Sentences with phrase «chinese immigrants»

Chinese immigrants love the opportunity to own a beautiful home here and have their children educated at what are increasingly excellent schools.

The Heritage Centre tells the story of Chinese immigrants who began arriving in Singapore in large numbers in the late 1800s in search of jobs and a better future.

Mr. Wong, an architect who has campaigned on behalf of impoverished Chinese immigrants, said it was vital to have a frank discussion about the impact of rich immigrants on greater Vancouver, where average detached house prices top $ 1.2 - million.

But along with programs that would meet the needs of Chinese immigrants, Li says, «I felt there was an opportunity to help non-Chinese gain a better appreciation of our culture.»

During the Chinese Parent Cafes development process, the Parent Cafe process was reviewed and field tested for cultural appropriateness, tagging for Chinese immigrants, multigenerational grandparents co-parenting approach, American born Chinese, and all families for relevance.

Of the limited number of studies done on Chinese immigrants in North America in the areas of parenting and child development, several showed that Chinese immigrant families who had prolonged parent - child separation experienced elevated risks of socio - emo - tional and behavioral problems in the child, as well as strained parent - child rela - tionships [3][9][20].

Low - income Chinese immigrants without extended family are faced with the dilemma of whether to raise their children in the U.S. or have them sent back to home country to be raised.

Greater acculturation of Chinese immigrants to the USA is also associated with greater vulnerability to the depressogenic effects of stress than less acculturated immigrants (Hwang and Myers, 2007).

Recruited and interviewed recent Chinese immigrants to evaluate their attitudes toward HIV positive patients

During the late 1800s, as Chinese immigrants were blamed for many problems ranging from unemployment to the economic depression itself, they were portrayed as vermin that lived on rats and thus were a sub-human race that should be exterminated to protect the American way of life.

Eng is the son of Chinese immigrants.

Born in Houston to Chinese immigrants, Chin was heavily influenced by the cultural diversity of his neighborhood and his art similarly reflects a cross-cultural approach.

Martin Wong (1946 - 1999) was born in Portland Oregon as the only son of Chinese immigrants Benjamin Fie and Florence Wong Fie.

The installation pays tribute to Gates's Mississippi heritage and acknowledges the history and presence of Chinese immigrants in the southern United States.

According to the China - Africa Project, there are more Chinese immigrants living in Africa today than French colonisers in the middle of the 20th century.

She was a 2012 Public Artist in Residence at The Laundromat Project, collecting oral histories and teaching media making to Chinese immigrants in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

Who are the Chinese immigrants that populate America?

Fay Ku's solo exhibition Asa Nisa Masa at Eight Modern in Santa Fe features delicately executed graphite, ink and watercolor works inspired by her memories, experiences and relationships as a result of her upbringing in white suburbia as the child of Chinese immigrants.

Back when San Francisco was still a young city, some of the first Chinese immigrants that helped make the city what it is today used to camp here, giving the beach its name.

Most of Belize is rural with a total of about 355,000 people, including Mestizo (43 %), Creole (30 %), Maya (11 %), Garifuna (7 %), East Indian (3 %), Mennonites (3 %), and the rest a mix of other peoples, including expats from North America and Chinese immigrants.

A barracks was erected for the numerous Chinese immigrants who arrived to work here.

A large population of Chinese immigrants arrived but were entrenched in a civil war, disrupting the precious mining and rubber trade.

Chinese immigrants now make up around 2 percent of the total Belize population.

The early Chinese immigrants to Bangkok continued the tradition and built a shrine for the Goddess of Mercy on the Chao Phraya River near where they lived.

The Chinese immigrants who were originally settled in what is now the Grand Palace had to move out to a strip of land two km down the river.

There are many Chinese immigrants in Bali who pay respects to their ancestors and celebrate Chinese New Year festively.

Rather, I was interested in exploring one particular facet of it: the influence of Chinese immigrants on dishes that today are Peruvian staples, such as lomo saltado (beef tenderloin and vegetables stir - fried in soy sauce).

Its menu pays homage to the Chinese immigrants that helped form the island's rich cultural heritage.

