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Thank you Ellen for sharing your thought and your compassion with us. I really appreciate that. However, I don' t think you should be responsible for everything that happens to you. Because not all of them are your faults. If you try hard to make friends with someone, but they don't accept, they ignore or look down on you, it's obvious their faults. American and international students are all part of problems, they should be all aware of them and are all willing to fix that. Martin Luther King stated clearly in his speech that the struggle of black is strongly attched to the white. Black people can't struggle alone to be equal. They need someone like Lincoln and Harriet Beecher Stowe all participated in the transformations. The same thing happens here. We all want to make effort to bridge the gap, but we need support and compassion from American students. If one day when your child grow up in an American school and she is excluded by her origin, will you ask a 6-year-old girl to be responsible? No, I think you will freak out. What I post in the forum try to make people in the campus aware of the issues we have and figure out the way to solve the problem.

Furthermore, as a community, I think no one should be all responsible for their lives when something is not their faults. Again, The struggle to be equal shouldn't come from one side. No one can be successful by being walking alone.The unprivileged shouldn't blame everything for their responsibility.The rich shouldn't ask the poor to be responsible for their poverty. It sounds like poverty is all their faults. Poverty in this case is considered a failure. As you know in our class, that's not the truth.