One aspect that I thought was particularly interesting was how Professor Valverde challenged us to reconsider our connection to our Southeast Asian hxstory of trauma and war, and how we should self-reflect on what it means to continually define and distill our present and future hxstories solely based on something that happened in the past and don't directly affect us, or in similar ways, as it did to previous generations.
Learning from a variety of issues and perspectives on how the Vietnam War, Secret War, and Pathet Lao affected other communities other than the dominant ones also allowed me to understand the Southeast Asian American and Southeast Asian experience more holistically. I've never had the opportunity to learn a more progressive/different perspective on Southeast Asian experiences because I feel like so much of the discourse focuses on the retraumatization of it and focusing on its negative implications, but it was great to learn about it in its entirety. I also appreciated learning about the process in which the Vietnam War was renarrated as one that was inherently brutal and against Vietnamese people, to a contemporary narrative that valorizes soldiers and the U.S. government that saves it.
Another takeaway I've learned is really considering in what way am I going to reshift the narrative of Southeast Asians? In what ways can I help reshift the narrative while still maintaining its roots? How can challenge dominant ideologies that not only our society perpetuates, but that our very community perpetuates?
http://www.riseupforstudents.org/blog/the-school-board-is-trying-to-figure-out-if-seattle-should-have-an-ethnic-studies-curriculum
Learning from a variety of issues and perspectives on how the Vietnam War, Secret War, and Pathet Lao affected other communities other than the dominant ones also allowed me to understand the Southeast Asian American and Southeast Asian experience more holistically. I've never had the opportunity to learn a more progressive/different perspective on Southeast Asian experiences because I feel like so much of the discourse focuses on the retraumatization of it and focusing on its negative implications, but it was great to learn about it in its entirety. I also appreciated learning about the process in which the Vietnam War was renarrated as one that was inherently brutal and against Vietnamese people, to a contemporary narrative that valorizes soldiers and the U.S. government that saves it.
Another takeaway I've learned is really considering in what way am I going to reshift the narrative of Southeast Asians? In what ways can I help reshift the narrative while still maintaining its roots? How can challenge dominant ideologies that not only our society perpetuates, but that our very community perpetuates?
http://www.riseupforstudents.org/blog/the-school-board-is-trying-to-figure-out-if-seattle-should-have-an-ethnic-studies-curriculum
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