Katharina Tian
ASA002 A01 Week9
ASA002 A01 Week9
Caroline Valverde
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Competition is a thing that can cause the opposite results.
Healthy competition can help people to improve, while a toxic competition might
destroy things. In this week’s reading, the author Wei Ming Dariotis proposed
a possible solution the solve the problem that every Asian American scholar is
facing in “Academic Symbiosis: A Manifesto on Tenure and Promotion in
Asian American Studies”. This solution is a method called academic symbiosis,
which “means seeing ourselves as part of a collective learning and teaching
community rather than as individual academics competing against one another for
limited resources and rare recognition”
The author believes that the environment
of academia will become friendly and neighborly if we under academia
symbiosis. In that situation, people will be willing to help each other instead
of fighting for limited resources. This also makes me remind what I read in
last reading which is “Resistance
Is Not Futile: From #adjuncthustle to Hell Yeah!”. The author O’Brien
talked about the Facebook group she created for helping other colored women in
academics in her article. This is a great example of academic symbiosis by
seeing how people help each other. My question today is that can this hypothesis
really happen because most people are self-fish and can’t refuse the big
benefits.
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Reference
Valverde, K.-L. C., &Wei Ming D. (2020). Fight the tower: Asian American women scholars resistance and renewal in the academy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
[Collaboration and Cooperation: Working with Others Toward Mutual Goals]. (n.d.). Retrieved May 24, 2020, from https://www.leadonuniversity.com/collaboration-and-cooperation-working-with-others-toward-mutual-goals/
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