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Maybe you are virtually unheard of a Chinese American soldier’s weird death in USA military camp in Afghanistan, but this really drew broad attention on the life of Chinese American soldiers. The man Chan Yujun, less than 20, was born in NY Chinatown who was found dead three months ago in the tower of American military camp in Afghanistan, with a bulletin penetrating his jaw. For a long time, the Pentagon tended to deem it as suicide until an American officer revealed that Mr. Chan had ever been abused by his superiors. Then under pressure from OCA-NY (a local Chinese oversea association) and media did the military higher-ups start to investigate.
Generally speaking, not until the 2th, 3th generation of immigrants can they get the social status and fuse into the mainstream in America, but many take joining the army as a faster drive. However, in the US Army, Chinese American account for 3% of all, compared with the Chinese occupation of 5% of American population, which is indeed a deep gap. In addition, the fact that there are few Chinese higher-ups in the army makes a bitter situation for the soldiers with a Chinese background. Many of them still face with invisible ceiling, top-down and even peer abuse.
Anyway, hopefully with more and more attention and supervision casted into the field, they will be embraced with equality, if not, at least firstly without afflictions.
The category of your vocabulary is very big! I really appreciate it. In addition, I am also concerned about the status of immigrant in the USA. I think the USA will pay more attention to Chinese immigrants since China becomes increasingly developed.
ReplyDeleteHopefully. However, the invisible ceiling indeed exists and remains firm.
DeleteAgree with sida~~what is more, with the population of immigrants increaing and better occupations more people doing, the problem will be solved successfully,
ReplyDeleteAs I mentioned in the reply to Sida, hopefully
ReplyDeleteAll we can do may be just waiting to see.Personally,I consider it as a kind of discrimination,which is hardly to be removed especially in the army.Since there has been prejudice against Chinese people in western country for a long time,it may take ages to rid soldiers like Chan Yujun of such afflictions.I feel sorry for him and I think this case is a reflection of their living condition.Hopefully this situation will change.
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