After reading "Opening the box: An International Asian Woman Scholar’s Fight," I feel the same as the author Akiko Takeyama said in the chapter. International faculties are "prevented from taking some funding or positions that are reserved for U.S. citizens, struggling with language and acculturation issues, often facing racial and accent discrimination." Not only faculties but also students are all facing a similar situation. I came to the United States around 2 years ago. Even though I had taken an English proficiency test before I came here and got a fairly good grade, I still cannot understand the people's talking and had a hard time speaking. Almost every class I took during the fall quarter of first year was difficult for me. I still remember my feeling when I went to the classroom for my sociology class. Every time I went there, it was a nightmare for me. Besides the language problem, the workload and the content of the class drove me crazy. Fortunately, there are many international students, especially Chinese students. As we can see in the picture, in UC Davis, there were around 6363 international students. And the overall number of students in UC Davis is 37380. Their presence made me have a smooth transition during the first several months of freshman year, so as the sociology class.
Question:
Do people's attitudes towards Asian Americans change suddenly or gradually? Do they change their attitude because of one huge event or many little things?
Reference：
Valverde, K. C., & Dariotis, W. M. (2020). Fight the tower: Asian American women scholars' resistance and renewal in the academy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
University of California - Davis International. (2020, April 30). Retrieved May 03, 2020, from https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-california-davis/student-life/international/
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