After taking the gender studies course, I have learned many concepts and issues, which I would not even think about them if I did not study them. Many insightful ideas and inspiring standpoints such as knowledge is socially situated, have completely changed my mind about how and why the world is being like the way it has always been. The most powerful idea that I have learned is that gender is not how we born to be, but how we express it (Lucal, 1999, p. 1). I understand that the gender depends on individuals’ behaviors, speaking and experiences. By understanding the concepts, I have learned better constructed views and knowledge about my gender and power structures in society.
Gender was an ambiguous term for me. I identify myself as a middle-class, atheist, Chinese man. The people in the place, where I live, do not talk about gender seriously, and gender issues have not really caused me any problems. I thought …show more content…
Until 1949, Chinese people have never really been socially promoted. Frye (n.d.) says that “one is marked for application of oppressive pressures by one 's membership in some group or category. Much of one 's suffering and frustration befalls one partly or largely because one is a member of that category” (p. 7). I was expecting to encounter some racial oppression, but what I experienced is not so serious. The factor of race is still there, as one of the members of minorities and people of color, Chinese are facing same issues as other minority people. Stewart states that “To recognize a person as oppressed one must see them as belonging to a certain group” (lecture). As one Chinese, I can feel the oppression, but not very strong. For example, hate speech and racial bad words occurrs sometimes; rare Chinese murder cases showed on television, maybe not particularly for Chinese. All of these remind and alarm me that I am in minority groups in American
Gender was an ambiguous term for me. I identify myself as a middle-class, atheist, Chinese man. The people in the place, where I live, do not talk about gender seriously, and gender issues have not really caused me any problems. I thought …show more content…
Until 1949, Chinese people have never really been socially promoted. Frye (n.d.) says that “one is marked for application of oppressive pressures by one 's membership in some group or category. Much of one 's suffering and frustration befalls one partly or largely because one is a member of that category” (p. 7). I was expecting to encounter some racial oppression, but what I experienced is not so serious. The factor of race is still there, as one of the members of minorities and people of color, Chinese are facing same issues as other minority people. Stewart states that “To recognize a person as oppressed one must see them as belonging to a certain group” (lecture). As one Chinese, I can feel the oppression, but not very strong. For example, hate speech and racial bad words occurrs sometimes; rare Chinese murder cases showed on television, maybe not particularly for Chinese. All of these remind and alarm me that I am in minority groups in American