Yuan Zuo A04 Week3

This week, I read the article“The Time to Fight Is Now”: Asian American Women, Academia’s Socially Engineered “Privileged Oppressed,” Go Rogue.  The author defines"social engineering"  as the intellectual, physical, and psychological manipulation of populations involving centralized planning and modification of the environment in order to shape and control behaviors and ideas that do not exist inherently or naturally within individuals or cultures. "I recall during the lecture, professor brought out a term " model minority myth." Some people think Asian Americans are supposed to be good at academic performance or work performance because of their identity of Asian appearance. I wonder if this kind of thought is part of social engineering that makes people think Asian Americans are model minority myth. When Asian Americans work hard and achieve their American dreams, their health problems are ignored. In the article,  it shows that 74.4 percent of several hundred Asian American women scholars surveyed disclosed having health problems that they associated with the stresses they faced within the academy. Because people think they are supposed to be successful, so they do not care about their problems and their voices. I wish the situation of Asian Americans, especially Asian American women in relation to academic hierarchies of power will change as soon as possible.

                             

Reference:
Valverde, K.L.C. Fight the Tower: Introduction. “The Time to Fight Is Now”: Asian American Women, Academia’s Socially Engineered “Privileged Oppressed,” Rutgers University Press.