While reading the chapter in this book, a lot went through my mind. In the book, "Strangers From a Different Shore," I realized the asian community has gone through alot of hardships and pain. From physical to mental abuse, we only grew stronger and more successful is what we have become. As I was reading this book, the part that disturbed me the most was the way caucasians treat asians. From simple threats to murders, no one at all deserves what had happened to any of these people. Growing up in San Francisco, I lived in a community full of chinese people. Being half Chinese, i celebrate the traditional chinese new years and everything.
Reading through those pages, I remembered I had went through the same thing as well as my family. It was the first semester of my freshman year. A bunch of hispanic and caucasian kids at my school came up to my friends and I during lunch time. They started making fun of us for the way we look saying, "Wasup with your eyes, open them up ching chongs!" That was the day I got into my first fight. They eventually got suspended. My mom was at the bus stop waiting for the bus going to work. When the bus had arrived, she got on the bus. As she was getting on, she told me a guy had pushed her aside and said, "Move aside chinese woman." After I got done reading, I wondered a lot.
After reading Chapter 1 and the events that happened to me in my life and the people in the book, I am excited to learn more about the history of Japanese, Filipino, Chinese, Vietnamese, Hmong, Cambodians, and Hmiens. What they all have gone through and the problems we currently face today because racism happens everywhere.
