Citizens aced on american law, so they grew up in American Society that rejected them. In a chinese American Society that was at odds with their experience growing up in american schools and an american amosphere, trying to find life, the Chinese Community was isolated from the rest of American Society. What was it like . You had the great depression, the start of world war ii, and a transformation during that time had thely and you chinese american chinese immigrants trying to assimilate as best they could. That chinese immigrants had been coming since before the turn of the century but it was a tiny trickle and they were just not allowed in. So it is their children im focused on and they grew up in an era in which there was growing patriotism about china. Hada had been an empire and fallen into warlordism. Under theeen reunited nationalist party and a lot of chineseamericans were proud of this. America marginalized in and they are often indignant about their status as american citize