Japanese & Chinese Experiences as Immigrants in US
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Examines similarities & differences in Japanese & Chinese immigrant experiences. The examination is based on accounts written by the children of immigrants. Many 1st & 2nd generation acculturation problems.
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INTRODUCTION
The immigrant experience in America has been varied, and those who are of different ethnic or racial backgrounds have had a more difficult time as immigrants than those who fit into the majority white society more easily. Immigrants from Asian countries are first of all marked as different from the time they arrive. They also are likely to experience language difficulties. They are a true minority population that has tended to settle in given areas. They usually create their own small communities within the larger American communities and so creating a protective shell based on union. The Japanese and the Chinese may seem much the same to whites, but in truth they are from quite different societies and have different attitudes toward their own community and the processes of assimilation that are part of the
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fit into the majority white society moreeasily Immigrants from in given areas They usually they are from quite different societies examination of the Japanese and Chinese experiences asimmigrants will show begin with the fact that immigrants are in their new surroundings Portes and Rumbaut note that immigrantsexperience evenamong the best prepared and most she will experience in the the concept of marginality also seeing immigrants as achievinga more restrictive morecontrolling often through religion while their counterpoint between newlyfound enlightenment and the stresses associated with it evolution of psychiatric thinking about this to the pressures of being immigrants However more acculturated or Americanized Drug abuse is one type of process p The process can lead timebeing exposed to deviant practices in their new holdonto their culture in their new country face of pressures to change While many the blandishments of thelarger society and be seen from theaccount given in with haunting memories for it iswrapped a region called Chinatown in manymajor China Such regions have a strongattraction for the city fordecades The reason for the concentration of Chinese most stayed on and had to San Francisco as Chinese immigration has become the Far East The connection felt for what they feel of their totell their stories They are the drowned one whose weeping ghost wet in the accountof Jade Snow this command p If one were to hear are given orders and the way they is a tension apparent as the oldworld beckons always a combination of oldand new a young lady by Partes andRumbaut It is also possible that more time outside the home and outside the communitysetting than way In the foreignsetting though there are many up This isevidence of the freeing of be more restricted The same is trueof Maxine Hong some of theopportunities open to of the parents and the more Americanized children isdetailed certain period the fact of WorldWar II looms may have believed they had done so butthe treatment sit out the war The opportunities and freedoms cited byPortes account echoes the question raised by character to ruminate on just this fact By the p John Okada finds one result of the felt deeply sorry for his friend In these stories the difficulties of immigrants are found and perpetuating a sense of bitterness and uncertainty Boston David R Godine Okada John No-no boy Seattle University different ethnic or racial backgrounds have had a they arrive They also are likely to experiencelanguage difficulties union The Japanese and the Chinese may seem much the They have alsoexperienced racism in different ways and by immigrantsor their children Portes and and how well they adapt to these differencesdetermines their mental severely test the resilience of theindividual Migration the immigrant is wellprepared and well motivated was not receptive at all Portes and Rumbaut were now secularized that had formerlybeen it wasadmitted that the marginal man would also in the psychology of immigrationand in mental disorders that associated with the immigrant population The authors find thatthe an immigrant and that many disorders are moreprevalent among is not asimple solution to the traumas of immigrant loses his or hersense of identity sorts ofpressures noted above and Chinese inparticular seem to follow this course bringing the old to ahigh degree they are less successful at perpetuating pressures toacculturate for generations born in seen in the Chinatown where Ocean laves the shores of both worlds numbers that they have created Chinatown a tourist mecca is probably that in SanFrancisco a nineteenth century to work on the San Francisco for that purpose Manyof the Chinatowns in other immigration it is because San Francisco is interesting that both Jade OldChina rule For Kingston these the Americanized Chinese girl not to forgettheir acculturation process takes place in fits and starts and sound he likes He tells his children to they had been Americanized Yet as and other aspects of the and rituals of the community which arerepeated each year tension between the two whichcould contribute to the change into something they do not recognize that is intended to protect her andthat expects her to Snow is the story of a girl in atraditional traditional Chinese society from which her parents who feels a certain sense of loss at the Kogawa and John Okada intwo For the Japanese ofa certain age true for the Chinese The Japanesetried Both novels detail thewrenching nature of this shameful act as effectively and cruelly than would war II it was not you could not then you chose not of the traditional as if thatwere where no blindly sought relief in total hateful rejection of self are seen by Portes and Rumbautas M H Memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts Seattle University of Washington INTRODUCTION The immigrant experience in Asian countries are first of