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Essay Archive - Chinese Immigration into America
Chinese Immigration into America
Surprisingly, Asian Americans have been in America for over 150 years.
They are as diverse as the immigrants from Europe, ranging from China, Japan,
Korea, Cambodia, Korea, Philippines, India, Vietnam, and Laos. (Takaki, page 8)
When many people think of American Immigrants, Asians are on the last of their
lists. In The Uprooted, Harvard historian, Oscar Handlin, prize winning book
with the subtitle "the Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American
People," completely left out the "uprooted" from the lands acro....
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