# Making Noise

By [benxtrinh](https://paragraph.com/@benxtrinh) · 2022-05-28

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I want my kids to grow up and never hear “go back to your own country.” Like I did. I want my kids to grow up without their voices stifled, their hearts trampled.

I want them to be noisy and proud. Free of the burden of not belonging.

Because you don’t hear a lot about noisy Asians. More than likely, you don’t think about Asian people at all.

That invisibility is the problem.

Here’s what keeps you from seeing & hearing us:

*   🏆 **Model minority myth** : you think we’re “quiet, obedient & hard working.”
    
*   🚷 **Bamboo ceiling** : we’re a third of corporate America but 1.5x less likely to be promoted to the C-suite than White people.
    
*   👊 **Anti Asian violence** : we’re easy victims as violent hate crimes against us has spiked 339% this year.
    

So hey, it’s not an easy time to be Asian.

We’re more than our alignments & contradictions to a tired, ethnic stereotype.

We’re trying our hearts out to fit into a world that doesn’t seem to care.

And we need the world to care about our entire, silently suffering community.

It’s time to be a Noisy Asian.

Because we have to do better.

It’s time to hear us.

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*Originally published on [benxtrinh](https://paragraph.com/@benxtrinh/making-noise)*