Xinyu Lyu, A02, Week 9

This week we read an article called “Academic Symbiosis: A Manifesto on Tenure and Promotion in Asian American Studies”. At the beginning of this article, the author used scenes from Star Wars to show us her emphasis on cooperation and support. She believes that academia should ultimately be mutually supportive and integrated. She used friendship to describe the relationship between people in academia. I really like her point of view. It’s been a whole quarter that we've been talking about the injustice of minorities, exposing the dark side of academia, politics, and so on. We have unwittingly put minorities and whites on opposite sides. Now reflecting on my words, I find that I also unconsciously express a competitive attitude, rather than cooperation. I said that Asian American teachers may have to work harder to have the same status as whites. The comparison here is a competition. Our pursuit of rights should not be about showing that we are better, but about the right to be treated as equals. If we're just trying to show that we're better, we're really trying to reverse the relationship between minorities and whites and become rulers ourselves. But really good education should be equal and mutually supportive, no one should be the ruler, and no race is better. We should judge a man by his ability, not by the color of his skin. Cultural integration, mutual respect, and active competition (learning from others to make ourselves better, not to make others worse) are what we want to pursue.

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My question is: Resources are limited, if we want to get more, others are bound to get less, so when we want to pursue equal treatment, how to avoid the emergence of competitive.