Week 7

  After watching this documentary, there are two main feelings. One is how to view others, and the other is how to view ourselves.


  How to treat others depends mainly on whether you can overcome discrimination. In our lives, discrimination is no longer limited to race. Gender, age, color, and nationality. Some things cannot be changed, but people become victims or perpetrators for no reason.


  How to identify with ourselves. How to deal with with ourselves in an incompatible environment, and how to deal with ourselves in a familiar environment. This is like the problems faced by the Issei and Nisei. the experience of Asian immigrants also gives the answer: struggle. Whether it is a struggle to enhance personal abilities or a struggle for fairness and justice. To make progress, we must struggle. Achievements obtained through hard work are the foundation of one's life and self-confidence in self-identity.


  This documentary also makes people reflect. As a Chinese and Asian, how do we view Asian immigrants? Do we look at Asian immigrants with discrimination? International students may be called "thousand-mile poisoning" by some bad people when they return home because of virus spreading. Those Chinese Asians who are not citizens of their own country, to what extent can we accept them?


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  1. Luisa Sanchez2021年2月21日 16:35

    I liked how you mentioned that we should take time to look at ourselves and other people to try to understand the situations we go through. I agree that in order to grow in life, we must struggle. I think that people should look at past events like the ones shown in the documentary to avoid repeating the same mistakes in the future.

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  2. Trent Smock2021年2月21日 19:44

    I think your comments are very interesting, what you mention in your blog is one of the main things I hear about whenever I'm hearing people discuss the experience of Asian Americans. It always ends up coming back to Asian Americans being in a dilemma of not belonging and I think that the documentary focuses in on that a lot and makes you think about those concepts.

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  3. Amy2021年3月22日 00:36

    It is interesting that you and the documentary both share the perspective that struggle is the way forward against the dilemma of racism and exclusion. Many people have chosen to excel as a response to the multiple issues that face the Asian American community and i think that this can be a great strategy. However, I also think that the Buddy Uno story reveals some of the contradictions of assimilation that cannot be resolved through success alone.

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