However, what they may not realize is that Hawaii has been home to Chinese immigrants since the 1700s.

During the Gold Rush, this area was largely populated with Chinese immigrants; now, association halls and a Chinese language school help keep Chinese culture alive.

This museum preserves the history of the Chinese immigrants in Bangkok and Thailand.

The Year of the Horse Our little town of Jacksonville has a rich and colorful history, part of which includes a significant population of Chinese immigrants who lived here in the late 1800s.

The son of Chinese immigrants, Yang is the first graphic novelist to hold the position since it was created in 2008.

Based on ghost stories told by early Chinese immigrants in the U.S. and Canada, these 10 short fiction selections bring the supernatural into young people's daily lives.

Competition between American workers and Chinese immigrants plus a growing nativism brought pressure upon Congress to take some kind of restrictive action, which began with the Chinese Exclusion Act of May 6, 1882.

The law suspended immigration of Chinese laborers for ten years; permitted only those Chinese in the United States as of November 17, 1880, to stay, travel abroad, and return; and banned the naturalization of Chinese immigrants.

The Act to Prohibit the Coming of Chinese Persons into the United States, referred to as the Geary Act, allowed Chinese laborers to travel to China and reenter the United States but its provisions were otherwise more restrictive than the 1885 law, requiring Chinese immigrants to register and secure a certificate as proof of their right to be in the United States.

Even better, she uses the Tapes» unusual experiences as early members of the Chinese - American middle class to illuminate the experiences of all Chinese immigrants in the troubled era of the Exclusion Act.

Her artist - father and poet - mother, both Chinese immigrants, encourage her creativity.

For instance, in choosing links for the 2007 Michael L. Printz Award book American Born Chinese by Gene Yang, I was able to select graphic novels and books about graphic novels, for readers who are interested in the format, as well as historical fiction about the lives of Chinese immigrants in North America and contemporary novels about teens living with immigrant parents.

(Calif.) From life - saving techniques to the contributions of Chinese immigrants in building the railroad, K - 12 curriculum in California schools is set for a new wave of updates and additions under legislation signed over the past week by the governor.

This non-fiction article gives information about the Chinese immigrants who came to California in the 1800's seeking prosperity.

Tenth - grade world history students interview Chinese immigrants and record their stories; ninth - grade physical science students design and strength - test mock airplane wings; junior English students research, write, and illustrate children's nonfiction picture books; algebra students of all grades investigate a public - transit problem and propose solutions to city officials; sophomore geometry students build scale models of museums they've designed; students across the grades in an environmental - stewardship class raise public awareness of a polluted river — all are examples of academically challenging projects that also manage to engage the minds, hands, and hearts of most high school students across a wide range of abilities and interests.

It turned out the curators had wanted to collect the stories of Chinese immigrants and welcomed the opportunity to collaborate with high school students.

(In fact, Mandarin could only be taught as a foreign language since it is only one of the many dialects spoken in China and is rarely the native tongue of Chinese immigrants to the U.S.) But these programs do not fit the theoretical model of bilingual education since the children learn to read and write first in English and the Mandarin is only a small part of their instruction.

Resident upper - and middle - class Chinese Americans, she says, could provide supportive networks to new Chinese immigrants that the other two groups can not access as readily.

That's not necessarily a bad thing when done correctly, but when relying on silly gimmicks like fat suits and racist Chinese immigrants, it's poison.

The disc features the original Chinese language soundtrack (where the language barrier between the Chinese immigrants and Japanese criminal hierarchy comes across more convincingly) and an English dub track, which is typically slapdash but at least Jackie dubs his own dialogue.

The Jade Pendant: This docudrama tells the story of the lynching of 18 Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles in 1871.

Minus a well - received excursion in the field of «adult» puppet shows (Greg the Bunny, 2002 and 2005), Sean Baker's work was centred on marginalised populations in the New York / New Jersey area (where he was born): disenfranchised suburban youth in Four Letter Words (2000), illegal Chinese immigrants (Take Out, 2004, co-directed with Shih - Ching Tsou) and African street hustlers (Prince of Broadway, 2008).