Killing the Soek-Fang Sims
Who Killed Soek-Fang Sim? is a poem about a woman coming to the realisation that she was blindly co-operating with those who were oppressing her, and her awakening towards fighting for the injustice that came upon her and her friend whom she mistreated. It portrays the process of grieving for the death of a friend in academia which could have been prevented. The raw emotions and the awakening in this poem goes to show how the model minority myth is successful in conditioning Asian Americans into thinking that they are the "not good enough" version of their white peers and making them take part in the hierarchy of race. Maybe this is why there is the stereotype of how Asian-Americans are overachievers: because they have to work harder to prove that they are equivalent to their white co-workers, classmates, and friends. It angers me to think that if I were to work in America, the majority of what people will see when they look at me is that I am Asian. It angers me that I will not be judged by how I can merit their company/school as a person, but as an Asian.
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I used to think that being a "model minority" was a lucky thing because it would give me a privilege and would buy into the statistics that we were lucky to have it better. Now I know that it is just another way to oppress People of Colour and strip them of opportunities to live a better life like what their ancestors dreamed of when they came to the "land of dreams". My question is, is there really any field of work or academia that judges others purely on their performance?
Works Cited
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
Goyette, B., & Scheller, A. (2017, December 7). 15 Charts That Show The U.S. Isn't Over Racism. Retrieved from https://www.huffpost.com/entry/civil-rights-act-anniversary-racism-charts_n_5521104
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