After reading the part, "Who Killed Soek-Fang Sim?", I was so shocked from the beginning of the book as the author described that "already assuming you're just another Dumb teacher, dumb scholar, dumb woman just because we share a yellow face." Such bias on race against Asian American women in academia really hurts my feeling. Although people typically have higher expectations on Asian Americans in almost every field of life, the stereotypes always accompany with negative effects and put Asian Americans into unfair treat. Why Asian Americans are just "not good enough" because they are just as good enough as other people of race? This bias already turned the "positive stereotype" into discrimination and caused Asian Americans not being respected in the academia because they are "simply not good enough". There should be an official standard to judge the level of academics that is just based on pure academics, not any other objective factors like gender or race. The hardworking that Asian American scholars have done in the academia should be equally weighted like any other scholars.
Here is a video about the positive stereotypes actually harmed lots of Asian American scholars that they need to overwork for a great extra amount in order to make themself away from the tag "simply not good enough". A B+ is good enough but simply not good enough for Asian Americans since they treat B+ as a F. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1Ke6JIZyX4
Question: How good Asian Americans need to be in order to become "good enough" in other people's eyes?
source:
W.P. "Who Killed Soek-Fang Sim?",
Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, 20(2) in 2014, pp. 308–310.
Olivia Lai. “Asian Doesn’t Start with A+” Youtube, uploaded by TEDx Talks, 1 Mar. 2017
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