Week 9 - Jo Kawabata

In this week's "Why Ferguson Matters to Asian Americans" by Soya Jung, the author discusses the Mike Brown and Ferguson case in which an 18 year old African American individual was shot and killed by a white police office in Missouri. Jung then goes on to discuss the Asian "model minority" stereotype including some anti-black culture nestled within the Asian community. However, she then talks about how it is imperative for minority communities to be able to work together as we often struggle through the same discrimination.

Though I talked about this topic briefly last week, in the Japanese American community, it has been a hot topic lately to help Syrian refugees.While with the recent executive orders President Trump has placed, supporting the refugees has become increasingly difficult, the community has still been continuing trying to help the Syrians; the Japanese American community believes that their history is not far off from the Syrian history and that they face the same discrimination JAs have once experienced in history. Hopefully, this extends onto other communities and each minority group begins supporting each other through discrimination.



This is a picture of the Japanese internment camps in the US. The Japanese have faced one of the most severe cases of discrimination in history and while technology and war methods have changed, the US still seems to be discriminating against the Syrians and people of the middle east in general as they often face xenophobic remarks. Hopefully, Trump does not take the extreme measure like history has done with the Japanese.

Question:
What can other minority groups do to help the Asian American community?

References:
Jung, S. (2014). Why Ferguson matters to Asian Americans. Race Files.

Lithwick, D., & Henneman, L. R. (2015, November 19). Refugee-Fearing Mayor Cites One of the Most Cowardly Episodes in American History. Retrieved May 28, 2017, from http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/11/roanoke_mayor_on_refugees_and_japanese_internment_camps.html