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When I joined the Asian American Association (AAA), I truly believed in the organization. I still do. However, the more Asian dances I went to, the more cultural events I attended, the more I became aware of the disgruntled members, the lack of attendence at these functions and the way people who never even came to a AAA meeting spoke of it with so much skepticism. Words like "clique," "stereotype" and "Oh l'Amour" were the only images people associated with AAA, and I became sick of it. Not of AAA, but of the people who undermined it by criticizing...
...social chair of AAA, I wanted to have an event that celebrated our Asian heritage as well as our Asian American culture, and diffuse this to all members of the Harvard community. I wanted people to believe in FAA as much as I did, but I knew it would take more than just another dance to make people excited about AAA again...
Furthermore, AAA wanted to give something back to the community. With this in mind, we made the event a charity semi-formal dance and fashion show where a portion of the proceeds will benefit the Battered Asian Women's Shelter...
...realize that people were misinformed, and June Shih's editorial was the product of this misunderstanding. However, I saw something more disturbing in the editorial that I recognized as one of the problems plaguing AAA. The writer approached the fashion show with a premeditated bias. It didn't matter why AAA was sponsoring it, or what the event was for, the concept of a fashion show was a threat enough...
...your own biases undermine the importance of something else. AAA has much to offer and this fashion show is one example of it. Maybe the transition from a "model Asian" to an "Asian model" is a concept you find silly, maybe even stupid. But closing that option would be a mistake...