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By: Kimberly Lancaster and Jennifer Mitchell<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This is an interview of the Chinese in the Mississippi Delta.\u00a0 The interview is being recorded with Kit Gong, Bobbie Gore, Joy Gore, Amy Gore and Billie Gore on May 24, 2000.\u00a0 The interviewers are Kimberly Lancaster and Jennifer Mitchell.<\/em><\/p>\n

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KL:\u00a0 Today is May 24, 2000.\u00a0 We are here in Merigold.\u00a0 I am Kimberly Lancaster, and<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Jennifer Mitchell<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 We are speaking with<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Amy Gore<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Kit Gong<\/p>\n

JG:\u00a0 Joy Gong<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Bobbie Gore<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 Here in Merigold at Amy Gore\u2019s house.\u00a0 Could you tell us how you all are related?\u00a0 We just spoke of this before the interview.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Amy Gore is my mother.\u00a0 Joy Gore is my grandmother.\u00a0 Kit Gong is my neighbor.\u00a0 My name is Bobbie Gore.\u00a0 I am the daughter of Amy.\u00a0 Amy is the daughter-in-law of Joy.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Well let\u2019s see let\u2019s start with you.<\/p>\n

(Dialog in Chinese)<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Let\u2019s see, could you tell us about your parents?<\/p>\n

(Dialog in Chinese)<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Luck Lin Wong, and daddy\u2019s name is Chin Jay Chow<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Luck Lin Wong and Chin Jay Chow, and were they born in China?<\/p>\n

All:\u00a0 Yes, they were born in China.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Were you born in China?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Yes she was born in China.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 When did you come to the United States?<\/p>\n

JG:\u00a0 1965<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 1965, did your parents come here?<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 No<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Did you come with your husbands?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 She came by herself.\u00a0 My grandfather came here first.\u00a0 As around when he was like sixteen years old.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Grandpa (Dialog in Chinese.)<\/p>\n

(Dialog in Chinese)<\/p>\n

JG:\u00a0 A long time ago.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 (Dialog in Chinese)<\/p>\n

(Dialog in Chinese)<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 My grandfather<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Ming<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Ming<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Pop Chow Gore<\/p>\n

BG: I mean Pop Chow Gore came in 1938 to America.\u00a0 Then he stayed here for like ten years.\u00a0 Then went back to China and got married.\u00a0 Married first then came back here then after one year.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 One year\u2026<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0\u00a0 Then came back here to start a business in 1949.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Did he come to the delta in 1949?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 He came to Greenwood.<\/p>\n

(Dialog in Chinese.)<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 He came to Merigold first.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 So in 1938, he moved to the United States.\u00a0 He was in Greenwood, MS.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Yeah<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Then he moved back to China?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Right<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Is that when you all got married?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Yeah they probably, I guess, it was around then they got married.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 In China?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 In China, then he came back here.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 In 19 . . .<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 In 1949.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 That is when he came to Merigold?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Right<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 When did you come to Merigold?<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 1966 or 1965.<\/p>\n

KL: So, did he have brothers here?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 I think his cousins, relatives.\u00a0 We are not sure about that.\u00a0 His cousins here.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 In Merigold or here in the delta?<\/p>\n

(Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

JG:\u00a0 Merigold, his uncle.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Yeah, uncles here in Merigold.<\/p>\n

(Dialog in Chinese)<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Both uncles were here in Merigold.\u00a0 Then we had a cousin in Greenwood.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Did the uncles have a store here in Merigold, or did he create one?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Partnerships in the stores here in Merigold.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Do you have any brothers or sisters?<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 She has a brother.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 She has a brother in Clarksdale.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Did he also come in 1965?<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 No<\/p>\n

(Dialog in Chinese)<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Two years earlier than her.<\/p>\n

(Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Okay just two years.<\/p>\n

(Dialog in Chinese)<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 What made you decide to come to the United States after some years?\u00a0 What made you?<\/p>\n

