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| Statue of Liberty in New York that Anderson and Lee mentioned in their article |
I will write my blog about Anderson
and Lee’s article “Asian American Displacements.” Anderson and Lee used 100th
birthday of Statue of Liberty and connected to the day Asian Americans arrived
to America. Anderson also talked about migration, labor and gold discovery. Anderson
mentioned in his article the story of Carlos Bulosan. This story always makes
me feel sad because hardworking Filipinos that served during WWII got nothing
in return and still faced racial oppression every day. Bulosan was a migrant
worker trying to pay rent and put food on the table and he died without
becoming American citizen and there are millions of Asians out there that went
through the same thing. The most interesting part of the article is about Asians
that are physically and culturally displaced like Chinese immigrants in Mexico,
Cuba and the West Indies and the Japanese in Brazil. This part reminded me of
my dad’s business partner Kwan who is Chinese but he was born and raised in
Mexico. I had no clue how his parents got there. I was also stunned that Kwan
can speak Spanish fluently.
Question:
How exactly did these Asians get displaced physically and
culturally? How did Chinese get to Mexico? How did Japanese get to Brazil? What
is the history behind all these displacements? Is displacement part of "Diasporas" definition and how?
Work Cited
Anderson and Lee. “Asian American Displacements.” 2005. Displacements and Diaspora. Rutgers University Press.
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