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A Silent Minority Tests Its Clout
Kwong, Peter | January 16, 1988 issue

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This article reports on Chinese-American participation in the U.S. politics, and discusses various issues related to this community and their association with the U.S. politics. In the past, the Chinese were a silent minority, mostly interested in politics that concerned their home country. But that has changed since the 1965 immigration act of the U.S., which eliminated quotas on the Chinese. By the mid 1980s, a few Chinese-Americans held elected office, the most prominent among them Delaware Lieutenant Governor S.B. Woo, and California Secretary of State March Fong Eu. Chinese-American involvement in electoral politics is in such an early phase that statistics on voting patterns are hard to come by.

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CHINESE Americans; UNITED States -- Politics & government; FONG Eu, March; WOO, S. B.; POLITICS, Practical; UNITED States
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