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6 pages in length. The writer discusses the historic aspects of first generation presence including how, when and why they arrived, what they did for a living and how America has been both a blessing and a curse to them. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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to the reasons how and why dialogue plays such an important role in the overall management of multiracial societies. Cultures are established with defined meanings and boundaries; to infiltrate
these specific elements by disrupting the identifying discourse is to "construct rules or laws in an attempt to fit mixed-race people into the categories" (Nakashima, 2001, pp. 35-36). Nakashima
(2001) discusses how during the period of first generation Chinese immigration to the United States, the historical construction of the "Oriental" began as an alien image who threatened "real" Americans.
As a result, three images of the Chinese developed: "pollutant" (immigrant who spoiled Californias image as free white republic), "coolie" (servile labor threatening working class) and "deviant" (women prostitutes
and men domestics who threatened the very foundation of American ideal). Indeed, the existence of the Chinese immigrant was not particularly well received by the growing middle and upper
class (Amselle, 1995). The gulf that existed between the divergent groups was primarily born from a sense of ethnic privilege that had been established early on. " When
one uses categories such as Oriental or Western, the tendency is to polarise the distinction and limit the human encounter between different cultures, traditions and societies" (Said, 1979, pp. 45-6).
Nakashima (2001) touches upon an issue that has long eluded multicultural nations: natural human rights. Within the realm of life exists inherent
elements to ones existence; paramount to mans existence is the concept of natural rights. Philosophers have long postulated what, exactly, these rights consist of within the massive scope of
cultural existence, with some contending that natural rights are those that are without social infiltration, while others attest to the fact that natural rights are doled out only by social
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