blogger practice post

      The topic I’m choosing to write about for the fourth Writ essay is the Los Angeles Chinese Massacre of 1871. The problem with Chinese American racism, or with Asian American racism in general is less of a “twisted history” or “misrepresented history” issue, but more so that it’s not acknowledged or taught as much as it should be, resulting in Asian American racism today not being addressed seriously. Based on my personal experience, and many of my Asian-American peers’, Asian American racism is easily dismissed “as a joke,” and a suspecting cause of this phenomenon is that the history of Asian American discrimination isn’t acknowledged as much as it should in schools, and in society in general.      The Los Angeles Chinese Massacre of 1871 started off when a shootout in Chinatown started, and a white police officer was killed. Groups of white men soon gathered and destroyed 1.5 million dollars of property owned by Chinese-Americans in China town, murd...

  Scholarly source: https://link-springer-com.libproxy2.usc.edu/book/10.1007/978-3-319-54509-7 Narrative anecdote: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/10/03/mother-sues-hospital-for-discrimination-after-staff-kept-calling-her-transgender-son-a-girl/ News Source: https://www.npr.org/2021/05/10/995418963/u-s-will-protect-gay-and-transgender-people-against-discrimination-in-health-car Quotation from an expert: https://asistdl-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.libproxy1.usc.edu/doi/full/10.1002/pra2.468 A statistic: https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/josi.12235 I believe all of these articles will be helpful in my essay— not only do they demonstrate how people of the LGBTQ+ community have been discriminated in the past through examples and statistics, some even offer solutions as to how we can work towards eliminating this discrimination in the future. 

      It is of the upmost importance that LGBTQ + healthcare be researched and prioritized by hospitals that are going to be treating LGBTQ+ Community members. Healthcare centers are supposed to be a safe place for these individuals to go to for both physical and mental safety— therefore discrimination in this space can be the most harmful. An example of how harmful this can be is the case of Kyler Prescott. Kyler  was a transgender teen that was admitted to a hospital for suicide- related problems, and because the healthcare workers that were taking care of him kept on misgendering him, Kyler was pushed to commit suicide shortly after. ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/10/03/mother-sues-hospital-for-discrimination-after-staff-kept-calling-her-transgender-son-a-girl/ )  What I need to find out through research is more information about how the LGBTQ+ community is given a lower quality of healthcare, why they are given a lower quality o...

      As I've mentioned in my previous article, there are a lot of problematic issues that surround gentrification-- the generational wealth lost, the injustice of a system that serves rich white people, and low-income children growing up in low-income households with little or no opportunity to break out of this cycle because of the neighborhood they've grown up in.     One of the most important details I'd like to focus on in addressing the issue of gentrification is the fact that "integration should not solely involve the movement of people of color into White schools, neighborhoods, and work places, but also the movement of White people into spaces occupied primarily by people of color," (Pierce 2). However, that often leads to wealthier, White people moving into POC neighborhoods, raising the rent for the neighborhood, and then forcing POC out of their neighborhoods because the housing cost rises-- or in other words, Gentrification. However, there...

      The story of Seneca Village is lost gem in the erased history of America. A village of Black, multi-racial/multicultural people living in New York and making a good living for themselves have been completely destroyed and forgotten to make way for NYC’s infamous Central Park.  It’s absolutely devastating to think about the impact of its removal— the generational wealth lost for the descendants of Seneca village, forcing successful POC to remove and start over as low-income households, and an injustice of a white-washed history that refuses to acknowledge the removal or do anything about it.     There are a couple steps that must be taken to make amends to this situation (although we could never truly fully be able to do so, since a true amend would be to give the original people of Seneca village their houses and their community back). We need to make sure that the story of Seneca Village is told— there was a temporary set-up in Central Park with info...

           In my last blog, I touched upon how Tiffany from Bunk’d is the epitome of the “smart Asian” stereotype— she’s abnormally academically intelligent yet socially unintelligent, she’s pressured to do well in school because of her “tiger mom,” and the show only attributes her intelligence to her Asian-ness without showing how much extra effort she’d have to put in to rise above her peers.     There are several ways to address this problem and rewrite Tiffany so that she’s more of a 3-Dimensional character and not just a positive stereotype. The first and most obvious one is to make her socially intelligent as well. The show already demonstrates that she’s academically intelligent— in one episode she and Ravi build a wifi router from scraps they’ve found around the camp grounds. However, she’s also portrayed as awkward and socially unaware. Despite being more academically knowledgeable than the oldest characters in the cast, she doesn’t share...