Comments on: The Saga of First Journey to U.S. https://www.dontow.com/2013/03/the-saga-of-first-journey-to-u-s/ Wed, 20 Apr 2022 22:45:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Qingyan Zhao https://www.dontow.com/2013/03/the-saga-of-first-journey-to-u-s/#comment-1936227 Sat, 28 Aug 2021 20:59:46 +0000 http://www.dontow.com/?p=2827#comment-1936227 Thanks for this short documentary. Even though I knew the discrimination against Chinese immigrants in American history, it is still eye-opening for me to see your family experiences in such great details, it is almost dramatic. And I have to say you are a very talented writer — very simple, plain in language, but very focused, and full of emotion and imagination!! I enjoyed it!

]]> By: Rich Braverman https://www.dontow.com/2013/03/the-saga-of-first-journey-to-u-s/#comment-48825 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:48:05 +0000 http://www.dontow.com/?p=2827#comment-48825 Don—I enjoyed this history of the difficulties the Chinese faced in coming to America. My father’s father had an easier time when he arrived in 1912 in Taunton, Mass. My father arrived in 1913 at age 17 having completed high school in Russia. He passed the exam for entry into M.I.T. in Boston. In 1920 he graduated with a degree in Chemistry. But applying for work at DuPont and Dow Chemical he was denied employment because he was a Jew. He never had a chance to work in the field of chemistry.

Thanks as always. You do a great job.

Rich

]]> By: John Schwebel https://www.dontow.com/2013/03/the-saga-of-first-journey-to-u-s/#comment-48710 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 04:25:57 +0000 http://www.dontow.com/?p=2827#comment-48710 Don – Thanks, very informative. Great that you can get these records and bring this history alive for us!

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