Week 5 Blog Huiling Chen ASA002 A01

Week 5 Blog    Huiling Chen    ASA002 A01

         The part “the cost of speaking” really makes me feel uncomfortable. It is so heartbreaking that it said no matter what you do you are going to die young. Whether you choose “speaking” or “silence”, you are still going to suffer. Because of discrimination, Asian Americans suffer from defaming, stress, sleep deprivation, and loss of jobs. Why is that? Is that only because of the race or what people called color difference? We know that this is wrong and unfair. So, we should be united to raise the voice. It is better to speak up for what you experience rather than silently suffer from unfair treatment. Even though the result is not guaranteed to win, it still worth trying. When she performed much better than the white male colleague, she still is rejected for promotion while the white male colleague successfully promoted. She raises her voice, but many people ask her not to do so because they all fail before. But if she follows the flow, unfair treatment to Asian Americans will never be noticed by the public and will never be addressed. When people enter academia, they might assume that academia is purely about academics. But it shows that it is not. When they speak up against the unfair treatment, they might question their own decision. But we should also remember, if we speak up, it is for ourselves, and for those who don’t have the courage to speak up and silently suffered.

Question: 

I was thinking is the discrimination purely because you are more likely to keep silent? Or it just because of they want to show their group is more superior and intentionally suppress other groups?

Reference:

“A Time to Keep Silence and A Time to Speak.” A Curious Faith, 17 Oct. 2016, hudrivprescuriousfaith.wordpress.com/2016/10/17/a-time-to-keep-silence-and-a-time-to-speak/.