Logos Analysis Paper
In the case of the Gay Asian-American Male Seeks Home Han was asserting that the about the obvious bias of equating Asian men to gays as compared with the non-Asia men in the United States. To support his assertion, he cited a much-admired play M Butterfly by David Henry Hwang where the main character, Song Linling, has explained his ability to trick a French lieutenant into accepting as something truth he was a woman for nearly two decades and the cause was due to the lieutenant powerlessness to see him as any other than a woman and not because of the trick. Songs possibly not using of mastery of deception to cause the lieutenant to believe, the situation could only support the assertion and Asian men as Song Linling character has played, could only be regarded as meek as portrayed by the mainstream media in the United States. Such an act of profiling or marking for an Asian man as a typical asexual houseboy types which could be viewed as sexual deviancy could only drive Asian men to finding their true identity in American compared to Caucasian counterparts.
Hans assertion of such media portrayal of Asian men as gays convinces readers by his having cited a magazine catering to young urban males about the latters featured item that challenged readers to ascertain given was in fact a gay or Asian. Such use of writing could only indeed point to the strong bias of profiling or marking such Asian men as gays since the article would imply that it would be hard to separate what an Asian Man from a gay. The controversy has in fact generated a protest and again Han cited the surprisingly silent reaction of the majority in the larger community and hence strengthening his assertion on equating Asian Men to gay.
In Not Only Natalie is Missing, OConnor argued about the obvious discrimination committed against non-white women by not giving the latter a kind of media exposure compared with their missing white women in America. She cited Philadelphia blogger Richard Blair who witnessed weeks of media coverage to the story of the May 30 disappearance of Natalee Hollaway while on a high school graduation trip to Aruba.
To support her claim for discrimination against black, she cited what happened one July 18 about another young woman by the name of LaToyla Figueora who also went missing. The latter woman this was noted as kind of smiling and attractive young woman and surprisingly her disappearance has become daily part of television news coverage, predominantly in cable news but only after her frustrated family had resorted to taking their case in a busy street corner by protesting as they drew attention to her disappearance with help of blogger Blair and other Philadelphia bloggers.
To make clearer the discrimination, the author argued that missing women frequently depicted on television are overwhelmingly white. Such evidence of discrimination on media disparity about their reporting brings the extent the racial discrimination even in their rights to be known by the crimes that they have committed against the black persons. She cited cases of white women who had much exposure such as Laci Peterson, Chandra Levy and Jennifer Wilbanks. On other hand, she also cited critics appraisal on a number of missing black Latina women that had got little or media attentions from the national media.
In the case of Skin-Deep- What Polls of Minorities Miss Bositis, exposed the wrong consequences of skin-deep polls conducted involving minorities in terms of programs and policies affecting said minorities.
He exposed the fact that the medias knowledge of African Americans, Asians and Latinos is sadly wanting. He agreed that opinion polls are conducted about minority-group for more information but results and findings were merged vaguely with those of general populations and the necessary decision that would be made for the use of information would become unresolved as a result because of the eventual unreliability of data from surveys for polls taken from the general population. This would be therefore resulting to wrong information leading to wrong decision for minority people in the US. The lack of reliable data would therefore cause policy makers to extrapolate and they could only be at best guessing since information used could only be misleading and therefore could become more risky. Compared to a work of physician unreliable or wrong data could result to wrong diagnosis of the problem or patient and therefore the remedy or medication would most probably be wrong and would simply be waste of money.
To convince readers the author has cited statistical terms which are directly relevant to the issue on polls since statistics is said to be the science of data. To emphasize the unreliable data or information, he talked about the larger margin of error in case of minority-group breakouts. Large margin of error means insufficiency of samples used in the survey regarding minorities which obviously sounds as discrimination against non-white in the US and could seriously affect policy making on non-whites. Such problem in not conducting the proper survey on minorities neglects as well gender differences as cited by the author in evidence and could further complicates the real purpose of why information from polls is being made in the first place.
To conclude this paper confirms the authors have argued well and supported what they were trying to evoke in the article. By properly citing evidence in support of their assertions, readers may easily be intellectually influenced to take their positions based on the objective evidence. All the articles can also be considered to have common grounds on discrimination committed against non-whites. Given the assertions of each article and evidences presented, one could only agree with the roots and branches of discrimination against non-white at the time of the writing of said articles.
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