Jimmy Tran
Caroline Kieu Linh
Valverde
ASA114
7 November 2015
In “Diasporas, Displacements, and the
Construction of Transnational Identities” by K. Scott Wong, he does a good job
of talking about a social critic named Randolph S. Bourne who criticizes about
active Americanization through the suppression of ethnic identities. This means
that individuals are constantly hiding their ethnic values and identities to
promote a “better” image of America. Additionally, he did not believe that
immigrants had to assimilate into the American “melting pot” and to adapt to
the American values. He highly emphasized on “transnationalism” and “multiculturalism”
because he did not believe that citizenship has to be bounded by nation state
but should be conceived in a larger international perspective. This is related
to displacement because America is becoming a transnational state by its
diversity of human beings in the United States.
How does the American “melting
pot” promote immigrants to leave behind their cultures of origins? Why is this
significant in a transnational state such as America?
Works Cited
Anderson, Wanni W. and Robert G. Lee Eds. 2005. Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in the
Americas . New Jersey: Rutgers
University Press.
Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 07 Nov. 2015.
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