Patriots Should be Rational

Lixian Huang

Oct 25^th. 2015

Week 6 Blog

ASA 2, A03

There is a saying in China, a person who has been bitten by a serpent is afraid of a rope. Such old saying assists me to understand the article “Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots”. In this article, Jasbir K. Puar and Amit S.Rai place a concern about the stereotype and fear formed, long since the 9.11 Attack, by American public to the “abnormals”, especially to the Middle East people. Similar situations happened during and after World War II in the U.S. when the innocent Japanese Americans were suppressed severely merely because of their Japanese background. I agree that we should fight against the Nazi and the terrorists, who ignore the human rights, contaminate human thoughts, and threaten the whole society. However, patriots should be more rational. Puar and Rai in this article mention that some media reported bias selections of news: some focus on negative news like “public stoning in Afghanistan” to the homosexual women, or on some struggles for the freedom and human rights in the Middle East. To me, such scenes are familiar because some Asian media frequently report how dangerous Japan is, how Japanese people live a hard life, and how many Japanese psychopaths exist. However, most of the Japanese at present have nothing to do with the Nazis dozens of years ago. Unfortunately, many people are misled. It also happens in some Asian countries that the Japanese shops were robbed and destroyed by groups of docile patriots, justifying their ridiculous action by a term “punishment to the evil”.

Question: How can we reduce the production of docile patriots and call for rational patriots? ion need to react to balance their racial diversity; however, to mantain the UC Berkeley.ommunities"