Overseas Filipino

Despite the “generation gap” and the strain on family relations this may cause, Chinese families manage this gap through the cultural and social structures in which they are embedded. Zhou explains how Chinese children continue to perform within their parent’s expectations as a result of their “involvement in the Chinese ethnic community” (2011: 479). The fact that many Chinese immigrant families live in cities and suburbs with a large concentration of Chinese individuals allows these ethnic…

Research Question 5. What kinds of successful enterprises can be observed among China-born immigrants in the GTA, and how can these enterprises be described? Three themes emerged for this research question: (a) Hair salon; (b) Supermarket and retail services; and (c) HAC home services. Following is a discussion of each of these themes. Theme 1: Hair salon. The first type of effective business in the study that could be observed among China-born immigrants in the GTA was specialized, skilled…

In the late nineteenth century, the majority of people coming into the United States were from European countries, and the Chinese immigrants were in the minority. However, these European immigrants felt threatened by the Chinese, and they wanted to stop them from coming in despite their small numbers. Even though the United States claimed that all men are created equal, it still felt compelled to exclude people based on their race and nationality. The United States was built upon the basic…

impact it has on the family. The historical contexts like World War II, colonization by the Japanese and life of Filipinos…

The Road to Mandalay The Road to Mandalay, which I have watched in ASEAN Love Film Screening Activity, is the film co-produced by Myanmar and Taiwan directors. This film reflects Myanmar labours’ life in the Thai society. Thailand is the popular destination for illegal Chinese-Burmese immigrants who want to get a better life. The majority of the movie is devoted to their intertwined lives in Thailand. Even without the romance, the movie reflects the migrant experience well by touching on many…

Apple loses trademark name to Xintong Tiandi Technology The issue of the trademark has been a constant fear for successful companies looking to expand overseas. In places such as China, registering your company trademark before operating in the market is a necessity if the company wants to avoid future disagreement regarding malicious registration of a trademark. Xintong Tiandi Technology Vs Apple Xintong Tiandi Technology is a company based in Beijing. They specialized in leather products…

Julie Otsuka’s novel, The Buddha in the Attic, is a communal narrative of the Japanese Picture Brides who immigrate to the US in the early 1900s. While their narrative is about the immigrant experience, concepts from postcolonial theory can be adapted and are applicable to their story. Throughout the novel, the Picture Brides are shown sharing similar symptoms of that of a colonized subject, embodying what Lois Tyson explains as a “colonized consciousness” (249). According to Tyson, “colonial…

Across the world, there are many different steps that go into play during the loss of a person, whether that be a loved one or a friend. For example, Chinese funeral customs are quite different than how others do burials of the dead. One's social status is what determines their burial rites. They mourn for ninety days and have different ceremonies during the period of those ninety days. These practices have evolved over time and some practices are still in effect that have been around for…

This thesis attempts to apply postcolonial studies on the case of Korean Chinese who are doubly dislocated and otherized, as I argue. It examines the identity of Korean Chinese as Korean ethnic minority in China and also ethnic return migrants in South Korea expressed in the literature. It explores the factors that trigger the identity crisis of Korean Chinese and constantly causing them to search for a new home. In doing so, two works written by a second-generation of Korean Chinese novelist…

How Jing-mei’s Identity Develops in Amy Tan’s A Pair of Tickets Marcus Garvey once said, “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” Garvey’s statement is rather applicable in Amy Tan’s A Pair of Tickets especially to the story’s narrator and main character, Jing-mei. As Jing-mei, along with her seventy-two-year-old father, is on her way to Guangzhou, China, she realizes a dilemma that deals with her racial identity. Born of Chinese…