1. The Heritage Preservation Association (HPA) is an international, non-profit, membership organization dedicated to preserving the heritage, history, culture and symbols of the Old South and Colonial United States.
HPA was formed in 1993 to combat then Georgia Governor Zell Miller's attempts to censor the Georgia state flag. We then spread to other states to fight what has become a movement of cultural genocide on our American heritage and symbols. HPA has members in all 50 states and 6 different countries through-out the world. Our common bond is the love for the American South and its rich culture and history.
This website talked about how they want to preserve the culture of others.
2. In one part of the site they say that they do not want to foster hatred and they do not let others. They want to be open for all and so far there are a number of states involved with this group.
3. It sounds like a good thing that they are doing, to promote awareness about these groups. Mostly because they say all are welcome.
4. It seems like this is a good site, and they say "We welcome people of all races, countries, religions and political affiliations who share our love for the heritage of the American South and encourage them to join us in the fight against cultural censorship.
HPA has no political goals or agendas, other than defending the culture, heritage and symbols of Old South and its colonial roots." A place that says that they welcome all people no matter what sounds like a good thing to me.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Why I hate A&F
1. This article talks about the history of A & F.
2. This article starts off talking about how A&F was made to gear their clothes towards Gay, white men. Then later on in the article it talks about how the store come to be. The man name Abercrombie had a store of his own. But one day he decide to expand that store, so it became A&F. After his friend Fitch decided to go into business with him.
3.Why does he not like A&F? He said in there that he did not like A&F because the only people who could afford it was rich people and he also did not like it because he says that "a version of it is what is at work in the politics of race in the us. So he does not like it because he feels that it is keeping the stereotypes and race discrimination alive.
4. This was a very long article and i was hoping that it would say I hate A&F for the following reasons. However I found it interesting that he does not like it because it deals a lot with stereotypes, and only certain people can buy their stuff. I would think in order to be in a good business you would want to sell more stuff at a lower price than very few at a high price.
2. This article starts off talking about how A&F was made to gear their clothes towards Gay, white men. Then later on in the article it talks about how the store come to be. The man name Abercrombie had a store of his own. But one day he decide to expand that store, so it became A&F. After his friend Fitch decided to go into business with him.
3.Why does he not like A&F? He said in there that he did not like A&F because the only people who could afford it was rich people and he also did not like it because he says that "a version of it is what is at work in the politics of race in the us. So he does not like it because he feels that it is keeping the stereotypes and race discrimination alive.
4. This was a very long article and i was hoping that it would say I hate A&F for the following reasons. However I found it interesting that he does not like it because it deals a lot with stereotypes, and only certain people can buy their stuff. I would think in order to be in a good business you would want to sell more stuff at a lower price than very few at a high price.
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Takaki ch. 10 Answers to the handout form class 11-5-07
1. During the war against Mexico, the Irish was pushed from their homeland by British colonialism. They ended up participating in the conquest of the Southwest.
2. Foreigners in their native land: manifest Destiny in the south west. The Irish were sent to America and they worked on the manifest destiny. They were kicked out of their homeland and had to make America their homeland.
3. English, of "Pure Spanish blood were the upper class, and the laboring class, the laborers went down by regular shades, growing more dark with "pure" Indians at the bottom.
4. The rebels said they were defending the interests of American settlers against unfair and arbitrary Mexican rule.
The center of rebellion for independence was in San Antonio.
5. Race is the Irish, Ethnicity is the Indians. The Irish had money and were white, the Indians didn't have money and the darker they were the more ethnic they were.
2. Foreigners in their native land: manifest Destiny in the south west. The Irish were sent to America and they worked on the manifest destiny. They were kicked out of their homeland and had to make America their homeland.
3. English, of "Pure Spanish blood were the upper class, and the laboring class, the laborers went down by regular shades, growing more dark with "pure" Indians at the bottom.
4. The rebels said they were defending the interests of American settlers against unfair and arbitrary Mexican rule.
The center of rebellion for independence was in San Antonio.
5. Race is the Irish, Ethnicity is the Indians. The Irish had money and were white, the Indians didn't have money and the darker they were the more ethnic they were.
Monday, October 29, 2007
wu's article
What the first quote is saying is being Asain American Wu feels that he is eather stared at as through he is being watched to see if he causes any troble. He is also looked through, meaning people do not even acknowledge that he is in the room.
