Revision Questions
minority"
· ABCs American-born Chinese "bananas"
· FOBs recent immigrants "fresh off the boat"
*Chinatowns in New York, Manhattan etc.
*Education =
· Comparatively greater investments in children's education
· Disproportionately highly represented at top universities
· Often take more difficult courses in mathematics and sciences
*They are generally very well (the best out of Asian Americans) accepted in the society,
because of their achivements in politics, science, engineering etc. Wisdom at its best!
*Japanese Americans = *Historical background = Isolation of Japan from the Western
world
· 1868 the first group of Japanese laborers in Hawaii
· 1869 the first Japanese settlement on American mainland, in California
· Strict restrictions on emigration from Japan until the 1880
· Significant number of Japanese workers arrived after 1890, esp. in San Francisco
and Los Angeles.
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