When I moved to San Francisco I made a promise to myself. In order to really appreciate the city I would need to see what it had to offer. In order to meet that goal I would need first hand experience of what I can do in the city. My promise is to go outside the house and expose myself to different activities several times a week. With that idea in place I decided to create a blog. The blog will allow me to keep track of everything I am doing as well as share my experiences.
Today I visited the Chinese Historical Society of America Museum.
The exhibit told me a story of progress.
Much of the information from the beginning was about the persecution and the physical hardships the Chinese experienced when migrating to America. .
In middle to end of the exhibit the museum showed information about the progress the Chinese began to experience and even the influence they had on America.
There were also some pretty interesting ways the museum tried to have people interact and relate (on a small scale) to the message they were trying to get across: There is a suit case and on the handles are tags people created (people who visited the museum). On the tags people wrote down what they would bring with them if they had to move to a new continent and only had a suit case. There were dozens of tags and the two most common things I read were an IPod and a family photo. What would you bring in your suit case?
There were also some pretty interesting ways the museum tried to have people interact and relate (on a small scale) to the message they were trying to get across: There is a suit case and on the handles are tags people created (people who visited the museum). On the tags people wrote down what they would bring with them if they had to move to a new continent and only had a suit case. There were dozens of tags and the two most common things I read were an IPod and a family photo. What would you bring in your suit case?
They also had buttons that you could place in separate containers which showed different years. You took a button from the main bin and dropped the button to when your family moved to the US. The message I received was "your family was not alone or the only ones when they moved America".
When I left the building I started thinking about my life and where I once was to where I am now. There have been a lot of hardships throughout but I know that I have tried my best to overcome them. It seems that these life test (my own personal persecutions) have allowed me to become a stronger individual and I think that was the message. It seems the museum wanted you to understand that even though the Chinese race/culture had experienced much hardship when they moved to a new world, they overcame it and are now stronger for it.
Looking back on your life, what were some of your biggest hardships you had to overcome?
What did you learn from it?
How did you take the hardship and shape it to become a stronger person today?
Thank you for reading my blog. I am on a mission to get outside the house and experience all the activities San Francisco has to offer and I think this museum was good step. I hope to visit another place soon, and share my experience with you.
I also wanted to give a quick thank you to my old professor Dr. U, who helped me learn how to develop a better understanding on how to better understand different cultures.
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