Museum of Chinese in America

Rose Lowe was born in Jamaica. She talks about the life of her father and how her family ended up in Jamaica. Her grandfather moved to Jamaica with the goal of becoming a business owner, but he died when her father, the youngest, was only six months old. The oldest brother of her father stays in Jamaica, but to get help raising her eight children his grandmother returned to China. The eldest brother of his father does well in Jamaica, and soon his remaining brothers and he moved back to Jamaica in the hopes of making a living. Her father first works under his brother, and later he opens his own grocery store. They grew up in a not so great neighborhood in Jamaica. Rose and two of her other siblings were basically raised by a maid, while their parents worked in the store. She wasn’t really raised with Chinese culture.