Author: ZhiHuiLi

A few days before Chinese New Year’s Eve, I had seen this news broadcast on the news, but I didn’t handle it seriously at that time I thought it would end as quickly as the flu season, but I was wrong and because I was living in the United States I’m not very worried about Coronavirus after all. The only thing I was worried about was grandparents living in China. I thought China would be fine in a few days. Controlled the virus. But by Chinese New Year’s Eve, the virus had infected nearly a dozen Chinese cities, and I’m starting to realize the severity of the coronavirus. I realized that a silent battle had begun and the smoke of the battle had spread.

The earliest cases of virus infection in New York State were in Long Island and were quarantined. I didn’t care too much. I thought that Long Island was so far away from us. The virus would be quarantined before it infected here. Everything is calm. But I was wrong, it started to rag, from the original few cases to dozens, hundreds, thousands, and it infected the entire New York.

Until today Coronavirus started slowly infecting the entire state of New York from Long Island, and I was forced to give up my part-time job plus US stock meltdown I am really lost a lot of money this year. My father ’s restaurant in Atlanta is also starting to close. However, safety is the most important thing. As far as I know, infection with Coronavirus can be very painful. It can almost melt your lungs and make you unable to breathe.

The virus hurts the poor people the most. Although poor people are not infected, they also have a high chance of being infected. Some of them are even working now because they can’t afford to stop work. In the early days of the virus outbreak, no one even raised ask it for a free coronavirus testing. The day before yesterday I saw an article where reporters interviewed President Trump’s rich people who have done coronavirus testing two times already. The poor are still waiting in line. President Trump thinks this is normal. A live broadcaster even claimed that this is a virus that poor people will have. I just hope that when the vaccine is successfully developed, it will be available to everyone for free, If it is to be charged, there will be people who cannot afford it. It may be possible to eliminate the poor people in this way, but I definitely will not agree.

I have to admit that China takes the virus outbreak very seriously and provides free treatment services and free coronavirus testing. China has now become the safest place, is much safer than Italy, Britain. New York State Executive Governor also took the right decision, U.S. House of Representatives Katie Porter want to secure free coronavirus testing for all Americans. During this period, go out less, wash your hands and wear a mask if you have to go out.

In the article American Slavery and ‘the Relentless Unforeseen’ by Sean Wilentz, it talks about slavery in the 1700s and 1800s, In the late 1740s and early 1750s, Western culture reached a turning point. producing what the great modern scholar of slavery and the antislavery movement, Slavery was a normal thing for white people at the time. Slavery lasted for almost a hundred years 1700-1800, which also made many people take slaves for granted. It seemed normal to use slave labor in the South at the time because the main economy in the south is cropping, the economy in the south would be weak without slaves, and mass production of crops would become a difficult task. The slavery plantation is run by the plantation owner to produce for the capitalist world market for the purpose of obtaining profits. This is its capitalist character. However, economically speaking, it is a slave economy, because it excludes the basis of capitalist production-freely hiring labor, and has the basic characteristics of a slave-occupied production method.slaves are the property of the plantation owner, without personal liberty; slaves are engaged in forced labor driven by direct violence, and slave owners deprive slave labor not only of surplus labor but also a considerable part of necessary labor.

People in the north say this is an immoral source of economics，South which believed that slavery was inhumane, opposed the expansion of slavery, and the South, which had always used slaves to develop industries, felt strongly against it. However, the North also became hostile to the monopolist of workers in the South, and the two sides began to conflict.

But whether it was because black people fought for freedom or northerners hated slavery, slavery was successfully abolished. Compared to Hannah Jones, Wilentz’s article is more in the description of what led to the occurrence of slavery and abolitionist.

From my point of view, the United States cannot become a racist society because the United States is an immigrant country. All kinds of people live here. If the United States rejects other races and only accepts white immigrants, then it should not be regarded as an immigrant country. why? Because I can tell the difference between a colony and an immigrant country. But it is also because the United States is an immigrant country that racism has penetrated into his DNA，Racism can even be part of American history, everyone is equal, color is irrelevant, these are appearing in the “ideal” America.

