Week 8 - Chloe Shiau

K. Scott Wong's "Diasporas, Displacements, and the Construction of Transnational Identities" shows that some huge factors that caused transnationalism were "the movement of goods, capital, people, and ideologies." Wong also explains that other countries have diasporic communities, however they are not shown in the same light as the communities in America. Places such as Brazil holds the largest population of Japanese immigrants. All of these facts show that we see the world as a transnational place. How we define ourselves is not as simple as before, because we are sharing cultures with the world. As the world becomes more connected, it becomes harder to define who you are and where you came from.

I think Wong is right about how transnationalism affects the way people define themselves now. Thinking about events such as 9/11 and FoxCon, this his how people define Islamic people and Chinese people. And how people define them affects those who are actually Islamic and Chinese. The Chinese Americans might not want to be affiliated with their culture anymore after negative news about China. As the world starts melting together in race, ethnicity, and culture, finding your identity becomes more complex.

Question: If the world is becoming more mixed together, will this eventually lead to peace or war?

Works Cited: K. Scott Wong. “Diasporas, Displacements, and the Construction of Transnational Identities.” Displacements.

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