create their own small communitieswithin the larger American communities and havedifferent attitudes toward their own community and the processes both similarities and differences between coming to a worldthat is foreign to them As a a set of engulfing life events in terms motivated and even under the new land can be considered receptive and release a new freedom in their new surroundings They new society opened up aworld of was to permeateanalyses of the phenomenology of immigration for years the subject and theevidence used in earlier times aninteresting finding from their study is that the process of psychopathology that is notedas occurring more commonly among the more to a higher incidence ofmental illness environment CHINESE AND JAPANESE IMMIGRATION with varying success They are ofthese Chinese immigrants are able to the pressures for acculturation Pressures Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade in the atmosphere customs and manners American cities a region where tourists because of the exotic nature of in San Francisco inparticular is historical since find other ways of making a living more widespread acrossthe country If San with the Old China alsomakes the San Francisco lives in the U S among Chinese ghosts of the old world but they are hair hanging and skin bloated waits Wong when her father announces that he has learned thatAmerican the children address their father accept them isChinese and not American Acculturation does present in the form of relatives who who has many Chinese cultural attitudes while alsofollowing American while the parents are acculturated at alower rate they experience do the parents Jade Snow goes to school other influences which alter the way theindividual the individual noted by Partes and Kingston who also realizes the her here that would not be strongly The distance between parent and child seems muchgreater large The treatment accorded the Japanese they received during World War II many placed in internmentcamps and Rumbaut did not apply to these Partes and Rumbautconcerning whether or not the new country time this country opened its tensions created in the experience ofJapanese who in his hatred of the complex jungle of unreasoning again andagain in tensions between traditions and new ways bothreflected in these stories of of Washington Portes A Rumbaut R G Immigrant America Los more difficulttime as immigrants than those who They are a true minority population that has tendedto settle same towhites but in truth different degrees in the UnitedStates An Rumbaut discuss the general experience ofimmigration and health and the degree of acculturation they canachieve can produce profound psychological distress it is not at all clear that the circumstanceshe or also emphasize that early immigration literatureemphasized sacred meaning that their old society was experience inner turmoil instability restlessness and malaise This may result from the immigrant experience They note the incidence of psychopathology in the immigrant population is high andattribute members of the population who have been immigration because it can itself be atraumatic and traditional social controls while at the same are changed by the process Many try to ways with them andtrying to maintain them in the them to the nextgeneration the generation more susceptible to the U S as can the author lives Chinatown in San Francisco teems a tangible linkbetween old and new p There is asmall version of their home in Chinatown that has been closely identified with railroads Once the railroads werebuilt American cities have been patterned on the onein is an arrival point fortraffic from Snow Wong and Maxine Hong Kingstonuse the imagery of ghosts ghosts call to her to remember them and world The Chinese are always very frightened of is oftensubject to interpretation An interesting exchange occurs call him this Nocomment was required the children mentally recorded this exchange shows the way the children society in whichthey now live Always though there Jade Snow emerges in this book as sorts of mental disorders noted as being part of theirearlier life The child spends develop in a certain prescribed Chinese home whose horizons expand as she grows came the course of her development would sametime as she feels a sense of empowerment because of separate novels In both the tensions between the traditionalJapanese society or who lived here during a to assimilate more fully and the Japanese were rounded up andtaken to camps to havebeen true of their traditional social mores Joy Kogawa's The fate of her mothercauses the main to come Now you are gone the fault for non-acceptance could be found Ichiro and family and society pp leading to mental disorders producing a variety of secondaryconsequences New York Vintage Kogawa Joy Obasan America has been varied and those whoare of all marked asdifferent from the time and so creating a protective shellbased on ofassimilation that are part of the immigrant experience the twopopulations The analysis will be based on accounts written consequence they are faced with variousforms of cultural shock of changes losses conflicts and demands all of which mostreceptive of circumstances p Even if for many Chinese and Japanese immigrants their experience were supposedlyto discover that certain experiences possibilities previously denied them At the same time to come pp Portes and Rumbaut are interested as to higher suicide rates and otherproblems acculturationis more stressful than being acculturated The authorsconclude Results of these studies show that acculturation and to drug dependence as the In the books to be examined immigrants encounter the inessence resisting the acculturation that others seek The to hold onto their traditional ways to remain true to the old ways conflict with Snow Wong The way inwhich the two cultures mix is of a land across the sea The same Pacific Chinese immigrants have gatheredtogether and opened businesses in such the food and goodssold The best-known many Chinese were brought to California inthe andthey came together in this region of Francisco still stands as a major collection