In this week’s reading, the poem The Cost of Reading gave me a more emotional struck as I realized she is right about losing all the hard work of devotion in life. This conclusion came from all the frustration in the endless loop: “shushed, shunned, shamed, then shoved into the court where money equals power equals truth” (W.P, 2020). As we also talked about in this week’s lecture, even though it was one’s choice to speak up, the hard truth has shown that the system is never perfect and there are always outliers to the socially engineered world. No matter if one grew up as a quiet person like the author in this week’s reading, there are too many things in this world that we need to fight back with not only “voice”, but also “awareness”, and “influence”.
In the picture below, there are issues because of the abnormal population that white, black, Hispanic, etc. The power of the population in numbers plays an important role in Asian (American)’s voice. The marginal error is effected greatly because of the different population in size, which eventually affects the polling results too. “Asians are oversampled – which means they are polled at a disproportionately higher rate than normal” (Gao George, 2016). A different opinion regarding increasing the voice of Asian Americans is that we should pay more attention to properly collected data when drawing any conclusions too.
Gao G. The Challenge of polling Asian Americans.https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/05/11/the-challenges-of-polling-asian-americans/
Valverde, K.-L. C., & Dariotis, W. M. (2019). Fight the tower: Asian American women scholars
resistance and renewal in the academy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
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