Most recent public comments by Christopher Scrafford https://nowcomment.com/users/16335 https://nowcomment.com/documents/36344?scroll_to=388187 https://nowcomment.com/documents/36344?scroll_to=388187 Schein here is trying to explain to the scholars that the movie was made for an American audience, but the scholars aren't buying it. They would like her to shed more light on some of the failures Hmong Americans had encountered. But this develops a dilemma for Schein. She could either anger the American audience by showing the failure stories of Hmong Americans, making it seem as if she was looking down on them, or she could anger the Chinese scholars, as she has done. If you show success, you inherently fail to bring to light the problematic failures that are occurring. Should you show a story of failure, you imply that Hmong Americans cannot succeed. -Christopher, Benjamin, Richard Mon, 19 Oct 2015 18:55:21 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/36342?scroll_to=384977 https://nowcomment.com/documents/36342?scroll_to=384977 The thought that war is occurring at home, even while our soldiers are off on the front lines, is something that most people, including myself, have to force themselves to think about. When people do say that "war is hell", they usually have that unsaid meaning that it is hell for the soldiers. But why should it not be hell for us too? As the China Men excerpt from paragraph 15 says, we contribute to the bombings, the napalm, the tanks. We are indirectly building these weapons of destruction, and yet the outside seems so perfectly content and utopian. But the reality is that this is hell. When you think of hell, you think of tortured souls being tormented by demons. If we are not the demons, having fun while those we send tanks against perish, then who are? We watch the war as if it were a sports game, completely detached from any kind of consequence, simply hoping that our team would win. Is this not hell? Treating the lives of our countrymen and those abroad as a game? But it all is unnoticed, as Nguyen puts it, "Being acclimated to hell is part of our disorder". Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:54:58 -0400