Why immigrants choose to come and stay in Cleveland

Leaders of the Cleveland Indian, Vietnamese and Chinese community spoke on a panel run by the Maltz Museum and Global Cleveland titled Begin the Conversation: Cleveland's Immigrant Communities Today: Pan-Asian Community.  They were asked why they chose Cleveland and stayed there.  Gia Hoa Ryan from Vietnam, Asim Datta from India, Johnny Wu from Panama and China and Nupur Goel whose parents came from India answered.

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Johnny Wu – growing up with diplomat father

Cleveland Asian Community leader and filmmaker Johnny Wu spoke at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage on a Global Cleveland panel titled Begin the Conversation: Cleveland's Immigrant Communities Today: Pan-Asian Community.  He spoke about his upbringing in a diplomat’s family that traveled to many countries.  His father was strict and made him learn Chinese and martial arts at an early age.


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2nd generation loses culture of immigrant parents

Leaders of the Cleveland Indian, Vietnamese and Chinese community spoke on a panel run by the Maltz Museum and Global Cleveland titled Begin the Conversation: Cleveland's Immigrant Communities Today: Pan-Asian Community.  A question was asked about the 2nd and 3rd generation losing their culture and Gia Hoa Ryan who came from Vietnam in 1971 and Asim Datta from the Indian community answered. http://www.clevelandpeople.com/groups/vietnam/vietnam.htm



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Experience of Indian student in school

Nupur Goel is in the 11th Grade at Gilmour Academy.  She was the 2016 Grand Prize winner of the Stop the Hate essay program of the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage.  She spoke on a panel run by the Maltz Museum and Global Cleveland titled Begin the Conversation: Cleveland's Immigrant Communities Today: Pan-Asian Community.  She started a club to help other students learn about her background and culture.


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Foreign Students have to learn about others and assimilate

Cleveland Asian Community leader and filmmaker Johnny Wu spoke at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage on a Global Cleveland panel titled Begin the Conversation: Cleveland's Immigrant Communities Today: Pan-Asian Community.  He said that both native born and visiting students need to learn from each other and respect each other’s cultures. http://www.clevelandpeople.com/




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Immigrants to want to settle together

Nupur Goel is in the 11th Grade at Gilmour Academy.  She was the 2016 Grand Prize winner of the Stop the Hate essay program of the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage.  She spoke on a panel run by the Maltz Museum and Global Cleveland titled Begin the Conversation: Cleveland's Immigrant Communities Today: Pan-Asian Community.  Her parents emigrated from Indian over 20 years ago.  She said it makes sense for immigrants wanting to stick with their communities.  The drastic change in emigrating leads to people wanting to be with people like them when they get here.


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Why Cleveland’s Vietnamese live in the same area

Leaders of the Cleveland Indian, Vietnamese and Chinese community spoke on a panel run by the Maltz Museum and Global Cleveland titled Begin the Conversation: Cleveland's Immigrant Communities Today: Pan-Asian Community.  Gia Hoa Ryan came from Vietnam in 1971 and told the story of the Cleveland Vietnamese community. http://www.clevelandpeople.com/groups/vietnam/vietnam.htm





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Shift in cultural attitudes – From Chinatown to AsiaTown

Leaders of the Cleveland Indian, Vietnamese and Chinese community spoke on a panel run by the Maltz Museum and Global Cleveland titled Begin the Conversation: Cleveland's Immigrant Communities Today: Pan-Asian Community. Asim Datta said it used to be that all Asians were seen as Chinese but it is different now. Gia Hoa Ryan prefers the Chinatown name and Johnny Wu explained why Cleveland’s Chinatown was rebranded as AsiaTown.

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Johnny Wu – Asian, Hispanic or American?

Cleveland Asian Community leader and filmmaker Johnny Wu spoke at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage on a Global Cleveland panel titled Begin the Conversation: Cleveland's Immigrant Communities Today: Pan-Asian Community.

He spoke about being stereotyped as Asian even though he was raised in Panama and speaks English, Spanish and Chinese in that order.

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Mahjong at the Maltz

The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage was transformed into a Mahjong Hall in honor of The Chinese New Year. Some have said the game is the single most factor that has brought Jews and Chinese together.

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Rock of Ages - for Hanukkah?

You learn something new everyday.
To me, Rock of Ages has always been an old time Christian hymn.

I learned yesterday that Jews have a Rock of Ages song too. They sang it at a ceremony celebrating the first night of Hanukkah at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage.



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