Chinese American history

generation kids, this tweet hit home. It made us think about all the mishaps of growing up with a family that wasn’t necessarily “American”. Upon viewing the controversy for the first time, I was appalled at the audacity of this young girl to disrespect such a sacred piece of Chinese fashion and history. How could someone so mindlessly and shamelessly “thrift” an artifact of the Chinese culture? After discussing the issue with my peers, I discovered that the offense was not obvious to all.…

to think that they are higher and lower people such as black or other color can never be part of them and never be like them. This bring in racism, separation of color people, and Othering in the community in America. Language is used throughout history to bring in stereotype and Othering to one or…

why red color in Chinese become a symbol of good luck, health, honor and happiness. At traditional Chinese wedding, everything is red, the bride wears an embroidered gown, a Phoenix coronet shawl on bead and a red scarf. Phoenix patterns on the clothing are indispensable in China's culture. It symbolizes female and indicates auspicious. For the red scarf, it should be uncovered by the bridegroom until…

but an Anglicized term (Gibney, 2016). The same logic is applied to Chinese cuisine, but is two-fold. To the average Westerner, Chinese cuisine attributed to the whole of China is typically the North American fast-food version, dishes such as General Tso’s and Kung-Pow Chicken. This is in addition to the aforementioned neglect of the existence of regional disparities already applied to a country’s cuisine on the whole. Chinese cooking is…

The Far East Side of American Classrooms American sitcoms often mock societal trends and highlight the best and worst stereotypes of American cultures. Aibel and Berger, writers of the animated sitcom King of the Hill, made a very poignant statement in the episode “Westie Side Story”, when a Laotian family moves into the small Texas community (1997). The main character Hank Hill innocently asks his neighbor, “So, are you Chinese or Japanese?” His neighbor, Kahn Souphanousinphone, replies, “I…

write the main paper, please allow me to write a preface for this essay because this topic is special and important to me. Although I majored in Chinese History and Chinese Classical Literature while I was a first year college student in China before I came to the United States, as an international student, writing a serious academic paper about the Chinese classic masterpiece Tao-te Jing and the Great Master Lao-Tzu…

Ronnie sees Benjamin’s request as a personal assault. “What are you gonna ask me next? Where you can find the best dim sum in the city?” (Meyer 859). Ronnie believes that he was asked how to find Chinatown because he is Chinese. He sees this as a direct affront to his culture and background. Paul James, a professor at the University of Western Sydney, writes that “…categorizations about identity, even when codified and hardened into clear typologies by processes of colonization…

Book Review Anne Pegler-Gordon 's in Sight of America: Photography and the development of U.S. immigration policy, is a study that illustrates the importance of photography and the development of photographic identity documentation and its role in the regulation of immigrants. In addition the study explains how these developments produced racial distinction and how these distinctions contributed to the immigration policy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Pegler Gordon main…

of a wide variety of materials allowed for a unique specialization and craftsmanship in certain materials like copper, clay and stone that distinguished these cultures from each other. Each of these civilizations marked an important time period in history due to their artistic, intellectual and political contributions. Most of these contributions have inspired many of our current technological advances in different aspects of society. These…

Throughout history, many people come to America by force or immigration. Many found the hardship and fulfilled the dream. At the time Olaudah Equiano arrived in America, the new land, his life and fate is set to change dramatically. In the narrative, the conflicts that Equiano wrestles within in his life are devastating account that happened in human history. Although Equiano and I live in different time, our experiences connect us with the problem of first generation settler. Examining contexts…