BG: We did just come here to earn some money.\u00a0 At the time there was war\u00a0 . . .<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 A lot of Chinese to earn some money.\u00a0 The same way with Italians.\u00a0 They would go back, but because of the communist.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Communist we didn\u2019t go back.<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 A lot of Chinese actually would stay here.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Stay here.\u00a0 Was it right after W. W. II?\u00a0 It was like Japanese too also.\u00a0 So that is what my brother said.<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 Could you tell us about your children?\u00a0 When did your start your family?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 My grandma?<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 Yes<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Oh my grandma only had one son, my dad, which Lock Gore.\u00a0 He came here when he was like a teenager.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Yeah teenager.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Like around like what fourteen or so.\u00a0 He went to school.\u00a0 I think he went to Cleveland High School or around there.\u00a0 After that study, he went to Mississippi State and studied there.\u00a0 Then I guess he got married and met my mom.\u00a0 They had three kids.\u00a0 Bobbie, Billie, and Benny, we grew up here.\u00a0 We went to Cleveland High School all of our lives basically.\u00a0 We were born in Cleveland, MS.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 All of you are in college, which is Benny who has just graduated.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Yeah, Benny is about to go to college.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 When you first moved to Merigold, did you all live in this house, or where did you live?<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 We lived in the store.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 We lived in the back of the store.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Front is the store and the back is the home.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 We lived in the back no they lived in the back of the store, my grandparents and them.\u00a0 Then they came and built this house.<\/p>\n

(Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 We built the house here one year.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 No, not one year, two year.<\/p>\n

(Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

JG:\u00a0 1972<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 1972, they built this house after living in the store a few years. So, basically we have been in this house since it was built.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 You lived in the store also?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 No, my mom didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Your husband did.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 My dad did when he was over here.<\/p>\n

(Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 What did you do in the store?\u00a0 What was your job in the store?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 She just helped around.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)\u00a0 Stocking and everything.<\/p>\n

JG:\u00a0 Everything<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 The family run the business.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 So your husband was also.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Yeah my grandfather.<\/p>\n

(Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 Where in China were you born?<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Canton<\/p>\n

(Dialog in Chinese)<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 What was it like growing up there?<\/p>\n

(Dialog in Chinese.)<\/p>\n

(Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Get married, fifteen or sixteen get married.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Let\u2019s get a little bit of your background?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Me<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Yes<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 I understand. (Tape was not able to understand.)\u00a0 I will try to okay.\u00a0 You talk and I will talk.\u00a0 My turn?<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Yes<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 What would you like to know?<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Where were you born?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 I born in Toyson.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 In China?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 In China.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Is that also in Canton?<\/p>\n

KG: I was fourteen years old I come to Hong Kong.\u00a0 I stay in Hong Kong for ten years.\u00a0 I meet my husband. My husband goes back to Hong Kong.\u00a0 He find a girl and get married.\u00a0 My luck, I meet my husband.\u00a0 One man and I got married. I married and the one man and I come to America.\u00a0 I come in 1959 on to Merigold.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 So you came straight to Merigold?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Yes ma\u2019am<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Did you all have family here also?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 My family or my husband\u2019s family?<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Both<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Both?<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Yes<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 I never know my mother-in-law and father-in-law.\u00a0 I came into Merigold.\u00a0 I know him mother-in-law and father-in-law.\u00a0 He came for New Year.\u00a0 I came to Merigold. I passed.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Your husband was born in here.<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 My husband was born in Merigold.\u00a0 All the children was born here.<\/p>\n

JM: So, what did he do in Merigold?<\/p>\n

KG: Store<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Store<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Neighbor<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 So the store is the one that is on the corner.<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Gong Company<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Did you also live in the store or behind the store I mean?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 I live upstairs.\u00a0 The store only close about a year ago children go to college.\u00a0 They no here.\u00a0 Maybe Gong Company is no working more.\u00a0 I close up about a year ago.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Where did they go to college?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 My children?<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Yes<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Two are at Ole Miss.\u00a0 I have three children, one son and two girls.\u00a0 The younger girl go to New York.\u00a0 Colorado<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Colorado also.<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0\u00a0 We spoke with Annette and Juanita Gong, are you related?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Oh yes my niece.<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 Your niece?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Yes, you know Juanita<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 We talked to them for this.<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 You talked Juanita?<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0\u00a0 Oh I see.<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Juanita is old for you? You is young, huh? Juanita old for you?<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 Oh we did this for this project.\u00a0 It is the same thing,<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Oh<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 So you\u2019ll are meeting more.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 This is for both of you all.\u00a0 What was a typical day like at you all stores?\u00a0 Like what time did you open?\u00a0 What time did you close?\u00a0 Who bought things at your store?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Long hour, fourteen hours.\u00a0 I told you six thirty to nine o\u2019clock fourteen hours.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Everyday?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Hard work Saturday, till eleven.<\/p>\n

(Dialog in Chinese)<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Six thirty all to nine Monday onto Friday.\u00a0 Saturday eleven.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Six thirty to eleven.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Long hours<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Hard work, not easy.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Did anyone besides your family help you in the store?<\/p>\n

KG: Just a family store.\u00a0 Nobody helped.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 It is just like my grandma and grandpa and my dad.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 No your daddy\u2019s uncle helped sometimes.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 My dad\u2019s uncle helped sometimes.<\/p>\n

AG: Money is not quite.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Who shopped at you all\u2019s stores?\u00a0 Was it everybody in town?<\/p>\n

AG: (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Mostly<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

JG:\u00a0 Call all people, like everybody.<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 When you like it come you come.\u00a0 You don\u2019t like it don\u2019t come.\u00a0 The door was open.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Okay<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Paper towels<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 So the people from the smaller communities around Merigold.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Like Shelby, or Crabtree.<\/p>\n

KL: A lot of farming works.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Farming works yeah.<\/p>\n

AG: People come to shop in Merigold, too.<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 Long time ago.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 We used to go to Cleveland, too. It has a Kroger.\u00a0 People used to shop in Merigold, but you know long time ago Cleveland had a Kroger a Wal-Mart the people all go to.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0\u00a0 Yeah so there are fare business.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Did you all work in the store when you all were growing up?\u00a0 This is for Bobbie and Billie?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Not really, we didn\u2019t work.\u00a0 We just go to school and study.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 What values were you able to pass on to your son that were important?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Values, work hard, study hard, do your best at everything.\u00a0 Be good.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 What does be good mean?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Like don\u2019t get in to trouble.<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

JG:\u00a0 (Dialog in Chinese)<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Like it is very hard to make money.\u00a0 So work hard, study hard and be successful in way and to make something of yourself.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Do you feel like you all have gotten those values also?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Yes we got our worth.\u00a0 If it is like you see what your parents go through.\u00a0 It is really hard work.\u00a0 So you live up to it to be better.\u00a0 Not like I don\u2019t know how to say it.<\/p>\n

JG:\u00a0 (Dialog in Chinese)\u00a0 Find a job, to leave the store.\u00a0 It is hard work.\u00a0 It is long hours of work.\u00a0 Love to go to school, and study and easy to find another job.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 What study are you in?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 I am in\u00a0 pharmacy.\u00a0 I am about to start.\u00a0 My brother is in electric engineering.\u00a0 My sister is in, she has no idea.\u00a0 She said something about electric engineering, but she doesn\u2019t know what yet.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Is she going to Ole Miss also?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 She is going to Tech.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Wow<\/p>\n

(Dialog in Chinese)<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0\u00a0 What you like to know?<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 What about your children?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 My children?<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Yes<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 My older one my son Keith Gong.\u00a0 He is in computer.\u00a0 He lives in San Francisco.\u00a0 My oldest daughter, Sonya Gong.\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

(Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 And the baby girl?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 She is with two year of education.\u00a0 She moved to Starkville Company at Starkville headquarter.\u00a0 My youngest daughter (Tape was not able to understand.)\u00a0 She is in doctor school there.\u00a0 She is teaching for the Cancer School College. That is all.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 That is good work.\u00a0 Smart.\u00a0 Did you get married here or in China?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 I married in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 That is right.\u00a0 I am sorry you said that.<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 In 1959, I came to America.\u00a0 At the age of eighteen.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 I obviously couldn\u2019t remember.<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 Did you fly?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 No, like a boat came in for twenty-eight days.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Man<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 I came in Japan, Hawaii.\u00a0 We stopped in Hawaii.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Did you get to stay over night?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Just one day that is all.\u00a0 Get up in the morning maybe at seven thirty at night time.\u00a0 Six thirty you come back to boat.<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 Then to San Francisco, or Seattle?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Yeah we stayed in San Francisco.\u00a0 I stayed in San Francisco.\u00a0 One week I stayed in a motel.\u00a0 My husband, he had a lot of cousins that live in San Francisco.\u00a0 Everybody likes him to see me.\u00a0 I stop there and one week stay at California.\u00a0 Like there a train come into Merigold.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Like train<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Like train come to Merigold from San Francisco.<\/p>\n

(Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 How long did that take?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Two days and two nights.<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 What did you think of the Delta, when you saw it?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 I don\u2019t like it.\u00a0 It was a too little of a town. I am tired.\u00a0 I come into Merigold.\u00a0 I am tired a lot.\u00a0 Food is not good.\u00a0 It looks like China.\u00a0 I miss all of my family.\u00a0 I miss all of my good friends.\u00a0 Looking at Merigold this small, Hong Kong is real big and nice.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Did you become involved in the Chinese community here in the delta?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Not at first.<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 Did you have any connections and friendships with the Chinese people in Cleveland?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Well there is a lot of Chinese people over in Cleveland, I come in here. I really didn\u2019t know the Chinese people at all.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Do you like the delta now?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Not really<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Have you been back to China?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Three times.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Three times.\u00a0 Did you go back to where you grew up?\u00a0 Did you take your children to China?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 I took my two daughters go.\u00a0 My son not go.\u00a0 One time I wanted to take my oldest son, my daughter go.\u00a0 The last time I let my youngest daughter go.\u00a0 My oldest daughter no like it.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Did your younger daughter like it?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Well she don\u2019t say nothing.\u00a0 She said okay.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Do you miss China?\u00a0 Would you like to?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 What, say it again?<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Do you miss China?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Oh yeah, I miss it a lot.\u00a0 I liked it.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Have you all been to China?\u00a0 Or your husband gone to China?<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 In Hong Kong, me and my husband in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

You meet him there.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Hong Kong is good.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 They left for Hong Kong for a little while, then they came over here.\u00a0 My mom has been always been in Hong Kong all of her life.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 So you grew up in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Yeah she said that.\u00a0 She has been here.<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 I have been visited home three times.\u00a0 1988, 1994, and 1996<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Do you think you will go back for good?<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 I hope.\u00a0 I have a lot of friends in Hong Kong.\u00a0 My friend (Tape was not able to understand.)\u00a0 They are American.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Are they not in the delta?\u00a0 They are out of focus?<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 No<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 Some in Texas and some in California<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 In Hawaii<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 In Hawaii<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Yeah<\/p>\n

(Laughter)<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 I hope you go visit them a lot.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Yeah<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 How did you and your husband\u00a0 meet?\u00a0 You met in Hong Kong?\u00a0 How did you meet?<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 At a party.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 How long was he in Hong Kong?<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 How long? Who? You mean him?<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Why did he go to Hong Kong?\u00a0 He was here was he not?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 I guess he went there (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Yes is supposed to been.<\/p>\n

BG: (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Come back to Hong Kong to meet me.<\/p>\n

(Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Yeah, he came back to Hong Kong and stayed about a whole year.\u00a0 Then we got married.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Then you came back to China.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0\u00a0 Yeah after work, Hong Kong.\u00a0 We would stay there a half more year.\u00a0 One year there then we immigrated here.\u00a0 Hong Kong is where we got married.\u00a0 We were going back.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 When you got married did you know that you were going to come back the United States?<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Yeah I know<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 That was his plan all along to come back.<\/p>\n

(Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Yeah she went on a leash.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Yeah we were in Hong Kong to see a movie.\u00a0 I called it America I thought it was New York City or LA or San Francisco<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Look at the good stuff.\u00a0 It is too quiet here.\u00a0 I got used to it now.\u00a0 The first three years so bored.\u00a0 It is too quiet here.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have a (Tape was not able to understand.)\u00a0 some friend.\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)\u00a0 Another one is going to hit some friends.\u00a0 I get used to it now. It is pretty good.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 So you like it now?<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Yeah it is pretty good.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Yeah I love it.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Pretty good, huh.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 So you have grown relationships with the Chinese community in the delta?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Yeah my mom is like (Tape was not able to understand.)\u00a0 Yeah she went to (Tape was not able to understand.)\u00a0 just around the delta.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Me?\u00a0 Yes we almost have a party somewhere.\u00a0 Some wedding then baby newborn and stuff.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Any banquets or live parties you go to them.\u00a0 They have so many reserved seats.\u00a0 Like you come together.\u00a0 Like people gets some party at Clarksdale, there is a party or banquet at Clarksdale.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)\u00a0 All members.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 It is always like in Greenville, Clarksdale, or Memphis.\u00a0 Those are the three locations.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Okay in Memphis is it people from the delta? Or is it people from all over?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 From the delta mostly.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Describes some of the banquets and celebrations.\u00a0 When a child is born, how is that celebrated?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Red Banquet.<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Red<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Red Egg<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Red Egg Party<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 When the baby is one month old, you give the baby a red party.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Wearing red, that is all.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 That is what happens.<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Be the party for the baby.\u00a0 Celebrate the baby.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Isn\u2019t there a fountain anywhere?<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Yeah<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)\u00a0 We celebrate like birthdays.\u00a0 We believe in earth days.<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to\u00a0 understand.)<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 We will have to work on that.<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)\u00a0 Not only Chinese girls.\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

