Week 2_Nghi Phan_A03

This week's lecture and the Asian American and Affirmative Action: From Yellow Peril to Model Minority and Back Again makes me wonder if we ever going to make a progress in treating others the same and don't have to worry about race. Through this reading, I feel like history is repeated again. According to Nancy Chung Allred, Asians are considered as "model minority"; therefore, they are required to demonstrate their skills at a higher score for them to get accepted. Not all of us were born gifted, in fact, every race has varieties of different people. Furthermore, while there are movements for equal rights for African American throughout history; however, I rarely know some of the Asian movements. It seems to me that back then, they considered Asians should live by that standard because they are born smart. Are they afraid of us? Why? We should be fighting instead of them pushing us to the boundary. By reading this book, I realized that Caucasians don't have to worry about their skin color every time they go outside. Unlike them, African American often go outside in fear being a target for the people in power. Similarly, like Thursday's lecture of the case of Mrs. Susie Guillory Phipps where she had 3/32th black and therefore she is legally black. While the case of Mary Christine Walker asked to be black and they granted her wish. This seems to me that asking to white is harder than asking to be rest of races. For me, the word race is just a category that we created to divide us because, in the end, we will all die and bury to the ground like everybody else. As an Asian American, I feel like we should fight for everyone because we should know better that one for all and all for one is better than getting it to ourselves.

Question: Why can't we learn our mistakes and try to improve our actions to make the world a better place?

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