Tian Tian, A03, Week 3 Blog
The reading of this week mainly talks about social engineering and the resulting system of oppression. Before reading this passage, I think a university is a place for students to gain knowledge. It provides people a chance of elevating class and bettering the environment of the whole family. I can only see the positive image which is published in the propaganda but ignoring the dark side of imitating people, which is describing in the book. Education is controlled by a few people with money and authority. They control society by shaping the education of its members.
In the book, it mentions a concept of social engineering, which refers to the mental, physical, and psychological manipulation of populations involving centralized planning and modification of the environment. The final goal of social engineering is to control the people and make them fulfill specific functions. People are limited and forced to operate functions, which are designed by the authority. For example, the social engineering of Asian American women is an ideal representation of diversity. They need to keep silent. When one of them wants to change this formulary, she will be pegged back. However, we need to realize all this social engineering are social constructions. They are not naturalized.
The typical example of social construction is the concept of race. Today, most people regard race as a natural thing and forget that the idea of race is created by people at first to emphasize the racial superiority of White. We should be vigilant toward those social constructions.
Question: what could we do to prevent people from naturalizing and internalizing those social constructions?
Citation:
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.
(n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.statnews.com/2016/02/04/should-geneticists-move-beyond-race/
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