If people are watching him they will not beleve anything that he says, so he has no control on being able to defend himselfs, and the same goes with the people who iqunare him, if they do not even seeing him they will not listen to what he has to say because to them he is an inadamant object, in the room for decoration.
I some times feel as throught I am just watching what is going on around me and feeling as throught no one can see me. This happens when I am in a room with people having a convosation, and I am not able to contribute anything, or the people i am with do not listen to ewhat i am saying.
If people are watching him they will not beleve anything that he says, so he has no control on being able to defend himselfs, and the same goes with the people who iqunare him, if they do not even seeing him they will not listen to what he has to say because to them he is an inadamant object, in the room for decoration.
I some times feel as throught I am just watching what is going on around me and feeling as throught no one can see me. This happens when I am in a room with people having a convosation, and I am not able to contribute anything, or the people i am with do not listen to ewhat i am saying.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Comic Book Cover
The Comic that I chose was Captain Marvel Adventures The cover shows a huge Captain Marvel making a fist in the air like he is getting ready to hit the mob of Japanese people, running away from him. Right under this arm that is in the air making a fist, there is a caption that reads "Capt. Marvel Swats the Japs!" This suggests that Captain Marvel does not like the Japanese people.
In the Takaki chapter 10, Takaki talks about how the Japanese came to America to make more money, to have a better life and have children. When they came here the men had to work in the Field and were treated less that human.
When the men went further inland they were treated in the same manner. The children that were born in America grew up and tried to find a place to live, they were told that they could not live in a certain neighborhood and that they should go back to their country. The people who were told this did not understand what the white Americans were talking about, because these people had lived in the United States all their lives. The immigrants, who did want to go back to their home country, ended up staying in the United States because their children did not want to go to a foreign country. The parents stayed in the United States with their children because they did not want to leave their children and their grand children.
This comic book cover shows how after Pearl Harbor and even a while before Pearl Harbor occurred the Japanese Americans were not treated equal. This shows how the white people living in the United States wanted to run the Japanese Americans out of the country. After Pearl Harbor the white people in the United States believed all Japanese people living in the United States were spies, sending information to their fellow terriers. We can see this today with Iraqis and the Iranians, due to the attacks on 9/11 and because if the war, in Iraq.
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Yellow
1. "As a member of a minority group everywhere in my country expect among family or thought the self- conscious effort to find other Asian Americans, I alternate between being conspicuous and vanishing, being stared at or looked through."
2.The article Yellow, is about a man who is of Asian American decent. He feels like he is stuck in the middle of the race discrimination. Meaning he knows that he is not black but he is also not white. He said that he stopped riding the bus, the day he got on and saw the other minorities sitting in the back, he did not know where he should sit because he was not black, but if he sat with the whites, they would get mad because he was not white but somewhere in the middle.
3. I wounder what would have happened if he sat some where in the middle of the bus? Would the blacks get mad, would the whites get mad, or both? Wu did not know the answer to this so he did not ride the bus, so that neither race would get upset by him.
4. I thought it was interesting that he could have sat where ever he wanted to being stuck in the middle, but I Wonder if the bus driver would have known? If I would have been put in that situation I would have sat in the middle of the bus one time and than I think I would have stopped riding the bus too, because it would make me uncomfortable not knowing where to sit on the bus and risking making someone mad.
2.The article Yellow, is about a man who is of Asian American decent. He feels like he is stuck in the middle of the race discrimination. Meaning he knows that he is not black but he is also not white. He said that he stopped riding the bus, the day he got on and saw the other minorities sitting in the back, he did not know where he should sit because he was not black, but if he sat with the whites, they would get mad because he was not white but somewhere in the middle.
3. I wounder what would have happened if he sat some where in the middle of the bus? Would the blacks get mad, would the whites get mad, or both? Wu did not know the answer to this so he did not ride the bus, so that neither race would get upset by him.
4. I thought it was interesting that he could have sat where ever he wanted to being stuck in the middle, but I Wonder if the bus driver would have known? If I would have been put in that situation I would have sat in the middle of the bus one time and than I think I would have stopped riding the bus too, because it would make me uncomfortable not knowing where to sit on the bus and risking making someone mad.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Pacific Crossings
1. The chapter Pacific Crossings by Takaki talks about Japanese immigrants coming to America to make money, and how that dream changed over the years.
