Chinese American

The life of Chinese Immigrants in the United States wasn’t easy as Chinese Exclusion Act suspend Chinese immigration into the country in 1882. In the old days, almost most of the Chinese immigrants arrived in America with hopes of being rich so they will be able to send money back to their poor families. They had heard that California is a place that they could search for gold, but in fact they soon discovered that the gold mountain was just an illusion. Since they finally realized that the gold…

over other minority groups and helped ease their assimilation into American society. A strong sense of community characterized Portland’s Japantown before World War II. Because multiple families lived in the same neighborhood, there were many…

5. In American Born Chinese, Gene Yang employed images and composition to reveal how the conversation Greg condescended upon Jin left Jin feeling lonely and powerless because Jin believed that Greg was the more Alpha male and possessed more say on Amelia. The similarity and difference in images of Greg and Jin testified that Jin knew Greg as more of an Alpha male than him and explained why Jin’s boiling response cooled off the moment he saw Greg. When Jin sat in the classroom and pounded over…

achievement of Chinese Americans have two explanations that are cultural and structural explanations. The cultural explanation mentions about how the cultures cause the high academic achievement of Chinese Americans. For instance, the culture of afterschool tutoring in Hong Kong helped many Chinese to achieve high educational achievement. On the other hand, the structural explanation mentions about how the family background or racial stereotype causes the high academic achievement of Chinese…

English. So when I started school, I was made fun of for not know certain things, but eventually I made friends with people who taught me how you would say those certain words in English. Another scene where I can relate to Wei-Chen Sun from American Born Chinese is when he was making fun of Jin for liking a girl, and he is excuse for doing that was that in Taiwan you do not like a girl until you are eighteen. Jin then told him that, no in the United States that guys can like girls at whatever…

The American Civil War took place between the Union and the Confederate and the Chinese Civil War of 1946-1949 took place between Kuomintang and the Communist Party. Both played important roles in countries’ history, the American Civil War and the Chinese Civil War of 1946-1949 have some similarity such as the effects and consequences of the war, but the purpose of the war and the treatment toward citizens during the war time are different. In fact, both the American Civil War and the Chinese…

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).…

Greetings everyone. I immigrated to the US in the late 1870s, and I’m here today to defend all Chinese immigrants against your policies for immigration, who has been wronged, greatly wronged. Do not ask me how I came into this building or how I heard about your plan, because all I want is to finish this speech and express my discontentment and anger towards this outrageous treatment. I heard the exclusion laws are going to be extended for another 10 years, but more importantly, anyone who enters…

INTRODUCTION - ~ THESIS - When evaluating Arnold “Junior” Spirit from Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Jin Wang from Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese, similarities radiate in both characters as their disparity in race deem the two of them as outcasts in the entirety of society. In addition to their lack of social interactions, their uniformity in their impulsive decisions cost them each a dear friend. Although Junior and Jin are quite similar, they…

The Crispy Fried Cat Gizzards panel in Gene Luen Yang’s novel American Born Chinese emphasizes stereotypes of Chinese people and their effect on society. At this point in the story, Chin-Kee has arrived to stay with Danny. They are in the cafeteria of Danny’s school, eating lunch. It has been a long day for Danny already, because Chin-Kee has been answering lots of questions correctly during class. Danny feels that this is drawing too much attention to Chin-Kee. Chin-Kee’s enthusiasm towards…