During the course of this semester of taking Asian American Studies: Growing Up Asian American: The Asian Immigrant Family and the Second Generation, I’ve had to recoup myself at time in order to be able to process some of the course work information. I really couldn’t relate to all topics of the course work, but when I could relate it would be hard analyze what I have just learned with my past.
I really didn’t talk much in class about this, but there was a particular reason on why I decided I wanted to do the group presentation on Mental Health Illness. My father is a Vietnam War solder, and with him serving in the war for the North gave us opportunities to come to America following the Fall of Saigon. Although, its been more than 20 years of us immigrating to American and being able to achieve what people would call it “The American Dream,” we still aren’t fulfilled with happiness and success as one would think. Along the way of adjustment and fulfillment we lost one thing, we lost one person: we lost my …show more content…
Unfortunately, this is one of those situations where I did not want to be able to relate to the stories, but I did and it hurt to read just as much as it hurt to remind myself I lost my brother. Lisa’s Park letter informed us how an Asian American family could get so caught up in trying to be Americanize and live by the Model Minority that sometimes we all pay a price for it. She lost her sister, and I lost my brother. You see we live in this materialistic world, where the government basically monitors our every move, and when known about this type of imprisonment one could feel jailed. I felt that with reading Lisa Park’s letter, Professor Mimi’s article, and the anonymously written article featuring mental health is something you just don’t usually hear out in the real world, especially in the Asian
I really didn’t talk much in class about this, but there was a particular reason on why I decided I wanted to do the group presentation on Mental Health Illness. My father is a Vietnam War solder, and with him serving in the war for the North gave us opportunities to come to America following the Fall of Saigon. Although, its been more than 20 years of us immigrating to American and being able to achieve what people would call it “The American Dream,” we still aren’t fulfilled with happiness and success as one would think. Along the way of adjustment and fulfillment we lost one thing, we lost one person: we lost my …show more content…
Unfortunately, this is one of those situations where I did not want to be able to relate to the stories, but I did and it hurt to read just as much as it hurt to remind myself I lost my brother. Lisa’s Park letter informed us how an Asian American family could get so caught up in trying to be Americanize and live by the Model Minority that sometimes we all pay a price for it. She lost her sister, and I lost my brother. You see we live in this materialistic world, where the government basically monitors our every move, and when known about this type of imprisonment one could feel jailed. I felt that with reading Lisa Park’s letter, Professor Mimi’s article, and the anonymously written article featuring mental health is something you just don’t usually hear out in the real world, especially in the Asian