Yicheng Wang, ASA2 A02, Week 2

This week, I step into the long journey of Asian American, who aims at “Fight the Tower” against injustices in academy. In my view as an international student, I originally consider the university, a representative institution for higher education in U.S., are all open-minded from past to now; they devote themselves on gathering intellectual students from everywhere in the world to create masterpieces on campus. The main thing university focus on are knowledge, so that other factors like race pale in comparison. Nonetheless, I began to acknowledge that those Asian American scholars experienced oppressed tenure in the past; they deserve to be memorized as “Faculty Warriors”(Hune, 2020, p.13). As Shirley Hune indicated in “Taking Action: Asian American Faculty against Injustices in the Academy”, “In each case [of discrimination], the institution concluded that the faculty member’s national origin, race, gender, research focus, community interests, demeanor, and other personal attributes and their publications, professional activities, and reputation were inappropriate and inadequate for tenure or promotion and lacked importance”(Hune, 2020, p.6). These cases that full of bias definitely took a toll on those Asian American who insist to fight for their right. Without them, we can’t receive such an opportunity of intercultural communication with exchanging students from other countries, let alone exploring other languages by native instructors in universities which intend to create cultural diversity.

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Even though it’s a difficult and long pathway to “Fight the Tower”, Asian American holds positive attitude and united power to “break the silence”(Hune, 2020, p.13). “We vow to stand strong in unity against the many faces of oppression and will never sit idle while our sisters face beat-downs and deaths in the institution.”(Valverde & Dariotis, 2020, p.x) I was impressed by these words due to the worldwide pandemic right now, thereby posing threat on Asian American. I saw a news that a man, yelling at expletive about China, was shouting at an Asian American (Tavernise & Oppel, 2020). In this circumstances, other Asian American shouldn’t sit idle. Affected by Hune’s fighting will, Asian American should do something in technology or medical care to eliminate this kind of discrimination.

Question: Will those people yelling at expletive about China being punished? Why American media don't speak highly of China's achievement toward COVID-19 as WHO?

Reference:

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.

Tavernise, S., & Oppel, R. A. (2020, March 23). Spit On, Yelled At, Attacked: Chinese-Americans Fear for Their Safety. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/us/chinese-coronavirus-racist-attacks.html