My Growth Throughout this Class

At the beginning of this class, we learned that the most important step to understanding other cultures is to understand your own and to truly listen to the other group. I feel like through this class, I have been able to do both and therefore learn to understand a culture that I honestly have had no idea about. I have bought into the model minority myth that Asians are submitted to. But now there is more to the Asian culture than just being good students. I know why some (not all!) Asians are so driven in their education - it is because of their histories and the other generations pushing them for a better future then they had. I have been forced to look at myself and how I view others and I have been forced to consider my own personal culture in this class. And after a LOT of Takaki reading to educate myself on the Asian American experience and reading the literature of many different types of Asian Americans, I can confidently say that I know much more about the Asian culture and I am able to look at the culture with more respect and understanding.