Although there is no slavery, racism still exists. September 26th, 2016 According to Uschinapress news, there are more and more robberies targeting Chinese in the United States and Canada. African-American singer has launched the song incitement “Robbery Chines. There are lyrics translated: First, you find a house in a Chinese community area because they don’t trust the bank, so it ’s easier to rob.
The lyrics also said: Don’t take large-screen LCD TVs and laptops, it’s more cost-effective to steal jewelry boxes because they can be cashed on the same day they get into the pawnshop. Many people think they are joking when they discriminate against others, but when others joking with them in a racially discriminatory way, they consider themselves to be victims

According to Hannah Jones, the United States is evil because it enacted laws on slavery that made slavery became the right thing. The idea of not allowing black people to testify about white people in court is also a definition of an unjust society. Is the United States an evil society? What exactly is evil? A party with power? If you can only make a choice You will choose to be a victim or perpetrator?

I agree with the idea of Hannah-Jones that society should be fair, blacks should be eligible to go to court, no, not just blacks. All races should be treated equally. But how do we define racial discrimination? One night I was walking on the streets of New York. When I saw a black man across the street, I quickly crossed the other side of the street. I did not expect that the black man had the same intention to try to avoid me by going on another side. If this is the conclusion, both sides are racist, does it seem a little ridiculous?

In the story Drown by Junot Diaz, the author reveal Yunior’s relationships with others. The absence of his father during childhood made Yunior more dependent on his mother, It can be said that Yunior’s mother is the center of his world. Compared with Yunior’s brother Rafa and father, the mother is more like Yunior’s haven, a supporter protecting Yunior at all the time.
Yunior has a strange relationship with his father the complex source of resentment, who was absent from Yunior when he was young and then betrayed Yunior’s mother with his mistress, Yunior is upset with his father’s unreliability and infidelity. Even if the family reunited in the United States, they still looked like strangers. It’s as if Yunior’s father never cared about Yunior.
In”Ysrael” Yunior and his brother Rafa are living in the Dominican Republic. Their father has abandoned them their mother sent them to a relative’s house because she wanted to work in a chocolate factory. We know that Yunior’s brother Rafa has the same character as his father when Yunior and his brother Rafa got on the bus, an old man sitting next to Yunior started grope Yunior on the grounds of helping to clean up the stains on Junior pants. Yunio started to cry after pushing the man away and getting out of the car. His brother Rafa didn’t go to comfort Yunio but yelled at him because Yunior and his mother lived together for many years, Yunior’s personality is more docile, So Rafa has the dominance when dealing with Yunior. Yunior was not very violent at this time, but unknowingly, as he grew up, the mother and Yunior relationship change, Yunior began to look up to his brother Rafa and his father. Yunior thinks his father and brother Rafa are a role model, unlike a supporter like mother.
Later in the story, Yunior became a high school drug dealer, but Yunior did not want his mother to know that he was selling drugs. Yunior was afraid that any customer would go to him and buy drugs for him in front of his mother. Remember a recruiter who wanted to offer a real career to Yunior. Yunior rejected his offer. I think it’s because Yunior chose to keep the current lifestyle. Yunior is afraid to make changes, He rather prefers to take the shortcut to makes money such as selling drugs. Or because of his mother, Yunior doesn’t want to leave his mother alone. Therefore, Yunior chose to stay with his mother

Throughout the first week of learning, we have a certain understanding of the discourse community. Discourse community as a communication mode of information that relates to writing and speaking. The discourse community is a relatively independent space, and the members in this space will be different according to the groups of the environment and knowledge background. You and your family discourse community members may not be too complicated for the college student group.
The special discourse patterns of college students are much richer than those of primary and middle school students, and they are also very typical, at least I think so. University students are generally exposed to many concepts and topics that have not been encountered before. Because college is a place where people choose their future career, someone in your major course must be with you in the same camp that will be your Discourse community during the college. Your behavior depends on the person or group with you; I mean your discourse community. I call this “To turn red when close to vermilion and black when close to ink.” These discourse patterns affect not only school time but also after graduating from university; in short, the university’s discourse mode has a strong depth influence and orientation or I would say that the discourse community it’s very guided.
Throughout chapters 1-3 In the book 《Drown》 by author Junot Diaz. We get to know the story about Junior and his older brother Rafa and the masked boy Ysrael. Ysrael was attacked by a pig when he was a baby, and one side of his face was eaten by a pig. So Ysrael was given the nicknamed “No Face.” Junior and his brother Rafa was curious about Ysrael’s face, so their plan was to somehow take off his mask. Ysrael is a good guy; He likes helping others, but the surrounding people treat him maliciously. Junior and his brother Rafa wanted to take away Ysrael’s mask in order to satisfy himself, and they did not consider it would cause pain to Ysrael, it feels like the school bully.
The discourse community can become complicated and sometimes not even a good thing, but if you fully understand each other and communicate well, it can be a healthy environment.