From past to present

Well, firstly I need to say 'thank you' to Alasdair, because he helped me to do a part of my post. :) I chose Asia America, in particular Chinese as my post of this week.

http://www.modelminority.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=True%20Americans

here it is the first website link about Chinese immigrants in America in later of 19 century.

Is this to say that the Chinese and other Asians were did not initially leave their homelands to come to America with the "strength and conviction to make make a better life for themselves and families"? Did years of insurrmountable labor and the will survive not pay off by helping to create the most widely used and vital sector of the American economic growth--the rail roads--along with other smaller businesses and services? Throughout American history we are taught about some of the struggles and the contributions of the Chinese and other Asians to America's economic and artistic and cultural growth, but almost never in the "noble" way as that of the Europeans--who were actually no less "foreign" to American when they arrived than were other hard-laboring civilians of Asian descent.

At that time, Chinese were not respected at all. Just like the picture shows, the rail way was build by Chinese labours, but there is no even one labour in the picture!

However, the situation has changed by now. There is another new from The New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/business/energy-environment/09solar.html this is the link of the website.

Mike Ahearn, chief executive of First Solar, left, greets Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China. The memorandum of understanding between Chinese officials and First Solar would open a potentially vast solar market in China.

Chinese government has done a deal with a U.S. company about a solar project. This is just for now, how about in the future? Will there be more cooperation or the decision has only made by Chinese government?