The first immigrants from Korea came to Hawaii at the beginning of the 20th century. Later they entered the United States mainland especially California, Utha, Colorado, Wyoming, Arziona and Alaska. Most of them went to L.A. or New York. In America they hoped to find work, peace and democracy. They were farm workers or wage laborers.
1908 the immigration stopped, because Koreans were Japanese nationals and the Japanese were excluded.
When the Korean War ended in 1953 a small number of students and professionals entered the USA. From then till today ther were 150,000 adoptees.
With the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, Koreans became one of the fastest growing Asian groups in the United States, surpassed only by Filipinos.
Montag, 18. Juni 2007
17 things I learned about Asian-Americains
1. chinese-americains are the biggest group of asian people in america.
2. asian americains have to fight with racism
3. many americains hate them for being different, and this is supported by courts.
4.Most Asian Americans shared a sense of guilt and shame about the Virginia
tech massacre and most of the fear racial backlashes
5.many Asian American people have become famous stars in the USA
( Chackie Chan, Bruce Lee, Lucy Liu, George Takei etc.)
6. every group of Asian Americans has got a very interesting history and culture
7.after the Virginia Tech Massacre many Koreans have been afraid of beeing
victims of racist hate
8. the immigration history of the Asian Americans are deeply rooted in the
evolution of the US and Asia
9. 24 people died during the L.A. Race Riots on April 29th 1992
10. there are many laws against asian americain immigration
11. the soldiers of the 442nd have all been Japanese Americans and truly
12. i got to know know what "shikatta go nai , gambatte, kodomo no
tameni" means ( it can't be helped, hold on, for the sake of our children )
13.during WW II 120.000 Japanese Americans have been brought
to internment camps
14. there are seperate citys where asian americains live: f.e. chinatown
15. that filipinoamericains invented the jojo
16. that there are notable asian-a writers.
17.that most of filipinos-a came to california
2. asian americains have to fight with racism
3. many americains hate them for being different, and this is supported by courts.
4.Most Asian Americans shared a sense of guilt and shame about the Virginia
tech massacre and most of the fear racial backlashes
5.many Asian American people have become famous stars in the USA
( Chackie Chan, Bruce Lee, Lucy Liu, George Takei etc.)
6. every group of Asian Americans has got a very interesting history and culture
7.after the Virginia Tech Massacre many Koreans have been afraid of beeing
victims of racist hate
8. the immigration history of the Asian Americans are deeply rooted in the
evolution of the US and Asia
9. 24 people died during the L.A. Race Riots on April 29th 1992
10. there are many laws against asian americain immigration
11. the soldiers of the 442nd have all been Japanese Americans and truly
12. i got to know know what "shikatta go nai , gambatte, kodomo no
tameni" means ( it can't be helped, hold on, for the sake of our children )
13.during WW II 120.000 Japanese Americans have been brought
to internment camps
14. there are seperate citys where asian americains live: f.e. chinatown
15. that filipinoamericains invented the jojo
16. that there are notable asian-a writers.
17.that most of filipinos-a came to california
Sonntag, 17. Juni 2007
Vincent chin
Vincent Chin (1955 – June 23, 1982) was a Chinese American industrial draftsman murdered in 1982 in the United States, in the Detroit, Michigan enclave of Highland Park by two white autoworkers (Ron Ebens, Micheal Nitz). Ebens and Nitz were convicted in a county court for manslaughter, after a plea bargain brought the charges down from second-degree murder. They served no jail time, were given three years probation, fined $3,000 and ordered to pay $780.00 in court costs.
Radio show about internment camps
A reporter talks with one of the former inmates of an internment camp.
-Hello. How are you?
--> I'm fine thanks.
- What can you tell me about your past?
--> When I was young I came with my parents to Los Angeles because my parents worked there in agriculture. In the United States they earned much more money than at home and our lifes got better.
- Where there only andvantages when you came to the USA?
--> No. Of course I missed my friends and my hometown but we had less problems.
- But your situation changed after some time?
--> Yes, the situation changed to the bad side. When the time of the internmet camps started, I often wished to be in Japan. First they told us that wo would be in camps for only short times but I knew that they lied.
- What was life in camp like?
--> We were always hungry and restless but we still had to believe that the camps were "resettlement comunities", not prisons. The rooms were very overcrowded and there was no furniture. We were always under military and police contol. When we didn't do what they wanted us to do, they attaced us.
- Oh these are really bad conditions.
--> Yes, but now it's over and I don't really like to look back.
- Thank you!
Radio show about race riots in l.a
Radio Speaker: This morning race riots broke out in L.A. again. African and Korean Americans were arguing and the results of it were different cases of stealings an shootings. 24 people died because of the shootings. The amount of people who became injured isn't known yet. The police of Los Angeles didn't do anything against the riots. They made no efforts to stop the shootings and other terms of criminality and violence.
Did you know that...?
the quota act of 1924 was actually aimed at the japanese because chinese were already excluded by the 1882 chinese exclusion act.
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