Author: Minjee Go

According to “A conversation with Asian Americans on Race” many people suffered unfairness because of their skin color. They say that through our community we should recognize the privilege of our skin color, and that we should play a role in fighting against everything between how complacent, complacent, whether the system is between white supremacy and anti-blackness and systems that sustain the two. Also, I don’t know why the word “American” is distinguished as “Asian American,” “Latin American,” or “African American” before the word “American.” obviously it can be distinguished when talking about where their hometown is. However, if you live in the United States, you are all the same American. You’re not American just because you have different skin colors? That’s nonsense. Is it a society where only people with fair skin are recognized as American? In the documentary “Race: The Power of an Illusion” people say that people with the same skin color thought they would have the same gene, but rather because people with different skin colors thought they had similar genes, it had nothing to do with the genetic characteristics of ‘racial’ that we can visually identify. I think people should be judged by their inner qualities, not extroverted ones.

What I hear about the common explanations for why people migrate to the United States is many parents want to give their children to get a better education. One of my relatives came to the United States when he was 20-years-old because his father was an immigrant. At first, his father chose to go to the United States because he just had a fantasy of the United States. At that time, immigration was almost to the United States because it has more opportunity to get a better job and education.
According to Yang theory, migration happens because push factors which are natural disasters, population pressures and pull factors which are economic opportunities, political preferences. I knew that poor people are migrant to rich country like United States to get a better life. However, in accordance with Yang theory, poor people are less likely to migrate, and Immigrants are not poor people from the poorest places.

During Bahadur researches her great-grandmother’s history, I was surprised that many Asian women had been exploited for a longtime age. What I learned about Bahadur’s research is there was no record that explain what women think and express what they express their emotion at that time. The limits of the archive are she can only know what the happening is going at that moment through the record in office; records are silent. In order to treat these limits, she had no choice but to rely on her own journey. If I were to construct an archive of my family history, I would ask my parents first because I think it is a right way to know about my ancestors. And then I would meet my relatives to interview what they say about them.

The person who I watched was Connie Young Yu who is a Chinese American. She was born in Los Angeles, California. Her father was in Overseas for World War II in China, he was a liaison officer. In 1974, her father moved her and her sister to San Francisco and he came back from the War. She went to public school in San Francisco and graduated at Mills College in Oakland major in English. And then she got married with Dr. Hu Ping and they have three children. She always knows about the railroad because her parents are very active about the Chinese Historical Society. Her father told her that his childhood and old railroad workers. Her father said there were many Chinese who were killed on the railroad. He said that the Chinese suffered really sad and terrible. She wanted to be a writer, a novelist-fiction, Chinese-America. In order to research about the history of Chinese, she went to Stanford graduate library and she saw the quote “I’d like to make a toast to the forgotten and neglected contingent of builders of the railroad the Chinese.” This quote made her life to write nonfiction. And then she stared to write the story of the Chinese-America. I wondered if I could say that the pain, or discrimination, suffered by the Chinese in the days of her father, great-grandfather, had been completely eliminated today.