Week 5_Van Nguyen_A04

Van Nguyen 912781899

ASA 2 – A04

Week 5 Reading Response

While I’m writing the response, it reminds me of an article I once read about Mark Wahlberg assaulting two Asian American men, was sentenced for 2 years but was paroled after 4x days. Mark Wahlberg, before famous, assaulted Vietnamese-American with a large wooden stick, struck him by the head until he was unconscious while calling him a “Vietnam fucking shit.” On that very same day, Mark Wahlberg also attacked another Vietnamese-American punching him in the eyes without provocation. He believed that his assault has left that man permanently blind in one of his eyes.

               Going back to what the readings have, as I kept reading “Empire of Death” by Hamamoto, it popped up to me that there is a hierarchy between races in terms of discriminating and racist actions. While people know of the “White Supremacist”, people don’t know that Asian American are not only discriminated and the victims of racism by white Americans, but also the other races they claimed themselves to be minorities as well; the Hispanics and the Blacks. Even if their victims are not yellow, they surge out their disgrace for the yellow people and stated their actions were influenced by the Vietnam war or the My Lai massacre, searching for sympathy. The Asian Americans and their model minority myth, their constant threat by other races, and their uneasiness of “survivor of the fittest” way in the US. United States, a country boasts about its diversity, needs to acknowledge that the deeply ingrained racism and discrimination culture and lack of qualified social education on children – the future of the nation – is the main reason lead to the absolute disgust of human vs. human, with cannibal and head hunters that would not happened at all in the groups of some most devilish animals in the world. People are losing “humanity”. What’s the point for having the word humanity if – us, human – don’t have any anymore four our own people.  Even though the stories mentioned are the extremes, but we must realize and be conscious about all these events that happened, love others as you love yourself please. Can’t we just like the Olympic 1988 in South Korea, hand-in-hand moving forward, friendly competition for better good.

Hamamoto, D. Y. (2003). Empire of Death and the Plague of Civic Violence. In Masters of War(pp. 277-292). New York, New York: Routledge.

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