'The Rice Room - A Conflict of Generations'

'The relationship amid the Statesns and Chinese immigrants in atomic military issue 20 is multiplex, to joint the least. Chinese immigrants helped arm much of the base and introduced intensive farming to the Bay field of honor in the 1800s, but, disrespect these contributions, slide byd to be viewed as outcaste laborers by the the Statesns. By the 1870s unemployment rates were ascent in America, and the Chinese immigrants quickly became the whipping boy for American duress. in that respect was a tog up in Anti-Chinese (anti-coolie) movements that brush across calcium (24). These movements lead to the colonisation of many Chinese settlements and prompted Congress to pull the 1882 Chinese elision Act and the 1924 immigration Act. These Congressional decisions exactly perpetuated the history of racialism and distrust felt between the Americans and Chinese in California, which would continue well into the twentieth century. In his allegory The Rice Room, Ben Fong-Tor res traces his complex cross- ethnic inheritance as a second multiplication Chinese American during the mid 1900s; mangled between the alluring American lifestyle and the traditional cultural heritage his immigrant parents struggled to nurture in him. \n standardized nearly immigrants, Bens parents came to America in face of the American Dream. Referred to California as the gilded Mountains , the United States offered an fortune to make more than money and allow for for family back in China. Ben notes that his bugger off was encourage by his family to anticipate a greater fortune and because return to father them  (11). His father did as he was told, and came to America via the Philippines. Like most Chinese immigrants in the 1920s, Bens father entered the res publica illegally. Because there were hard limits on the number of Chinese immigrants allowed into America, Bens father added Torres to his name to entice immigration officials that he was of Filipino de scent. Bens set about also entered the orbit illegally, and both lived in fear of cosmos disc...'