5/2/2017-Aoki/Deporting Cambodian

The documentary shown in class Aoki, was a good watch. It's always somewhat endearing to watch a life of a human unfolds before your very eyes. I like how the documentary go in depth about the past life of Aoki and how it was to be living in a camp. I really like how he tell his story of him and his friends little trip towards the mountain area. It just goes to show how suffocating camp was for little children and how they are not expose at all to the outside world. I also very much enjoy the part of him fighting for Asian American right while being in school. It is very motivating to watch somewhat fight so hard for something they believe in. The documentary also shows how bloody and violent these marches can become and how the government actually react quite violently towards the people who were participating in these marches. All in all, I quite enjoy the documentary that was show in class and I do admire Aoki as a person for being able to speak his mind

For the reading this time, we read about deportation of refugees. This text was a bit harder to swallow compare to some other text because the subject describe in the text is very sensitive to a lot of Asian American. In the text, many people were unjustly deported for crimes that they have committed for as long as ten years before. Not only that they already served the sentence that was associated with the crime they committed. This is very unfair and it makes me lose some trust in the government system that is currently in place. As an international student who among one of my plan is to maybe become an US citizen, it makes me consider the trouble I might have to face in the future. The text also shines a light into the government system and how it only prioritize the people of voting age and ignore minors who cannot vote. The youth in the text were ignore because their does not really matter yet because they cannot vote. This is an unjust treatment of a system where supposedly everyone has an equal say in everything 

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