... assimilate into American Culture and capitalist system but comes with the struggle of bearing her family's burdens, their incapability of leaving their Chinese heritage behind in order to pursuit their American Dream. Her process of Americanization is different from her 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...

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... China's rapid economic development, means for economic development, and conflicts arising from economic development, the United States must undertake a policy concerning China's economic growth. Presently, the Chinese economy boasts the fastest growing market in the world. This can be evidenced in the percent change of the gross national product of China being approximately twice the percent change ... has created a corrupt scramble for funds. The scrambling for funds has manifested conflict between the national Chinese government and the local Chinese government. Therefore, United States...

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... immigrants who support and expand the collective intelligence of United States. In Maternal Discussions of Mental States and Behaviors: Relations to Emotion Situation Knowledge in European American and Immigrant Chinese Children, Doan conducts research on immigrants children and examines how their parents' behaviors affect the children' intelligence. In the experiment, Doan concludes: in Although it is possible, ... most immigrants' family holds value in collective intelligence and pursuit the way of collective intelligence through rigorous methods. However, such methods seems ineffectiv...

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... 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 ca...

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... , this last characteristic encourages cultural sensitivity without ethnocentric imposition. Each society assigns unique meanings for most of these characteristics, and consequently their importance varies in all societies. For example, Mainland Chinese people agree with those in the United States that perseverance is an essential attribute of a conscientious manager, but the two societies do not interpret achievement in the same way; unlike ... Americans the Chinese ascribe little value to individual success. Other terms, such a dominance, carry value-loaded and controversial meanings, b...

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... the French struggle against the nationalist movement in Vietnam, the Americans saw an imminent opportunity to possibly apply their own colonial model there, but "called upon the French or the Chinese for the raw intelligence information that informed their reports to Washington," (Bradley 94). Through these sources, the Americans could reaffirm what they had already wanted to believe about the Vietnamese ... ...

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