Why promoting scouting program to Chinese communities in USA?

  1. Provide quality scouting programs for the Chinese youth in our community. Give the relatively shy Chinese youth a better chance of practicing leadership skills. Although there are many existing Cub Packs and Scout Troops around, not all of them have the same level of qualities (full uniform, for example) that we aim for. For the few that do, there are not enough of them to give the ample leadership opportunities needed.
  2. Provide a home (hence CASA) for a new immigrant-based community to gather around, forming a little village to rally around when we lose our original village.
    Thus, the Cub Pack or Scout Troop or girl scout troop becomes a new network for the families to help each other, learn how to thrive in this new world. Also, in this friendly environment, the parents got a chance to learn and practice as much, if not more than the youth, all the skills that we need to be successful in this land of a different culture. In short, we want the youth and the parents to improve together through the scouting program.
  3. Although it is fine and comfortable to be in our own (Chinese) corner, in the long run, it is not in our interest to be isolated. We need to, albeit slowly, integrate into the main stream. Through the activities that CASA promotes, we hope we are making progress on this topic. Some of these activities are:
    • Involvement in the Orders of the Arrow
    • Participate in the District as volunteers, attend and support annual District Recognition Dinner
    • Participate in the Council as volunteers, attend and support annual Council Recognition Dinner
    • Participate in the "outside the unit" activities, such as District Camporee, Bear Paw, Scout-o-rama, National Jamboree, etc.
In short, we want to become main-stream American.