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In this essay, I critically examined how the Chinese illegal immigrants were represented by theu.s.newspapers between the years 2000 and 2010. Four themes were unearthed. These four themes are 1) New Discourse of Racial Binary in Illegal Immigration, 2) Illegalizing “the Other”, 3) Victims of Chinese Culture, Politics and “Compatriots”, 4) Representation of Authentic Chinese Culture. The critical elaboration of these four themes demonstrated how the news discourse constructed Chinese illegal immigrants as the “outsiders within”. Ultimately, this project served two purposes. One was to “fill” the missing gap left unattended by the prior studies on Chinese immigrants. The other was to re-conceptualize the media representation of the “other” as a “contested and multilayered” process of excluding “the displaced outsiders”, who are struggling along the lines of social and national margins. It is through the critical exploration of the multiple theoretical perspectives and the ideological assumptions supported by the news texts that enables the disclosure of the dominant cultural discourse and politics of the host society.

This paper examines how Chinese international students from a public land-grant university used online community to construct their cultural and ethnic identities. The author delves into the question of how online community enables these students to gain successful cultural assimilation. Extending on Baym’s (2000) theoretical framework of online group communication and Mabry’s (1997) critical discussion on constructing virtual identity, this paper offers crucial implications for how online communication forums, such as Bulletin Board System (BBS), evolve into cultural institutions as a result of affiliated members’ increasing reliance on virtual social networking. The cyber communicative practice may deny participating members’ access to authentic human communication and reinforce their negative self-labeling as an unassimilable or unfavorable “other” in a new cultural environment.

infection rate in MSM from 2005 to 2014 has reached 7.7% which has increased 5.5 times. MSM rate accounted for newly diagnosed HIV has increased from 3.4% to 25.8% [6]. In Chinese traditional culture, homosexuality is always being considered as abnormal sex behavior which violates the natural and human evolution regulations. Most people still appose to homosexuality and they think it is a kind of disease called sexual deviation or variation. Even there is mutual love between homosexuals, and they have to maintain sneaky, shady, and secret love. Many homosexuals try to conceal this situation by marrying members of the opposite sex aims at covering for them, continuing family generation and keeping accordance with social traditions. Many homosexuals dislike this form, but they have no choice which led to their marriage in name only. For the homosexuals, heterosexual spouses just became nominal and tools of having children [7]. Gay men suffer dual pressures of HIV infection and not accepted by social, and they have to face social difficulties, personality difficulties, emotional difficulties as well as marriage difficulties. Except for that, they have to deal with dilemma of responsibility and love while married men are despised among homosexuals. Another major problem in the emotional difficulties is the pressure from heterosexual marriage. Since there is no basis of love, the heterosexual marriages of homosexuals are definitely unhappy because they can not

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