Good prompt! To me it would look like a lot of resource return and repair with Asian communities. The entitlement hurts so many, but especially Asian communities and practitioners who have to fight through gatekeeping and price gouging to reclaim what is ours... Or be criminalized for not playing by the rules. So if the 75% white profession didn't feel entitled to extract the maximum profit possible from someone else's culture and then make it financially ruinous for anyone without an extra $200k to legally practice? Chinatown in Los Angeles would have a grocery store. All the LA acupuncturists would show up at the protects against the vulture landlords who are exploiting Asian seniors. Acupuncturists would be vocally and materially supporting Asian community-led efforts to combat gentrification. Asian students would have the option of apprenticeship at an affordable, ethical rate. People in teaching and leadership positions would be Asian *and Asian American* specifically because Orientalist acupuncturists/ACU students love to claim Asian folks from the continent as teachers while marginalizing those of us whose lineages have faced anti-Asian racism here. Boutique acupuncture businesses would pay for Asian students' education/training as a practice of right relationship. Everyone would learn medical consent, medical Spanish, gender-affirming care, and trauma informed care... Because we wouldn't feel entitled as a profession to hold this medicine hostage from those on the front lines of structural violence. Acupuncturists would be actively speaking out and taking action in solidarity with migrant communities being terrorized by ICE because there is no acupuncture on this continent without migration.
Love this article Lisa. Thank you for writing it.
I can barely imagine what "the profession" would be like without the heavy load of entitlement it carries.
What a great writing prompt! Let's try to imagine: What WOULD it be like?
We'd be happily sharing our knowledge with other professions, for one thing.
Good prompt! To me it would look like a lot of resource return and repair with Asian communities. The entitlement hurts so many, but especially Asian communities and practitioners who have to fight through gatekeeping and price gouging to reclaim what is ours... Or be criminalized for not playing by the rules. So if the 75% white profession didn't feel entitled to extract the maximum profit possible from someone else's culture and then make it financially ruinous for anyone without an extra $200k to legally practice? Chinatown in Los Angeles would have a grocery store. All the LA acupuncturists would show up at the protects against the vulture landlords who are exploiting Asian seniors. Acupuncturists would be vocally and materially supporting Asian community-led efforts to combat gentrification. Asian students would have the option of apprenticeship at an affordable, ethical rate. People in teaching and leadership positions would be Asian *and Asian American* specifically because Orientalist acupuncturists/ACU students love to claim Asian folks from the continent as teachers while marginalizing those of us whose lineages have faced anti-Asian racism here. Boutique acupuncture businesses would pay for Asian students' education/training as a practice of right relationship. Everyone would learn medical consent, medical Spanish, gender-affirming care, and trauma informed care... Because we wouldn't feel entitled as a profession to hold this medicine hostage from those on the front lines of structural violence. Acupuncturists would be actively speaking out and taking action in solidarity with migrant communities being terrorized by ICE because there is no acupuncture on this continent without migration.