11/30

From Bryan Ly:
What was the most interesting and most horrifying thing you have learned about asian
american history in this class? Why?

From Joseph Choe:
In "Getting Real," Paul Kim encounters a person who
brings up the idea that Korean store owners in South Central LA treat
customers as if they were thieves. The store owners were said to watch and
yell at the customers. "There's no recognition of their status as customers
and your status as the merchant trying to sell something." Do you think the
Korean store owners are justified? Consider the circumstances: the
neighborhoods are rough and life is hard for the grocers. They work long
hours and make very little profit if any at all.

11/29

From Aaren Alvaro: Why do you think that some Asian Americans consider light complexion as a factor of superiority?

From RM: How is education important to the Korean merchant, and what are things that Youn Jae Kim is trying to do to help the Korean merchant?

From Aileen: Pages 137-141.  Do you think that discrimination has changed?  What are those changes?

From Jose: Pages 137-141.  Why is there a lot of racial discrimination back then?  What factors add up to the current discrimination in society?

11/25

From Jeanalyn Artajos:
When was the first time you ever encountered racism? Was it racism against you, someone you know, or love? If the racism was towards someone else, how did that person feel and how does it affect them today? If it was towards you, how did you feel and how has it affected you today? What story or reading have we encountered where it is similar to your first encounter of racism?

From Heesook Park:
What do you think about Korean Americans? Do you have any negative or positive image about the Koreans?

11/22

From Fang Chun:
In the poem, "When I was Growing Up," what are the reasons that make Nellie Wong want to be white?

From Erick Tran:
How would you feel if after reading these sets of poems, you found out that the building that held these poems on the walls, on Angel Island was destroyed? What would that tell you about American culture/government?

11/17

From Joshua Wang: Why do you think Edgar Ramirez's peers choose to discriminate against him based on his sexual orientation? Do you think a comparison of gentalia size is an appropriate response?

From Jose Dilig: Where in society does the speaker in Nellie Wong's poem "When I Was Growing Up" (111) belong? Is there anywhere she can fit in?

11/16

From Brian Truong:
Regardless if you are korean or not, how do you feel about the 429 riots in LA. What
if you  were put in that position as a shop keeper and how would you react?  Would
you yourself bring a gun and shoot the shop lifters or figure out a different
solution?

November 8

From Stephen Nguyen:
In 1942 what was the reason for the Japanese American Internment and how did it
work out?

From Manami Sugiyama:
How has learning about the Asian American history so far in this class shaped
the way you see yourself, as well as the Asian American community that surrounds
you?

Yamashita Reading

From Shon Mordo: What would you do if you were in Gerald's position? Would you approach the head of the university? If so, how would you approach him, i.e. passionately and angrily like Gerald, or would you calmly debate him on the merits of your position?

From Aaren Alvaro: How would you interpret Yamashita's actual reading of I-Hotel and the one from the reader?

From Chris Kimma, on page 61 of the reader: "Nick paid our whole month's rent, which was ten dollars for the five of us in the small room. But one night Jose came to our room with a Mexican girl and asked for the rest of Nick's money. 'I would like to have twenty-five dollars.' Jose said to his brother, looking at the girl morosely. 'What for?' Nick asked. 'Lupe wants and abortion,' Jose said."

Twenty-five dollars was two and a half months rent, why would the rest of the
five staying in the room allow Jose to take the money and risk living out on the
streets? Was it Filipino culture to marry someone you got pregnant? They seemed
to be living a pretty rough life, why wouldn't they just leave the Mexican woman
on her own?

November 1

From Jose Dilig: Page 59 of America Is In the Heart, did Luz find out what Jose did to his girl?  Or did the girl tell Luz of what happened?

From RM: "It was cold at night and when morning came the fog was so thick it was tangible.  But it was a safe place and it was far from the surveillance of vigilantes.  Then from nearby El Centro, the center of Filipino population in the Imperial Valley, news came that a Filipino labor organizer had been found dead in a ditch."  Who do you think killed the Filipino labor organizer?

From Tiana Steck: What was the Asiatic Barred Zone?

From Aileen Cabanban: "Living in Delano from the early 1940s on, I discovered that there were all sorts of rackets going on" (73).  What are those rackets?

From Jeanlyn Artajos: What is the significance of the poem "Without Names"?

From Patrick Pham: How would modern YouTube videos help us learn about Asian American Culture?

From Kumi Kirihara: What happened in the event "Third World Student Strike"?  What are the results of the "Third World Student Strike"?