Why does DU completely ignore Asian Pacific American Heritage Month?

[Hekate]

13. Because someone has to start posting about it & that someone is you. These things...

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...do not happen all by themselves.

I was once lectured by someone I'd never met before about how it was my "duty" to think up special-interest group activities for the club we both belonged to. At that time there were three women doing all the interesting stuff -- read: we were doing all the actual work to keep the local branch alive. One hosted the book discussion group (me), one the board games group, and one the once a month open-house social. The games group hostess was also the editor of the newsletter and local president. We were not hired by anyone or paid for our time. The editor and local prez were elected positions, also unpaid.

I tried to explain to this fellow that there was no such "duty," there were only people who up and decided they wanted a book group or a place to play Scrabble, and they put it in the bulletin and opened their home. He got really pissed off at me (I'm sure you won't, amirite?)

DU is very much like that. If you start posting on the topic of Asian-Pacific Islander Month, people will respond and a discussion will ensue. If I see it (if) I will probably join in, because I was raised in Hawai'i and my undergrad major was Asian and Pacific History, so I retain a strong interest in related topics to this day. For interest, when people were posting about the native Hawai'ian protests against adding more telescopes to their sacred mountain, I engaged in vigorous debate with certain DUers who had no respect for their point of view. I just don't initiate OPs.

I'll keep an eye out for whatever you decide to put out there. Mahalo for bringing it up.