Chinese American

Fit in Three characters try to fit in. American Born Chinese reveals the following central theme of being yourself. Three characters pass through despair in order to fit in, and in some way they lost their knowledge. They forgot where they come from and who they are. One of them feels better than others. The monkey king feels better than the others monkeys by Luen Yang writes, “All monkeys must wear shoes”(55). The monkey king tries to fit in by telling all the monkeys to wear shoes. The…

Struggle with Diversity and Differences within American Born Chinese” The world we live in is filled with different countries with different cultures. Here in America there is a vast mixing pot of varies ethnicities and cultures. With all these different races and cultures it may be hard to just be one’s self. In the book, “American Born Chinese” published by First Second Books in 2006, author Gene Luen Yang writes about a boy Jin Wang, an American-Chinese boy who wants to fit in. The book…

Xiaojian Zhao in The New Chinese America explores the emergence of a new social hierarchy through the scope of the historical, economic, and social foundations of the Chinese American community. The new social hierarchy was revealed after the 1965 Immigration Act. Zhao gathered her information through a variety of methods including census statistics, archival material and a wide collection of oral histories and face-to-face interviews. She uses class analyses to shed light on the difficulties in…

During the mid-1850s, a large number of Chinese traversed the Pacific Ocean to the United States for one reason: an apparent guarantee of gold deposits in the mountains of balmy California. Although the guarantee of gold allured the Chinese to California in huge numbers, they were already somewhat acquainted with the West Coast prior to the Gold Rush. Around 1600, they knew enough about the state’s territory to draw a coastal map. History proposes early Chinese pioneers may have traveled to…

immigration policy in America is Chinese immigration during the gold rush and industrial revolution. Many Chinese immigrated to the United States in the mid-nineteenth century to take part in California’s gold rush. Speaking on an ancestor’s experience, author Erika Lee writes: A twenty year old farmer from Sun Jock Mee village in the Pearl River delta of southern China, he arrived in California in 1854, with big dreams of Gum Saan, or Gold Mountain, as the Chinese called the United…

behind every ethnicity that has gotten them to where they are today in the educational system. However, these journeys through education also show some similarities. I chose to compare and contrast the educational experiences of Chinese and Hispanic people. Hispanic and Chinese definitely show some overall similarities in their educational experiences. The Great Depression occurred in 1930, which played a big role into educational changes. A federal law was passed banning child labor and…

educational models which are Chinese education and American education. Some people have the same experience around me are often used to compare these two educational models. Then I am prepared to express my views from my personal experience. In china, many people think that American education is more developed than Chinese Education, because American education is more freedom and more emphasis on integrated education. Although these are the advantages of American Education, Chinese education…

Change for the Better? When people think of the industrialization the hoi polloi would usually think of how much it helped Americans towards the future. Well they would not be in the wrong for thinking that, but the industrial revolution was not the bright age of progression most people think it to be. It was also a dark time for the general populous of America. Between 1830 and 1900, the United States population grew by 595%. With the sudden population growth, cities became overcrowded and…

immigrants who are seeking a better life in America, oftentimes have trouble assimilating within the culture. They face things like discrimination and fear of deportation, if they arrive in the United States illegally. The struggle between immigrants and Americans has gone back for centuries, as the two have tried for years to find compromises in living together in one country. The government made efforts after the Civil War and during World War I against immigrants. For example, Congress became…

negative. In spite of the fact that amid the time of 1840 to 1929 nativist reaction toward immigration initially was accepting amid the years of Western Migration, nativist reaction later changed to separated and antagonistic views toward foreigners. Americans even continued to respond with…