5/4 Aoki Film Response

Angel Truong 5/4 Aoki Film Response

            The Aoki film relates to the ideas of decolonization and political self-determination because the film documents how Richard Aoki and the Third World Liberation Front use the ideas of self-determination to fight for equality within their educational institution and outside America. These political acts involve having them decolonize their mindset allowing them to criticize their educational curriculum and country’s ideologies instead of following them. Aoki and the Third World Liberation Front were protesting for ethnic studies and better academic resources for minorities in UC Berkley. Relating outside of campus, they were also protesting the Vietnam War. From their advocacy, they highlight how they went through cultural decolonization because they were opposing America’s Eurocentric educational curriculum, racial discrimination on campus, and militarism. They also displayed the usage of self-determination because they decided to have power over what is taught and what is considered right and wrong by protesting for ethnic classes and the war. Through self-determination, Aoki and the Third World Liberation Front decolonized their bias knowledge of the world that was reinforced in their Eurocentric education. They used self-efficiency or self-determination to change the education institution by believing that they were capable in fighting for and providing resources for ethnic classes. For the Vietnam War, they used political self-determination to protest the war for the sake of the once-colonized country which supports the beliefs of decolonization in the physical world and internalized minds of people. In the end, the film represents Americans attempts to decolonized the world and people’s mind through political self-determination that led to a new education curriculum and new perspective of war in America. 

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