Yingjun Huang
Week 10
The feeling was very hard to express when it comes to reading the article “The Time to Fight is Now”: When Asian American Women in Academia Go Rogue. There is a buss phrase on the Chinese social media called “Kindheartedness limited your imagination” and I think it’s the best phrase describing my situation right now. I have never felt like being treated unfairly before thus lack of acknowledgment of such discrimination occurs, so the reading experience was eye-opening. How Asian American women being treated described in the article was unexpected to be happening in America. I’ve heard about office sexism and racism, but I have never thought about the same would happen in academia, let alone happening in America. What can I say? I’m like a sweet ditsy little baby.
Taking one step back, I thought that even if such things do happen in America, the way of fighting it should be easier than in China to which I have completely lost confidence in; turns out the way is no difference in harshness and makes you think that you might have chosen life in hard mode upon given birth. The situation here is more than fighting someone who has discrimination against Asian American women; it’s a war to be announced towards institutional force, the authority. Only if we can unite, we can get the system beaten.
A chart that shows how universities admit Asian students with a strict percentage of roughly under 20% of the undergrads despite the rapid growth of Asian American population.
Question:
What can I do as an undergraduate student to help on preserving rights for Asian American women in academia?
References:
1. Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis. (2016) “The Time to Fight is Now”: When Asian American Women in Academia Go Rogue.Retrieved November 26th, 2017
2. “California Dreaming” [Image]. The Economist. www.economist.com/news/briefing/21669595-asian-americans-are-united-states-most-successful-minority-they-are-complaining-ever Retrieved November 26th, 2017
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