The “typical asian” is expected to be having features such as slanted eyes, small eyes, pale/yellow skin, cultured, fluent in their ethnicity’s language, straight A student, all asians are expected to be from China, Japan or Korea, has an accent, all asians has troubles to speak english or can’t speak it at all. So many people assume otherwise if you don’t follow those categories of the expectations of being asian. 

Growing up as an Asian American eighth grader Ram Par has faced many of the stereotypes of how supposedly a "normal asian" is supposed to act. She feels very disrespected by their actions because instead of assuming you should educate yourself beforehand. She says, “I remember once like I was really young at this time. We were at the beach and like these random white kids, I was just talking to my parents. They were like, 'Oh, do you speak English? Where are you from? I get it was kind of out of curiosity. But it kind of felt offensive because I was speaking English too.'

In many shows/movies, Asian characters usually are portrayed to be a doctor, nerd, or computer technician. This causes people to build up stereotypes on Asian people which if they don’t follow these stereotypes that have been built up in their heads they’re supposedly not considered as Asian and questioned.

As stereotypes grow to build worse and worse, Senior Yanhui Wu struggled with having to fit into everyone's expectations. She quotes, “I felt as if I had to fit to the like signal or stereotype that was being shown in the media or in like Asian characters in the media and I had to fit to that. Standard, like I would have to be this kind of nerdy character, I didn't have any room for like failure as like a normal human being should have."

Based on past generations people used to look back at Asian culture and look down upon. Many young Asian girls and even women are often getting fetishized by young and older men. Though these men know that it makes these women uncomfortable, they still find ways to make it okay. Which reflects back on why there hasn’t been a decrease towards these hate crimes. 

Throughout many years of teaching Elaine Kuoch has witnessed many incidents that have encountered in her classroom that have dealt with racism. Kuoch tries to make sure that these incidents get handled rather than ignored. She explains, “Unfortunately, I have encountered some students being made fun of because of their culture or because of their background, where insensitive comments are made to them, or their cultures are fetishized in a way all as well. And I've also experienced this with Asian girls, Asian young women who are students who become fetishized by young men at the school because of the ways that sometimes Asian females are over sexualized. And that has been an unfortunate experience for a lot of students. One major way that I tried to support fighting against racism towards Asians is through clubs. We established a client club and now the Asian Student Alliance where any students have a place where they can learn about what it means to be Asian in a positive way and have a space to share about their own experiences with race and culture and ethnicity. And in terms of more major instances, as a teacher I tried to do. I tried to make sure that all of these major incidents are handled by the administration so that they don't go ignored and unnoticed."