ASIANAMERICAN Define AsianAmericans Origin of the AsianAmerican Viewgraph

ASIAN-AMERICAN Ø Define Asian-Americans Ø Origin of the Asian-American Viewgraph #18 -1

ORIGIN OF THE ASIAN-AMERICAN Ø Ø Viewgraph #18 -2 Chinese (1840 s - 1882) Japanese (1860 - 1907) Filipino (1899 - 1934) Korean (1901 - 1907)

LEGISLATION AFFECTING ASIAN-AMERICAN Ø Ø Ø Ø Ø Viewgraph #18 -3 Foreign Miner’s Act Naturalization Act Chinese Exclusion Act Gentlemen’s Agreement Cable Act Alien Land Act Exclusionary Immigration Act Tiddings-Mc. Duffie Act World Wars I and Ii

WORLD WAR II • Executive Order 9066 • Repeal Chinese Exclusion Act Viewgraph #18 -4

STEREOTYPES Ø Myths Ø Facts Ø Reality Viewgraph #18 -5

CHINESE SOCIAL STRUCTURE Ø Ø Ø Viewgraph #18 -6 Individual Family Clan Respect for age Strong male tradition Filial piety

JAPANESE SOCIAL STRUCTURE Ø Ø Ø Viewgraph #18 -7 Patriarchal Filial piety Male oriented Family above individual Concept of “house”

KOREAN SOCIAL STRUCTURE Ø Social class stratification Ø Filial piety Ø Male dominance Ø Concept of “chip” Ø Strong respect for elders and Educated Viewgraph #18 -8

FILIPINO SOCIAL STRUCTURE Ø Ø Viewgraph #18 -9 Affected by outside influences Less formal family relationships Extended family Male-female relationship exists

CHINESE LANGUAGE Ø Ø Ø Viewgraph #18 -10 Oldest and most widespread on Earth Spoken language is monosyllabic Gesture and tone important Over 1000 dialects One written language Ideographs for words

JAPANESE LANGUAGE Ø Ø Viewgraph #18 -11 Written language borrowed from China Polysyllabic and mutually intelligible Express ideas versus words Kanji, Hirigana, Katakana written language

KOREAN LANGUAGE Ø Ø Viewgraph #18 -12 Written with Chinese characters Grammar similar to Japanese Different levels of speech Dialects mutually intelligible

FILIPINO LANGUAGE Ø Ø Viewgraph #18 -13 300 different languages Tagalog national language No sounds for f, v, w, z Different dialects

CHINESE RELIGION Ø Ø Ø Viewgraph #18 -14 Non-Christian Confucianism Taoism Buddhism Chinese Christianity

JAPANESE RELIGION Ø Buddhism Ø Shinto Ø Japanese Christianity Viewgraph #18 -15

KOREAN RELIGION Ø Ø Ø Viewgraph #18 -16 Taoism Buddhism Confucianism Korean Christianity Ch’ondo-Gyo

FILIPINO RELIGION Ø Catholic Ø Islam Viewgraph #18 -17

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS Ø Ø Viewgraph #18 -18 Chinese concept of “face” and visibility Japanese generations change Korean concept of “kibun” Filipino loyalty

VALUES AND ATTITUDES AFFECTING ASIAN-AMERICANS Ø Ø Viewgraph #18 -19 Education Economic issues U. S. Military Current problems and issues

CURRENT PROBLEMS & ISSUES Ø Family Ø Overcoming stereotypes Ø Backlash due to new immigrants Viewgraph #18 -20