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Asian Immigrants Helped Build the Silicon Valley
Jerry Yang was part of the Asian American 1.5 generation, who were born in Asia but immigrated to the U.S. as children. With their bicultural experience and networks, he and other Asian immigrant entrepreneurs helped to establish Silicon Valley as the center of the global tech industry.
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At the turn of the new millennium, the U.S becomes more diverse, yet more divided.
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During a time of war, a young generation fights for equality and claim a new identity.
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Asian Americans fight for equality and expand the definition of Asian American.
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An American-born generation straddles their country of birth and their parents’ homelands.
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In an era of exclusion and U.S. empire, new immigrants arrive and adapt to life in America