(Laughter)<\/p>\n

(Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Chopsticks make a check, check.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Red Eggs, they put them on the table.\u00a0 They die all the eggs red.\u00a0 It is just a little symbol like Red Egg Banquet.\u00a0 A lot of like.\u00a0 It is like a big feast.\u00a0 You just eat, drink and party and socialize.<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 Don\u2019t you eat at weddings too?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Weddings are different though.<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 Tell us about the weddings.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 How are is it different?<\/p>\n

JG:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Weddings are like a banquet you eat.\u00a0 Like mostly the weddings you like have a church.<\/p>\n

Someone is talking in the background that is unidentifiable.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 You have a banquet.\u00a0 You eat.\u00a0 You talk about the family\u2019s backgrounds everything.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 They would talk about the families.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Yeah the families, basically where they came from.\u00a0 Then there is like little traditions you give a kiss or something like that.\u00a0 You make the chopsticks, rings.\u00a0 You can have porcelain to.<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 You can have glass.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Then what else do you do.<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0\u00a0 Oh yeah there is a Tea Ceremony<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Oh yeah there is a Tea Ceremony that is toward each parents.<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Like the mother of the groom and the bride\u2019s family meet up at the Tea Ceremony.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 You get the tea.\u00a0 The new couple will give the tea to the parents.\u00a0 They will get married.\u00a0 They have a new family.\u00a0 This tea will give to the parents.\u00a0 It is a thank you to the parents educated them.\u00a0 (Dialog in Chinese)\u00a0 Thank you to the parents.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Thank you for raising us.\u00a0 It is like a reception.<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 Do you think you all will do this when you all get married?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Yeah<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 When my son married, my daughter-in-law live in (Tape was not able to understand.)\u00a0 Really go open a restaurant.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Restaurant<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 They are cooking Chinese food many different kinds.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Nine different kinds?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Yes ma\u2019am<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 What did you cook?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Mushrooms, chicken, duck, barbecue pork, soup, chop soey, and nine different kinds when they got married.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 My (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Nine different kinds.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 A long night forever to cook them separate.<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Nine<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 The number nine?<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 The number nine<\/p>\n

(Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 All of the Chinese believe in nine, a long life.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 A long life forever.<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 Yeah the good number.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Yeah they go together forever no separates.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Like no divorce?<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Yeah<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 No divorce?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Right<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Forever, your whole life you go together the number nine.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Is there any divorce in the Chinese community in the delta?\u00a0 Does that happen?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Yeah<\/p>\n

(Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Chinese build nice families.\u00a0 They are not in any trouble including all get together.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t say nothing about America.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 This is what they call.\u00a0 In Hong Kong in the fifties a lot of people get a divorce.\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 They cook good food.\u00a0 Some put too much salt.\u00a0 The Chinese don\u2019t eat it not through too many kind.\u00a0 Little trouble, both walk cool out two days they are okay.\u00a0 He will be fine.\u00a0 Now America, I am not talking about Merigold.\u00a0 I marry people it is a lot different.\u00a0 It is not the closeness.\u00a0 Chinese people are real close to their family.\u00a0 We love the family.\u00a0 Not easy getting married, not the easy trouble in America.\u00a0 Sometimes cook in a steak not good that was cook two thirds in the men you like don\u2019t like it or the husband don\u2019t like it.\u00a0 He is fine.\u00a0 He pick up the suitcase and go.\u00a0 Chinese is not true because we love the family.\u00a0 We love the children.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Sacrifice a lot for the children?<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Yes<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 What are some of the other differences that you see from well Hong Kong and China and America as far as the people?\u00a0 How people relate?\u00a0 How religion is a part of the lives?<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 I can\u2019t think enough for China, Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

(Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Those people, well typical honor.\u00a0 Because China is a big country.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 There are different dialects.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 A little big poor.<\/p>\n

JG:\u00a0 On stand.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Really slow.\u00a0 Hong Kong is fast modern city.\u00a0 Very modern.\u00a0 America is okay.\u00a0 New York City is getting like Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 America has a lot of churches.\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)\u00a0 Hong Kong has a lot of churches too, but not that much.\u00a0 China not that much.\u00a0 China, people is almost.\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Not to believe in God<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Church group<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 China<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 I think mostly like Buddiest<\/p>\n

and Atheism.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

(Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Are those of any traditions a part of the delta?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 The religion ones?<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Yeah<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Well like we are kind of like Christians.\u00a0 Well we kind of grew up with them.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 With Christians.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 We went PDS.\u00a0 My grandma.<\/p>\n

My Grandma is like both. (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 My mom is like Christianity.<\/p>\n

