Katharina Tian ASA002 A01 Week6

Katharina Tian
ASA002 A01 Week6

Caroline Valverde

Should International Teachers Back to Their Own Country? 

As an international student, I feel a lot of common sense when I read this week’s reading, “Opening the Box: An International Asian Woman Scholar’s Fight” by Akiko Takeyama. Professor Takeyama talked a lot about her own experiences not only about herself but also about other international teachers she saw. She said, “International faculty are an invisible underclass among U.S. academics.” Because she believes them “often paid less, prevent from taking some funding or position that are reserved for U.S citizens, harder to hire because of additional governmental paperwork, struggling with language and acculturation issue, often facing racial and accent discrimination, and living under the threat of loss of residency if they fail to make tenure or otherwise loss their academic position.” Those are all the problems that international teachers are facing. Some of those things also happened to international students. Our tuition is way much higher than American students. When we try to apply for the university, we need a higher score even the school does claim that directly. And we cannot do a part-time job if it’s off-campus. 
However, professor Takeyama didn’t give up even though she is facing those terrible things. She tried to write a book with her second language. She tried to be a fair and good teacher to teach her students what is right and what they should not do. She appreciated and remember the people who helped her.  

https://cuecc.com/chinaeducation/newsopinion/20127119152010381.htm

My question today is like what shows in my picture. Why international in China is so popular and can earn more money than other teachers, but the thing is happening opposite in America?

Reference 

In China, English Teaching is a Whites-only Club.,Really? (n.d.). Retrieved from https://cuecc.com/chinaeducation/newsopinion/20127119152010381.htm
Valverde, K.-L. C., & Takeyama, A. (2020). Fight the tower: Asian American women scholars resistance and renewal in the academy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.