Short, smart, hardworking, and quiet were stereotypes often labeling Asian Americans since they first started arriving in the 1800's. Since then change has occurred proving such stereotypes to be just that. Certain factors that aided such a change included the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and new immigra...

Rock n' Roll War Fan blades of a Huey rotating slowly above a troubled dreamer, Jim Morrison's voice singing "The End"... Young soldiers on their way to Vietnam in the summer of Woodstock, marching onboard their plane at Ft. Dix singing "Fixing to Die"... Cassett...

"Strangers From A Different Shore" by author/professor Ronald Takaki, has brought a new perspective of my growing knowledge of the hardships and endless obstacles that Asian-Americans have struggled with through their immigration experience. Immigrants of Asia represent many countries and many di...