Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL2ATcyj1rY&t=4s
Description:
• Group members: ASA02 Section 2 -- Anna Yang, Rachel Wong and Vy Nguyen
• Objective:
The significant increase in Asian international students (AIS) obtaining higher education in the United States require a deeper analysis of migration flow. Education is now a commodity sought by international students striving for what they perceive as a better education. Their pursuit of a Western education is a product of what A. A. Phillips coined as “culture cringe." Cultural cringe is an internalized inferiority complex, which causes people to view their own culture as inferior to the cultures of other countries. This creates a tendency to discount a lot of one's own culture, and embrace another country's ‘better' culture instead. In the case of Asian international students, although they take pride in their own culture, they still associate Western culture and education as better. Thus, they are willing to pay any price tag if it means they achieve academic and career successes. Our video specifically focuses on the experience of AIS at UC Davis. We hope to capture how the cultural cringe mindset have blindsighted AIS into recognizing that they have been used as “cash cows" by the university.
• Target Audience:
Our target audience is people who actively think about pursuing higher education because we want them to develop an educational game-plan as soon as possible. Setting goals and knowing where they want to be in X amount of years will allow them to better equip themselves with soft and hard skills that will help them achieve their goals, and prevent them from overpaying for an experience that may not grant them their intended result.
• Update: Work in progress
We have noticed that there is a volume issue as some interviews/clips are louder than others. We have also included placeholders to indicate what we are still missing. For instance, more transition scenes of campus and international students, an interview with Professor Valverde, and a conclusion. As of current, our object may be hard to comprehend but once we add our conclusion, we hope everything will be clearer.
Iris Wu
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2B Pre-screening Feedback
One thing that I really like about your video is the organization. Your interview questions are all following up and leading the audience towards the theory you are talking about. The introduction is easy to understand and delivers your objectives really clearly. Your voice over also connects the interviews and your research really well.
Some weaknesses include the volume of the interviews, which I believe you have already noticed, and the “so what” question that needs to be answered in your conclusion. The volume problem makes some of the interview clips unclear and hard to understand. However, a piece of advice for making your interviewees’ answers clearer is by emphasizing them in words on the video, just like what you did for the “5% of US population” in the introduction. For example, one of the interviewee mentioned that the technology here in the U.S. is more advanced. Having them in written out in words shows the significance.
As for the theories, I feel like I learned a lot more from the description you provided on the blog than from the video. Therefore, I believe definitions of the two terms, “culture cringe” and “cash cows”, you are talking about need to be provided besides professor Valverde’s opinions and explanations. Also, it would be better if you explain how the two theories relate to each other in your research.