This week’s article, “The Time to Fight is Now”, made us focus on the problem of the injustice of being oppressed under power, and one of the examples is Asian American women in the education system.
Just like the idea that the author said in the article that in order to create hierarchical differences, people in power “privileging one group and taking away power from others to form new hierarchies of power.” This simple type of power control reveals severe social problems. Asian American women are considered as “model minorities”, which means they are expected to be quiet in their work and also have fewer opportunities for promotion and salary rises than the others. The power holders oppress Asian American women and don't let them have their own voice, especially when they question or critique the system. How can society progress when it cannot hear everyone’s voice and there still exist hierarchical differences? For Asian American women facing such “privilege”, they also suffer a lot both physically and mentally. It is time for Asian American women to awaken and fight for their rights.
My question is what can we do to let more voices be heard and help safeguard the oppressed rights?
References:
McGirt, E. (2018, June 4). The Asian Glass Ceiling. Retrieved from https://fortune.com/2018/06/04/asian-americans-model-minority-asian-glass-ceiling/
Valverde, K.L.C. (2019). Fight the Tower: Introduction. “The Time to Fight Is Now”: Asian American Women, Academia’s Socially Engineered “Privileged Oppressed,” Rutgers University Press.
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