A01
Week 3
Kaozong Mouavangsou’s “Hmong Does Not Mean Free: Miseducation of Hmong Americans” describes how America's education is flawed through the omitting of certain histories. She focuses on how little information is out there about the Hmong people and their culture in American history books, where it is said the Hmong have no written language nor individual culture. She later finds out that isn't true and is angered by the fact that what she always believed about her own people was actually deficit thinking. To add on to the fact that America tends to "omit" certain histories or unfavorable news, I didn't learn that America had Japanese internment camps until high school. As a half Japanese American, I was shocked by the fact that the US did something so eerily similar to what the Nazi party did to the Jewish people. It truly puts into perspective the fact that the news we are given by the mass media needs to be taken with a huge grain of salt, as the information we are given is being portrayed in a certain way, or may be taken out of a certain context. I would like to believe that I am well-learned today's events, but then I realize I probably have little knowledge of what actually happened before and after an event.
How true is the saying "the victor is king and the loser is the thief"? How many times has the US declared itself as morally right, but in actuality is the one who is in the wrong?
References:
1. “Japanese American Internment Camps - WWII.” USHistory-B-Block - Japanese American Internment Camps - WWII, ushistory-b-block.wikispaces.com/Japanese American Internment Camps - WWII.
2. Mouavangsou, K. N. (2016). Hmong does not Mean Free: the Miseducation of Hmong Americans. Retrieved October 07, 2017.
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