Saturday, November 7, 2015

Week 8 - K. Scott Wong. “Diasporas, Displacements, and the Construction of Transnational Identities.” Displacements." - Jimmy Tran



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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