Chinese Immigrants During The Cold War

America feared that the Cold War would inspire the Soviet communism nurture egalitarian societies, and prompt the colored people inside and outside America to remain marginal between capitalism and communism. This inspired American policy makers to undermine their practice of discriminating the colored communities. Thus, during the 1960s America witnessed radicalization of anti-racism movements. The Cold War affected the Asian Americans in different ways. First and foremost, a vociferous call by Asian Americans against racism would invite condemnation of the white Americans. Nevertheless, famed Americans of Asian origin voiced against racism. Until the year 1950, the Japanese were kept beyond the purview of new immigration reforms. Early 1950s saw the Japanese given immigration rights to join hands with Americans to fight communism, which had earlier invaded China by the late 1940s. In 1945, America allowed its citizens who fought the war in different parts of Asia to bring their wives from Philippines and China as Filipinos, Koreans and South Asians were allowed to enter America after granting naturalization rights. This in turn created significant gender imbalance, for instance, among the Chinese and Filipino immigrants.

After civil war had settled down, many immigrants came to America to live from many countries such as Germany, Ireland, and England. There are as many as 12 million immigrants at this time. Regarding Chinese immigration, they immigrated to the United States from 1849 to 1882. Between this period, America had California Gold Rush, which is one of the reasons Chinese people immigrated. Because the Chinese Exclusion Act was taken into practice, no more Chinese people could immigrate to the United States after 1882. Chinese immigration is the divergent point for Chinese’ lives who lived in America.

The article, John Wayne and Big Jim McLain (1952): The Duke's Cold War Legacy by Ron Briley, helps to construct the idea similarity in characterization of individuals in the Communist party with ‘true Americans’. Ron Briley refers to one of the scenes from the film as “the disturbing element of the investigation” because of the betrayal of an elderly Polish-American couple, the Lesters, who turn in their son Ed White to the HUAC investigators (Briley, 29). The Lesters, turned against their son because of his involvement with the Communist party, which shows a contradiction to the American ideal of loyalty to your family and instead places the greatest loyalty to a cause or country, that has been a focal point criticized in cinema towards communist, who spy and turn against and report their own family (“to spy upon one’s parents”) (Briley, 29). For example, in the short film, Red Nightmare (1952), in a fictional but feared world where communism has taken over, children and wives report and testify against their unloyal spouses. But in ‘Americanism’ one does all that they can in their power to protect their families and homes, even though during the Cold War era people were

Yet internal conflicts and other circumstances within families would bring up complexities within family identity. Due to the Chinese Exclusion Acts, it was impossible for any Chinese man to immigrate legally to the United States without having a blood relation already present. Thus many turned to the "paper son" route which had a resident immigrant in the U.S. sponsor a Chinese man in China as their son. The Chinese man would have to memorize the facts of their sponsor family to pass as a reasonably accurate son. In return for their entrance, paper sons were obligated to return the bones, eponymous with the title of the Ng's book, of their sponsors to China. Such practices caused a literal confusion in identity, and furthermore

Since its founding, the United States has attracted immigrants from all over the world and consists of a variety of different cultures. Immigration has had an enormous impact on American society and economy and shaped the country remarkably.

The Chinese Experience records the history of the Chinese in the United States. The three-part documentary shows how the first arrivals from China, their descendants, and recent immigrants have “become American.” It is a story about identity and belonging that is relative to all Americans. The documentary is divided into three programs, each with a focus on a particular time in history. Program 1 describes the first arrivals from China, beginning in the early 1800’s and ending in 1882, the year Congress passed the first Chinese exclusion act. Program 2, which details the years of exclusion and the way they shaped and distorted Chinese American

The Lo Wah Kiu were immigrants that came to EEUU before 1965 and Wa Yeoy were after and several laws were changed. This ones, eagerly sought adventures in their progressive relationship with the rest of society, Likewise, the Magnuson Law of 1943, which effectively repealed the Exclusion Law, "only allowed 105 Chinese immigrants per year, reflecting the persistent prejudice against the Chinese in US immigration policy.

The Chinese immigrant is one of the largest group in the United States. Looking back the history of U.S., most people believe that the first Chinese immigrants came to California during the Gold Rush period. Also, the Chinese community is one of the largest and oldest ethnic group of Asian Americans. Some researchers consider the history of ethnic Chinese in Southern California relates to three periods. In my opinion, I would like to say that there are four major waves which the first wave begins in the 19th century, the second wave occurs in the 1940s to 1980s, the third wave happens during the 1980s, and the last wave arises in a recent decade year.

They deserved a chance and not just be expected to fail. The NAACP used the Airman as an example to push for civil rights into government but it wasn’t without the Cold War that the government took the movement more seriously.

In 1880, the Hayes Administration authorized a well known U.S. diplomat named James B. Angell. His job was to negotiate and control a new treaty they were planning with China. The treaty was called the Angell Treaty, which permitted the United States to restrict or prohibit Chinese immigration. In 1882, the Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which eliminated the process of immigration of any Chinese laborers, whether it were skilled workers or unskilled workers for 10 years. The Act also required every Chinese person going on a voyage in or out of the country to carry a certificate identifying his or her occupation as a laborer, scholar, diplomat, or merchant. This Act was the first in the whole American history to place broad restrictions

After the first wave of Chinese immigrants arrived in the United States in the early 1840s during the California Gold Rush, many Chinese people continued to travel across the Pacific, escaping poor conditions in China with hopes and ambitions for a better life in America. Many more Chinese immigrants began arriving into the 1860s on the Pacific coast for work in other areas such as the railroad industry. The immigrants noticed an increasing demand for their labor because of their readiness to work for low wages. Many of those who arrived did not plan to stay long, and therefore there was no push for their naturalization. The immigrants left a country with thousands of years of a “decaying feudal system,” corruption, a growing

During the post-World War I period, an anti-communist sentiment gained popularity, and those like Edgar Hoover abuse their power to pass sedition and anti-immigration laws. Ngai states that prior to the war, there had been no restrictions on immigration except for Chinese exclusion, but with the spread of nativism, a lack of need for labor, and the introduction of passport control, a quota system was created by the Johnson-Reed Act to limit immigration. These quotas were inherently racist, and gave preference to Northern and Western Europe, and excluded “undesirable races” like Asians and Africans, because they couldn’t be assimilated. Ozawa and Thind challenged this exclusion, (Ngai 42) but ultimately failed. Scientific racism was used to

For this interview, I have Skype my grandfather far away from here in China, since he don’t know how to speak English so we were use Chinese during the whole interview. He was born in 1935 before the World War II and grows up in an instable time era. During this time the economy of China is in a low level and compare to another country that is lag behind. Due to the history in China, the play is much popular than the movies, so there is not much chance for him to watch the movies before 1955. Also, the countryside that he was lived doesn’t even have the electricity at that time. After he leave home and joins the army in 1955, he got a lot of chance to watch the film for free with his teammate in the troop’s playground, which is a outdoor place and they set up with two poles on the ground and a white curtain and small movie machine player; that is how they watch the film in a very simple way. However, he does get the chance to watch the movies during that time and he use to watch movies with my grandmother because that is one of a few entertainment in that small town.

According to Statistic Canada, majority of Chinese Canadians are foreign born. In 2001, 72% of Chinese Canadians were born outside of Canada. In addition, majority of the Chinese community are in two provinces. In fact, about 82% reside in either province, 47% in Ontario and 34% in British Columbia. In order for a psychologist to understand this ethnic group, they would want to look at the correlation between foreign Chinese people, and any similar experiences they have or are currently enduring in Canada. An anthropologist would want to identify why Chinese people chose Canada as one of their destinations by comparing Canadian culture to Chinese culture. Finally, the immigration of so many Chinese people would lead a sociologist to look at

Many Chinese had experience such change dramatically before and during WW11. Before WWII Chinese people were limited to many rights like job opportunities. They couldn’t work due to the law the was pass called the Exclusion Act which stop them from working and making a living. They were also stigmatized by people, media, and their own government in America. After The bombing of pearl harbor people soon started to not discriminate as much due to America has seen China as allies to defeat Japan. As before Chinese were only limited to working ethnic jobs in Chinatown, with the wartime job opportunities opened up to the such as the defense industry working in several shipyards in the Bay Area and brought war bonds. Not only was the jobs their