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Chinese Americans, a fragmented ethnic group

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Netizens are discussing the fact that the gold medal lecturer of the American food Internet celebrity Ding Fatzi was reported by Chinese compatriots and faced repatriation.

To be honest, mutual harm between Chinese compatriots abounds in the United States, and it is not news.

Chinese Americans, a fragmented ethnic group

A few days ago, 30 Chinese students started a business project, using WeChat to place orders and operate various baking cakes and milk tea, because they used their kitchen equipment at home for processing, and mainly spread services in the circle of friends, without applying for a baking license.

As a result, because the business was too good, affecting the surrounding bakeries and restaurants, they were reported by a Chinese restaurant owner, and the 30 international students not only faced heavy fines, but also were repatriated.

Chinese Americans, a fragmented ethnic group

There are also those who repair power lines for others without a license, install charging piles, help friends fill propane cylinders, and privately sell the fish they catch and the crabs they catch.

Why are Latinos, African-Americans, Indians, and Japanese Americans in the United States all able to form a group, while only Chinese Americans are keen to hurt each other? Many netizens have asked me similar questions.

Chinese Americans, a fragmented ethnic group

In my opinion, it is mainly because of historical reasons that the structure of Chinese in the United States is complicated.

The first group of Chinese who took root in the United States have multiplied for nearly ten generations now, and their descendants have been completely Americanized and have almost nothing to do with mainland culture.

Chinese Americans, a fragmented ethnic group

The thirties and forties were another high tide of immigration to the United States, but many of the people who went to the United States at this stage were scholars, scientists and big capitalists, and this group of Chinese had a high status in American society, but they were not at all the same class as the first batch of Chinese Americans.

From the 50s to the 80s, Chinese immigrants to the United States were mainly from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and most of them also chose to stay in the United States to study.

Chinese Americans, a fragmented ethnic group

After the 90s, with the reform and opening up, a large number of Chinese students went to the United States, accompanied by a large number of smugglers in coastal areas.

Of course, in the early nineties and late nineties, two large groups of indescribable Chinese arrived in the United States, which made the Chinese community even more complicated.

Chinese Americans, a fragmented ethnic group

Two thousand years later, especially in the last decade, the Chinese who have come to the United States are even more diverse, including successful businessmen, entrepreneurs who have opened up overseas markets, children who have come to study at underage, pregnant women who have given birth to children at sea, mysterious people who have low-key and unidentified secrets, and more technical elites seeking high incomes and foreign married women seeking green cards.

Chinese Americans, a fragmented ethnic group

Such a complex composition of immigrants and specific historical evolution have caused the Chinese American community to not only have very different values, clear cultural inheritance, and uneven educational levels, but also that the basic ethnic cognition is very different, and it can be said that there is nothing in common except for appearance.

may also be for this reason, there is not much psychological burden on reporting compatriots and pitting compatriots.

Chinese Americans, a fragmented ethnic group