Overseas Filipino

The Joy Luck Club is a book that presents a conflict between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters who have different language and culture. Mothers want to share their past with her daughters and daughters try to understand their mothers’ pasts with understanding the difference. I chose to write a letter because it is an appropriate text type that can express one’s opinion to give the advice of problem that daughters have and effectively convey one’s thought with the…

Two equal and extremely important parts of China that were affected by the west were economics of China and the social situations. The economic influences of the west were made by a market of trading/lack of trading that affected China . Just like the economics of China, the Social and society of China had changed; some were good changes while other changes were not. Both of these “problems” did influence china in how they, the people of China, acted and how they dealt with foreigners and…

Australia • China-born people in Australia predominately speak Mandarin, Cantonese and Chinese at home (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2011). • The majority of China-born people speak English well or very well (67.1%), whilst approximately 32% do not speak English well or at all (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2011). China • Mandarin is the official language of the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan. • Chinese people from Hong Kong and the Guangdong province of the People’s Republic of…

Since the mid-1800s in the United States, through the hardships of discrimination and demeaning labor, Chinese immigrants have never fully acclimated or been accepted completely into American culture and society. However, over the years Chinese Americans have overcome their initial hardships when first immigrating and have been successful in making a home for themselves here in the United States. Some such examples of this can be seen in New York Chinatowns and in San Francisco suburbs, and…

Dear Fùmǔ (Parents), I am very sorry it has taken me so many years to write back to you after coming to Tan Heung Shan (Hawaii). I miss you both very much, it has been a great burden not to see or hear from my dear family in Kwangtung for so long. In some ways Tan Heung Shan reminds me of our homeland along the Pearl River Delta, the climate and geography are not so different. Many other Chinese have come here from Kwangtung, so it is not as strange to live here as you might think. Having now…

Ever since she was young Yunoha had always been an incredibly unsocial child. This was due to her extreme shyness, and the ideals that she would never fit in with the other children. Even when others in her class would try and reach out for her (in call of trying to befriend said girl or even striking up polite conversation) their advances would always be inevitably rejected. This unfortunately led for each and every one of her classmates to slowly stop trying. To this day, Yunoha regrets not…

Trying to Find Chinatown is a play about two men arguing over identity. The play was written by David Henry Hwang in 1996. Trying to Find Chinatown features numerous themes including: the value of culture, the search for belonging and acceptance, and the negative outcome of having preconceived notions. However, the one theme that stands above the rest is the complicated matter of identity. To first understand the term identity, a few questions must be asked. What is identity? Some argue that…

For the past one hundred and eighty-five years, the Malvinas Islands have been in the possession of the United Kingdom. This fact has been continuously disputed by the Argentinian government, which believes that the islands have always been considered as a part of their territory. In 1982, the military junta in control of Argentina sought to reclaim the islands from the British through the use of military force. War was declared and Argentinian forces swiftly took control of the island. However,…

Argentina (Martin 148). In the end, 650 Argentine and 255 British troops died after the UK began combating the Argentine invasion (Government Digital Service). As the European Union shows, Falkland Islands are now recognized globally as part of British Overseas Territory (European…

Across the twentieth century historians have interpreted Australian national identity in a variety of ways, often promoting their own specific views. Here, I shall delineate and give a brief overview of how Australian national identity has been interpreted by some historians. Over the twentieth century, Australian national identity can, in general, be separated into three time periods. Firstly, during the pre-second world war period, national identity was overwhelmingly based on being British.…