Chinese American

Every individual in America has his or her own version of the “American Dream”. Webster’s dictionary defines the term as “the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative.” The dream is very much alive to those who strive to make it into reality, after all, anything is possible if one sets their mind to it. The American dream is very much alive to those who dedicate their life to what they desire,…

junior year of high school, my AP United States history teacher showed us a video about 4 Chinese students that had to take a college placement test. This video was enlightening because I had just received my ACT scores back and I had done better than I had expected to do. I did not think about this video again until February of my senior year when I had a Chinese exchange student come and stay with me. Her American name was Tiffany and she was a sophomore at Jian Ping High School, an elite…

world, do not be born a girl child." (Choy, 27) This quote is significant Jook-Liang was a 6 year old girl at the start of the book her being female is also that start of many problems. Jook-Liang is looked down upon simply for being a girl in the Chinese culture. In old China females were seen as we compared to their male counterparts as they could not perform tasks such labour work. Jook ironically always put down by her grandmother who of course was once a girl now an old woman. I believe…

language but instead Chinese Mandarin. Mandarin is the official language of China. How can he theorize that comment, when China has six different dialects? According to Britannica Encyclopedia “These languages include Mandarin in the northern, central, and western parts of China; Wu; Northern and Southern Min; Gan (Kan); Hakka (Kejia); and Xiang; and Cantonese (Yue) in the southeastern part of the country” (Egerod, p.1). He does mention relevant information such as how the Chinese economy and…

multi-cultural country today. Canada had a main focus to exclude Chinese, Japanese and Indian immigrants. In 1904, Canada raised the head tax which is a tax on incoming Chinese laborers, to $500 which is equal to two years ' gross earnings of a Chinese laborer here (Hannant). This had made it harder for Chinese, Japanese and Indian immigrants to come as if they moved here they would be put in poverty. Having a head tax stopped many Chinese immigrant but not enough Indian immigrants as Canadian…

Consider these reasons, Chinese truck drivers always choose to take more cargo than legal provisions. So when designers design the bridge, this situation should definitely take into consideration. However, in this case, even if the design load was double the standard, it could make…

At present, Chinese NGOs are involved in many fields of work related to social development. According to a report by Professor Wang Ming of Tsinghua University, we can see that NGOs are active mainly in: social services (45%), survey and research (43%), industrial associations’ and societies’ work (40%), legal counseling and service (25%), policy consulting (22%) and poverty reduction (21%). 2.2 Hong Kong Hong Kong is on the eastern side of the Pearl River Delta on the southeastern…

Tan’s Joy Luck Club tells the story of four pairs of mothers and daughter connecting with their inner self through the difficulties in culture and family. The novel takes place in pre-revolution China and twentieth century San Francisco. The American- born Chinese daughters, Jing-mei (June) Woo, Rose Hsu, Waverly Jong, Lena St. Clair, their immigrant mothers Suyuan Woo, An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, Ying-ying St. Clair in the novel The Joy Luck Club all have their own identities in each one of their…

Universities in general invest a lot of resources in recruiting large numbers of international students which in turn generate significant revenue for its coffers. American universities have a stake in making sure that the stream of foreign students coming to their shores do not go elsewhere. The list of ideas to improve the educational and social experiences of the international student body is quite inexhaustible…

that l speak English sound different from Americans, Cambodians, Indians, etc. Example from the article Mother Tongue, “Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 5p percent of what my mom says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent. Some say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese” (1). Even when Amy 's mother can speaks English she hasn 't lose her original Chinese accent. Learning a new culture…