As
an international student who was raised up in China, I don’t really understand
why those people willing to sacrifice their body and time even their life to fight
for ethnic study. To be honest,
I was grown up in a province that everyone is yellow people and everyone has
similar sense of national identity, so I never notice what ethnic study mean to
me. However, after studying abroad, I slowly found out how
ethic mean to us. I gradually noticed that there are different races present in
this world, and everyone has different histories and different believes. In
this country that white people’s history is the mainstream of the society, it
is very important for those colored people to study for their own history and
ethic.
Started in UC Berkeley,
student lined up on the street and try to fight for their own ethic believes.
Their behavior really touches me and makes me realized how ethic is an important
issue to us as a student. Just as what the official Radio Station of the
University of Illinois said (2016):” Any educated citizen should have a complete understanding of
our history, the good and the bad. Learning history from a Native American or
Asian American perspective is not “un-American” or “divisive”, it is honest.
Hopefully, we as a nation will reach a point when ethnic studies are given the
importance that it deserves at all levels of the educational system.”
reference:
official Radio Station of the University of Illinois. (2016). why ethic study matters.
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