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    Anti Chinese Immigration

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    immigrated to the United States in two very distinct waves, the Chinese immigrants and the Irish immigrants. Both immigrant groups suffered hardships when they first arrived in America and were exploited for their labor. There were anti-Chinese movements and anti-Irish movements which created negative stereotypes for these people and increased American resentment towards these immigrants. The majority…

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    From what I noticed, I can summarize a few basic rules on Chinese food from all the sources I retrieved. One, Chinese food is simply food with the smart application of numerous tools and seasoning to enhance the flavors. Some of these flavors are usually dominant, but are integrated with opposite flavors. Two, Chinese food requires a certain amount of diligence and patience, but those who wait are often rewarded with the best-tasting food…

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    sentiment roots towards the hatred for the Chinese people’s menial job takeover, which began during the Gold Rush. Americans were afraid that the Chinese, and eventually the Japanese, would steal all the jobs. This created a lot of hostility among working class Americans and even caused a major riot. Denis Kearney, an anti-asian riot leader, rampaged through parts of Chinatown, a community the Chinese made for themselves after being isolated. Eventually, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed due…

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    New China Case Study

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    Service Theater Framework for New China Express Introduction New China Express is a Chinese food restaurant located across to the University of Nebraska in Kearney, Nebraska. New China Express is a chain restaurant with over 10 years of history. The restaurant provides dine-out, take away and delivery service. It is open from 11a.m. to 10 p.m. from Monday to Sunday. The customers may order randomly on the menu or may have buffet in the noon. The rating of New China Express on Zomato is 3.6 out…

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    Pui Tak Center

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    Chinatown. The Chinese started coming to Chicago in smaller numbers after 1870, After the 20th century less than 1,200. Until the 1940s when federal laws only allowed men to enter with only a few exceptions, chinatowns over america were populated with chinese men. Groups called Tongs were formed and were extremely influential, many tongs fought for control over chinatown. The most powerful tong was the On Leong Tong, which was established in November of 1893. However in 1993 the Chinese…

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    Amy Tan is an American author of the novels who writes about Chinese American women and her experience with different cultures. Amy Tan was born on February 19, 1952, in Oakland, California. She grew up in California and in Switzerland. She studied English and linguistics at San Jose State University and the University of California. Amy Tan was a successful business writer, in 1987 when she took her Chinese immigrant mother to revisit China. Tan had difficulty accepting her Chinese heritage.…

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    Marilyn Chin's Poem

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    Marilyn Chin’s Asian American Struggle Toward Self-Definition in “How I Got That Name” Understood by John Cery According to John Cery, Marilyn Chin’s poems are all interconnected in regards to their themes of “authenticity, heritage, and self-erasure,” (25). Cery claims that, “[A] finely honed voice, struggling toward self-definition,” has emerged from Chin’s poems (25). He proves this through his depictions of her “self-mockery and satire,” (36) as well as her “pattern of multiplicity,…

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    Hart-Celler Act known as the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, put policies in place that greatly affected Asian Americans and the US demographic population which were immediate and evident over time. Up until the act of 1965 Asian Americans were highly discriminated against and laws were made to keep them from immigrating to the US. “In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first law in the United States that denied immigration to a specific ethnic group” (Le, 2016).…

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    the first-generation Chinese-American citizens because she was born in California at October 27, 1940 as the eldest child to a poor Chinese family who were wishing for better life, so they decides to immigrate and reside in the United States because of starvation in China, in 1924. Kingston father works as a teacher in China, while her mother works as a midwife there. Chen Lok Chua
 records that the first generation of Chinese immigrants have the same version of the American dream. They call…

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    Chinese American Assimilation Struggles America is often referred to as a melting pot, rich with culture that combines together to make one united country, but Amy Tan and many other Chinese Americans come to realize that the melting process is very difficult. Chinese American’s complete assimilation into the American culture can be near impossible with so many hardships. Their assimilation struggles include embarrassment, staying true to the family, and trying to blend the unique Chinese…

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