In W.P's article “That’s No Moon!”, I see an interesting idea that the author encourages Asian American to have strong voice for their rights. Combining with Prof. Valverde's idea, Chinese, Japanese, South Korean are characterized as a group. Therefore, it is the Asian American's reprehensibility to speak for people in suffer within their groups. When a single person being discriminated, it is the whole group's human right being hampered. It is never extravagant that keeping silence when facing injustice is the same as a murder. I think in real life the rise of Chinatown is an perfect example of how the Chinese combine together to survive as a group. Looking back the timeline, after the Chinese labor finished the railway, some of them choose to stay in the United States. However, they have no one to support themselves. Some of them, with the capability of traditional Chinese skills such as cooking and Kong-Fu, gathered together and make a living. When the Chinatown grows, it make more relationship with local communities and gain fair amount of social statue. It is therefore undoubted that the power of group is important to survive and strive. If a single people's voice is not strong, then how a about one thousand's?
How did Japanese gain society statues in the United States?
Reference
Valverde, K.-L. C., & Dariotis, W. M. (2020). Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance and Renewal in the Academy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
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