Resistance and Empowerment

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Resistance and Empowerment
This paper identifies with ‘Nationalism’, ‘Counter Hegemony’ and ‘great depression’ key terms. Nationalism indicates a strong identity with a nation by an individual or a group. Nationalism is described in two perspectives noting on the primordilaist perspective and the modernist perspective. Counter Hegemony identifies with resistance, it indicates attempts to dismantle and critique hegemonic power. Opposition, confrontation characteristics counter hegemonic and legitimacy to the politics. Great depression indicates severe economic depression in the world in the World War II. Great depression lasted for a decade from the nineteen thirties to the nineteen forties.
Impact of Naturalization to the Asian immigrants
United States of America over the decades has been considered as a land of opportunities. Immigrants flock United States from diverse regions mainly attributed to political issues, hunger, religious issues, search for jobs and desire to acquire land (Chan 124). Immigrants assisted in shaping the America today. The history of immigrations for Asians relates to the naturalization policies and race-conscious immigration. Naturalization policies were practiced by the government of the United States. The concept of race was often ignored in the laws and policies governing the immigration of Asians in America. Asian immigrants faced exclusion, unequal laws and citizenship denial. This indicates that racial differences between the Asian immigrants and the white Americans driving the need of legislation.
Racial discrimination in Asian American took the shape of American legal system legislation which influenced the immigration policy and the naturalization laws (Chan 125). Naturalization is the processes involved in acquiring citizenship. The processes start with petition by the immigrant after a particular period of time. There are laws t...