Week 4 Blog
In week 4, I read "That's No Moon" and "Who Killed Soek-Fang Sim".
"Fear is no longer an option
Silence is on longer an option
Rise with us, Soek-Fang
Out of this alabaster tower"
From this poem, the author told us that we should not fear anymore. We should stand for ourselves. There will be no more silence. We will start to fight with the injustice. Asian American have to stand for themselves and fight for themselves.
According to "Why we must talk about the Asian-American story, too", Brando Simeo Starkey wrote "Many consider the Asian-American story as bearing relatively few withering marks of traumatic racial struggle, partially explaining why their grievances attract scant attention. But that’s false." The history of Asian American should be known. They also have histories. However, people barely know the history of Asian American because they are minorities. So, they are being ignored.
I learned some history of Asian American from "Why we must talk about the Asian-American story, too". Starkey said, "Chinese workers, in 1849-50, began to immigrate to the U.S. mainland, fleeing wars and economic turmoil. They generally planned to labor for three to five years and return to China, seeking to earn money while taking advantage of the California gold rush, the alluring tales of riches having enchanted them into taking a long voyage to a foreign continent."
I learned that from the beginning white Californians welcome these Asian American as new imigremant. However, the welcome changed into racial resentment because lower class whites saw them as labor competitors. They even denied the testimony of a Chinese man. The reason that they gave is "the Chinese were a race of people whom nature has marked as inferior, and who are incapable of progress or intellectual development beyond a certain point. …”
Starkey also gave an example that "Cary Chow, a Chinese-American ESPN anchor, recently wrote about a bigoted television segment hosted by Jesse Watters of Fox News.Watters went to New York City’s Chinatown to conduct man-on-the-street-style interviews and trafficked in anti-Chinese stereotypes. He approached one Asian vendor and said, “I like these watches. Are they hot?” Chow contended that Watters felt comfortable in mocking his ethnic group because Watters likely believed Asians “would not fight back, because historically, Asians have not.”"
In week 4, I read "That's No Moon" and "Who Killed Soek-Fang Sim".
"Fear is no longer an option
Silence is on longer an option
Rise with us, Soek-Fang
Out of this alabaster tower"
From this poem, the author told us that we should not fear anymore. We should stand for ourselves. There will be no more silence. We will start to fight with the injustice. Asian American have to stand for themselves and fight for themselves.
According to "Why we must talk about the Asian-American story, too", Brando Simeo Starkey wrote "Many consider the Asian-American story as bearing relatively few withering marks of traumatic racial struggle, partially explaining why their grievances attract scant attention. But that’s false." The history of Asian American should be known. They also have histories. However, people barely know the history of Asian American because they are minorities. So, they are being ignored.
I learned some history of Asian American from "Why we must talk about the Asian-American story, too". Starkey said, "Chinese workers, in 1849-50, began to immigrate to the U.S. mainland, fleeing wars and economic turmoil. They generally planned to labor for three to five years and return to China, seeking to earn money while taking advantage of the California gold rush, the alluring tales of riches having enchanted them into taking a long voyage to a foreign continent."
I learned that from the beginning white Californians welcome these Asian American as new imigremant. However, the welcome changed into racial resentment because lower class whites saw them as labor competitors. They even denied the testimony of a Chinese man. The reason that they gave is "the Chinese were a race of people whom nature has marked as inferior, and who are incapable of progress or intellectual development beyond a certain point. …”
Starkey also gave an example that "Cary Chow, a Chinese-American ESPN anchor, recently wrote about a bigoted television segment hosted by Jesse Watters of Fox News.Watters went to New York City’s Chinatown to conduct man-on-the-street-style interviews and trafficked in anti-Chinese stereotypes. He approached one Asian vendor and said, “I like these watches. Are they hot?” Chow contended that Watters felt comfortable in mocking his ethnic group because Watters likely believed Asians “would not fight back, because historically, Asians have not.”"
People have a stereotype that Asians will not fight back. But, that is not the truth. They sued the city when San Francisco passed the law to prevent Chinese immigrants from operating commercial laundries. Actually, there are so many historical events proves that Asian American will fight back as they are being oppressed. There will be no fear and silence. Asian American will fight with injustice!
Question:
Is the revolt related with the number of people in this population? If it is a big group of population, the government cannot ignore them because they need their support. However, if it is the minority, it is hard to get attention.
Reference: Brando Simeo Starkey(2016 November 3)."Why we must talk about the Asian-American story, too", from
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