關於 perspectives 3 answers ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

美國六位前教育部長共同署名發表的意見，認為美國應加強歷史與公民教育，建國還是要學，但可以從更為反思的角度去思考，以反思型的愛國主義作為核心。
　
「The Educating for American Democracy Initiative offers a new vision for history and civics that supports educators in dealing effectively with fundamental tensions inherent in civic learning, integrates a diversity of experiences and perspectives throughout, and cultivates civil disagreement and reflective patriotism.
　
As an example, the Roadmap can help teachers guide conversations among students about how we can integrate the perspectives of Americans from all backgrounds when analyzing the content of the philosophical foundations of American constitutional democracy. The recommendations of the Roadmap weave history and civics together and inspire students to learn by asking difficult questions, such as “What does our history reveal about the aspirations and tensions captured by the motto E pluribus unum?” then seeking answers in the classroom through facts and discussion.」

似乎黎真喎！！！

(Update: 中文繹版連結：https://www.facebook.com/329728177143445/posts/1800273350088913/)

“An open letter to Eric Kwok, and for everyone re homophobia, discrimination and bullying”

Dear Eric,

Imagine this. You are one of the contestants on a TV talent show. You are sitting in a room with other hopefuls and one of the judges walks into the room and demanded this: “Raise your hand if you are not homophobic.”

I’m very sure you will raise your hand.

You don’t have to answer me whether or not you really are homophobic. But stay with the feeling inside your mind. How do you feel?

Your feelings are most likely the same as the feelings of your contestants when you walked into a room and asked them to raise their hands to declare their sexual orientation publicly. Because in this day and age, homophobia is just as “controversial” as homosexuality, if not more.

The reason why I’m writing this open letter to you is because after reading your apology, I want to take the opportunity to address to you, and everyone out there, the need for proper etiquette regarding LGBT issues, and to address the forms of micro-aggression, bullying and discrimination the LGBT community faces everyday especially in the workplace.

I’m taking this incident seriously because from my personal experience, this is not just a one-time slip-up for you.

I remember long time ago I was so looking forward to meeting and working with you because you are, after all, Eric Kwok the great songwriter.

You were very friendly when we talked privately. Then I started to notice how once there were audiences, media or other people around and when the cameras were turned on, you would start making insinuating and demeaning gay jokes about me and in front of me. Jokes and comments even my closest friends wouldn’t dare to make in public.

At first, I didn’t really pay too much attention. I just brushed it off as juvenile and trivial. In fact, I had been so used to these jokes since growing up that I learned not to react much.

However, as time progressed and we worked on more occasions, the same thing would happen repeatedly. The teasing and the stereotypical gay jokes continued and you would make sure that the spotlight would fall on me afterwards. The jokes no longer felt light. They felt hostile, even vindictive.

In fact, it felt like bullying.

One of these incidents was well documented in tabloids back then and you can still look it up yourself on the internet.

I came to the realization that it was not just a one-time thing. I don’t know if it’s intentional or unintentional but it’s definitely a habit and a pattern.

So many questions would be in my mind every time after working with you. Why does Eric do that every time? Is he picking on me? Does he hate me? Is he homophobic? Does he think homosexuality is something funny? Does he do this to other people too? Did I do something that pissed him off? I remember I was nothing but courteous. So why do I deserve this?

I had no answers for all of these questions. All I knew was I became fearful of working with you, dreading what words would fall out of your mouth to put me in an awkwardly embarassing position. But still I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt. You’re from California you shouldn’t be homophobic. I even defended you in my head by telling myself to loosen up.

But it’s not just you. Throughout my years in the entertainment industry, I have encountered and endured so many chauvinistic “tough guys” who like to use homosexuality as a laughing stock or source of bad comedy which were all discriminating and demeaning, yet not funny.

It’s not only me. I’m sure many people of the LGBT community face this everyday in their workplace. People around them would claim their intentions were harmless but we all knew deep down that these “jokes” have the power to put people someone in an embarrassing, inferior and even threatening positions.

We kept quiet and tolerated. Sometimes we even felt obligated to laugh along just so we couldn’t afford to look “petty” or “stiff”, especially in front of people of higher authority and stature.

So Eric I want to ask you.

Why have you been so obsessed with my sexuality all these years?

Why are you so fascinated by other people’s sexuality?

Why is being gay such a huge issue to you even to this day that you had to make it the first thing you asked your contestants?

Why you also had to specifically make a post on social media about that fact you questioned people about their sexuality?

Why do you take so much pride publicly in your ability to guess who are the gay contestants even when they weren’t ready to share that information?

And most of all why do you find all this to be so funny?

To begin with one’s sexual orientation is a very personal thing which others have no right to intrude, even in the entertainment industry where you are supposed to be fine with “controversy”.

This is for you and everyone out there: using your power and authority to demand someone to declare his or her sexual orientation, especially in a work environment, is ancient, barbaric and unacceptable.

Kicking someone out of the closet is just pure evil.

