I like this week’s reading materials. It taught me that how to stand with yourself while outside/mainstream standard against you. Identity politics is about empower, is about how to tell your own stories, your own background and your experience. As the example that Garza used in The Power of Identity Politics, the blonde hair girl thought actors would be in a movie it is because they are good not because of their skin color. Personally, I also heard of a white man said this to me, “I don’t think there is a problem that if a country uses the majority race as the actors/actress on TV ….”. In my opinion, the blonde girl and the white man are the same because they choose to ignore the fact that people of color given less chance to be seen in TV or other industries, not just that, they also want to use the standard look like equal to apply for everyone such as “actors should be chosen because they are good”. But that is not the fact, the fact is people of color have to work much harder, try much harder to prove themselves to be considered as good as the majority race even they are already good enough.

There are stereotypes for different races but you won’t see it as much when it comes to white people. It looks like white people could be good and could be bad; but this is what we ask for. Because human has good sides and bad sides but never only has one side. Considering asians work hard or good at math-also bring this kind of stereotype when it comes to work and expect asian employees work more than other employees are harmful. That’s why identity politics matters, and why personal is political. We ask for to be treated as the same-just as a human that would make mistakes also could makeup the mistakes.