Xiya Shi A03
#week1
At the beginning of
2020, coronavirus has first tortured China and then swept around the whole
world in three months. As the first country that has been tortured by COVID-19,
China has undergone a series of unfair and biased discrimination. Even Chinese
medical teams successfully slowed the fatality rate and cured patients, the
bias toward the Chinese people did not end.
Recently, some Chinese overseas students have experienced such discrimination. Last week, I
heard that some Chinese students were attacked by language discrimination
because they wore masks. Wearing masks is necessary to protect self and others
away from being infected by the coronavirus. Logically, Chinese students should
not be condemned because of their responsible and conscious behavior. Some
Chinese students remove the spring festival decorations from the apartment door
to prevent racial vengeance. In professor Valverde's article Fight the Tower: A
Call to Action for Women of Color in Academia, she also had stated,
"Research has found that people of color are acutely prone to experience
health issues due to racism in a variety of circumstances and in diverse
institutions" (Valverde, 2013).
To solve the discrimination we faced, we must voice for the injustice. I expect to learn
more about professor Valverde's experiences about how to fight for gaining
women's rights and eliminate discrimination toward the Asian American
community. Meanwhile, after previewing this article, I notice that people of
color scholars overly presented in the low-paying range. However, those social
phenomena are as well not be presented through public media. So, how can we get
people’s attention to this severely biased academic flaw under the condition of
being ignorant by both the public and academia?
References
United Way. (2020, March 10). Coronavirus: What We Are Doing. Retrieved from https://www.uwkc.org/news/coronavirus-what-we-are-doing
Valverde, K.-L. C.
(2013). Fight the Tower: A Call to Action for Women of Color in Academia.
Seattle Journal for Social Justice, 12(2). Retrieved from
http://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu
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