ASIAN-AMERICANASIAN-AMERICAN

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Define Asian-Americans Origin of the Asian-American

ORIGIN OF THEORIGIN OF THEASIAN-AMERICANASIAN-AMERICAN

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Chinese (1840s - 1882) Japanese (1860 - 1907) Filipino (1899 - 1934) Korean (1901 - 1907)

LEGISLATION AFFECTINGLEGISLATION AFFECTINGASIAN-AMERICANASIAN-AMERICAN

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Foreign Miner’s Act Naturalization Act Chinese Exclusion Act Gentlemen’s Agreement Cable Act Alien Land Act Exclusionary Immigration Act Tiddings-McDuffie Act World Wars I and Ii

WORLD WAR IIWORLD WAR II

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• Executive Order 9066• Repeal Chinese Exclusion Act

STEREOTYPESSTEREOTYPES

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Myths Facts Reality

CHINESECHINESESOCIAL STRUCTURESOCIAL STRUCTURE

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Individual Family Clan Respect for age Strong male tradition Filial piety

JAPANESEJAPANESESOCIAL STRUCTURESOCIAL STRUCTURE

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Patriarchal Filial piety Male oriented Family above individual Concept of “house”

KOREAN KOREAN SOCIAL STRUCTURESOCIAL STRUCTURE

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Social class stratification Filial piety Male dominance Concept of “chip” Strong respect for elders and Educated

FILIPINO FILIPINO SOCIAL STRUCTURESOCIAL STRUCTURE

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Affected by outside influences Less formal family relationships Extended family Male-female relationship exists

CHINESE LANGUAGECHINESE LANGUAGE

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Oldest and most widespread on Earth Spoken language is monosyllabic Gesture and tone important Over 1000 dialects One written language Ideographs for words

JAPANESE LANGUAGEJAPANESE LANGUAGE

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Written language borrowed from China Polysyllabic and mutually intelligible Express ideas versus words Kanji, Hirigana, Katakana written language

KOREAN LANGUAGEKOREAN LANGUAGE

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Written with Chinese characters Grammar similar to Japanese Different levels of speech Dialects mutually intelligible

FILIPINO LANGUAGEFILIPINO LANGUAGE

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300 different languages Tagalog national language No sounds for f,v,w,z Different dialects

CHINESE RELIGIONCHINESE RELIGION

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Non-Christian Confucianism Taoism Buddhism Chinese Christianity

JAPANESE RELIGIONJAPANESE RELIGION

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Buddhism Shinto Japanese Christianity

KOREAN RELIGIONKOREAN RELIGION

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Taoism Buddhism Confucianism Korean Christianity Ch’ondo-Gyo

FILIPINO RELIGIONFILIPINO RELIGION

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Catholic Islam

OTHER CONSIDERATIONSOTHER CONSIDERATIONS

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Chinese concept of “face” and visibility Japanese generations change Korean concept of “kibun” Filipino loyalty

VALUES AND ATTITUDESVALUES AND ATTITUDESAFFECTING ASIAN-AMERICANSAFFECTING ASIAN-AMERICANS

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Education Economic issues U.S. Military Current problems and issues

CURRENT PROBLEMS & ISSUESCURRENT PROBLEMS & ISSUES

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Family Overcoming stereotypes Backlash due to new immigrants