Songmin Li ASA002 A04 Week 6

According the reading part, "Opening the Box: An International Asian Woman Scholar's Fight" written by Akiko Takeyama, I am saddened by the difficulty and injustice of the academic environment for women of color.  The reading is mainly about her experience to fight for her own tenure as a Asian women scholar. In the stories she portrays, the pressure, uncertainty and unfairness comes from all sides, which makes me, as a reader, feel that negative emotions as well. There are countable barriers to the professor or faculty to face and go through.
Specifically, even if her efforts and excellence had reached a certain level, some bad things would still happen to her, instead of to the professor who is a male and white. Plus, the university itself,  because of her race, her gender, is more "strict" with her standards; in other words, rejects some of her applications. This kind of "strict" is actually unreasonable and a kind of discrimination. She tried hard enough to improve her English proficiency and integrate herself into the general environment, but she still got rejection and unfairness by the academic environment as an international, or Asian women. Nowadays, racial discrimination in career exists in many fields no matter what gender you are.

Based on the chart made by Lean,  we can see that there are obstacles for international people, and in the repots, Brain Wang, who is a CEO of Fitocracy, says that so many people are lack of empathy and so that they can not see the problems which still exist. 

Discrimination requires strength and courage to change, and it needs time. I hope more and more people will realize that many stereotypes are discriminatory and many ideas are unwarranted prejudices because many of them think they are harmless when he or she spreads words with stereotypes.

References:

Lean A. (2016). Asian American Feel Held back at Work by Stereotypes. The Atlantic. Retrieved from: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/asian-americans-feel-held-back-at-work-by-stereotypes/458874/

Valverde, K.-L. C. (2013). Fight the Tower: A Call to Action for Women of Color in Academia. Seattle Journal for Social Justice, Vol.12: Iss.2. Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu