How Did The Cold War Affect Asian American Experiences?

The reality of Asian and Pacific Islander communities is contradictory compared to the Idealized one put upon by American expectations. The model minority myth is the unrealistic perception of how Asian and Pacific Islander communities expected behavior and status, as the successfully assimilated group that other minority groups should emulate with no communal problems. The reality is much different than the expectations as Asian communities encompass a wide range of countries, and backgrounds, no

America Faces the Cold War From 1941-1945, the United States, along with numerous other countries throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa, was engaged in World War II. The allied powers bitterly fought against the axis powers on European land and over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. After the atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Japan, which caused the axis powers to succumb to the allied powers, Americans were very relieved that the many years of fierce conflict had finally come to a halt

Asian-American author, Amy Tan, reflects in her personal essay, Mother Tongue (1991), her perception of language and ethnic identity through an employment of anecdotes and repetition. The history of Asian-Americans goes back to the nineteenth century when thousands of men left their families and homes in China, as well as other Asian countries, to seek their fortunes in the United States (Huntley 21). The Chinese, forming the largest Asian immigrant group, “became the first Asians to experience institutionalized

with his followers fled to Taiwan due to the loss of the Chinese Civil War. The U.S financially backing the KMT, due to their fight against communism during the Cold War Era, led to massive industrialization in Taiwan and political tension between Taiwan and China. Thus during the 1950s and on, Taiwanese people, mostly students, started to immigrate into America and try to assimilate into the American lifestyle. Taiwanese Americans, a good majority with a middle class background, came into the U.S for

Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford explores the story and experiences of Asian-Americans during World War II. Ford uses both insight and compassion to describe the tension of the country. The book evolves mainly in two different eras. 1942 and 1986 are the years Ford jumps back and forth between. These two years seem to have a lasting impression on Henry Lee life, who is the protagonist. The story begins in 1986 with Henry, now an ageing Chinese-American man walking past the once stunning Panama Hotel in

The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century was written by Catherine Clinton. Catherine Clinton is the Denman Professor of American History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Clinton grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, and later studied sociology and African American History at Harvard University, graduating in 1973. Clinton maintains strong research interest in US history, specifically women’s history. She had published many popular books that examine different perspectives

identifying and deporting illegal immigrants has again put immigration at the forefront of American politics. Additionally, it has raised the question of constitutionality and rekindled the flame of State v. Federal power. In order to trace the history of our countries immigration policies you must first

Indian Foreign Policy: Non Alignment in the midst of the Cold War At the onset of the cold war, the world was rapidly developing into two hostile camps, one dominated by the west – most particularly by the US – and the other by the USSR. The two superpowers differed only by ideology, the US with capitalism and the USSR with communism, but both sought to aggressively spread their ideologies and expand their spheres of influence to other sovereign nations. No means was spared in this expansion,

well as the social tensions and political rivalries that generated and were in turn fed by imperialist expansionism, one cannot begin to comprehend the causes and consequences of the Great War that began in 1914. That conflict determined the contours of the twentieth century in myriad ways. On the one hand, the war set in motion transformative processes that were clearly major departures from those that defined the nineteenth-century world order. On the other, it perversely unleashed forces

discusses the affects the Columbian Exchange had throughout the globe, from tobacco and other cash crops, to future revolutions occurring in the eighteenth century and beyond, Published in 2011 by Vintage Books, a division of Random House Inc, this 557 page book gives a thorough overview about how globalization caused by Christopher Columbus and his voyage to the New World in 1492 affected the diet, society, and economics of the world. One unique feature about this nonfiction book is how it's written