Chinese American

battle, and being a Warrior fighting to protect the Chinese traditions in a place away from home. While Kingston is in America, she feels as if everyone else there who is not a part of her culture is looking from outside a window at them. She feels like the American culture does not accept others, and you must assimilate into their culture in order to be a part of their society. Kingston's village in America, which is a Chinatown built by Chinese emigrants, is a sense of homeliness for…

The Year of the Dragon and Chan is Missing both address the crisis of identity for Asian Americans and attempt to disprove the fixed notions that surround Asian Americans in society. In Chan is Missing, Wang seeks to illuminate that Asian American identity extends beyond the perpetuated stereotypes. Racial stereotypes are used as the basis of identity for Asian Americans. In their investigation into what happened to Chan Hung, Jo and Steve interview various individuals who Chan Hung encountered…

During the 19th century, though with a fear of racial discrimination, many Chinese chose to leave their home and immigrated to the United States. It is a very important part of U.S history as the number of Chinese immigrants grew rapidly, from about 450 Chinese in 1850 to 63,100 Chinese by 1870 which has a 81% increase from 1860. Apart from social unrest and economics pressures in China, one of the main reasons for them to immigrate to the States was to seek economics opportunities so that they…

The Chinese continued to stay gallant and fight to be equal citizens of San Francisco. Many feared of their power, so the San Franciscans constantly plotted their elimination. During the years of the 1860s and 1870s, Anti- Coolie meeting occurred. The hate groups would constantly blame the Chinese for financial and economic issues. Alfred Buetell said that the Chinese were a curse to all mankind. They called China a “seething cauldron…

and evaluate exceptionalism in Chinese and American cultures are different, so the symbolic meanings of this word vary a lot. In American mythologies, exceptionalism means unique since theism is accepted by most of them, and they consider their race is selected by the God. America is a glorious country; its culture is the collection of cultures from various religions, laws, and different countries or areas. On the contrary, there is no religion in China, so Chinese mythologies of exceptionalism…

In these few decades, China’s economic has growth efficiently and the country is developing rapidly. However, in the 19th century and early 20th century , many Chinese were living under privation whether in cities or rural areas. As a result, many Chinese had the “American dream”: immigrating to the United States to get away from hardship and anticipate for life improvement. Indeed, their main goal was to “gold digging” meaning to earn money for better survival and able to contribute even a…

and Kingston wrote about two different situations in their past reflecting their own cultural background a- In “The struggle to be an all American girl”, Wong shows her disdain of being obliged to attend the Chinese school, and her desire to be an all American girl. b- In “Catfish in the bathtub”, Kingston is only interested in the traditional food of the Chinese culture. 2. The mentality of the author’s mothers are relatively the same a- Both mothers obliged their children to be associative…

Herb Tam is a Chinese-American curator who was born in Hongkong and raised in San Fracisco, Bay area. He is now working as the curator and director of exhibitions at the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) in Manhattan Chinatown, New York. He curated lots of exhibitions focusing on Chinese identity, Chinatown, Chinese-American culture and history as well as their current life in America. Tam, a Chinese-American, is recognized as the minority person. He suffered from some unfairness and…

Even though there are bunches of research touching upon international students’ intercultural adaptation, little research has touched on Chinese international students’ intercultural adaptation in Northern Florida. In Katherine & Dustin’s Accuracy of the United States regional personality stereotypes, the authors explored whether Americans can accurately describe how personality traits vary across regions of the United States. They presented the analyses documenting the strengths of regional…

According to the American Heritage Dictionary, an anchor baby is a child born on American soil thought to have been chosen in order to improve the family’s legal citizenship status. In Lee’s “I Was An Anchor Baby,” Lee uses historical context, personal experiences, and generalizations about what an anchor baby is to build a pathos appeal that contradicts the stereotype that anchor babies are lazy, undeserving, and used so illegal immigrants can be granted citizenship in the United States.…