2. The Pacific Crossings talk about mailed order brides, who are women who parents pick their husbands living in America. The families want the women to be able to go to America and make money so they will have a better life. The women end up working on plantations with their husbands. The men are in charge of Field work, and the women are in charge of Field work in the early morning, house work at 6am and then back to the Field, and late at night they do more house work. The women tend to start their day at 4:30am and don't end the day until around midnight- 1am. The immigrants do this for 55 cents a day if they are women and men were paid 78 cents per day. Also the immigrants were treated as animals; one person said that they were given a number, instead of their name. So one day they went on strike to get a higher wage, eight hour days, insurance and paid maternity leave and better treatment. Later the planters claimed a victory and discreetly increased wages by 50 percent. It seemed like things were working well for the immigrants, however the article says that the living conditions for the workers were very unsanitary. The workers who had children and soon made enough money to own their own land told their children to go to school so they would learn about freedom and equality, the declaration of independence. But the immigrants were still treated unfairly when it came to getting a home, and soon everything would change for the Japanese immigrants living in the US in 1941.
3. Why did the immigrants who left their homes not go back? Some of them did go back but most of them did not want to go back because they had children living the the US. The children did not want to go back to Japan because they were born in the US and felt that Japan was a foreign land because the US was their home. So if the kids did not want to go back to their homeland, the parents tended to stay because they wanted to be with their children and grand children.
4. At first I thought the immigrants were treated badly and in the middle of the article it seemed like things were changing and they were being treated fairly. I thought they were being treated badly because of Pearl Harbor. But then they were getting a higher wage, and land so I thought everything was okay. Until the Americans started to tell the immigrants who were born in the US to go back to their homeland, I was thinking okay how did they go from being treated badly to fairly, back to bad again. Then I thought maybe Pearl Harbor had occurred, but at the end it said that they were going to school and being taught about their culture, and their country. Teaching them about their Japanese American heritage. "However their hope to be both Japanese and American would be violently shattered on a December morning in 1941" After this historic event anyone living the US who was Japanese, was thought as being a spy and not to be trusted, so they were put into interment camps.
2. The Pacific Crossings talk about mailed order brides, who are women who parents pick their husbands living in America. The families want the women to be able to go to America and make money so they will have a better life. The women end up working on plantations with their husbands. The men are in charge of Field work, and the women are in charge of Field work in the early morning, house work at 6am and then back to the Field, and late at night they do more house work. The women tend to start their day at 4:30am and don't end the day until around midnight- 1am. The immigrants do this for 55 cents a day if they are women and men were paid 78 cents per day. Also the immigrants were treated as animals; one person said that they were given a number, instead of their name. So one day they went on strike to get a higher wage, eight hour days, insurance and paid maternity leave and better treatment. Later the planters claimed a victory and discreetly increased wages by 50 percent. It seemed like things were working well for the immigrants, however the article says that the living conditions for the workers were very unsanitary. The workers who had children and soon made enough money to own their own land told their children to go to school so they would learn about freedom and equality, the declaration of independence. But the immigrants were still treated unfairly when it came to getting a home, and soon everything would change for the Japanese immigrants living in the US in 1941.
3. Why did the immigrants who left their homes not go back? Some of them did go back but most of them did not want to go back because they had children living the the US. The children did not want to go back to Japan because they were born in the US and felt that Japan was a foreign land because the US was their home. So if the kids did not want to go back to their homeland, the parents tended to stay because they wanted to be with their children and grand children.
4. At first I thought the immigrants were treated badly and in the middle of the article it seemed like things were changing and they were being treated fairly. I thought they were being treated badly because of Pearl Harbor. But then they were getting a higher wage, and land so I thought everything was okay. Until the Americans started to tell the immigrants who were born in the US to go back to their homeland, I was thinking okay how did they go from being treated badly to fairly, back to bad again. Then I thought maybe Pearl Harbor had occurred, but at the end it said that they were going to school and being taught about their culture, and their country. Teaching them about their Japanese American heritage. "However their hope to be both Japanese and American would be violently shattered on a December morning in 1941" After this historic event anyone living the US who was Japanese, was thought as being a spy and not to be trusted, so they were put into interment camps.
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