Quotes About Dual-culture

One foot remained rooted in our native soil while with our other foot we dug into American soil to anchor ourselves and weather the storm.

Ronald Takaki, an ethnic studies professor at the University of California at Berkeley, once called the Chinese and other Asian Americans "strangers from a different shore." I propose to take this a step further. At various times in history, the Chinese Americans have been treated like strangers on both shores—a people regarded by two nations as too Chinese to be American, and too American to be Chinese.