Presentation to University of Memphis Campus School 5th grade about the history of Chinese in America, Sept. 13, 2011. A videotape of me speaking did not show my slides which contained valuable information. Im this adapted "slide cast," I have linked the slides with the audio from the videotape. (At slide 40, the videotape ran out, so I had to improvise and add the narration for the remainding 14 slides.)
What Your Should Know About the Chinese in America That Your History Book Left Out
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What You Should Know About The Chinese
in America That Your History Book Left Out
Presentation by John Jung to 5th Grade Class, Campus School
Confucius Institute, University of Memphis 9/13/11
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Talking to 5th graders at University
of Memphis campus school
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What is this statue a symbol of?
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Emma Lazarus, 1883
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Where Is This Place
and What Was Its Purpose?
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Opened 100 Years Ago
(just like U. of Memphis)
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What is a diaspora?
Di·as·po·ra n. "the movement, migration, or scattering of
people away from an established or ancestral homeland"
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Low Price ‘Advantage’
‘Unpaid’ Family Labor
Low rent neighborhoods
Sleep near, behind, or above the restaurant
‘Paid’ immigrant help with “room and board”
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World Events Affect How Chinese in
America Are Treated
“Chinese Americans” Are They “Americans” or “Forever Foreigners’?
√ Ally of U. S. in W. W. II (early 1940s)
√ Defeat of Nationalists by Red China (late 1940s)
√ Korean War (early 1950s)
√ Economic Power of China
(1990s-)
√ China and Human Rights, Corruption,
Environment Pollution, Unsafe Food, etc
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Chinese in America Today
(or The Importance of Being Educated)
Mayors Artists Surgeons
Governors Fashion Designers Lawyers
Ambassadors Congress persons Engineers
Judges Movie Stars TV Newspersons
Scientists Architects Astronauts
Novelists Writers Musicians
Movie Directors Corporate CEO’s Journalists
Athletes Professors Inventors
Notes de l'éditeur
In late 1800s there was great hostility toward Chinese ending in 1882 exclusion law