In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Chinese men began flocking to America. Following stories of untold riches awaiting them on the “Golden Mountain” and escaping the stagnant economic situation they experienced in China, these travelers headed to the United States by any means possible. Often, taking money from supportive family members with promises that when they returned home they would repay their debts and more with their newly acquired wealth was the only way to realize their dreams abroad. These men were undertaking the arduous journey by boat to a new, unknown land. Arriving in their new home, they found not wealth, but a welcome of hostility and conflict consisting of "prejudice, economic discrimination, political disenfranchisement, physical violence, immigration-related exclusion, social segregation and incarceration. Once in the cities where they were to live, these Chinese men were segregated into enclaved communities, often called “Chinatowns.” Despite hostilities from the predominantly Caucasian population, many residents of these enclaves prospered, opening their own businesses and eventually bringing their families to live with them, or simply starting new families. This is very similar to Fong See's life in "On Gold Mountain". When he came to be reunited with his father, he eventually found an environment in which his natural entrepreneurial ability would allow him to achieve the life of success that many men came to find. Fong See's experience on the "Golden Mountain", however, was different from the daily toil of the "coolie" working class, as well as the Chinese merchant class of the time, as he strove to live according to Chinese custom in a non-traditional setting. Fong See initiated and maintained a...... middle of paper......2 (2009): 410-427.Daniels, Roger. Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1988). Fu, Victoria R and Chin-Yau Cindy Lin. “A Comparison of Child-Rearing Practices Among Chinese, Chinese Immigrant, and Caucasian-American Parents.” Child Development 61, no. 02 (1990): 429-433. Lyman, Stanford M. “Marriage and Family Among Chinese Immigrants to America, 1850-1960.” The Atlanta University Journal of Race and Culture 29, no. 04 (1968): 321-330. Moyer, Bill. “Becoming American: The Chinese Experience.” » Interview with Tommy Wong. (Public Affairs Television, 2003). See Lisa. On the Golden Mountain. (New York: Vintage Books, 1996). Wong, Morrison G. “Chinese Americans” in Asian Americans: Contemporary Trends and Issues. (A Thousand Oaks. Pine Forge Press. 2005), 110-145.