Personally, I agree with many of her progressive ideas; however, a few of her aspirations are much too radical and short-sided to be realistic or beneficial. Yes, I would also like there to be greater Asian American representation in the cabinet or in the fashion industry/media, but why would she ever want to imagine the economy of the United States to "plunge... into the greatest of all financial crises" (Boggs 2) when she herself identifies as an Asian American? Yes, we should allow other countries to reach autonomy and negate the US from monopolizing the global market, but destroying the US economy has greater consequences that would negatively impact all nations and lead to an even greater GLOBAL crisis. I do empathize with the sentiment that we as Americans are privileged and, as a result, the people of other nations must suffer, but her argument isn't thorough enough to WORK and is most definitely not the answer to elevating Asian Americans to a higher power. What we should do is find alternative means of alleviating the economic climates of other nations by doing what we can to help rather than completely uprooting ourselves and maintaining false hope that positive change will occur, when in reality, a global crisis would most likely ensue.
If the fall of the European Union could potentially lead to a global economic crisis, can you imagine what could happen to the world if the US had the same thing happen to them?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VxJQAb5CIo
A question I want to pose to the class is: What do yall think about modern Asian Americans today? Are we as progressive as Boggs hopes for us to be? Or are we more complacent with our current standing on the social ladder? Do you agree or disagree with her platforms of uprooting the US and "living simply so that others may simply live?" (Boggs 4)
James Kim
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