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To: hui zhou who wrote (5844)	4/27/2006 9:27:05 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6370

The Chinese students in MIT have done an excellent job in protesting the racist "Visualizing Cultures" project. And that MIT professor already formally apologized mitbbs.com Here are some email communication ??????????? To: Acton_Chinese@yahoogroups.com From: "Wei Gao" Add to Address BookAdd to Address Book Add Mobile Alert Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 22:46:13 -0400 Subject: RE: [Acton_Chinese] Meet the MIT Japanese professor I wrote to Shigeru and this is his response. I called him sure I can't reach him and his voicemail is full. I also wrote letter to The MIT President. We need to make formal complains to the dean and their President. They as University should understand much better what education is and what is the purpose of education. Wei Dear Mr. Gao, I deeply regret that our Visualizing Cultures project, which is intended to expose atrocities of war, propaganda, and racism, has been misunderstood. It is by no means an art appreciation project, as so many have mistakenly described it. At least for those in the vicinity, Prof. John Dower, who created the unit you are referring to, and I will be available to discuss the issues that have arisen. In the meantime, recognizing that at this point we cannot avoid the misunderstandings, we have pulled the unit off temporarily until we can better understand how these atrocities can be exposed without the regrettable misunderstandings that have occurred. I also thank you for your kind offer to meet. Shall we try to chat by phone as a starter? My phone number is 617-253-6346. My voicemail is full, something I'm going to try to address shortly. Shigeru Miyagawa -----Original Message----- From: Acton_Chinese@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Acton_Chinese@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Qing Ping Sent: 2006?4?25? 23:56 To: Acton_Chinese@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Acton_Chinese] Meet the MIT Japanese professor Note: location changed. copied from MIT CSSA mailing list Wed, April 26th, 5:30pm in MIT 14E-310 Dear all: As you may know that in the past two days, MIT's homepage introduced an open course of Japanese history and culture, which presents a lot of bias and misleading pictures about the history shared between China and Japan. A lot of us had strong feelings for that, and have written to the webmasters and the institute to protest those materials, and shared our thoughts and opinions via emails. Some of us had a brief meeting this noon and have reached a couple of agreements and suggestions here: 1) We will meet those two professors of the open course tomorrow (Wed, April 26th) 5:30pm in E51. This meeting is NOT organized by MIT CSSA, it is self-organized meeting to express our feelings and protest the inapporpriate materials in the website of open course ware (OCW), and the exhibition of MIT FMA. 2) We strongly encourage each of you who had feelings or opinions on this open course and exhibition to come to meet the professors and speak out. So pl s do come even if you cannot stay for the whole thing or have to be late. If you have time conflict please send guozhan@mit.edu and hidyhu@mit.edu your opinions, and circulate the info to other friends. In addition, you can forward us the email you wrote to the institute, we will try to organize our thoughts and find out what we want the institute to do on this issue. 3) Please send your friends, not necessary MIT students those info, and let us hear their opinions and let them help protest those inappropriate materials at MIT. ocw.mit.edu ocw.mit.edu ocw.mit.edu 4) In the meanwhile, you and your friends can help protest those inappropriate materials by writing to MIT OCW at ocw.mit.edu and write to President Susan Hockfield at hockfield@mit.edu or call her office at (617)253-0148 to express your feelings. Thank you very much for your feedback and supporting.