Jiawei Luo A04 Week 2

Jiawei Luo
ASA 002 A04
Week 2

  In the article named "Taking Action: Asian American Faculty against injustices in the Academy" by Shirley Hune, I am able to see that the Asian American still facing unfair treatment in many ways including racism, sexism, xenophobia and etc. As an Asian student who studies at UC Davis, I feel very angry to see that the Asian American can't get the same educational rights, access, and equal treatment through different levels of education. For example, if you are an Asian American, you need higher scores in exams and more extracurricular activities to get into a higher education institution compared with the local student. Another article named "Where does Affirmative Action Leave Asian-Americans" shows the different treatments between the Asian Americans students and American students. Although the chart showed that Asian American applicants outperformed in many areas including academic and extracurricular. The personal ratings of Asian applicants are still worse than the white applicants. Most Americans still think that the Asian applicants are study machines and they can always get a high score. They believe Asian applicants  lack innovation and creativity. Nevertheless, it's only stereotypes of Asian applicants, we are more stronger than ever before.

As Hune said in the article, "Asian American are stereotyped as hard workers, high achievers, and economically successful-a model minority group that, in this view, no longer encounters the racial discrimination of the past." Because of that, I believe most American think that Asian American are rich and successful. However, they just see the positive side of Asian Americans, they are still a large number of Asian Americans living in the bottom of America's society. Most of them did physical work and got low pay. In this way, I hope that not only the Asian American students can be treated equally and get the dream school that they want, but also all Asian American are able to be considered equally with any race of American in the U.S.

Question: How to use the law to protect the Asian American's rights in different areas?


Citation:
Valverde, K. L. C. (2019, October 11). Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance and Renewal in the Academy. Retrieved April 12, 2020, from https://books.google.com/books/about/Fight_the_Tower.html?id=pPy9DwAAQBAJ
Kang, J. C., & Chen, R. (2019, August 28). Where Does Affirmative Action Leave Asian-Americans? Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/magazine/affirmative-action-asian-american-harvard.html