Week 3 Blog Post -- Leslie D.
Week 3 Blog Post
Orientalism and the history of colonized population marked and categorized as the dehumanized “other” have also set normal behaviors and deviant behaviors (Esaki). University systems, who also reinforce Orientalist knowledge production, can perpetuate and prompted internationalized feelings of conflicts with oneself and psychosis of oppressed, marginalized tenure-track faculty members. For example, the colonized or the “other” is seen as an irrational figure that must be subdued, controlled, fixed, silenced and corrected by the colonizer and their institutional power (Bulhan-Hayden, 46, 2017.) Therefore, mimicking the white male scholar in mentorship by being self-centered and self-absorbed will not benefit the Asian American women scholar, because she is already seen as expendable by the university (Esaki, 4, 2017.)
Additionally, since one’s understanding and sense of normal and deviant are subjective, professional mental health specialists and institutions must be self-aware of how they might profit from correcting behaviors and emotional states seen as “normal” in other cultures. Ethnic studies is important to sustain this self-awareness, because the field produces research on how the institutional tendency to subdue pathologized populations could be a legacy of colonial histories. For instance, one of the problems of influence people to be happy all the time as the social norm is that whole industries and a culture of suppressing community issues and unresolved personal tensions can erupt at the death, emotional and psychological manipulation, dehumanization, and expense of each, individualized “other.” This trend can occur without the university’s own self-awareness and acknowledgement that it is inflicting violence on marginalized faculty members (Esaki, 3, 2017.)
Questions
1.Since Western psychology practices, based in claiming the West and its values as "rational," are seen as ineffective for resolving the clashes of self for Asian American women scholars denied of tenure as exclusion from the academy, how can we create practical applications for alternative healing and taking care of people whose illnesses and ailments that cannot be explain by contemporary Western medicine?
Orientalism and the history of colonized population marked and categorized as the dehumanized “other” have also set normal behaviors and deviant behaviors (Esaki). University systems, who also reinforce Orientalist knowledge production, can perpetuate and prompted internationalized feelings of conflicts with oneself and psychosis of oppressed, marginalized tenure-track faculty members. For example, the colonized or the “other” is seen as an irrational figure that must be subdued, controlled, fixed, silenced and corrected by the colonizer and their institutional power (Bulhan-Hayden, 46, 2017.) Therefore, mimicking the white male scholar in mentorship by being self-centered and self-absorbed will not benefit the Asian American women scholar, because she is already seen as expendable by the university (Esaki, 4, 2017.)
Additionally, since one’s understanding and sense of normal and deviant are subjective, professional mental health specialists and institutions must be self-aware of how they might profit from correcting behaviors and emotional states seen as “normal” in other cultures. Ethnic studies is important to sustain this self-awareness, because the field produces research on how the institutional tendency to subdue pathologized populations could be a legacy of colonial histories. For instance, one of the problems of influence people to be happy all the time as the social norm is that whole industries and a culture of suppressing community issues and unresolved personal tensions can erupt at the death, emotional and psychological manipulation, dehumanization, and expense of each, individualized “other.” This trend can occur without the university’s own self-awareness and acknowledgement that it is inflicting violence on marginalized faculty members (Esaki, 3, 2017.)
Questions
1.Since Western psychology practices, based in claiming the West and its values as "rational," are seen as ineffective for resolving the clashes of self for Asian American women scholars denied of tenure as exclusion from the academy, how can we create practical applications for alternative healing and taking care of people whose illnesses and ailments that cannot be explain by contemporary Western medicine?
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