jhungary
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I have university classmates now study in America,what I mean mainstream society is not you can earn well or educated better,but many other things,my classmates dislike Affirmative Action,many of their Black and Hispanic classmats play all the day,but those people still can in good university,this is pathetic.And in their culture,they have some biase against Asian males,for example think Asians are weak and so on.They are just students,so they can't contact American society further.
Do you see anyone talk about Hagel's German roots?No,but when one Asian American successed,they will say,an Asian,great achievement,they treat you just differantly
Don't agree on what you said.
Whether or not an Asian can assimilate very much depend on whether or not that particular Asian willing to work on it.
From where I was looking, many Asian are not willing to assimilate to Western Culture. I see tons (TONS) of Chinese watching Chinese TV program from SAT TV and only talk Chinese in Public. Where all their circle is Chinese. Japanese and Korean did better, but still most Asian people only hang around with their own kind. And you cannot assimilate with that.
Me, for instant, I would say I am more than assimilate into White man society. But then I was born in the US, still, I live long enough in China so people in China would think I am one of them, and people in America will think I am one of them too. I had a white collar job, went to university, commanded troop in battle (mostly white people) but yet I speak fluent Chinese and I can port to Chinese as easy as white. Yes, sometime some Chinese call me a banana and some white call me Jackie Chan, but still in all, people in both side would recognise that I was one of them.
Take my father in law for example. He is white, and he literally never saw a Chinese in his life (He is Swedish, so was my wife) and yet he did not think I am an outside, he think I am a swede, even tho I speak crap Swedish.
But then there are years of learning the language and culture on both side, so I guess, in the end, its really much depend on if you want to work for it