Yiqun Geng ASA002 A01 Week 8

In this week’s reading, W.P.’s poem “She Shall Not Be Moved” interests me and make me think a lot. In her poem, she uses some meaningful words like “Snow White,” “yellow chaos” and so on to hint at the rules of world. The three words, “unseen,” “unheard,” and “unspoken,” summarize the work situation of Asian American women accurately. She criticizes the world which is full of lies and inequity. From her poem, she uses just few lines to express the unfairness and difficulty that Asian American women face, while each line has enormous powers. In the narrative part, she expressed her depression and anger toward to her experience in the academic field as an Asian American woman. Specifically, she was criticized by the chair and are required to “grow up” although the chair doesn’t know the truth at all.

I was impressed by her experience, because I could not imagine that people would treat others so badly, ignoring truth and voice, based only on skin color and race. Of the absurd world orders, truth seems to be the least valuable. Through her poetry and experience, I understand why so many Asian Americans have mental health problems, because there is no hope in working in an environment that is not respected and fair. Worst of all, your voice is not accepted and will not be accepted, even though you are right. I think it is necessary for Asian American women to protest for their basic rights so that they can run away from the dark life.

Sometimes, people prefer to believe the "truth" they want to hear instead of the real truth. My question is "What should we do if we are misunderstood?"

Reference：

Valverde, K.L.C (2013). Fight The Tower: Asian American Women Scholars Resistance and Renewal in the Academy. Rutgers University Press

CogBlog – A Cognitive Psychology Blog " Unraveling the mechanism behind "a lie repeated a thousand times becomes truth": A cognitive account. (2018). CogBlog – A Cognitive Psychology Blog. Retrieved From: http://web.colby.edu/cogblog/2018/04/25/

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