Author: Ren Su

Born as an Asian, I have a high degree of curiosity about the views of Europeans. Of course, Europeans are equally curious about how they view Asians. In Lee’s excerpt, it is mentioned that Europeans feel that Asia is a place that contrasts clearly with Europe, where it is full of things and cultures that Europeans have never seen before. Pax Mongolica brought two different continents closer together, and Marco Polo’s discoveries during his travels in the Middle East and Asia inspired him to explore the Pacific Ocean. He also discovered a lot of gold, decoration, silk, spices, and a series of things that can guarantee more than six times the profit, which led to the Europeans gaining benefits during this period. But what surprises me is that Europeans have gained a lot of benefits in Asia, but they still abuse Asians and disrespect Asian culture. And on a cargo ship, no matter how skilled the Asian crew is, they will never get paid as much as the European crew. He has never been paid. It is mentioned in the article that Los Chinos was the first group of Asians to reach Acapulco in 1580. They formed a community and moved from the west coast of Mexico to the east coast. Some of these people are laborers, craftsmen, merchants, hairdressers, and shoemakers. These are their careers to support themselves and their families.

My personal view of immigration is that there are many things that have been found to have changed dramatically. However, the most basic things will not change. For example, facing different cultural differences and languages ​​is a huge challenge. This fact has not changed from beginning to end. However, the way of modern immigration is different. We will not go through the unpredictable dangers and challenges mentioned in the article.

During Bahadur’s research on the history of his great-grandmother, I learned that Asian women had a very difficult time during that period, and they were forced to sign indentured labourer or coolies. I learned that they are very strong and brave. In Bahadur’s research, she was subject to many restrictions, because her great-grandmother and others were illiterate and could not write down the situation at the time, which led to the need to obtain records from the doctors and magistrates on board at the time. To find information. In order to fill the gap, she will return to her grandmother’s village to find some unofficial information. If we want to build our own family history archives, we need to record the situation at that time in several different ways. The first way is to write all the events and characters that happened at that time in a book. The second way is to narrate, telling one’s family history from generation to generation. This ensures that as long as we look up the family history, there will be no gaps. Of course, if I want to know the family history, I will go back and ask my grandmother and grandfather.

Hazel C. Hong is a Chinese who has lived in San Francisco for more than 65 years. She spoke Chinese when she was at home with her children, and her husband, Harry Hong, served as a translator for American immigrants. Hazel remembers celebrating the Lunar New Year and other holidays with his family. In this interview, I learned that they had no racial discrimination and no place to work, but Hazel’s job was to find out the problematic bullets (during the war) everyone had to find 25,000 bullets manually. In my impression, that period (Chinese workers came to America to build railways) was a very serious matter of discrimination, but Hazel said that there was no discrimination where she lived and worked. What even surprised me was that Hazel’s children never returned to China. I feel that history is missing a lot of the true ideas of people who lived during that period.