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    Chinese culture 1. Chinese Tea Culture China is the homeland of tea. It is believed that China has tea-shrubs as early as five to six thousand years ago‚ and human cultivation of teaplants dates back two thousand years. Tea from China‚ along with her silk and porcelain‚ began to be known the world over more than a thousand years ago and has since always been an important Chinese export. At present more than forty countries in the world grow tea with Asian countries producing 90% of the world’s

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    three essays that will give you a historic context for these developments.        Concise Political History of China‚ an online article by Paul Halsall compiled from Compton ’s Living Encyclopedia on America Online‚ http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/chinhist.html        Chinese Periodization in Light of Economic Developments by Paul Halsall‚ http://www.mastep.sjsu.edu/history_of_tech/chinese_chronology.htm        China‚ Technology and Change‚ an article by Lynda Shaffer‚ from

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    Legally speaking‚ an American citizen is defined as someone who is “born or naturalized in the United States.” However‚ is the true meaning of an American simply a textbook definition? Although the “Irish who built the canals‚ the Chinese who built the railroads‚ [and] the many Latinos who clambered over construction sites” may have been from lands afar‚ they all shared one commonality; the goal to better not only themselves but also our country as a whole. Being an American is not only having legal

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    “constitutional” idea that they had the right to express themselves. The KKKs were also anti-Semitic and anti-Semitism was prevalent in the U.S. To understand immigration better one has to see the factors that produced and produce immigration to America. Industrialization and social changes in Europe produced mass immigration from countries like Germany‚ France‚ and Ireland. The Industrial Revolution transformed the small‚ agricultural society into a manufacturing economy which helped the U.S. to

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    Sometimes it also seemed like a trickle when most of the people did not want to leave their motherland. No matter why those immigrants came or whatever their goals were‚ there was only one reason. The reason was because America had something they wanted or they did not have. It could be about a large ship full of adventurous people; they were trying to gain new opportunities in America. It could be about people from the East; they were going to seek gold and silver in these wild lands. Or it could be about

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    Immigrants are created through hardships‚ weather they be monetary‚ location based‚ or otherwise. They are a breed of people created through circumstance. This reigns true for a recent interviewee of mine from Chihuahua‚ Marianna. A girl only the age of 16 who‚ by definition‚ moved from her own country for permanent residence in the US. After an extensive (short) interviewing process I was than asked to compare either a personal story of immigration within my family or broadly relate the hardships

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    When immigrants started coming here‚ there was a lot of change‚ espically in ellis island. when they went there they had to go through so many test. and not a lot of poeple past all of them. mny of them had diseases and had to stay in hospitals till they al got better. Citizenship now vs back then is a lot harder. many poeple today have to wait up to 10 years just to be a citizen‚ and back then it was easier because poelpe werent as srict as they are now so it was easier letting people in. One group

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    to no profit for their service. Xin Jin was a contract that employed Chinese immigrants as prostitutes‚ which was a signed and thumbprint agreement that covered the expense of the trip as long as they complied with the guidelines. Xin Jin reveals the challenges women immigrants were faced due to lack of gender equality and social status‚ in order to migrate to California. Xin Jin was the prepaid trip that the women immigrants invest in their future‚ once they have paid their debts under legal documents

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    Mainland China is rooted in more than 4‚000 years of rich Chinese cultures and history.  It’s known for their lives‚ travel‚ history‚ business and food‚ their people and customs.  Traditional Kung Fu is as much of the culture of china according to statistics. The Chinese people have shared a common culture longer than any other groups on earth.  China is one of the cradles of the human race.  For thousands of years the culture of china has attract and moved many people from all over the world‚ being

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    For centuries‚ immigrants have traveled to the Americas for a variety of reasons: equal opportunities‚ fresh starts‚ or to ensure a better life for themselves or their families. Many immigrants‚ who left their home countries to come to somewhere else (the Americas in this case)‚ were not necessarily treated how they expected. Many faced mistreatment and cruelty from the citizens‚ while also being unable to find a job due to their background. This salvo caused the benefits of immigration to hide away

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