced, signified by the tongue cutting. Jasmine’s English abilities, her tone, and her passion is what brought her to Prakash. Yet once she experienced the dismay, she views herself no longer worthy of being Prakash’s, so Jasmine is silenced by cutting her own tongue. This can be view as the overall silencing of her own culture as after this event she does not speak of her culture until meeting Taylor. She tries to become a part of American by completely abandoning her o wn culture and tries to fill it later on with the American culture. This attempt is common within 1st generation of Asian Americans who try to immediately be a part of the American culture. Later on, Bud assumed ownership over her, he decided to rename her to Jane as in â€Å"Jane RussellShow MoreRelatedMass Shooting At A Gay Night Club Essay1522 Words   |  7 PagesThe 2016 Orlando shooting at a gay night club is the largest mass shooting to take place in the United States of America (Duff, 2016, p. 193). It gained international media coverage and took social media by storm. Many theories can be applied to the shooting, specifically the strain theory and routine activity theory (Levin Madfis, 2009, p. 1227). 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