ASA 2 - Section 3
1 November 2015
In Professor Valverde's article "Creating Identities, Defining Culture, and Making History from an Art Exhibit: 'Unfinished Story: A Tribute to My Mothers'", I was very impressed with the creativity stemming from artist Chau Huynh's installations and pieces. I thought her goals and ideals behind her quilts were very moving and I especially thought her installation of the pedicure flags was very creative and an interesting but accurate analogy of the many Vietnamese Americans working overseas in nail salons and sending money back to their homeland. Regardless of the government they may have or really did hate, and the environment they had successfully escaped, it says a lot that they still care about family or others left behind and still try to communicate and sponsor or help them out. Thus, I find it outraging that the protesters mentioned in the article did not see the meaning behind Chau Huynh's piece as it had nothing to do with disrespecting Vietnamese Americans and was definitely not a piece of pro-communist art. Especially since her work really brings to light the suffering and working that many Vietnamese Americans have to go through to even start up their lives again from scratch in the United States. Although the protesters might have just been very strong minded, very prideful of their freedom, and very distasteful for anything possibly pro-communist, I think they took it too far for protesting for so long and for something that was not even directly related or directly presenting the ideals that they have feared, and reading that the newspaper had to go so far as to draw a lawsuit shows that the protesters took it too far. Nonetheless, I do understand that the protesters may have just been using this as an opportunity to share and spread the word about their cause and their worries as they got a lot of news coverage. Is it fair to wrongfully protest against someone just to spread the word about your protest? Did these protests actually make any difference in the community?
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