One of the important ways regarding formation of Asian American communities were
interethnic relations and new social units. According to the Lee book, nearly a century after the
Chinese came to the US to mine gold, “Asians in America made their way in predominantly
male, multiethnic societies with few female co-ethnics” (Lee 2014, pg. 108). Since the three
largest Asian groups in the US before World War 2 were the Chinese, Japanese, and the
Filipinos, they integrate each other very well, and one of the examples were bunkhouse
communities in Sherman Island near Contra Costa and Sacramento, along with other minority
Asian groups, Mexicans, whites, and African Americans. Integration between Asian Americans
and other races were
interethnic relations and new social units. According to the Lee book, nearly a century after the
Chinese came to the US to mine gold, “Asians in America made their way in predominantly
male, multiethnic societies with few female co-ethnics” (Lee 2014, pg. 108). Since the three
largest Asian groups in the US before World War 2 were the Chinese, Japanese, and the
Filipinos, they integrate each other very well, and one of the examples were bunkhouse
communities in Sherman Island near Contra Costa and Sacramento, along with other minority
Asian groups, Mexicans, whites, and African Americans. Integration between Asian Americans
and other races were