Jenny Ma
5/2/2020
Week 6 blog
In An Opening: An International Asian Woman's Scholar's Fight, the author Akiko Takeyama describes how stressful and lonely international women in academia are. Even though working hard, still not being approved for tenure just because she was a person of color and a woman. I also have heard a similar situation before. Some universities are not prepared to deal with minority scholars. Attitude surveys reveal that English as an Additional Language authors often believe that editors and referees are prejudiced against them for any non-standard language. (Ken Hyland, 2016).Where a person is born shouldn't become the reason for devaluing academic success or discounting the validity of his academic outcomes. Beliefs about ethnic injustice (but not academic performance) predicted greater discounting and devaluing, making the international feeling "powerless". The way to climb up the hill of injustice and build social and economic justice is steep and thorny. It is hard to keep on fighting, it is easy to lose faith when overwhelming by the unfaired judge from different areas. However, there is always minority success like Akiko, inspiring the rest to persuade the fairness and equality in academia.
Works Cited
Hyland, Ken. “Academic Publishing and the Myth of Linguistic Injustice.” Journal of Second Language Writing, vol. 31, 2016, pp. 58–69., doi:10.1016/j.jslw.2016.01.005.
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