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Chinese Exclusion Act Essay

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The Chinese need to leave. These people think that they can just come intrude and change America? Well, I think not. Thankfully, our government passes the Chinese Exclusion Act, an act that prohibits all immigration of Chinese laborers because too many Chinese are immigrating into America and trying to steal our women in order to marry them. Also, the Chinese are taking up most industries because they work hard for little money, it is like they are being slaves and they are hard to compete with. Lastly, Chinese have a very different culture than us Americans making us think they are trying to change our land. We need these Chinese gone.
“It is impossible to get a Chinese woman out here unless one goes to China and marries her there, and then …show more content…

These jobs that the Chinese have taken should be open to Americans first seeing that we are in America but a lot of the companies have wanted the Chinese working instead. For example, “The boot, shoe, and cigar industries are almost entirely in their hands. In the manufacture of men’s overalls and women’s and children’s underwear they run over three thousand sewing machines night and day.” This means us Americans do not have the jobs that were once ours and the Chinese are taking a majority of the jobs out there. There is barely enough work for Americans alone and now my job has been taken over because these Chinese people offer to work for a lot less money and longer hours. I need my job to feed myself and my family, but I got fired because they say the Chinaman would do the same work for less money making it better for the company to hire the Chinaman and fire me. This is one reason why we the people of America are rightfully fighting to have our privileges back. “It is almost impossible for a poor white servant girl to find employment in a white family. No! The mistress of the house wants a Chinaman.” This is just one example of an American changing our work to fit in the Chinaman, even though it makes Americans start to be in poverty because the Chinese have been earning the money we normally

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