The museum that I visited was in downtown San Diego called the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum. ... There were pictures of chinese people working as produce vendors along the streets of San Francisco in Chinatown. ... They were shown aboard ships in the San Diego Bay and working in laundries and restaurants. ... The San Diego Historical Museum is an excellent museum to visit in an educational atmosphere about the chinese culture. ...

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Early 1854, 150 Chinese established a fishing colony near the mouth of Mission Creek in San Francisco. ... "In 1880's Chinese shrimp camps near San Francisco and in Louisiana were supplying not only the local markets, but also shipping a million pounds of dried shrimp to Asia." ... Some of Chinese Bachelors made ""The Golden Hill's News" in 1854, San Francisco's Golden Hill's News became the first Chinese language newspaper published in America." ...

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For San-Francisco year was in the same time great and very bad. ... When San-Francisco Giants went to the baseball playoffs and advanced to the World Series city earned a lot of money on people who came into our city to watch the games. ... On the other side San-Francisco lost a lot of thousands dollars when the protests against the war took place. ... Largest number of arrested people was in San-Francisco. ...

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The Joy Luck Club is a first-person drama that takes place in San Francisco during the late 1940's and through the 1950's; told in four sections by 16 different narrators. ... Jing-mei had taken her mother's place in playing mahjong at a weekly gathering her mother had organized in China and revived in San Francisco called the Joy Luck Club. ...

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They lived in San Francisco, Sacramento, Marysville and Los Angles as well as in the rural areas also. ... Chinese women who came to America in these days, most of them unwilling became prostitutes (Prostitution: San Francisco Chinatown,) it gave the birth to new business. ...

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We sailed for 19 days over the Pacific ocean and we landed in San Francisco, we were then transfered from the U.S.S Hoover onto a small ferry that would send us to Angel Island. ... My father was waiting for us when we got off from the ferry in San Francisco. ...

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East Meets West Children raised in a culture different from their parents' often present an interesting viewpoint. The Woman Warrior: Memories of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is no exception. Maxine Hong Kingston masterfully blends the mythical storytelling of Old China with her past and present exp...

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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight In Heaven Defining exactly what shapes ethnic identity in the United States is the hardest question I can imagine being asked. As a child born in the United States, I find this question so difficult because I have been exposed to a large variety of cultures wit...

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The Joy Luck Club Chinese values, beliefs, and traditions have been slowly disregarded by many of the descendants of Chinese immigrants. In the book, The Joy Luck Club, written by Amy Tan, this is portrayed in mother-daughter relationships. Lindo Jong tries to teach Waverly, her daughter, about a...

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Ethnic assimilation has existed since the birth of the American Dream as immigrants have traveled across land looking for opportunity within the United States. One of the most notable was the migration of the Chinese in the late 19th and early 20th century. In the novel "Bone", the author Fae Myenn...

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Now I have been working in a computer company as a computer engineer for a couple of years. Before, I was just a low - pay office clerk. The turning point of my career was the study of the certification called MCSE. This certificate changed me from an office clerk to a computer engineer of Silico...

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English 305 Asian-American Film The Joy Luck Club A Semiotic Critique The Joy Luck Club as an exercise in semiotic critique. Luckily, the film lends it's self very well this discipline. There are four main subjects of the semiotic method: Rhetorical is the film's intentional meaning or messag...

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