'The Rice Room - A Conflict of Generations'

'The family relationship a middlest Americans and Chinese immigrants in calcium is complex, to say the least. Chinese immigrants helped build overmuch of the infrastructure and introduced intense farming to the bay tree Area in the 1800s, but, despite these contributions, keep to be viewed as unwanted laborers by the Americans. By the 1870s unemployment rank were rising in America, and the Chinese immigrants cursorily became the scapegoat for American duress. There was a rise in Anti-Chinese (anti-coolie) movements that swept crosswise California (24). These movements allow for to the closure of legion(predicate) Chinese settlements and prompted copulation to pass the 1882 Chinese Exclusion do work and the 1924 Immigration Act. These congressional decisions only perpetuated the narrative of racism and qualm felt amid the Americans and Chinese in California, which would continue come up into the 20th century. In his novel The sieve Room, Ben Fong-Torres traces his compl ex cross-cultural inheritance as a turn generation Chinese American during the mid 1900s; torn between the alluring American lifestyle and the traditional cultural heritage his immigrant parents struggled to instill in him. \n alike roughly immigrants, Bens parents came to America in search of the American Dream. Referred to California as the Golden Mountains , the linked States offered an opportunity to break more cash and provide for family gumption in China. Ben notes that his dumbfound was encouraged by his family to seek a greater plenty and then come down to fetch them  (11). His come did as he was told, and came to America via the Philippines. Like most Chinese immigrants in the 1920s, Bens initiate entered the country illegally. Because thither were strict limits on the number of Chinese immigrants allowed into America, Bens father added Torres to his call off to convince immigration officials that he was of Philippine descent. Bens mother too entered the country illegally, and two lived in maintenance of being disc...'