... families and so is the process of the construction of her identity based on the ideals of both "American" and "Chinese" cultures. Leila's assimilation is ultimately disturbed in the sense that she has to negotiate between her family member's assimilation and her ... job in order to provide for his family which proves ultimately that attaining this elusive "American Dream" is impossible while remaining in a Chinese cultural mindset. He refuses to let go his "Chineseness", which results in the closing of his family laundry, constant shipping out overseas ... Alley, Mah and Leon-everything-b...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

... immigration as a necessary tool to establish culture diversity. 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). Citrin points out that the ... Increased immigration and diversity are not only inevitable, but over the long run they are also desirable. Ethnic diversity is, on balance, an important social asset, as the history of my own country demonstrates" (...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

... 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) values. The church becomes a place where they c...

• Word Count: 422
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate