Native American Week Analysis

During the indigenous/Native American week, there were many relations and new things that I learned throughout the week. From chapter nine in the Wayne Au book I learned that everyone has a different way of growing up and we all need to embrace where we came from. What I learned the most about that week we all have to love ourselves and who we are. If it was not for our generation before us we would not where we are today and that already is such a huge success because other countries do not the life we are living today. Native Americans were know as “ different” because they their lifestyle was different growing up such as: hunting, the dancing culture and the tongues. Instead of being opened and understand the different ethnicities, they …show more content…
One of the things that I caught my attention about this week was the importance of microaggressions. The video that we saw at the beginning of this week was very eye opening because there were many myths and saying that people say towards other ethnicities. “ One of the most basic level, the Myth of the Model Minority mass the diversity that exists within the Asian American community”(Au 48). One of the things the myths that I remember in the video is that people assume that all asians are smart and are good that science and math subjects. What made me open my eyes the facts, the number of students committing suicide because they are forced to have the high incoming future without say. “ The Myth of the Model Minority, however, masks another form of diversity- that of economic class division”(Au, 49). The background information is what interested me the most because there was so much information that I did not know for example the amount of students committing suicide, the number of Asian Americans being included( the reason why the number of Asian Americans is so high), and also the lack of ownership from their past. I learned that Asians Americans have suffered so much not just in the education scenario but also in social life. They were the ones that built the train tracks and I never knew that Asian Americans were the ones that built …show more content…
I feel like students nowadays are prepared to get tested but the information that needs to known for the test is not something that you end up remember even after the test. It is unfortunate that we test students off of ideas and problems that can be either a myth or reality but regardless, the students need to know what is “right”. “ It is probably inevitable that school curricula will reflect the contradictions between a society’s myths and realities. But while a critical multicultural approach attempts to examine these contradictions, standardization tends to paper them over” (Au, 129). Testing also does not always give the appropriate score for a student because there are students who are not good test takers or freak out when they have a test so are tests really that