Tanvi Chopra ASA2 A01 Week 3

Tanvi Chopra
ASA2 - A01
Week 3

This week's reading was "The Time to Fight is Now": Asian American Women, Academia's Socially Engineered "Privileged Oppressed," Go Rogue from Fight The Tower. It made me realize how faulty and corrupt the academic system is. Academia is mostly judged on race and gender and other discriminatory factors and rarely on true merit. I am impressed that the faculty decided to step up and fight against racial and gender discrimination in academia, as professor Valverde stated that silence will not fix anything. It is shown that not only the faculty, but the Asian American students face such oppression as well. It baffles me that on one hand, they are expected to be better; better at studies, better at math. However, on the other hand, they are looked down upon and ill-treated.



It is often said by white Americans that they want stricter immigration laws and work permits because other races, including Asians, are stealing their jobs. In my opinion, these acts of injustice and discrimination still continue to exist in this modern world because white Americans want to eliminate the competition. However, they fail to realize that competition should only be eliminated based on merit. They should treat this conflict as incentive to work harder in their own fields, not as a way to place blame and sort to such acts. For Asian American women, they have to fight the race battle and then also fight the gender battle. Even in this modern world, women are not respected or paid the same as their male colleagues. The system has created such a hostile study environment and work environment for women, especially women of color. In the past few decades, we have evolved as human beings, we have accepted love marriages, we have accepted gay marriages, we have accepted that each human deserves to live their own life however they deem fit. My question is; America being a first world country, how long will it take us to truly accept diversity in race and gender and diminish its impact on studies and employment? 
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Ott, J. (2019, October 26). Gender equality in the workplace starts with company culture [Infographic]. Retrieved from https://www.impactbnd.com/blog/gender-equality-in-workplace-starts-with-company-culture-infographic

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.