Chinese Discrimination In America

Before the war, Chinese Americans were known as non-citizen immigrants who aren’t allow to go back to visit China. The male immigrants can’t to bring their wives over from China and they weren't allowed to marry whites legally. In fact any white American woman that married a non-citizen Chinese man automatically lost her citizenship under US law. This left Chinese communities across the United States empty of children, filled with aging bachelors, and inexorably dying away. Ironically the renewal of the Chinese American community came about because of the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 that destroyed immigration and birth records across the city. The US Supreme Court in Wong Kim Ark v. United States in 1898 had affirmed citizenship

In the late 1800s, America passed a fierce act due to the rising tension between the Chinese immigrants and whites. Chinese immigrants were troubled with biased laws and stereotyping. The Chinese Exclusion Act was one of these law. It... The immigrants were stereotyped as barbarians, anti-christian, anti-white, or as slaves. They were called heathens, racial slurs, and much worse; and the Chinese were seen as idolaters, the lowest, and the vilest. Some may argue they were taking over jobs because of how they were willing to work for less. But ultimately, the most influential factor in why Americans passed the Chinese Exclusion Act was racial prejudice toward the Chinese.

Prior to the Page Act of 1875, the U.S. was for the most part an open border country. This Act put restriction on certain “unwanted” people from entering the country for specific purposes. The Act specifically speaks of Chinese or “Orientals” and women. Both at the time were basically used as slaves (Forty-Third Congress, 1875). The U.S. did not want to pollute its growing nation with the undesirables, therefore this act was the first step in the failure of Americas open borders.

During this time the Chinese Exclusion Act was in place, forbidding the entrance of Chinese immigrants into the United States.

The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first United States federal law that forbid the entry of an ethnic group, in this case the Chinese, on the belief that they endangered the good order of certain localities and states. This act was successfully passed after California adopted a new constitution in 1879 which authorized the state government to determine whom was able to reside in the state. This act was signed by President Chester A. Arthur in 1882 and provided a 10-year ban on Chinese laborers from entering the United States. The exclusion act expired in 1892 but was extended by Congress for another 10 years in the form of the Geary Act which was later made permanent in 1902. In 1943, all the exclusion acts were repealed by Congress, allowed a yearly limit of 105 Chinese migrants and gave foreign born Chinese the right to seek naturalization.

Millions of immigrants over the previous centuries have shaped the United States of America into what it is today. America is known as a “melting pot”, a multicultural country that welcomes and is home to an array of every ethnic and cultural background imaginable. We are a place of opportunity, offering homes and jobs and new economic gains to anyone who should want it. However, America was not always such a “come one, come all” kind of country. The large numbers of immigrants that came during the nineteenth century angered many of the American natives and lead to them to blame the lack of jobs and low wages on the immigrants, especially the Asian communities. This resentment lead to the discrimination and legal exclusion of immigrants,

Before World-War II, the Chinese immigrants to the U.S had many characteristics. First, the Chinese immigrants mainly came from mainland China, such as the Guangdong province. The Chinese immigrants mainly came from the Guangdong province of China because of the location of Guangdong province. The Guangdong province was close to coastal areas where Guangong people could take the boasts and migrate to America. Also, Guangdong people was far away from the Chinese government's control. Therefore, Chinese immigrants could easily migrated from the Guangdong province of China to America. Second, most of the Chinese immigrants were poor and came from rural areas in China. They migrated to America because they suffered from poor harvests and

Vietnamese did not magically appear in the United States, the Vietnam War sparked the immigration of Vietnamese to America. Vietnamese did not virtually exist in the United States until 1975 when the war forced Vietnamese to evacuate (Povell). The war began after Vietminh defeated France and split into North and South Vietnam (O’Connel). In 1956 communist Ho Chi Minh ruled the North Vietnam, and Bao Dai ruled the South, who the United States supported and backed up (O’Connel). The Vietnam War consisted of the North and South Vietnam, fighting against eachother in order to stay two separate countries. The North tried to overtake the South, and the United States sent in troops to

This documentary enlightened the struggles and success of the Chinese American who fought many obstacles to maintain their cultural identities and also be American. Their struggles have not ended but like the experiences of many minority groups awareness can help strengthen the bonds that we as American citizens are unified under the precepts of our founding fathers to make our

     The focus of our group project is on Chinese Americans. We studied various aspects of their lives and the preservation of their culture in America. The Chinese American population is continually growing. In fact, in 1990, they were the largest group of Asians in the United States (Min 58). But living in America and adjusting to a new way of life is not easy. Many Chinese Americans have faced and continue to face much conflict between their Chinese and American identities. But many times, as they adapt to this new life, they are also able to preserve their Chinese culture and identity through various ways. We studied these things through the viewing of a movie called Joy Luck Club,

The pain and the suffering, the oppression, and the exclusion all describe the history of Asia America. When they arrived to the United States, they become labeled as Asians. These Asians come from Japan, China, Korea, Laos, Thailand, and many other diverse countries in the Eastern hemisphere. These people wanted to escape from their impoverished lives as the West continued to infiltrate their motherland. They saw America as the promise land filled with opportunity to succeed in life. Yet due to the discrimination placed from society and continual unfair

Yes, I am aware that these college discriminate against all ethnicities other than white and it is ridiculous. I know that overall, many Asian countries out-compete America in Math and Reading because while our College system is elite, Americans are idiots and somehow believe that they should instead invest 500 billion $ a year into military rather than invest that into the minuscule 50$ billion they set for education. White people may not realize it, but America is held together by the minorities and they are too set on imperialism rather than improving their god-awful government. Asian people have always been smart, Europeans learned guns from the Chinese and the Japanese became westernized by Americans. Solely, I believe that every single

When thousands of Chinese migrated to California after the gold rush the presence caused concern and debate from other Californians. This discussion, popularly called the “Chinese Question,” featured in many of the contemporary accounts of the time. In the American Memory Project’s “California: As I Saw It” online collection, which preserves books written in California from 1849-1900, this topic is debated, especially in conjunction with the Chinese Exclusion Act. The nine authors selected offer varying analyses on Chinese discrimination and this culminating act. Some give racist explanations, but the majority point towards the perceived economic competition between

Although both Chinese and Japanese laborers were deemed as aliens ineligible for citizenship and were segregated from white people in schools, Japanese laborers experienced more aggressive racial discrimination than Chinese laborers in which Chinese laborers were prided on their work ethic and virtues and Japanese laborers were mistreated and distrusted. However, in order to fight against racial discrimination, Chinese laborers went on strikes for wage increases and Japanese laborers practiced ethnic solidarity through agriculture.

Chinese families are highly misunderstood and stereotyped in the United States. It is important to understand a different culture before one makes the assumptions produced by these stereotypes. In order to find a better understanding about Chinese immigrants and Chinese Americans, one must do research on that countries heritage, traditions, and other customs before submerging one-self into a Chinese families home. I chose to experience and observe a Chinese family who was kind enough to let me be a guest in their home to share dinner.