Despite their rich histories, Asian religions are dynamic, often responding to the changing needs of their followers, in Asia and abroad. Today there are more than one thousand Chinese churches in the United States, most of them Protestant evangelical congregations, bringing together diasporic Chinese from diverse origins--Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, and Southeast Asian countries. Despite the many tensions and conflicts that exist within these congregations, most individuals find ways to creatively integrate their evangelical Christian beliefs with traditional Chinese (mostly Confucian...

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One of the most notable was the migration of the Chinese in the late 19th and early 20th century. ... Mah is a clear representation of the matriarch of the Chinese family who is seemingly still tied to her Chinese origins; she is emotional, bossy and is often abandoned by her husband Leon. ... She refuses to abide to her cultural standards, and breaks free from the "Chinese" traditions and portion of her Chinese American identity in order to successfully grasp the pursuit of the American Dream that her parents were never able to grasp. ... Fae Myenne Ng's novel "Bone"...

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In 1880s, the Chinese Exclusion act was passed, and Chinese labor immigration was banned for ten years. ... In Immigration and the Imagined Community in Europe and the United States, Citrin states "It appears that the long history of ethnic and religious diversity in the United States has produced a distinctive, and more favorable, orientation toward cultural heterogeneity" (Citrin 37). ... Ethnic diversity is, on balance, an important social asset, as the history of my own country demonstrates" (Putnam 138). ...

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This is where is previous business history reflects well because it sounds like he know what is needed and sounds good that he wants to champion small businesses. ... However his ideas of lowering spending, eliminating programs that do not pass certain tests and being very reluctant to borrow from china and an policy of attrition for me doesn't clearly explain what he would do to fix the deficit, these are only vague statements that come across well. ...

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