Becoming American: The Chinese Experience : No Turning Back (2003)
Genres - Historical Film |
Sub-Genres - Race & Ethnicity, Social History, Biography |
Run Time - 90 min. |
Countries - United States |
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Synopsis
The conclusion charts what host Bill Moyers calls the "striking rise to the top rung of American life" by many Chinese-Americans since the late 1960s, when national immigration quotas were set aside. Moyers profiles eight successful Chinese-Americans, who describe their struggles. Some had external causes (journalist Helen Zia recalls a 1982 murder that galvanized Detroit's Asian community), but mostly the struggles were simply to succeed. And family pressure was intense. Slacking off, says medical student Jean Tang, "wasn't an option."
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Chinese-American, immigration, assimilation, dreams-of-success, opportunity, American-dream, China, Civil-Rights, cultural-identity, descendant, education, integration, racism, world-war
