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This 7 page paper discusses appropriate interventions for a group of Chinese American men who are gambling addicts. It also considers some of the social issues facing Chinese Americans, their history, and what a typical Gamblers Anonymous meeting is like. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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It also considers some of the social issues facing Chinese Americans, their history, and what a typical Gamblers Anonymous meeting is like. Discussion Gambling addiction is difficult for anyone, but
when the addict is also somewhat torn about his identity, the problem becomes even more difficult. The history of the Chinese in America is one of hard work, great promise
and great discrimination culminating in the Exclusion Acts-legalized discrimination that kept the Chinese from entering the United States in 1882. But without the Chinese laborers who came to "Gold Mountain"
to build a better life for themselves and their families, its difficult to imagine how the great building projects, such as the railroads, would have ever been completed. Chinese immigrants
faced the problem of trying to make a home for themselves in a culture that is very different from theirs; Francis L.K. Hsu says that "the differences of the two
cultures in a nutshell as self-centeredness and situation-centeredness" (Li, 1993, p. 99). In the U.S. decision making "depends ... on considerations of the self," while in China it depends on
"interpersonal relations" (Li, 1993, p. 99). The clash of traditional Chinese culture and the brash American way of life is not seen either as "submission to the new culture or
changing to the old" (Li, 1993, p. 99). Instead, by working out the conflicts, "a new awareness emerges, giving evidence of the existence of an experience that can be called
Asian American" (Li, 1993, p. 99). However, the Asian American immigrant retains an undesirable status as the "other within a dominant culture" (Li, 1993, p. 99). Perhaps the most egregious
example of American hatred of Asians is the internment of the Japanese-Americans during WWII, but the Exclusion Act is a close second. This law was the "first major immigration legislation"
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