Yidan Xu ASA 002 A04 Week 6

 In An Opening: An International Asian Woman's Scholar's Fight, the author talked about how difficult she prepared for her class but even though she worked so hard to make sure that her students can understand her better because she is non-native-speaker, her students brought up multiple misconduct cases and challenges. And she found out that for most of the reasons, students treated her like this because of her junior Asian female professor's identity. She reported those cases even her collagens told her not to. I understand that she must be super mad and sad about it. After that, she had a hard time publishing her own book because of all the pressure from lack of confidence, and self-i imposed. However, thankfully that she was lucky enough to get everything done and tell the country and the world what she wants to say.  In Kaozong N. Mouavangsou's article "Hmong Does Not Mean Free: The Miseducation of and by Hmong Americans", the author tried to find a place Hmong in university studies and she wanted people to forget about the stereotype they had for Hmong. She recommended the educational policymakers to implement either an ethnic studies course or a more in-depth classroom curriculum that provides a space for Hmong American students to learn about their history. Because there is misinformation such as labeling Hmong people as "illiterate" when Americans do not understand their form of literacy and education. I took it as totally acceptable because every culture deserved to be known in the right way. Hmong people in the United States should not have accepted dominant U.S. views of their culture and are miseducating about their own people and identity.




https://www.wpr.org/after-40-plus-years-us-language-remains-challenge-hmong-community

Mouavangsou, K. “Hmong Does Not Mean Free: The Miseducation of and by Hmong Americans”. Fight the Tower. Rutgers University Press.