Week 2 Bryan_J_Magaline section A02

The topic of education came up to me when I was reading the journal: Asian Americans and Affirmative Action: From Yellow Peril to Model Minority and Back Again. Since intelligence is human’s greatest strength, education signifies power in the society. While education is important, not every person has the equal chance to receive a good education. In America, Asian Americans have been the mascot in the system for a long time. Although, generally Asian Americans outperform other races in the subject, not all Asian Americans receive a good level education because of the discrimination in the system. According to the journal, colleges have anti-discriminatory policy which ironically prevent a certain group of people to be admitted, since these schools must put a quota on each race. Coming from a non-Asian Americans, I feel that the education system of the USA is the same as my country, Indonesia. Perhaps the only difference is that wealthy people in my country will go to the best schools in the country no matter how smart they are, unlike in the USA where students from low-income family backgrounds still have the chance to go to good schools if they are smart. It is the truth that no matter where we live, social disparity will always exist even in the most developed country in the world. The only thing that we can do now is to decrease this disparity to its minimum. Even though racism in the education has been better than ever, USA still has room for improvement if we look at other developed countries.

Question: How can we improve the education system as a student in a university?

Reference:

-        Nancy Chung Allred,Asian Americans and Affirmative Action: From Yellow Peril to Model Minority and Back Again, 14 AsianAm. L.J. 57(2007).

-        http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2017/07/education-inequality-starts-early.html