The Saving the Beach Flats Community Garden event was overall excited and inspiring. Unlike the kind of political events I saw in Hong Kong and Taiwan that only had quite boring and overwhelming long speech, the beach flats event included both Mexican dance performance and speech. This form of events both serves an political agenda and brings pleasure to everyone who shows up. This garden has more cultural meaning to people than simply being a growing place. Gardeners need their rights and land to make a living, and what's more, pass down the knowledge and tradition. The most striking speech was when they talked about how student activism can make a difference. And it makes we students really want to get involved and do something with their situation. Moreover, I agree with them that this is not a problem in Santa Cruz but a global one which concerns justice, food security, racism, it is culture hostility against minority. They also mentioned that some similar ones that fight for people who …show more content…
The Spanish speech and the Mexican performance present to everyone this place's special culture meaning and food resources for the community. At the same time, I can see why when one of the interns said that "relationship between company and community has lots of discrimination and misrepresents". As an Asian in US, I sometimes find that people in other social groups react negatively to a group of Asian people or an Asian community. The same with this community, that different languages and cultures in a community with a high concentration of minority can create a barrier between inside and outside the community. I remember someone in the event mentioned that the wall with some Mexican heritage paint was whitewashed by the city. I recalled what Professor Fairbairn said about why people become targets of racism and discrimination. I think this is considered an example of institutional