n'\/c one another. Dr. Sun Yat Sen masqueraded successfully as a Japanese for several years in Japan.
Chinese and Japanese have undergone roughly similar experiences as immigrants. Although the problems of Oriental adjustment have involved ^n-ator pt、nl and poignancy, in many respects the career of the Asian immigrant parallels that of other immigrant peoples. European immigrants to North America have had to start from an ignonimous position and fight to obtain a better life. They too have had to suffer grave deprivations and project their own aspirations on to their children. Even more distinguishable than the European in appearance, language, and habits, the 1 »i lontal has struggled to establish a successful way of life in a foreign nation. This has meant accepting the menial labour, the least dosirablo living quarters, and frequent, sometimes brutal abuse. Only after years of hard work have any rewards been forthcoming, and even these have been, on occasion, denied to those who worked so hard to obtain them. Immigrant children, growing up in two worlds, neither of which fully accepts them or is acceptable to them, present an additional and painful problem. Parents find themselves iti a paradoxical position: The success of thoir children, who hopefully will reap the benefits of their sacrifices, is bought at the price of estrangement from old world cultural values and alienation from their families. Oriental children who speak English in school and their native tongue at home often find the chasm between American society and Oriental culture extremely difficult, if not impossible, to bridge. Th'ir sensitivity and htightened self-con-'."''、::'、、卜'■nhancfd t)y th'' refusal of most members of tho dominant society to understand or sympathize with their position. To categorize the Chinese or Japanese child born in North America as just another Oriental is to obscuic the most prrssinG and indwi the* unique aspects of their society, character, and personality.
Although they share a common racial heritage, many similar experiences as immigrants, and some of the same social and personal problems, the Chi-nfSf and Japanese have faced immi-
Welcome Visitors!
Pacific Unit 280 (Chinatown) extends a hearty welcome to out-of-town visitors and friends to visit our
Licensed Lounge Dancing and Came Rooms
116 E. Pender St. MU 2-9157 Vancouver, B.C.
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Visit North America's third largest Chinatown, the happy meeting of East and West in the heart of Vancouver's bustling city, "Gateway to the Orient."
This is a personally conducted tour, unique in North America. You will be called for at your hotel by our tour conductor, and returned at the end of the tour . . . after you have enjoyed traditional Chinese hospitality including the Epicurean's delight of delicious Carvtonese Cuisine.
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CHINATOWN NEWS, AUG. 18, 1962