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from late 2019, the coronavirus pandemic has impacted most of countries on
earth. As the virus is not only new to our current medical system, but with
high infection rate, it can be described as one of most intractable medical crises
in human history. Despite of its capability of healthy damage, it causes a
largely spread chaos in our community. The fear form coronavirus has surrounded
many citizens. As a result, people may behave as an unnecessary way, like
stocking daily supply without considering if they are essential. To control
this kind of chaos, President Trump tried to minimize the fear from coronavirus
by saying: "It's going to disappear eventually”.
Due to the
current situation, my expectation for this course is to understand how a foreign
culture (Asian American) survived when it was not encouraged by the
environment. Similar as 20 to 21 century when Asian Americans were not welcomed
by American society as they were considering as the main competitor for job market,
Asian Americans are again falling into this struggled situation when they are
considering as “the main source of COVID-19”. There is one analogy in “Fight
the Tower”, which describes the academic situation of Asian Americans in early
21 century as: “cracked pipeline”. For
today, the pipeline between Asian American and the society may be leaked again.
Therefore, as one member of this group, I want to find out how our community developed
in American history.
References: Harry Stevens and Shelly Tan, “From ‘It’s
going to disappear’
to ‘WE WILL
WIN THIS WAR’”, The Washington Post, March 31, 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/trump-coronavirus-statements/
Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde, “Fight the Tower: A Call to
Action for Women of Color in Academia”, April 4, 2020. https://canvas.ucdavis.edu/courses/445220/files/folder/Weekly%20Readings/Week1?preview=8316940
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