Using qualitative data from two secondary geography classrooms, this study investigate how Asia is taught in American classrooms, what kind of conceptions and knowledge of Asians and Asian cultures are produced, and what socio-cultural implications are embedded in the curriculum about Asia. In particular, focused on the discrepancy between teacher goals and the results of their teaching, this study examines how and why the curriculum about others became a curriculum of othering in the two classrooms. Based on the case of Asia, this study poses a wider question of how to reinvent teaching about others in a global society, a task which becomes increasingly important as the world is getting rapidly interconnected and interdependent.