Zhuobin Li
4/19
In this week's reading, "Who Killed Soek-Fang Sim?", the author Wang Ping talks about her experience teaching in her college. She and the protagonist "Who killed Soek-Fang Sim", Soek-Fang, were treated unfairly in their college. Even though they are better teachers than the others in college, they get the lowest paid and people show no respect towards them. Even though they have spent times on teaching as a scholars, other scholars in college are not respecting them because they are Asian Americans. They endure harsh conditions and people are mocking at their color and gender because of unwarranted rumors. As an Asian American, it is common that we have our accent. Soek-Fang was laughed because her accent. I don't think accent can determine ones' performance on teaching and also educated students and colleagues should agree with that. Soek-Fang keeps silent and endure all of these unequal treatments. After she dies, W.P writes "Who Killed Soek-Fang Sim" and stands up speaking for herself. Through their experience, I think Asian Americans still need to work on changing other people's prejudice. It is a long way for Asian American to have the exact same social status as other Americans in United States.
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.
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