The fact you did what you did, especially with your stature and on broadcast TV, is not only wrong, but also you are telling the Hong Kong audience that it’s alright to continue this form of intrusion and micro aggression that the LGBT community wants to see gone.

You’re leading a very poor example by giving Hong Kong audience the impression that being gay is still a taboo.

How are your contestants, who are boys of young age, going to offer new perspectives to the Hong Kong audience under your guidance if you perpetuate stereotyping and demonstrate to them that being gay is still an issue?

I feel sorry for any contestants who are in fact gay sitting in that room that day too. They must have been traumatized seeing the way you forced your inquisition. The impression you left them with is that the entertainment industry is still a very unfriendly place for gays. Is that what you want them to think?

But most of all, it’s the attitude, tone and manner with which you shared about this incident on social media, giving people the impression that any matter regarding sexual orientation is still something shameful and laughable, which is on top of list the thing that the LGBT community fights hard everyday to change.

When you said in your apology you “have great respect for gay people, especially their hard fight for equality” I became baffled as what you did, in the past to me or in that room to the boys, is the exact thing that makes the LGBT community’s ongoing fight for equality so difficult.

Putting people down, perpetuate stereotypes, heckling and ridiculing yet making it look OK is anything but liberal and respectful, or Californian. I don’t see any “entertainment values” that are of good taste if they are made up at the expense of other people’s struggle.

If this incident happened in America, where you grew up, you would’ve gotten yourself in such hot waters that you probably can’t get out of.

I just want you and everyone out there to know that it’s not okay. And it never was. Never will be.

Being “as liberal as it gets” is great. Having gay friends is great too. Having dinner with your gay friends is absolutely fabulous! Playing all these cards to avoid being labelled as “homophobic” is very convenient. But having class, empathy, kindness and authentic respect is a completely different territory. These don’t come automatically with backgrounds.

At this point you don’t owe me an apology. I just hope that after this incident you can really start working and living with the essences of a truly liberal and creative individual. Inspire changes and end stereotypes. Start new trends and break old patterns. Embrace and not segregate. Do the work.

I had been away from Hong Kong and the industry for a few years now. It breaks me heart that I have to write this sort of open letter when it’s already 2018. I want to make this industry a safer, nicer and more accepting place to work in when I return. I want members of the LGBT community in Hong Kong, who have been so supportive of me and my music, to also have safer and nicer working environment in their respective lives.

I don’t mind coming off as an over-reacting petty bitch with no sense of humour if my message finally comes through and everyone, including you, “gets it”. I rather have no sense of humour than a bad one.

To all the contestants of the show. If anyone ever asks you if you are gay and you are not ready to discuss, it’s OK to stand up for yourself and say this: “It’s a rude question to begin with. You have no right to get an answer from me to begin with. And it doesn’t matter. It SHOULDN’T matter. It’s 2018. I hope one day I can use my craft to inspire the world and to make this become a non-issue.”

But if you are ready to be open, you have my complete support and love.

Let’s hope that through acceptance, learning and effort, one day there will no longer be any “controversial questions”. Wouldn’t we like that Eric?

Yours truly,
Pong

#LGBT
#homophobia
#safeworkplace
#中文版稍後會有
Eric Kwok 郭偉亮

A GIRL HAS NO NAME: This post answers the "why" questions
.....โพสท์ที่จะตอบคำถามว่า "ทำไม" ถึงเท และไปเที่ยว
(Eng Below)

ทำไมอยู่ๆก็ไปเที่ยว?

ทำไมไม่สมัครงานเลย?

คำถามที่แพทเจอบ่อยๆ หลายคนสงสัยว่า ไปทำไม โพสท์นี้จึงอยากเล่าถึงที่มาที่ไปว่า แล้วทำไมแพทถึงไป

…..เพราะว่า แพทอยากไปที่ที่แทบจะไม่รู้จักใครในประเทศนั้น และแทบจะไม่มีใครรู้จักแพทเหมือนกัน คงเป็นเพราะว่า ถ้าไม่มีใครรู้จักเรา ก็ไม่มีใครมาตัดสินเรา หรือกดดันเด็กจบใหม่คนนี้ได้

…..เพราะว่า แพทอยากไปเจอโลกกว้าง กว้างกว่าที่เราเคยเจอและรู้จัก ออกจาก comfort zone ของตัวเองบ้าง เพราะโลกนี้ยังมีอะไรอีกเยอะมากกว่าที่เราเข้าใจ

…..เพราะว่า มีความคิดอยากไปดูว่าบ้านเมืองอื่นเขาเป็นยังไง ไปถึงไหนกันแล้ว เพื่อว่าวันนึงเราอาจจะสามารถพัฒนาประเทศของเราบ้าง

