A History Of Asian American Strangers From A Different Shore Sparknotes

A History of Asian Americans, Strangers From a Different Shore, written by Ronald Takaki, displays an extensive history of Asian Americans as he combines a narrative story, personal recollection and spoken assertions. As long as we can remember, many races such as the Chinese, Filipinos, Koreans, Vietnamese and Japanese have dealt with some type of discrimination upon arriving to the United States. A particular part in the book, Chapter 11, mainly focuses on Asian immigrants and Southeast Asian refugees from the 1960s to the 1980s that were treated as the “strangers at the gate again.” Ronald Takaki refers to them as “strangers at the gate again” as a figure of speech for the people who are from Asian background who have struggled to settle in the United States, only to find out that old

The quota issued immigration visas to only two percent of the people from particular countries that were already residing in the U.S. It was not until the Immigration Act of 1965 that put an end to the national-origins quota and provided yearly admittance for immigrants from Asia such as the Eastern and Western Hemisphere (Jones, 625). This was the significant moment in Asian American history because it changed the United Stated once more into a “golden door” which lead the way for the second wave of Asian immigration. The second-wave were different from earlier immigrants due to a significant number of white-collars and people from cities. For earlier immigrants, they consistently compose of farmers and rural people. Also, the recent Asian immigrants are more highly skilled that any other immigrants groups that have entered the United States. They arrived as a high technology, service economy and arriving as families rather than an industrialized and agricultural economy and arriving as single men (Takaki,