Xinyu Lyu, A02, Week 3

In the book, The Time to Fight Is Now”: Asian American Women, Academia’s Socially Engineered “Privileged Oppressed, the author mentioned the model minority myth. This myth emphasized historical events about the success of Asian Americans. From the “Asian whiz kid” to the high academic achievement of Asian American students, Asian Americans are usually considered as hardworking and smart. This kind of stereotype not only brings some mental stress to Asian Americans but also makes them suffer some unreasonable judgments. Some universities worried that they got too many Asian students so that they can’t provide education to their white students. Some media advocate that Asian students are occupying Western universities. They provide the data of how many Asian students are studying in the American university and said that how many American students can’t get into university. One of my friends who is a Chinese girl applied for an American high school a couple of years ago. She is pretty good and got the offer from that school but an American girl who applied at the same time with her and got much fewer achievements than her also be admitted. There are a lot of similar cases. That is not a secret that universities have their own standard portion of Asia students. Is that fair? When people find someone is better than themselves, shouldn’t they work harder and hard to catch them rather than portraying them as a threat and then become an unequal treatment, even discrimination?

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This book emphasized the oppression toward the scholar, the professors. And I, as a student’s”, can feel the unequal treatment toward students. Sometimes we can’t distinguish what is the rule and what is discrimination. That needs us to think and analyze, and I think this is one of the meanings of this course.  Therefore, my question is:

Because a lot of times we get used to inequality so that we don't see it, are there any tips on how to spot unequal treatment?

Reference

Valverde, K. C. & Dariotis W. M. (2013). Introduction. “The Time to Fight Is
Now”: Asian American Women, Academia’s Socially Engineered “Privileged Oppressed,” Go Rogue. Rutgers University Press.