…..เพราะว่า แพทชอบที่จะได้รู้จักคนใหม่ๆ คนที่มาจากคนละที่ มีวัฒนธรรมไม่เหมือนกัน มีมุมมองใหม่ๆให้เราได้เรียนรู้และรับฟัง เชื่อว่าความคิดคนอื่นบ้างครั้งที่เราไม่เข้าใจ เราอาจจะพลาดวิธีการคิดของเขาไปรึเปล่า ถ้าเราลองย้อนดู อาจจะเข้าใจเขามากขึ้น

….สุดท้าย และสำคัญที่สุด!! เพราะว่าเราอยากรู้จักตัวเองให้มากขึ้น อยากคุยกับตัวเอง อยากหา inspiration ในการทำงาน และอยากค้นพบตัวเอง โดยการที่จะทำอย่างงั้นได้ เลยอยากไปในที่ใหม่ๆ ไปในที่ที่เราเป็น A girl with no name

หลังจากผ่านการเรียนมาตลอด 17 ปี ตอนนี้ Free แล้วค่ะ Free จากหน้าที่การเรียน ไม่ต้องรอการเปิดเทอม เป็นอะไรที่ Blank ความรู้สึกเหมือนด้านหน้ามีสะพานหลายอัน ทุกอันมีหมอกปกคลุมทำให้เราไม่สามารถรู้ได้ว่าหนทางข้างหน้าของแต่ละเส้นทางเป็นอย่างไร

ทางเดียวที่จะรู้คือเราต้องเดินไปข้างหน้า ไป experience ด้วยตัวเอง

ในเมื่อไม่มีพันธะใดๆ แพทจึงตัดสินใจเดินตามสะพานที่รู้แค่ว่านำทางไปสนามบิน วางทุกอย่างไว้ก่อน วางคนเดิมที่เคยเป็น ยังไม่หางาน และ ออกเดินทาง

จึงเป็นที่มาของทริป “#62DaysTeeradaInEurope” ทริปยุโรป 2 เดือน
“The trip of my total freedom.” ทริปที่แพทตัดสินใจไปคนเดียว (ถึงจะมีแจมเพื่อนๆบ้าง)

แพทจึงสร้างเพจนี้ขึ้นมา อยากเล่า อยากแชร์ และอยากเก็บความทรงจำ สิ่งต่างๆที่เจอมา แพทอาจจะไม่ได้ลงดีเทลสถานที่ต่างๆ ไม่ได้รู้ประวัติมากมาย และไม่ได้วิเคราะห์ลึกขนาดนั้น 5555 และยังไม่สามารแนะนำการเที่ยวแบบ on budget ได้ เพราะใช้เงินแอบเกินเหมือนกัน เพราะเราอยากกินอะไรก็ตามใจปาก แต่ก็ไม่ได้แบบแพงมากนะ นอนก็นอนHostel ที่โอเค, airbnb หรือแอบมีสลับนอนโรงแรมบ้างเป็นครั้งคราว เรียกได้ว่าเที่ยวสายกลางละกัน มีประหยัดบ้าง Spoil ตัวเองบ้าง

สิ่งที่อยากจะพูดคงจะเป็นประสบการณ์ของตัวเองล้วนๆ และก็อยากจะเรียนรู้จากประสบการณ์ของคนอื่นเหมือนกัน (มาเล่าได้น้า แชร์ได้เลย) และเพจนี้ก็อยากเอาไว้แปะ Trip Inspiration ต่างๆของตัวเองด้วย

* รอติดตาม my trip plan โพสท์ต่อไปนะคะ ว่าไปไหนมาบ้าง สำหรับทริป “#62DaysTeeradaInEurope” ☺

PS.ชื่อโพสท์ยังมีความติ่ง GOT เบาๆ 55555
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A girl has no name.
......This post answers the "why" questions

Why did I leave?

Why didn’t I apply for a job right away?

My answers to your “why” are
…… Because I like the idea of going where I barely know anyone and where they do not know me neither. In that sense, I think no one can judge or put pressure on this recently graduated girl.

……Because in that way, I am just a little girl exploring this big and wonderful world outside of her comfort zone and outside of the world she knew before.

……Because I have that insane ideas that I might be able to learn from other countries and improve my own in the future.

…… Because I like the idea of learning from people with different cultures and perspectives

…… Most importantly, because I like the idea of getting to know me, getting to talk to myself and finding inspiration to work. I’d like to find myself eventually. And in order to find myself, I want to start with being a girl with no name.

So after 17 years of studying, finally now I am free. I am free from any obligation for once, no more routinely semesters await. Just blank. Like looking at the bridges that covered in fog, in which, you wouldn't be able to tell what’s ahead of each bridge unless you take them.

My free self decide that I want to take the bridge that says it’s going to bring me to the airport, drop the duty of finding a job, leave who I think I used to be, and just go to Europe for 2 months!

That’s when “62DaysTeeradaInEurope” trip begins!

“The trip of my total freedom.”

I created this page to share about my stories. I probably do not have that in details information of different places, deep analysis of the countries or tips on traveling with low budget. What I have is my raw experiences that I just wanna share and hopefully also learn about your stories as well.

PS. yeppp :) I'm a fan of GOT!