Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 10:22:34 -0400
From: Christopher Tsai <cct12-AT-Columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: A Constructive Dialogue on Race


> >1. What do you think is the most important thing we should be doing about
> >racial problems today?
> >
> >2. What is the most important problem faced by Asian Americans today?
> >
Hate Crimes that will occur even more frequently in the future as China
and other Asian countries grow in economic might and the U.S. continues
to slowly decline.  I believe Asian-Americans will be increasingly
scapegoated by ignorant and/or conservative people.

> >3. What is the major cause of racial tension?
> >
On the non-minority side, the sense that minorities don't deserve the
power and the rights that they have in this country.  Also, the sense of
being threatened economically, politically, culturally, and
psychologically.  On the minority side, there are individuals who have
bought into the sense that they don't deserve.  Then there are those who
feel that they do deserve the rights of citizenship and the respect as
human beings and are sick and tired of others in power ignoring them or
taking advantage of them.

Christopher Tsai


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