Jacqueline’s Blog

As I read this article, I was thinking about some of the things that the author shared.  One thing I thought was interesting was how her father felt like the Asian Americans would not have been put in internment camps if they had been able to speak up better.  I have thought about that part of history alot.  I think it was a dark time in our country’s history.  I wish the Asian-Americans would have been able to speak up.  But, then again, I wonder, would it have made any difference?  I fast foward to today and the same questioning of loyalty that seems to be occurring at times to Muslim-Americans.  It comes from a sense of mistrust.  But, this mistrust comes from a lack of understanding.  And for most Americans, this doesn’t motivate us to learn more about an unfamiliar culture.  It causes us to jump to more conclusions.  I wish her father would have been correct, but as I look at how our country handles some things today, I wonder…

 However, after reading tis article, I admire this culture as well.  One of the reasons that Asian-Americans have diffiulty speaking up is in an effort to try and solve problems for themselves.  I think this is an admirable quality.  I also wonder if this tenacity also causes the gap in academic achievement between American schools and some schools on the continent of Asia.  Do these students learn at a young age about a drive that they must exhibit which maintains an attitude of persistence?  How can we take a positive character trait like this independence and begin to teach it in our culture?

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