Lisa Meng, Sec: A01, Week 2

For this week’s reading, I read about “taking action: Asian American Faculty against Injustices in the Academy”. The passage touches my feeling, because personally, I am an Asian American. I was born in San Francisco, but my families are all from China. I had an experience of everything that was being discussed in the passage.

Asian Americans are definitely stereotyped as hard workers, high achievers, and economically successful – a model minority group. When people consider Asian Americans to be “successful”, Asian Americans would be more pressured, and people would expect them to do more work than others.  I remembered when I was in middle school, my classmates would expect me to be able to do all of the math problems. I was feeling awkward before, because at a young age, I do not know how to respond to others, and I would feel shamed when I can’t solve a problem. But as I grow up, I understand that everyone is different. I shouldn’t feel bad when I can’t do one problem. Maybe I am not good at math, but I can do other stuff better.

Also, Asian Americans’ situation is hard in the states, because they are not belonging to Whites, or Blacks. They are on their own. It is really sad to see how Asian Americans are working hard for our country, they are paying taxes for public schools, but their kids did not get the rights they deserved.

Question:

Relationship between China and USA was getting better. But currently, because of coronavirus, I feel like their relationship is getting worse than before. Will one day USA prohibit Chinese to immigrant to the states again?

Hune , Shirley. “Taking Action: Asian American Faculty against Injustices in the Academy.” Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance and Renewal in the Academy, by Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis, Rutgers University Press, 2020, pp. 1–21.

Tino, Tugwete. “Pushing Past the Asian-American Stereotype.” Edited by Miranda Li, The Talon, 18 Nov. 2015, lahstalon.org/pushing-past-the-asian-american-stereotype/.