Week 1 - Thu Cao
How hard is it for Asian to get into medical school? Why the white always earn a higher salary than the other ethnics? Because those are the secret and underground rule of discrimination. At the same GPA, a very low percentage of Asians get acceptance from medical school while the other ethnic groups reach a very high acceptance rate. If an Asian want to get in medical school, she/he needs to have an excellently higher GPA comparing with other groups in order to be considered for an application interview. Also, the white always earn a higher salary in the same position as other ethnics. Luckily, I can say America is a better place to speak out because people have a better condition with more opportunities to fight for justice. Comparing with my country where equality is a lavish work for all those who are on the road of finding justice. You may be surprised, but it is the truth. In my country, the rich are always right, they are the law because people tend to protect the one who has money. For example, the rich get good taking care in the hospital because therich have ability to corrupt by giving money in the envelope. We usually call“envelopeculture”. I remember one time I have talked about “envelope culture” in the hospital with my supervisor of a charity organization. She and I have cried together. We have cried for the poor people in the hospital, the poor in the underserved place specially the poor women who are in pregnancy. Besidesthe hospital fee theprenants have to prepare extra money for corruption otherwise they will be ignored by the physicianor have to be waited in pain at the timeof labor. We always hope we can do more for the poor at underserved communities. However, the way we are doing is to help people solve the consequence of injustice. I mean, it is better if we can fight for the justice, so we have no consequence in order to solve. I want to point out one more example, in my country, people who are considered to be ugly would hardly find a job. They also experienced their terrible student life when they were at school with the jeers from friends. I wonder why? Being ugly and poor are not their faults. We are all equal in human rights. Each one has the rights to be respected.
Well! the fight for social justice and equality is a long term always. However, It is said that if you want to walk in a long distance, let’s walk together. That why we usually need to find alliance for the fight because fighting alone is always hard. The crowded tends to follow the majority rather than a few individuals or minority. I agree with the point of view of the author from the reading. Actually, somewhere someone is fighting alone , they cannot find the other ones who have the common speech in order to fight together. Building a network around the world is a good ideas for finding alliance.
Have you ever wonder why discrimination still exist in our modern life? Because people allow it to happen. Some are not ready to welcome troublesome things. They want a normal life without drama. In fact, many people don’t want to speak out. They are satisfied with what they are suffering then they are continuing to suffer. Some believe they can adapt to live in peace in without any fighting, even the fight for justice. They find peaceful in suffering rather than any fight. Some has the fear that they have to fight alone with the crowded or they are afraid to encounter the objection from the society. So, let’s build a network connection to find the common speech, then we can fight together. If you have a fear of crowded, let’s form crowded to fight against the crowded.
My question for this week: why people still allow for the existing of injustice?
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