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Long story but I'll condense it as much as I can.
Context: Asian American Studies upper div.
-Teacher starts off asking this theoretically heavy (rhetorical) question for debate.
-We have a guy in class, only black guy I've ever seen in an ASA class, kinda interesting in itself. Anyway...dude questions the question. Asking why Asians don't want to be incorporated into mainstream American narrative.
-Teacher explains a bit, he counters.
-A girl in our class interjects, she brings up that Asian Americans are victims of the institution.
-Dude has the nerve to argue "free will" in regard to the Southeast Asian experience (vietnam, etc...)
-She starts talking about how the war was brought upon by non-Asians, and that they also dictated the migration to the U.S.
-Dude flat out says "well they had a choice...."
-She gets so fed up or just dumbfounded that she begins sobbing and arguing at the same time; points like what sort of real choice is there to make between life and death or when you're poor and you have no education.
-Dude then retorts saying he isnt trying to invalidate anyone's experience, but sob stories and excuses don't phase him, essentially.
Context: Asian American Studies upper div.
-Teacher starts off asking this theoretically heavy (rhetorical) question for debate.
-We have a guy in class, only black guy I've ever seen in an ASA class, kinda interesting in itself. Anyway...dude questions the question. Asking why Asians don't want to be incorporated into mainstream American narrative.
-Teacher explains a bit, he counters.
-A girl in our class interjects, she brings up that Asian Americans are victims of the institution.
-Dude has the nerve to argue "free will" in regard to the Southeast Asian experience (vietnam, etc...)
-She starts talking about how the war was brought upon by non-Asians, and that they also dictated the migration to the U.S.
-Dude flat out says "well they had a choice...."
-She gets so fed up or just dumbfounded that she begins sobbing and arguing at the same time; points like what sort of real choice is there to make between life and death or when you're poor and you have no education.
-Dude then retorts saying he isnt trying to invalidate anyone's experience, but sob stories and excuses don't phase him, essentially.