Asian American Racial Discrimination

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Throughout the comprehensive strength of all of the countries in the world today 's, undoubtedly United States is the most powerful one. Human 's instinct is like to be close with the stronger one, from the past to the present, the United States has been a lot of different people. People arrive to the United States from all over the world, some people in order to make money and some people are in order to have the identity of the United States of America. However, the United States has always had a legacy of history, that is the problem of race. We all know that the racial discrimination in the United States is very serious. Although more and more people are beginning to realize that the harm of racial discrimination and the threat to peace, …show more content…
In the past, American called Asian Americans “Oriental”. Since the end of nineteenth century, Asian Americans have been excluded and repressed in the United States, in 1882 America released the “Chinese Exclusion Act Chinese”. By this influence, the immigrants with the East Asian descent are defined as "non domestication" and are deprived of their citizenship by naturalization. Those Asian Americans who living in overseas, can only as a second-class, even third class resident living in the United States. In 1960 years, people began to oppose the "Oriental" such a calling, they think this is derogatory and colonial ideology. In 1970, the academic circles began to use the "Asian Americans" as the official name of alternative. In the forties of 20th century, although Asian American ethnic groups living in different environment, but they have the same culture choice tendency, they all duty bound to agree with the United States. Rose Lee who proposed "integration theory" has a great temptation to the majority of Asian, they pursuit of his “American dream” frantically. After 1965, although the number of Asian immigrants continued to increase and the quality has been improved, but the exclusion and discrimination from American social have not diminished. In the 60 s, the situation has reversed, many Asian Americans began to give up the pursuit of American mainstream culture, and establish the real status of Asian American culture in the United States of America by examining their social status in the United States. In 1970, Franklin Hondo, Mary Uyematsu, Ken Hannada, Peggy Lee, and Maria Ds cooperative writing published a collection “Roots: an Asian American Reader”, they are from Japan, India, China and other different countries. They wrote in the book: "We to hard labor and pay taxes, and finally full pockets of wealthy Americans, in return is not equal rights, restricting and discrimination suffered life. Like

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