"He does not like people laughing at him name. He does not want the gangsters laughing at his name to beat him up. He mostly does not want to look like a sissy in front of them..." (Chin 5). Donald wants to be accepted in a manner where he blends in without being recognized as different. He has trouble finding the balance between accepting the American lifestyle and incorporating his own Chinese culture.
Meanwhile, Asian as a ethnic race in American society, were lack of enough desire to correct the stereotypes and they didn’t have too much political right, only to know to work hard, study hard and come back home. The Asian also had not enough presence in media and they were forgotten by the mainstream
Where do you sleep at your house?’” (Takaki236). These kinds of questions someone who actually lives in their own come can get wrong. Another point that Takaki discusses is the hardships of being a second generation Chinese American. For them, one of the biggest ordeals was not knowing where they belonged among the Chinese and American culture. Although they resembled one people they could not accept their traditions.
One point that Chua makes is that Eastern parenting is the correct method of parenting because they do not take the psyche or self esteem of the child into consideration during critique. Suicide Note by Janice Mirikitani is the farewell of a college student who committed suicide due to feeling inadequate. Eastern parenting techniques are psychologically damaging to their children and the parents are taking the risk of pushing them over the edge with the extreme pressure and expectations. Chua says in Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior that “Western parents are concerned about their children’s psyches. Chinese parents aren’t.
These traditional Chinese bureaucrats could now only exercise power at the regional and local levels, and as advisors to the Mongols, further hindering their influence. The interference of Muslims into the social hierarchy further conflicted with traditional Chinese and Confucian values. Although not outright forbidden, the custom of foot binding did not comply with Mongol tastes and therefore, was not practiced. This
Perhaps Americans wanted to reduce immigration because of their social and economic issues and people were denied from entering the country. Contraception was also one of the controversial issues, Comstock laws 1873 made it illegal to sell or distribute contraception, which meant STDs, were more common due to less protection or none at all. Wealthy women were able to
“Unique Characters Bedevil Beijing” by Sharon Lafraniere 1. Many Chinese people from China wish to have creative, individual and symbolic names with meaning but they cannot choose those names because of the Chinese bureaucracy’s order to have similar names with other citizens. It should be part of our freedom to have the right to choose our own names and to embrace it. When a person changes their name, it would cause disturbances to certified and legal documents. This also causes a lot of confusion because many citizens have the same names with 70,000 people in the same country.
Although statistics show that the highest ethnicity whom over achieves in education are Chinese people, it is still very debatable for other ethnicity’s whether the schools process affects their attainment. Bowker doesn’t believe that the processes in school are mainly responsible for ethnic differences in attainment. He assumes it’s due to the cultural deprivation ethnic minorities’ face. Factors like intellectual and linguistic skills creates a huge barrier to the UK education, as ethnic minorities normally lack a standard of English, this is normally due to the fact that English isn’t their first language because it may not always be the language spoke at home thus leading them to gain a poor attainment in school as they face a double burden of attempting to learn English whilst also having to understand the syllabus taught. On the other hand, Gilbon recognises the processes committed in school which create the ethnic differences in attainment, he found that Afro-Caribbean boys were often labelled “unruly” “disrespectful”, they were also more likely to be given detentions than other pupils.
The problem with the older Asian generations and the rest of American society is a long and painful past between their homeland and America. The stigma of past wounds between countries is not gone. Racism is evident for Asians just as it is with any other race. Crime reporting is down in Asian communities for fear of community backlash, familial disappointment, and the chance that local police officers will not fix the problem anyway. When the statistics show that Asian women would rather commit suicide than get divorced there is a problem within the culture and the application of police
Illegal aliens shouldn’t be rewarded with legal status and other benefits. Most Americans don’t want immigrants in their country because they take the jobs away form them. American citizens have different Pros and Cons about immigration topic like Amnesty, Deportation, Mexican Border Fence, Driver Licenses for illegal aliens. Most all of the states don’t allow immigrants to get a drivers license with the right paper work. This does not keep illegal aliens from driving, even though they work low salaries, can’t afford an insurance and they often have trouble the road signs in english.