Katharina Tian ASA002 A01 Week2

Katharina Tian
ASA002 A01 Week2

Caroline Valverde

Various Culture Makes People Different

After reading the assigned article "Taking Action: Asian American Faculty against Injustices in the Academy” for week 2, I get to know more about Asian Americans. As professor Caroline Valverde said during the class, Asian American is still a very small group in the United State which makes them very vulnerable. Many people do not accept and agree that Asian American people are American. They treated them as foreigners in their hearts and created a stereotype for them. “Asian Americans are stereotyped as hard workers, high achievers, and economically successful (Hune,2020),” wrote by Shirley Hune, the author of this article. Those descriptions look nice literally, but it actually not that great. Some Asian Americans are not smart and rich, but no people pay attention to those people and no one helps them. Hune also says in Fight The Tower that “Asian Americans experience with regularity, but the overall unwelcoming campus culture remains the primary problem. (Hune 2020)” It is true that Asian education is quite different than American like what’s shown in the picture.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-big-differences-between-asian-american-education-systems-rector

Asian students like to listen to what teachers say and discus after the class while American students prefer to discuss during the class and communicate with teachers. There is no right or wrong between those difference just like we do not only have black or white. People should not ignore you because you are being quiet. However, Asian Americans are not giving up on themselves. They helped each other and fight for their rights. My question today is about how people think it is good to discuss within a group since it actually wastes time sometimes. 

Reference 

Hune, Shirley. “Prologue: Taking Action: Asian American Faculty against Injustices in the Academy.” Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance and Renewal in the Academy, Rutgers University Press, 2020, pp. IX-30.

Rector, James. “Differences between Asian and American Education Systems.” 10 Big Differences between Asian and American Education Systems, 21 Jan. 2016, www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-big-differences-between-asian-american-education-systems-rector.