AAST 398 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Appropriation, Manzanar, Bonsai

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Asian American Studies
• Course: AAST 398
• Professor: mimikhuc

Document Summary

Wild, exotic, primitive, barbaric questionable morality, uncivilized, no rights. Value in eastern culture is not material, but rather spiritual. Cultural appropriation taking and distorting a culture: borrowing/homage, power dynamics. Oriental monk racist love must be dying out and in need of saving" to be respected. Okinawan, trims bonsai trees to remind us and himself of his heritage. Part of the u. s. military he"s a veteran, has been awarded medals. Tule lake no-no boys answered no on 2 questions on questionnaire about serving in military or forswearing prior japanese allegiance: yes-yes went to war, no-no went to tule prison. Wife and child died in camps while he was serving. His father taught him karate, how to prune bonsai, restore old american- cars from detroit. He becomes daniel"s father figure and teaches him these things too. Misfit class differences, cultural, physical ways of speaking, geography (he"s new to. White saviorism he carried on miyagi"s legacy. Godthink 8 great religions aren"t the same.