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What are the most significant similarities between the Chinese American and Japanese American [cultural] experiences?
What are the differences?

2007-02-01 08:23:51 · 2 answers · asked by timothy k 1 in Society & Culture Cultures & Groups Other - Cultures & Groups

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Both faced a degree of segregation, especially in places like California, but Japanese Americans were interned during world war two. Many Chinese Americans have ancestors that worked on the railroad.

Both China and Japan are large countries that have cultural diversity within themselves. And the immigrants who came at different times to different towns or areas had different experiences.

Then, there are the inter marriages that make all of that irrelevant. They were often grouped together (with some Mexicans and occasionally even Native Americans) by Caucasians who couldn't tell the difference. So a Japanese may have been called a "China-man" during construction of the great railroads, and a few Chinese may have been called "Japs" during and after the War.

2007-02-01 08:36:51 · answer #1 · answered by dude 5 · 0 0

McDonald's.

2007-02-01 08:31:01 · answer #2 · answered by binibining pilipina 5 · 0 5

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