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https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00214/full 1. Based on your reading of “The Still Underestimated Problem of Fungal Diseases Worldwide”  by  Almeida et al. , what are two reasons why fungal infections are of increasing importance and what are courses of action that you think we need to take as a society. Answer the following questions: Compare and contrast the experiences of Asian/Pacific Islander immigrant groups in America. How did they differ or share similarities in terms of treatment, discriminatory laws, and immigration? Based on this week’s materials, what does the model minority idea assert about the socio-economic situation of Asian/Pacific Islanders? Do you agree or disagree with this model minority concept? Discuss the rationales behind your agreement or disagreement. Lise Yasui film, A Family Gathering, interweaves personal family history with the broader history of the Japanese American internment particularly through her relatives’ experiences like her grandfather Masuo or uncle Minoru . In what specific ways do you think the internment violated the rights of Japanese Americans during WWII? Were you surprised to find out that two-thirds of the people of Japanese descent sent to internment camps were American citizens? Do you think there are safeguards in the current American system to prevent something similar to the Japanese American internment from occurring today? Why or why not? In particular, compare the experience of Japanese Americans during WWII and Muslim/Arab Americans today in the War on Terrorism or the plight of Latin American immigrants who face xenophobia and racism in the USA. From Seeing Color: Indigenous Peoples and Racialized Ethnic Minorities in Oregon edited by Jun Xing, Erlinda Gonzales-Berry, Patti Sakurai, Robert D. Thompson, and Kurt Peters. (University Press of America, 2007): “Lumber, Railroads, Factories, and Silicon: Asian and Pacific Islanders Americans and Work in Oregon” by Patti Sakurai The Oregon State University Library has scanned copies of all the required articles from the Seeing Color anthology, as part of their efforts to provide materials  for students because of the Covid-19 lockdown.  These Seeing Color articles can be accessed here.