Question to chapter 4
At the first paragraph, page 115, Edward Ross mentioned that NATIVES white ancestor were committing "race suicide" by welcoming non-Northwest Europeans. As we all know that white people aren't literally the natives in America. What interest me is, how long it takes, or what to do for a specific ethnic group to become native, or to be acknowledged as native? Because even inside the Northwest Europeans, we can distinguish Irish American, German American and English American etc.. Comparing Asian and Latino immigrants. Does the skin color become a barrier which can never be transcended? Furthermore, how badly can an ethnic group be regarded as outsiders? Considering Amish who encountered less scale of hostile comparing with Asian and Latino immigrants group.
Question to chapter 5
At the second paragraph, page 164, I want to quote Tseng's and Andreas Wimmer's observations and respond. What is the most primary unit can be applied or be observed by these approaches ? (I mean, where is the limit of these approaches?) Can it be a family of transnational marriage even a human being who is a second of family of transnational marriage? I agree that ethnic-identification is a dialogic process through continuously reaffirming or even rejecting (Tseng 2002:386). Does it mean that boundaries can consist in a human's, like multiracial person's mind? Taking Taiwanese-Vietnamese second generation for instance, some of them have self-identity conflict, yet some of them don't. What is the key factor deciding whether they live with or without self-identity conflict? At last, doesn't that the existence of Taiwanese-Vietnamese second generation who live without identity conflict strengthen the valid and the utility of the instrumentalist approach and situational approach?
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