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Throughout the history of the United States of America, millions of people from all over the world came to this continent of dream and hope, seeking a place to either survive or make a better life. Hundreds of thousands of forerunners and avant-gardes had devoted their whole lives to the contributions and constructions of this nation, and a great number of them even sacrificed not only themselves but also their families. However, the majority of these immigrants did not receive what they deserved. In a WASP dominated nation, they soon disappeared from the mainstream and became “missing in history”, aka. MIH. Among these MIH groups, Asian Americans were definitely one of them that sacrificed the most while ended up with being abandoned and forgotten …show more content…

Instead of seeking for hope and dream, he could only figure out a way to gain food to keep him from starving to death. To those Asian immigrants, the U.S was not a continent with hope and treasure, but a strange and exotic land where they had to think about all the possible solutions to stay alive. However, in the mainstream U.S history, which was typically Euro-centric and mostly white-oriented, the tough and mournful stories disappeared, or to be more specific, ignored. History was, to some extent, distorted. Throughout the history, the whites became dominant mainstream element in social construction, while the minorities, including millions of Asian immigrants, turned out to be marginalized from the mainstream society. The White Anglo Saxon Protestant controlled society empowers whites to use “race”, a term with more social meaning rather than biological meaning, to isolate and exclude the minorities. The article “10 Things Everyone Should Know about Race” by PBS Review gives us more detailed information on this term, “Race is a powerful social idea that gives people different access to opportunities and resources. The government and social institutions of the United States have created advantages that disproportionately channel wealth, power and resources to white people.” As quoted, the society and the government, enables the whites to be the dominant social forces in the nation. As a result, the white supremacy

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