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Asian Immigration
In the decades before the Second World War, throngs of Asian immigrants came to American shores from China, Japan, India, Korea, and the Philippines. In many cases, these immigrants only planned on remaining in the United States for a short while to earn money and then return back home to their families. Thus, many Asian immigrants left their families behind. However, in other cases, whole families followed, full of hope and the American Dream. These diverse Asian immigrant groups varied greatly in terms of their culture of origin, their outlooks, and their visions of the future. However, all Asian immigrants, especially those that reached the shores of the United States before World War Two, shared several experiences in common. All groups suffered from intense discrimination that was not only delivered by angry white workers in fear of losing their jobs but also by the American government. Also, almost all of the groups of Asian immigrants that Ronald Takaki discusses in his book Strangers from a Different Shore engaged in some sort of successful business or...
While some of these groups clung to tradition and a unique identity, other groups sought assimilation and embraced Western culture. However, all of these groups remained connected to and interested in the events that affected their homelands, which in some cases politically significant. Based on Takaki's book, the paradigms that universally apply to Asian immigrants to the United States include systematic discrimination, economic motivation, and cultural preservation.
Systematic and institutionalized discrimination was experienced by all of the groups of Asian immigrants that Takaki addresses. For example, the Asiatic Exclusion League and the Alien Land Act of 1913 applied to more than one group of Asian immigrants, including Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. Indian immigrants were initially treated differently but were soon victims of institutionalized discrimination too. In fact, a Supreme Court decision held that Asian Indians were to be classified as non-white, and were therefore subject to overt…
Works Cited
Takaki, Ronald. Strangers from a Different Shore. Boston: Little, Brown, 1989.
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