Solemn Remembrance of Thanksgiving

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day for most immigrants, but it is a day for Native Americans to remember about the beginning of demographic change in America. According to an article in San Francisco Chronicle, Native Americans will come to visit the statue of Massasoit, who was the Wampanoag leader who met the pilgrims came to America in 1620, located in Plymouth, Massachusetts tomorrow. This event started since 1970 and is a sign of bringing the awareness of Native Americans who are neglected for a long time in the nation. It is not just limited to Native Americans, other ethnic groups also express their unsatisfying demonstrations on the civil rights for minorities.

Article: Native Americans to hold 50th National Day of Mourning - San Francisco Chronicle

Racial Discrimination Incidents in Syracuse University

Sometimes doing nothing about it is even worse than explicitly express racial discrimination. This article from Wall Street Journal reported several incidents happened in Syracuse University in New York, where there were no crime happening, but the threats by white supremacists were frightening to the African American and Asian students studying there. The most shocking fact was the reactions of school administration. They are not enthusiastic on finding who did this and stop these things happening again, but only tell their students to calm down. Does that really help solving the problem?
Article: Blint-Welsh, Tyler. "Cuomo Calls for Monitor to Probe Racist Incidents at Syracuse University." The Wall Street Journal. 

Food Museums

The writer of this article was talking about the elevating attention to food issues. Recently, there is a new museum in Lyon, France about French cuisines. The writer mentioned about similar museums and exhibitions around the world, and how these exhibitions started with devoted to a food brand and now become a cultural event. Like in the United States, Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD) that they found a permanent place in New York to exhibit about American food culture, including domestic food culture and various blends with other cuisines such as Chinese American food. As people start caring food security today, there will be similar events in the future to reinforce the understanding of food.

Article: Song, Vivian. “At Museums Around the World, a Focus on Food.” The New York Times. 

A Decreasing Domination of Irish and Italian influence in Boston

Things change where people cannot clearly identify even though it is the digital age now. Boston, a well known city dominated by Irish descendants learned in class, is experiencing some kind of diversity in the municipal government. The elected positions in the government are quietly replaced by Americans with different ethnicities where it was highly dominated by Irish and Italian descendants in the past. This article in the New York Times is trying to tell the readers that the world is not what we used to know. The society is evolving. There will be something more interesting happens in the future that people can’t imagine.
Article: Boston, Long Led by White Men, Votes in New Guard - The New York Times

Racial Discrimination to Native Americans Today

The Racial Discrimination in the United States seemed endless. After finding a photographic article about the Alcatraz Island in 1969. There is another article illustrating the racial discrimination to Native American athletes in Arizona today. Arizona has the largest indigenous population in the United States. However, their reserved land were often invaded by the government by turning them into internment camps in World War II or selling them to the mining companies. Today, the Native American volleyball players were harassed by the audience and were called "savages." It is hard to believe that the United States still cannot achieve some kind of mosaic, where racial discrimination remains to the people who are not "white."
Article: Native American volleyball players were called 'savages.' They walked out of the match for safety reasons. - The Washington Post

Alcatraz Island: Struggle for Native Americans from being Assimilated

This article showed that the myth of "melting pot" in America is really just a myth. Native Americans are always forgotten by the society. If the New York Times didn't really report about it, I would have thought that Native tribes are history and does not really exist anymore. In November 20, 1969, a group of Native Americans occupied Alcatraz Island in the Bay Area, showing that there are still Native tribes exist in America and they resisted to be assimilated by the American society created by the immigrants. The situation in the United States is more like mosaic, which is how Canadians use to describe their society. Mosaic deems the cultural differences between the ethnic groups but conflict will arise if is not well dealt.
Article: Occupy Alcatraz: Native American Activism in the Modern Era - The New York Times

Somali-Americans in Minnesota

The actual condition of Somali-Americans is so different from what President Trump said. Originally, I was skeptical on the conditions of immigrants in the inland areas of the United States. There are rumors that people from inland areas are not friendly to non-white Americans. But it is not that case. The New York Times interviewed Somali-Americans in Minnesota about their feelings about immigrating to America. They said it is like home compared to the unrest in Somalia. The possible reason of being targeted might be Rep. Ilhan Omar's distinctive presence in the Congress. Just like other ethnic groups in the past, I believe time could silence discrimination.
Article: 'This Creates Fear': Trump Rally Turns Spotlight on Minnesota's Somali Community - The New York Times