As children of immigrants become increasingly American, their parents may worry that they are losing their culture and connection to the homeland. But perhaps the most important inheritance is not simply language, holidays or traditions. It is the story of where a family began, what it lived through, and why it came to America.
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Will the Next Generation Continue to Build the Chinese Community?
The problem facing many Chinese organizations is not the absence of younger people, but the absence of meaningful roles for them. As organizational structures built by the immigrant generation collide with the public-society experiences of second-generation Chinese Americans, the Las Vegas Chinese community may be entering an entirely new phase.
