Amy Hoang
Week 1 Blog
The article “Asian
Pacific American's Social Movements and Interest Groups” was
interesting to me because it discussed pan-ethnicity, or the grouping
together of related ethnic groups. Asian Americans, though immensely
diverse, with cultural, historical, and geographical differences,
joined together to pursue their shared interests, thus creating
pan-ethnic movements. One particular movement I found interesting was
the “Taxi Task Force” of immigrant drivers who started the
largest cab strike in New York history on May 13, 1998 to protest the
lack of police protection of these cab drivers (a Sikh-American
driver had been murdered). The fact that so many different groups of
immigrants recognized a problem and sought to overcome it together
amazes me and gives me hope—if there is something wrong in this
world, we can overcome it by joining forces.
Below is an image of
Bhairavi Desai, the founder of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance,
the union representing 15,000 taxi drivers in New York City.
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