It is worth to learn the world history because it has shaped today’s society. As an international student, it is interesting to learn and have a better understanding on the history of the United States. I was glad to have Mr. Richard Ng to be my interviewee for my final history essay. In the following essay, I would like to tell you about the biggest historical event that has been influenced on Mr. Ng’s life and get related to what I have learnt in this history class.
First, I would like to briefly give you some background information of Mr. Ng. Mr. Ng is a Chinese. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1967, and he was living in Berkeley. At that time, he was studying in high school as an eleventh grade student.
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Ng’s life. “With college students exempted from the draft”, there was the Antiwar Movement (Foner 792). He mentioned that it was political instability in Berkeley at that time. There were many people organized and participated in the marches to oppose Vietnam War. He told me that hippies would like to be antiwar because they wanted to have a peaceful world. On the other hand, most of the Americans supported the war because of the identity. The Americans loved their country, so they would like to support the United States. Therefore, most of his American classmates were being drafted for the war. He did not join any marches, and he just stayed in the classroom in UC Berkeley. He said the reason that he did not joined the antiwar marches since he experienced the most political instability in the United States. He felt secured, so he decided to focus on his study. As a person who immigrated to the United States for just few years, it was a quite difficult time to adapt an insecure environment. In the interview, I understand why Mr. Ng did not want to voice out his opposition of the war because of the sense of insecurity. However, it is important to express because it helped to have a peaceful world. “Young men were burning their draft cards or fleeing to Canada to avoid fighting in what they considered an unjust war” (Foner 792). These kinds of people expressed their opinions of the war. They did something to earn …show more content…
That event was Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination. In June 1968, “a young Palestinian nationalist assassinated Robert F. Kennedy, who was seeking the Democratic nomination as a opponent of the war” (Foner 803). At that time, Martin Luther King was assassinated by a white assassin too (Foner 802). Mr. Ng thought that the United States was a dangerous country because many famous noble was assassinated easily. A person with his own political thought would be killed. He had a sense of insecurity. Mr. Ng also told me about John F. Kennedy’s assassination that I did not know. I definitely have no ideas of assassination. I think that it would just happen in the movies. When I read my textbook and interviewed Mr. Ng, I found that assassination was in the real world, and it happened in the United States in 1960s, I was shocked. I cannot believe America was a country like that. It was a very serious and significant event in the history of the United