Chinese Americans are residents or citizens of the United States who are of Chinese descent. Chinese Americans constitute one group of overseas Chinese and are a subgroup of Asian Americans. Numbering 2.3 million in 2000, Chinese Americans make up 22.4% of Asian Americans (larger than any other Asian American subgroup), and constitute slightly less than 1% of the United States as a whole. Chinese American - Immigration. Main article: Chinese immigration to the United States Chinese immigration ...

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Chinese Americans have made many large strides in their lives in America. Today, Chinese Americans engage in every facets of American life, from elected office, to military, to media, to academics, to sports. There are those Chinese Americans (along with other Asian Americans) who have over the years adapted to the American lifestyle and are assimilated into the American melting pot with no noticeable physical traits (e.g. children with blonde hair and blue eyes or children who are mistaken for being of African American descent as oppose to being Chinese American or Asian American). Whereas others choose to remai ...

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Two incidents have energized some Chinese Americans and other Asian Americans, particularly American-born Chinese in recent years -- the murder of Vincent Chin by white automotive workers in 1982 and the unsubstantiated charges of spying against Chinese American nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1999, whom many believe was a victim of racial stereotyping. During the Cultural Revolution, Chinese Americans, like all overseas Chinese, generally speaking, were viewed as capitalist traitors by the People's R ...

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Chinese Americans are divided among many subgroups based on factors such as generation, place of origin, socio-economic level, and do not have uniform attitudes about the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China or Taiwan, the United States, or Chinese nationalism, with attitudes varying widely between active support, hostility, or indifference. Different subgroups of Chinese Americans also have radically different and sometimes very conflicting political priorities and goals. It is for this reason that Chinese Americans do not have any unified politica ...

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The Chinese American identities in the United States are quite varied. There are two main aspects to that identity: ethnicity and culture. A person can claim the Chinese American identity through either his/her ethnic affiliation or cultural affiliation, or both. For example, some Chinese Americans identify themselves as ethnic Chinese, but not cultural Chinese, and other Chinese ...

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Cities with large Chinese American populations include New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, Seattle and Philadelphia. In these cities, there are often multiple Chinatowns, an older one and a newer one which is populated by immigrants from the 1960s and 1970s. In some areas, Chinese Americans maintain close relationships with other Asian groups, particularly Vietnamese Americans. These relationships are helped by the fact that many Vietnamese Americans are ethnic overseas Chinese, although most ethnic Chinese Vietnamese Americans d ...

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Main article: Chinese immigration to the United States Chinese immigration to the United States has come in many waves. Like all the American immigration experiences, the Chinese immigration has seen both hardship and success. This experience has added richness to the American experience and is a triumphant story of the pursuit of the American Dream. ...

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