our children face unjust treatments when applying for college. It is simply unacceptable to anyone in this country. It is not about AA, but it is our country’s founding principle that …under God, justice and liberty for all. When Jewish students faced quotas in admission in ivy leagues in 19th and 20th century, their community fought hard to eliminate the quotas. This resulted in a lot of prominent figures in Executive branch, legislature branch, and judicial branch. This also resulted in a powerful AIPAC that lobbies for American Jews and Israel interests. The presidential candidates from both party often attend its annual dinner fundraising event in NY. We not only need to actively engage in the political process, we also need to have a collective power / body. If we think that we just need to pursue wealth ignoring the civic engagements, we will not be able to enjoy our fair share in the public affairs. For example, during WWII, German Americans and Italian Americans could escape from interment, while Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps with only two week notice. Among those people who were forced to leave their property / wealth are Japanese Americans who live in this for more than 100 years. They don’t even speak the Japanese. Among them are very rich and wealthy Japanese Americans. Among them are those women and children who have white husbands / fathers…. I think that we need to do following things besides pursuing wealth:
1. Educate ourselves and others the importance of civic engagements – register to vote and get out to vote. 2. Need to participate in policy making process. If there is a pie (public policy) on the table, we will not get our fair share when we are not at the table. 3. Need to have a PAC like Jewish’s AIPAC. Chinese Proverb “One pair of chopsticks is easy to be broken, but if we have 10 pairs of chopsticks, they are not easy to be broken down”, gives us wisdom that we need to have collective power in order to succeed in our endeavors for equal opportunities and justice. If every family contribute $10 to the PAC, 1 million family’s contributions will be $10 million. For example, one wealthy Chinese American contributes $10 million to a campaign or Harvard, he /she could get some personal access to the campaign or have his/her name on the building in Harvard. If PAC uses the $10 million to lobby the candidates / politicians / Harvard, PAC will be able to present much more powerful message / s because it has millions people behind the money. 4. Need to participate in the local politics. The councilman / school board member / mayor could be our congressman / senator, even president in the future. Give Pressure to local politicians to form an Advisory Board like Mayor’s Asian American Advisory Board as a liaison between the city government and the Asian American Communities. 5. Need unity among Asian American communities. We have a lot of differences but we have a lot things in common.
1. For this Beginners' Class of 【1分钟英会话(1Minute English】 : We strongly wish to encourage you all, please don't be afraid or feel shy to open your mouth to speak in English. (对于这个1mEnglish 初学者班: 我们强烈希望能够鼓励您们，请不要害怕或感到害羞打开您的口讲英语)。 2. Learn to speak with very simple & short sentences first. Just keep on trying and trying. The more you practice, the better you can be, and one thing for sure is, you definitely can do it，if you are willing to give yourself a chance to try . (起初 学习讲非常简单 和简短的句子先。只要继续尝试再尝试。再更多的练习，您就会变得更好，而一件可以肯定的事是，您是肯定可以做到的，只要您愿意给自己一个机会去尝试)。 3. Remember one example which I shared it with you all for so many times : learn from a baby. When a baby learn to crawl, sooner or later they can crawl faster and faster, then try to hold something to stand up, and not too long, they can holding someone's hands learn to walk, step by step. (记得一个例子 我曾经无数次的与您们分享：向一个婴儿学习。当一个婴儿学习爬行时，或快或慢他们就会爬行得越来越快，接着尝试抓住一些东西站立起来，和再没有多久，他们就可以牵住某些人的手学习行走，一步接着一步)。 4. The more they keep on trying, then they can walk faster and faster, finally they also learn how to run like a horse. Subsequently, they forgotten about everything of the past and felt so confident to walk around, to everywhere they would like to go. (他们不断的更多尝试，那么他们就可以行走的更快，最后他们也学会如果跑得像一只马一样。结果是他们忘掉过去的一切 和感到有信心地到处行走，去每一处他们喜欢去的地方)。 5. Other example is, just remember how you learn your own mother language - Mandarin ? Cycling, swimming, driving, calculating, playing with a musical instrument，computer QQ, Handphone WeChat and so on.... (其他的例子是，只要回想起 您是如何学习自己的母语-普通话 ？踩单车、游泳、驾驶、计算、玩一个乐器、电脑QQ、手机微信和其他....) 6. Likewise, learning " Basic English Conversation " is also applied to all these simple rules or methods. (同样的，学习“基本英语会话”也是符合全部这些 简单的规则或方法)。 7. Just determined by yourself that you are willing to put into action in learning, there is no reason you cannot learn it, unless you are not that really serious about your ownself. (只要自己下定坚决心 和愿意付出行动去学习，那就没有学不会它的理由，除非您连对待自己 也是不够认真的)。 8. You all have been taken that very first 1 minute in deciding to learn " Basic English Conversation ", therefore, you all should continue to learn 1 minute by 1 minute, practicing for 1 hundred minutes, 1 thousand minutes ,1 million minutes and so on..... (您们全部人已经用那个第一个1分钟做出决定 要学习“基本英语会话”，那么您们就应该 1分钟接着1分钟地学习，练习1百个1分钟，1千个1分钟，1百万个1分钟以及接下来的许多1分钟...) 9. Never, never, never give up or just keeping 1 minute passion in it.(从不、从不、从不要放弃 或只是 保存仅仅1分钟的热诚而已)。 (Massage from : SALim 1minute English Coach 1分钟英语导师 沙林 的信息) 10/07/2015
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