2015.007.011 Interview with Mary Chin August 15, 1997

 

Mary Chin, an American with Trinidadian and Chinese heritage discusses her mixed background and family heritage, including the cultural differences between Chinese-Trinidadians and Chinese people. Her mother came from a small town in Trinidad and her father came from China but moved to Trinidad and married her mother there. Her grandfather came from Venezuela but moved to Trinidad for political reasons. Her grandmother was Caribbean-Indian, and later remarried a Chinese man after her husband died. Mary was born in New York in 1922 went to the United States but her and her family moved back to Trinidad when she was four years old during the Depression due to financial reasons. Since her parents died while she was a child, she was mostly raised by her grandparents. Still, her family associated with the Chinese community in Trinidad. She returned to New York in 1941 to try to help her brother get back into America. Chin got married, had children, and attended college in the United States.

0:00 - 介绍,家族史,父亲作为簿记员的工作,母亲的家族史,祖父的可可庄园,祖母的第二次婚姻 Introduction, family history, father's job as a bookkeeper, mother's family history, grandfather's cocoa estate, grandmother's second marriage

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11:27 - 简单地谈到对她父母相识过程的有限的认知,抑郁症对家庭的影响,父母的死亡,由特立尼达的亲戚抚养 Briefly speaking about the limited knowledge of how her parents met, effects of the depression on the family, parent's deaths, being raised by relatives in Trinidad

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20:10 - 与特立尼达其他中国人的联系,家里的中国习俗和宗教信仰,关于钓鱼的轶事,祖母的期望,返回美国的原因 Associating with other Chinese in Trinidad, Chinese customs and religion in the home, anecdote about fishing, grandmother's expectations, reasons for returning to the US

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29:24 - 在第二次世界大战期间住在纽约,会见她的丈夫,和她的家人一起去特立尼达,种族认同,家在哪里 Living in New York during World War II, meeting her husband, visiting Trinidad with her family, ethnic identity, where is home

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36:23 - 她的婚礼,丈夫的工作,生活在巴尔的摩以及和她丈夫(中国)家庭的相处,特立尼达华人和其他地方华人的差异 Her wedding, husband's jobs, living in Baltimore and dealing with her husband's (Chinese) family, differences between Trinidad Chinese and other Chinese

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44:08 - 成长过程中音乐的重要性,在特立尼达的嘉年华会,中国社区对嘉年华的感受,她参加嘉年华会,特立尼达华人在纽约和多伦多 Importance of music while growing up, Carnival in Trinidad, Chinese community feelings about Carnival, her participation in Carnival, Chinese Trinidad in New York and Toronto

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51:54 - 拉丁裔背景家庭之间的联系,家庭团聚,多伦多的加勒比嘉年华会(Caribana),特立尼达外的嘉年华节日,退休后的生活 Connection between families with Latino backgrounds, family reunions, Toronto Caribbean Carnival (Caribana), Carnival festivals outside of Trinidad, Life after retirement

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59:48 - 纽约华美狮子会,作为一名美国华裔女性的经历,种族身份,渴望返回特立尼达,仍然生活在特立尼达的亲戚 New York Cosmopolitan Lions, experiences as a Chinese American woman, ethnic identity, desire to return to Trinidad, relatives still in Trinidad

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