Dbq Essay On Chinese Americans

Like past immigrants who came from Germany, Ireland and other places around the world. Chinese people in America faced many challenges when migrating. They felt like outcasts. Some experiences for the Chinese were in racist encounters and the feeling the way that Nazli Kibra felt when she came to America. She had always thought of herself as an American when she thought of herself as “the American kid on the block,” (Source F) until she went to school and she felt outcast and that “Whites think they own the world and the rest of us are just here for them.” (Source F) They felt as though they did not fit in in America. For Kibra, the Americans that she noticed at her school were people who were “VERY white, very wealthy. These kids owned sports cars and went to Rio for the weekend.”
Americans had fun, doing activities besides work and having freedom, which meant using that free time to “go wild.” Another problem was that the Chinese people were trying to lay under the radar in America. As Vietnam Memorial architect Maya Lin thought at the age of 21. “I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible.” (Source G) This was how a lot of Chinese immigrants felt. They felt the need to blend in and just go through their life thinking that they need to be as “American” as possible. The point of America is to celebrate the differences in our cultures. The first amendment is the freedom of speech, assembly and religion. In America, you can say what you want to say, do what you want to do and be who you want to be. Although the Chinese immigrants had troubles during the first years of immigration, they felt discriminated against, but the truth is that hey were being just as discriminatory to the whites as the whites were to them. If both sides, the Americans and the Chinese, accept eachother for who they really are and get past prejudices that are baseless, it would be possible to have American circumstances