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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

cross-cultural battles, Chinese-American assimilation, immigrant experience

College

Humanities

Department

Asian and Near Eastern Languages

Abstract

The immigrant experience for overseas Chinese during the early 1900’s involved extreme adjustments to a new land, new communities, new occupations, new cultural standards, new language, and new livelihoods. The political background and social conditions left behind in China, as met by the new social conditioning in America had interesting effects on the immigrants’ social consciousness and mentalities, creating a distinctly different generation of second generation Chinese-Americans.

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