AG: Yeah my family.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Not like, you know if you break it up into is Christianity.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 What about your husband is he a Christian is he?<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 No<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Okay all right, you said you were Buddiest?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Not in a way.\u00a0 I don\u2019t go to the (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

(Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 Her ancestors?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 I don\u2019t know sometimes.\u00a0 Which one is it?<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 I know (Tape was not able to understand.)\u00a0 Might go to the cemetery.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 The grave<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 Some people might do it like yearly or whatever but we do it even though some of us we never knew it.\u00a0 Like I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0\u00a0 When you go to visit the graves, what do you do?\u00a0 Is there a ceremony?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 We just bow our heads in a way like three times to pay respects.\u00a0 Yeah we just put fresh flowers.<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 One interviewing talking about good ghosts.\u00a0 Have you ever heard any good ghost?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Yeah<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 Have you ever heard of anything like that.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)\u00a0 Bad spirits go away.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what those are.<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 Come to warn you of something.<\/p>\n

JG:\u00a0 (Dialog in Chinese)<\/p>\n

(Dialog in Chinese)<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 If you believe in the Buddha.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 If the Chinese (Dialog in Chinese)<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 It is kind of like superstitions. You know bad or evil spirits. Like the devil, I guess you call it the Chinese devil.<\/p>\n

Someone in the background that is unidentifiable.<\/p>\n

JG:\u00a0 They will follow you.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 It will haunt you.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 So it is not like when you die, the ghost will come get you.\u00a0 While you are alive this ghost is just going to follow you around and harass you.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 I guess.<\/p>\n

(Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Basically it is like.<\/p>\n

(Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

(Dialog in Chinese.)<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Men die.\u00a0 No trouble.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 So there is a need to be good on earth.\u00a0 Say you like always have to be good.\u00a0 When you don\u2019t have to worry then.\u00a0 When you do something bad.\u00a0 That person will basically will haunt you.<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 That will keep people in line.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 What is your relationship to everybody with the white\u00a0 community when you first came here and then now?\u00a0 Has it changed?<\/p>\n

(Dialog in Chinese)<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 (Dialog in Chinese.)<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 When I first came here I don\u2019t know English.\u00a0 Some customers in my store had white.\u00a0 Some were black.\u00a0 They would come to the store shopping.\u00a0 They were nice to me.\u00a0 They tried to talk to me.\u00a0 I not able to say.\u00a0 They were still nice to me.\u00a0 Now they help me.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Did you take English, or have you just picked up English along the way?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 She kind of learned a little bit.\u00a0 She kind of picked up more of it than she learned.\u00a0 She learned a few from the library.\u00a0 She learned a lot of what she all ready knew before.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Hong Kong school has some English schools.\u00a0 Some are Chinese school.\u00a0 I slept in a Chinese school, a girl\u2019s school.\u00a0 My brother\u2019s they all studied in an English school.\u00a0 So they speak are English better than me a lot.\u00a0 I studied in a Chinese school.\u00a0 It had a little bit of English learned.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Did you say that the boy\u2019s school, they learned English, and the girl\u2019s school?<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Oh, Hong Kong schools some are boy and girl school.\u00a0 some just have a girl school.\u00a0 I mean to high school.\u00a0 Some are just a boy school.\u00a0 People have some English school.\u00a0 They take teach everything.\u00a0 Almost an English teacher, math and everything except the Chinese they need to learn.\u00a0 I studied in the Chinese school.\u00a0 The math, science, everything.\u00a0 I learned it all.\u00a0 I learned the Chinese.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Did you go to college in Hong Kong?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Yeah<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 What did you study?<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Business<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 What was a typical day like in the Chinese school?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 In a Chinese school?<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 At school, same as here at school.\u00a0 You learned the science, math.\u00a0 It is the same way here.\u00a0 They have a lot of teachers.\u00a0 You have a Biology.\u00a0 You have a Chemist teacher.\u00a0 You have a Math Teacher teaching.\u00a0 One teacher everything.<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 What time did school start?<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 You know like<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 You would learn?\u00a0 Eight o\u2019clock or 3 o\u2019clock<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Yeah in the public school, (Tape was not able to understand.)\u00a0 You will go to.\u00a0 For a long time yeah.\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 All you are young.\u00a0 All of the (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 The teacher teaching from eight o\u2019clock to four o\u2019clock.\u00a0 Twelve o\u2019clock to one o\u2019clock is a lunch break.\u00a0 Two o\u2019clock you had to put them in the break.<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 Were you able to go home for lunch, or did you have to stay?<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 I go stay at school.\u00a0 I some time take a lunch.\u00a0 Sometimes I would go to a restaurant.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 See we don\u2019t have that.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Parent gives me the money.\u00a0 Go with my schoolmates. We take our lunch to our restaurant.<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 I know this is changing the subject a little bit.\u00a0 How have you passed along values that you have learned in Hong Kong to your children?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Hong Kong her values.\u00a0 It is kind of the same values.<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 Same thing.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Basically yeah<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 What kind of traditions, like cooking or\u00a0 . . .<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 (Dialog in Chinese.)<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 We just have one.\u00a0 That is one thing to cook.<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 Like cook<\/p>\n

JG: \u00a0(Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

(Dialog in Chinese)<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

JG:\u00a0 I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 Same thing?<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Same thing.\u00a0 We teach them the same thing everyday.\u00a0 Only the lasted people to learn things.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 This question is for towards Bobbie and Billie.\u00a0 How do you think your life here in the delta might be different than what you mom and dad\u2019s life has been like or your grandmother\u2019s life?<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 In the delta?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 We learned English.\u00a0 That is one thing.<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 I don\u2019t think there is too much difference actually.\u00a0 When I was seeing something.\u00a0 If I was like in Hong Kong, or a big city here I would need the same thing.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t be any different from how I was raised.\u00a0 Compared to how hard it is now.\u00a0 I have it a lot more easier than they had it.\u00a0 That is the only difference.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)\u00a0 I guess in a way also a lot different than theirs is like theirs is only made up of only Chinese people.\u00a0 Here I have learned (Tape was not able to understand.)\u00a0 Like my mom was in the city.\u00a0 I grew up in a little country and thing.\u00a0 So that is the only thing different.\u00a0 Otherwise I think everything is the same value wise it is all the same.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Have you ever thought about going to Memphis?\u00a0 Or you have come to like it?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Some form of it.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 I know this is like a mess.\u00a0 Okay, you can tell I have grew up here.<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 Have you either of you traveled around the United States?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Yeah we have traveled.\u00a0 We have cousins in California.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 San Francisco, L. A.,\u00a0 New York, and Houston.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 She has been to Texas and California and then New York.<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Me, you mean you like it.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 New York, San Francisco.\u00a0 We have been to Chicago.\u00a0 Scotland.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Do you have family there?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 I have first cousins. (Tape was not able to understand.)\u00a0 I like it.\u00a0 I don\u2019t like it.\u00a0 It is too cold.\u00a0 I like California better.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Have you traveled too?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Yeah we go to California like San Francisco and L. A.<\/p>\n

BillieG:\u00a0 Our families are there.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Hawaii<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Must be in New York and Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

(Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 Who in your families most influenced you?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Us or?<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 Any of you?\u00a0 Who has been your role model?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Nobody, no I guess grandmother for me.<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 Like you know.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Who is an influence.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 (Dialog in Chinese.)<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 (Dialog in Chinese)<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 You know. . .<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 (Dialog in Chinese)<\/p>\n

JG:\u00a0 (Dialog in Chinese)<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Yeah<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Whole family<\/p>\n

JG:\u00a0 (Dialog in Chinese.)<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

(Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 We should say our parents. My grandma, too.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 How about you?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Me?<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Yes<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)\u00a0 my husband.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 In what ways did your husband influence you?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Do what?\u00a0 Say it again?<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 How did your husband influence you?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Because he was my husband because I loved him.\u00a0 Because I like a strong man. I talk to me.<\/p>\n

BillieG.:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 (Dialog in Chinese.)<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Well I like it coming to America.\u00a0 People in the American, they easy to let me come.\u00a0 A lot of Chinese young ladies are married in America met in China.\u00a0 Man come to Hong Kong to get married.\u00a0 A lot of not used to coming there is no husband born in America.\u00a0 You got W. W. II you go to the army.\u00a0 He went there.\u00a0 I married one morning.\u00a0 I was coming to America.\u00a0 A lot of people stay two or three years then they can come.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 So you were able to come when you early?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Yeah<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Did your husband speak Chinese?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 Yeah a little bit.\u00a0 He liked a on there.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Did you know English when you met your husband, or before you met your husband?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 I go there talking a little bit Chinese.\u00a0 I was teaching him.\u00a0 He teaching English.\u00a0 I teach them the Chinese.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Do you all have anything that you would like to talk about in particular about anything?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 No<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 I heard that someone in Merigold.\u00a0 I think Annette said that somebody had a nice garden.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Oh a garden, (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Both have gardens.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Yeah grandma has one.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 They have garden that grow these Chinese vegetables.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Yes we have a garden almost two at a time.<\/p>\n