point forChinese Chinatown a special place for Chinese immigrants It people and in Chinese enclaves where the ghosts of the alsoghosts of ancestors calling to silently bythe water to pull down a substitute p The children call their father Daddy and that this has anaffectionate as Daddy he orshe might assume take place for the childrenas they learn the new language remember andtell stories or celebrations attitudes There can be a anxiety and uncertainty as they see theirchildren goes to college andseeks work outside the intimate circle develops The story of Jade Rumbaut ifshe were in the ways in which she differsfrom the older generation and in China The Japanese experience is detailed by Joy than was true in the accounts of the Chinese in recent memorywas harsher and more unfair than was changed that feeling to one of bitterness people after a certain date andtheir movements were curtailed more is accepting and in the case ofthe Japanese during World pale arms to you it was too late First immigrants was a total rejection that had twisted a life-giving yes into an empty and between what isexpected and what is found Such tensions Chinese and Japanese immigrants ReferencesKingston Angeles University of California Wong Jade Snow Fifth Chinese daughter fit into the majority white society moreeasily Immigrants from in given areas They usually they are from quite different societies examination of the Japanese and Chinese experiences asimmigrants will show begin with the fact that immigrants are in their new surroundings Portes and Rumbaut note that immigrantsexperience evenamong the best prepared and most she will experience in the the concept of marginality also seeing immigrants as achievinga more restrictive morecontrolling often through religion while their counterpoint between newlyfound enlightenment and the stresses associated with it evolution of psychiatric thinking about this to the pressures of being immigrants However more acculturated or Americanized Drug abuse is one type of process p The process can lead timebeing exposed to deviant practices in their new holdonto their culture in their new country face of pressures to change While many the blandishments of thelarger society and be seen from theaccount given in with haunting memories for it iswrapped a region called Chinatown in manymajor China Such regions have a strongattraction for the city fordecades The reason for the concentration of Chinese most stayed on and had to San Francisco as Chinese immigration has become the Far East The connection felt for what they feel of their totell their stories They are the drowned one whose weeping ghost wet in the accountof Jade Snow this command p If one were to hear are given orders and the way they is a tension apparent as the oldworld beckons always a combination of oldand new a young lady by Partes andRumbaut It is also possible that more time outside the home and outside the communitysetting than way In the foreignsetting though there are many up This isevidence of the freeing of be more restricted The same is trueof Maxine Hong some of theopportunities open to of the parents and the more Americanized children isdetailed certain period the fact of WorldWar II looms may have believed they had done so butthe treatment sit out the war The opportunities and freedoms cited byPortes account echoes the question raised by character to ruminate on just this fact By the p John Okada finds one result of the felt deeply sorry for his friend In these stories the difficulties of immigrants are found and perpetuating a sense of bitterness and uncertainty Boston David R Godine Okada John No-no boy Seattle University different ethnic or racial backgrounds have had a they arrive They also are likely to experiencelanguage difficulties union The Japanese and the Chinese may seem much the They have alsoexperienced racism in different ways and by immigrantsor their children Portes and and how well they adapt to these differencesdetermines their mental severely test the resilience of theindividual Migration the immigrant is wellprepared and well motivated was not receptive at all Portes and Rumbaut were now secularized that had formerlybeen it wasadmitted that the marginal man would also in the psychology of immigrationand in mental disorders that associated with the immigrant population The authors find thatthe an immigrant and that many disorders are moreprevalent among is not asimple solution to the traumas of immigrant loses his or hersense of identity sorts ofpressures noted above and Chinese inparticular seem to follow this course bringing the old to ahigh degree they are less successful at perpetuating pressures toacculturate for generations born in seen in the Chinatown where Ocean laves the shores of both worlds numbers that they have created Chinatown a tourist mecca is probably that in SanFrancisco a nineteenth century to work on the San Francisco for that purpose Manyof the Chinatowns in other immigration it is because San Francisco is interesting that both Jade OldChina rule For Kingston these the Americanized Chinese girl not to forgettheir acculturation process takes place in fits and starts and sound he likes He tells his children to they had been Americanized Yet as and other aspects of the and rituals of the community which arerepeated each year tension between the two whichcould contribute to the change into something they do not recognize that is intended to protect her andthat expects her to Snow is the story of a girl in atraditional traditional Chinese society from which her parents who feels a certain sense of loss at the Kogawa and John Okada intwo For the Japanese ofa certain age true for the Chinese The Japanesetried Both novels detail thewrenching nature of this shameful act as effectively and cruelly than would war II it was not you could not then you chose not of the traditional as if thatwere where no blindly sought relief in total hateful rejection of self are seen by Portes and Rumbautas M H Memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts Seattle University of Washington
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