# Making Noise

**Published by:** [benxtrinh](https://paragraph.com/@benxtrinh/)
**Published on:** 2022-05-28
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@benxtrinh/making-noise

## Content

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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