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| Who was Vincent Chin? When and how did he die? |
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| An Asian American man who was killed by two drunk white men. |
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| Who are Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz? |
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| The two white men who killed Vincent Chin, father and step-son respectively. |
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| How does Ebens talk about Chin’s death? What did he do on the night that Chin died? |
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| He acts as if and even said he felt as if it was an accident and that it “just happened”, he was very drunk the night of the incident and even told the prosecution he did not remember much of the night. |
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| What is the “double tragedy” that the supporters of Vincent Chin’s family speak of? |
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| Chin died a few days before he was to be married. The death itself & the fact that both Ebens and Nitz were only given a 3-yr probation and a $3000 fine |
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| In your opinion, what is the answer to the film’s title question? |
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| Ignorance and racism were the two things that killed Vincent Chin, he was wrongly murdered due to the fact he was Asian American. |
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| There are competing claims throughout the film about the role of racism in the murder of Vincent Chin. What do you think? Do you agree with Ebens and his lawyers that Vincent Chin’s race had nothing to do with his death? Or do you agree with the Chin supporters such as Helen Zia who say the opposite? |
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| Agree with Chin supporters because his death was due to his race, if he was white Ebens would have been okay with stopping at fighting a white man, even drunk he would understand that killing a white man would land him in jail in my opinion, but the fact that Chin was Asian American may have allowed him to believe Chin was less of a human. |
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| How does Who Killed Vincent Chin? exemplify the notion that despite all the heterogeneities within the category of “Asian American,” it is still a useful and necessary political and cultural identity? |
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| a. It is important to identify Asian Americans because Vincent Chin was mistaken as Japanese and killed. Other examples would be Pearl Harbor or 911, because in each of these cases a particular nationality group had created conflicts and similar looking people were given hard time or hurt by the stereotypes. It is important to not have the wrong people hurt by other people’s actions. |
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