Diasporas, Displacements, and the Construction of Transnational identities by Scott Wong demonstrate the process in which multiple conceptions of identity came to be. Using multiple essays from different authors, he summarized the central ideas and narrow these essays into a general idea. For example, he used Lesser's essay to explore the conception of Brazilian identities among Japanese and Hu-DeHart's essay on the approach toward settlement and transnational diasporas. The "concepts of identity and concepts of race, ethnicity, gender, class, nationality, and the nations are interlocking and have become increasingly complex in a world ever more characterized by transnational and global exchanges." Wong also displays America as a dominating country that has conformed or structure the ways of globalization and economic policies. He introduced Christopher Columbus encounter of the America when it was Asia and how it has become involved in the trade economy, he used Hawaii as an example for Americas global market, and he used the Philipines to show how America dominated the Pacific trade route. Through Wong's essay, it was informative, however, the use of multiple sources made it difficult to follow along and get the point of the essay.
Question: Why does the construction of national identity matter?
By: Mai Vang
Wong, K. Scott. "Diasporas, Displacements, and the Construction of Transnational Identities."
Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in the Americas. Ed. Wanni w. Robert G. Lee. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 41-53. print,
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