JG:\u00a0 Know how to grow everything.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.) (Dialog in Chinese)\u00a0 One Chinese to pay for it to take to the garden.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know (Tape was not able to understand.)\u00a0 It is not.\u00a0 Only Chinese people in Merigold no more.\u00a0 Just two families.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 So there were more Chinese people here at one time?<\/p>\n

JG:\u00a0 No just two or three families that come to Merigold.\u00a0 It was just three families in Chinese.\u00a0 The only pass me.\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)\u00a0 Both they are Gong.\u00a0 I just thought about hard time.\u00a0 Money can buy all the (Tape was not able to understand.)\u00a0 Money can buy a neck load of time with hard work.\u00a0 Do you understand that?<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 A little bit.<\/p>\n

JG:\u00a0 You have to have the money in your pocket.\u00a0 You can buy coco and buy Chinese the green.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Oh you can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

JG:\u00a0 The one time I go to Pageant Gong.\u00a0 All in Chinese that means the Chinese green has been.<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 You can grow the Chinese greens (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

Someone in the background that is unidentifiable.<\/p>\n

JG:\u00a0 I\u00a0 can buy it here.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 One long (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

JG:\u00a0 Yeah long bees yeah.<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0\u00a0 So you cook with this?<\/p>\n

JG:\u00a0 Yeah\u00a0 I love this.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Chinese food with?<\/p>\n

BG: Yeah it is good Chinese food.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Have you all learned to cook Chinese food like?<\/p>\n

(Laughter)<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 My grandma cooks all of the time.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Yeah she is a pretty good cook.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Did you cook for a lot of the banquets?<\/p>\n

(Dialog in Chinese.)<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Yeah<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 My grandmother has cooked some.<\/p>\n

(Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Told me when my husband was in the hospital.\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

JG:\u00a0 (Dialog in Chinese.)<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Why the banquet.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 She cooked all of the food.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 They are good too.\u00a0 They have the little food.\u00a0 They small food.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 What she could cook.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 Did you pass that along to your children?\u00a0 Do they cook Chinese food well?<\/p>\n

KG:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)\u00a0 Everyday<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)\u00a0 It is like my friends like a lot of Asian food.\u00a0 I think it is because you want to learn.\u00a0 I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Do they speak Chinese?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 They are different kind of Chinese.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Oh different okay.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Dialect they are like Tianese.\u00a0 They speak inland.\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

AG: How do you say that is a modern.\u00a0 It is different.\u00a0 We had the south. They have the north.\u00a0 They speak that Mandarin.\u00a0 We speak Cantonese.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Yeah, so they cook the meat different too.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 I know that you all can speak Chinese, can you read and write the characters?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 I learned a little.\u00a0 I took a class at Texas.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t offer Cantonese. I took Mandarin.\u00a0 The writing is still the same.\u00a0 There writing is the same.\u00a0 I can use a lot of traditional characters.\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)\u00a0 That is traditional, the old fashion way.\u00a0 That is harder and more strokes.\u00a0 Some of it has changed a little.\u00a0 It is like easier.\u00a0 I learned a few.\u00a0 There is so many.\u00a0 It is hard to remember.\u00a0 It is difficult to read.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 In China there is more of a language difference.\u00a0 Writing is the same in China.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Writing is the same.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Someone heard our language.\u00a0 They speak language different than me.\u00a0 I speak Cantonese. They speak (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 It is like a different dialect.\u00a0 Now and then they speak (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

(Dialog in Chinese.)<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Yeah, Chinese has different kind of language.\u00a0 Only they write the word same.\u00a0 Language is all different.<\/p>\n

JM: It is so different that it is difficult to understand people from different.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Right I really don\u2019t understand my grandma.\u00a0 I speak my mom\u2019s.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 She can understand you?<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Sometimes.<\/p>\n

(Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Sometimes.<\/p>\n

JG:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

KL:\u00a0 Those two understand each other?<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 Yeah they do they are the same.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 Roger was telling me that his son, you all would keep his son.\u00a0 His first word was milk in Chinese.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 I know.<\/p>\n

JM:\u00a0 One day he just said it.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 (Tape was not able to understand.)<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 Good thing to.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 I would teach them to say mine.\u00a0 I speak Cantonese.\u00a0 Hong Kong is Cantonese.<\/p>\n

KL: You say it twice.<\/p>\n

AG:\u00a0 You let the kids speak. (Tape was not able to understand.)\u00a0 The kids teach them to say Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

BG:\u00a0 It is not like a serious task.<\/p>\n

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