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 # Conclusion 
 
-Unfortunately, this kind of reductionism was much too common within the humanities-focused courses I took during college. There always seemed to be this air of conformity around certain discussions, where students were expected to give some compliant view that the professor would approve of. In a system where students mostly care about their grades and the professors hold so much power, there is typically no incentive to challenge them. It's really under the teachers' purview to encourage constructive dialogue, but I have found these teachers quite rare. In a vacuum, I have nothing against any of my professors, and I have found most of them pleasant and caring of their students. However, there was this cognitive dissonance embedded into my Asian American studies that I couldn't quite shake off, which led me to write this. The course did not practice what it preached, often reducing the Asian American narrative to a narrow, monolithic view. I felt that it did not deliver on creating a cohesive description of what it means to be Asian American. I wanted to leave the course having learned something new about individual agency, cultural adaptation, and the dynamic interplay between heritage and assimilation. However, I didn't get anything I wouldn't have learned from a typical U.S. history class, which left me disappointed and unfulfilled. If I want what I'm looking for, I'll have to find the answer somewhere else in my life. 
+Unfortunately, this kind of reductionism was much too common within the humanities-focused courses I took during college. There always seemed to be this air of conformity around certain discussions, where students were expected to give some compliant view that the professor would approve of. In a system where students mostly care about their grades and the professors hold so much power, there is typically no incentive to challenge them. It's really under the teachers' purview to encourage constructive dialogue, but I have found these teachers quite rare. In a vacuum, I have nothing against any of my professors, and I have found most of them pleasant and caring of their students, and I didn't really want to needlessly make a hoopla about them. However, there was this cognitive dissonance embedded into my Asian American studies class that I couldn't quite shake off, which led me to write this. The course did not practice what it preached, often reducing the Asian American narrative to a narrow, monolithic view. I felt that it did not deliver on creating a cohesive description of what it means to be Asian American. I wanted to leave the course having learned something new about individual agency, cultural adaptation, and the dynamic interplay between heritage and assimilation. However, I didn't get anything I wouldn't have learned from a typical U.S. history class, which left me disappointed and unfulfilled. If I want what I'm looking for, I'll have to find the answer somewhere else in my life. 
 
 
 [^1]: I can recall one student commenting about some personal political attitudes in class one time that went against the traditional course dogma, only to be dismissed afterward.