The history of exclusion of Chinese by Americans is very long, and even against the entire Asian American. In 1882, the US government promulgated the Chinese Exclusion Act, and even later California enacted a bill prohibiting Chinese and white marriage, and the California Constitution even directly wrote that it was forbidden to hire Chinese. At that time, the living space of Chinese in the United States was very bad.
And if the Chinese want to get a place in the United States, a very good way is to go to the United States to join the army, and when the country wants to fight, take up the gun to fight for the United States and the United States. There is a book called "Fighting for Dreams: The Voice of Chinese American Veterans from World War II to Afghanistan," written by a Chinese veteran. And this so-called fight for dreams, dreams are actually to become Americans and be accepted by Americans. The book records that at the outbreak of World War II, there were 77,504 Chinese in the United States, and nearly 20,000 Chinese went to join the army, about a quarter of the Chinese went to the army.
There is a Chinese woman named Arlene Chin, whose father immigrated to the United States when she was 15 years old and joined the army after the outbreak of World War II. Her father's unit was sent to the China-India-Burma theater to train the expeditionary force. When the war was over, her father obtained the status of a U.S. citizen, well, he had never had American citizenship before.
During the Normandy landings in 1944, there was a private named Cheng Guoan in the rangers, who rushed into the fort during the day and bladed a German patrol group at night on Omaha Beach. This man was the only Chinese soldier among the 7,000 Rangers at the time.
These people rack their brains to be recognized by the Americans, but unfortunately, the Americans still do not recognize them. In 2017, CACA launched the Chinese American World War II Veterans Recognition Program, at which Americans looked around for those Chinese veterans who served in World War II, and the youngest of those found, the youngest 88 years old, the oldest 101 years old, almost died. They fought heroically in the early days, their honor was buried, and no one paid attention.
Not only that, a Chinese-American soldier born in Hawaii named Francis Wei joined the Hawaiian National Guard in 1940 and officially joined the army after the outbreak of Pearl Harbor. He served in the 24th Infantry Division and became an army captain in 1944. In the Philippine campaign, he took over the command of the fallen company commander, attracted fire alone on the beach, detected the Japanese fire point on his own, and was finally killed by the Japanese. Then the man's medal of honor was awarded posthumously in 2000.
In fact, not only Chinese, but also African-Americans, in 1996, some people accused Asians, African Americans of discrimination during World War II, so that their military merits were not recognized, not awarded, the Americans began to re-investigate, and finally Clinton posthumously awarded a large number of medals of honor, including 22 Chinese.
During the Korean War, the First Marine Division had a Chinese-American soldier named Franklin Chang, also born in Hawaii. When he was in the army, he was always treated as a volunteer in American uniform, and according to him, he was very worried about being killed by his comrades on the battlefield, and when he was in the rear, he was always treated as a Korean in the barracks, and the American troops who did not know him always drove him out.
And this man claims to not speak Chinese, and it is reasonable to say that Chinese-Americans cannot speak Chinese. But this man was born in 1933, during the Great Depression in the United States, his father took his child and led his wife back to China, and after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he returned to the United States. In other words, this product was spent in China as a child, and he had to know how to speak Chinese. If he can't speak Chinese, the problem is that his parents gave up even Chinese in order to integrate into the United States, and they didn't speak it at home.
These Chinese themselves are actually wall grass, and they can go wherever they are good. Their ancestors went to the United States and moved back to China during the Great Depression in the United States, and after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, many Chinese who moved back to China returned to the United States, as was the case with the aforementioned Cheng Guoan, as was Franklin Zhang. You just say this kind of person, and they will definitely not be welcomed anywhere.
If these people all joined the army during the Chinese Exclusion Act, but in modern times, there are still Chinese Americans who run to join the army in order to be recognized by Americans.
In 2011, a Chinese-American soldier named Danny Chen committed suicide with a gun at a military base in Kandahar because he was often abused and racist by veterans of the same army because of his Chinese identity, and finally he was humiliated and shot himself above the guard post.
After Danny Chen died, a Chinese activist in the local community, a woman named Elizabeth Ouyang, said that she had always just wanted to belong, feel part of the United States, and the ultimate way to achieve that goal was to fight for her country. This means that the best way for them to integrate into American society is to join the army and fight. And Danny Chen's own cousin has also said similar views.