Survey Group

[Anonymous]

All of the handouts are done and ready to go. Let's try to meet for a few minutes tonight and see if we can snag a few minutes to present our findings either tonight or on Saturday.

[clay dube]

Congratulations to the survey group for advancing our understanding what those around us know and feel about East Asia.

Attached, in .pdf format, is the report prepared by Ed based on input from the survey group. I think it raises some interesting questions and hope that we can take some of them up here.

Those not in the group might wish to query your own colleagues, students, and friends to see how their ideas correspond to the 140 folks consulted for this report.

[Anonymous]

Reviewing the survey, I am a little surprised how many adults (deducting students) voted not sure. Although better to be not sure than forming an unfavorable impression. I can see why the exposure to this seminar is important and necessary. From an economic point of view, I find it difficult to ignore how much we import from China, Korea and Japan. This is why it is important to learn about their policies, culture and immigration. For example, China has changed their policy to encourage more products to be manufactured in China. This could have a serious effect on our economy, therefore we need to be aware of their policies.

Larry

[Anonymous]

• an expansion of the survey questions might ask the respondents their definition of "east asia" (geographically or otherwise)
• Also it'd be interesting to see if students would respond differently to questions about East Asian popular culture if they were prompted with images from Animae (very popular with my middle school students)
• I'd also curious about the answers to a question that asked something like "List the 3 major positive contributions East Asians have brought to the US."

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