Chinese-Americans have lagged behind Indian-Americans significantly in terms of political expression and strength I have seen the primary election debates of the Democratic Party in 19-20 years, and now I am entering the GOP primary election debate. On the Democratic side, Tulsi Gabbard, who is of Indian descent, is also the one who hates Harris the most. During the GOP debate yesterday, Vivek and Heily, who is also of Indian origin, also had a fierce battle of words around international relations policies. Indians are not only flourishing left and right, but the left and right camps play politics within each other without paying attention to superficial unity. This kind of operation that dares to dispute and can control the scale is exactly the ability that the Chinese community needs to learn and exercise. Intense debate is the norm in political discussions, but it requires the accumulation of knowledge and social insight and understanding as the foundation, otherwise, when encountering differences of views, it is easy to degenerate into contentless personal attacks and scolding. Here I would like to share an article written 2 years ago related to this topic, which is still applicable today. #communitybuilding #education https://telegra.ph/The educational habits and roots that restrict the development of Chinese in the United States-03-07 Telegraph The educational habits and roots that restrict the development of Chinese in the United States The biggest determinant of the development of Chinese in the United States is naturally our culture in New Problems of adaptation and integration into the environment. This is facing the re-examination and positioning of identity. Even the Jews who are now fully blooming in the United States have also experienced the confusion of identity when they came to the United States in the early days, and experienced many struggles between retaining Jewish culture and assimilating into American culture. (Click to read the previous article) The Chinese have invested in Western culture with the background of Eastern culture. What cannot be avoided is the difference between Chinese and Western cultures. There are many analyzes on this issue from the perspective of standing in line and competing. I won’t talk too much about that in this article. Here I just want to provide a different perspective from the biological and sociological perspectives of “oranges born in Huainan are oranges, and oranges born in Huaibei are trifoliate oranges”. 01. Cultivate the spirit of ownership First of all, it is about the issue of cultivating the spirit of ownership in the United States. In fact, this is the root cause of hindering the development of Chinese in the United States. It is difficult for many Chinese to complete this step emotionally, because the Chinese people can get out of the history of humiliation in the past hundred years, relying on national integrity and family and country feelings. This also makes the education of Chinese nationalism and nationalism extraordinarily heavy.