Negative Influence On Chinese American Culture

It doesn’t matter what kind of ethnicity you are, or how you were brought up. Everyone is deeply rooted in their own culture. “Culture” has a different meaning to everyone. Comparing American culture to Chinese culture we will find many different meanings to the word “culture”. For example, we Americans are always looking for something bigger and better for our future, and the Chinese are content with a small reserved lifestyle with no intentions of changing it for something bigger. A culture is a way of life of a group of people-the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and are passed along by communication and imitation from

Culture is the characteristics of a particular group of people which defined by religion, language, food, traditions, music and arts. China and US are two countries separated by oceans, language, and culture boundaries one typically thinks these two nations have nothing in similar. One might think that Chinese and Americans are totally different people, not only in their physical appearance but also in their customs and traditions. Although both cultures are different they both have something in common. These two cultures are different in traditions while they are similar in world power.

Stories and stereotypes make many people want to change themselves negatively and assimilate just to fit in with society. As time passes, society’s stereotypes for how people of each race should be, which race is more dominant than others, and which race you should be, all play a role in impacting someone’s self-esteem and their insecurities. This is portrayed through Jin Wang, a main character in Gene Luen Yang’s “American Born Chinese” when Jin Wang thinks his crush, Amelia, he instantly becomes happy. But then he thinks about Greg and Amelia together and gets mad. He finally zooms into Greg’s blond hair. The next day he goes to school with the same hairstyle. The hair symbolizes Greg’s all American identity because the stereotypical American is portrayed with blond hair and blue eyes. To Jin Wang, this hair symbolizes what he wants to be, so he changed his hair to an “American” hairstyle to get Amelia to like him. Due to stereotypes about how Americans are suppose to look like, Jin Wang feels insecure about himself and wants to change his identity and himself as well to assimilate into American culture and stereotypes. These stereotypes and the Anti-Asian stereotypes impact Jin Wang greatly and make him hate himself as well as his background and where he came from because he believes that in order to be AMerica, you have to be white. Another way that this is portrayed is from a personal experience I had as a kid. Growing up as an Asian kid in America, I didn’t really know

To some people this is not be viewed as a stereotype due to the fact it is not instantly perceived as “negative”; for those readers who delve in deeper, this stereotype outlines the educational daily hidden pressure of people from Chinese descent whom do not fit this “positive” stereotype. Every day, especially in American society, classmates look to their Asian counterparts to provide the answers to questions they do not know in every subject they take. Nonetheless, this ridiculous assumption hurts the Asian students that do not feel comfortable with their intellectual abilities. Placing Asian students as the “model student” excludes the students who actually have problems and need help that other classmates are reluctant to give the students simply because their classmates do not view helping their struggling Asian classmates as an actual necessity. By “poking” fun and bringing into light both Asian stereotypes, Yang enforces view that stereotypes are in use today.

For decades, Chinese people in America have faced discrimination and hostility. The Chinese was initially brought over by the cheap labor of building railroads and the Gold Rush in California. But in the 1870s, the competition for jobs and depression led to racism and hatred for them. Almost every Chinese person have been segregated in Chinatowns. Eventually, the Chinese Exclusion Act ended Chinese immigration. However, it all changed during World War II when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The United States and China became allies and declared war on Japan. So the Chinese in America got an opportunity to expand their economic and social influence. Furthermore, Americans changed their point of view about the Chinese Americans due to the alliance

     The focus of our group project is on Chinese Americans. We studied various aspects of their lives and the preservation of their culture in America. The Chinese American population is continually growing. In fact, in 1990, they were the largest group of Asians in the United States (Min 58). But living in America and adjusting to a new way of life is not easy. Many Chinese Americans have faced and continue to face much conflict between their Chinese and American identities. But many times, as they adapt to this new life, they are also able to preserve their Chinese culture and identity through various ways. We studied these things through the viewing of a movie called Joy Luck Club,

The Chinese Six Companies were six companies across the United States which played a major role in the Chinese prostitution and was a key organization for Chinese Americans in 1800s. They original main goal was to help the Chinese come from and return to China, help many corpses shipped them to China for burial and take care of the starving and elder. The Chinese Six Companies also attempted to discourage prostitution in the Chinese community and attempted to limit prostitution in America. Even though their main goal was to help out the Chinese, during the 1880s their outlook complete changed. These Chinese Six Companies saw the benefits of prostitution which they force encouraging and overseeing all the vices associated with the Chinese-American

For much of the time that the Chinese have been in America, they have faced discrimination and animosity. However, World War II changed much of that. When Japan became the U.S.’s enemy after Pearl Harbor, the Chinese in America found themselves in a position of opportunity to expand their economic and social influence. They distinguished themselves from the Japanese as much as possible, accepting and sometimes contributing to the racialization of the Japanese. After Japanese internment, Chinese merchants took over formerly Japanese-owned businesses. Furthermore, white perceptions of Chinese Americans changed due to the alliance between the U.S. and China, leading to the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Acts in

In the 1850’s, Chinese immigrants started arriving in San Francisco around the gold rush era. The Angell Treaty of 1880 declared a union of friendship between China and America. In addition, a majority of the immigrants came to work for the Union Pacific in setting up the railroad system (CITE; CITE; CITE). However, there is a paradox between the history of American prejudice towards the Chinese and the film’s portrayal. Nevertheless, in the scene, English Bob arrives in town, the film depicts the prejudice toward Chinese Americans comes from the British by showing Bob pretending to shoot down the Chinese laborers as if they were game animals.

Something that I found to be very positive from this time was they fact that many of these people including Jesus, and his early disciples spoke more than one language. I found this to be very positive, because I believe in todays time we as Americans think that its not our place to learn another cultures langue. We believe that English should be the language everyone uses, and they should just learn our language. One of the most negative things I noticed in that time that was their transportation. In those days they only had two to three major roads entering a city. They also did not have to many different options for transportation as we do today. I felt this was negative, because I would assume it made everyday life very hard on everyone.

It is no surprise that throughout the world today, the issue of shaping education around propaganda remains. The United States has shown the world how propaganda was essential for steering students into the labor force and teaching them becoming ideal citizens for the economy during times of need. The impact of propaganda is largely evident, “ As late as the mid 19th century the modern concept of unemployment did not exist in the United States… While paid work came and went, home industry- canning, sewing, carpentry- was a constant” (Thompson 14). This quote demonstrates how America was not standing still, it was producing and moving. In turn, Americans were to be moving as well In that same article, the author, Derek Thompson, illustrates

American culture has a negative effect on the cultures and societies that adopt it. In one way it can be seen as envy because America was seen to have much better standards and was modern than other countries and was called Americanization globalization that makes the United States look 10 times way better.. For Muslims it’s seen a threat to their identity and culture. And others worry that America is setting the wrong impression but for some it was life changing. America was causing a lot of conflicts by expanding their culture and setted a different type of lifestyle than other refinements.

To begin what a great post on the Asian American culture and Mental Health services. While working an internship in my undergraduate program, there was an Asian American woman in one of the groups. One evening she reported having been diagnosed with cancer, for most people this would have been a very distressful time. Her outward reaction was calm and seemed unaffected, although you could tell inside it was upsetting her. In fact, her attitude was if cancer was going to killer her, she welcomed death and wanted to die with dignity. Fortunately, she opted to go through with surgery and last I heard it was successful removing the cancer. I found it interesting that you pointed out that Asian American woman have the highest suicide rate.

The outstanding achievement of Chinese American contributed by both cultural and structural factors that Chinese immigrants encounter before and after the immigration to America. This essay will first examine importance of the interaction of Chinese culture and hyper-selectivity in constructing a new identity for Chinese American after 1960s. Second, argued that why Chinese American being the “model minority” is a myth. And lastly, discuss the intention behind the model minority myth and the negative effects of “over achieving” for Chinese Americans.

Tourism and hospitality industry is a large industry where cross cultural incidents are always an issue. A comparative study between Chinese and American culture will be made in social and business context followed by a theoretical approach using cultural dimensions to explain the differences among the cultures. The results will be used to suggest and recommend methods to overcome cultural conflicts and tensions