Discrimination Issues In China And The United States

As children grow up, they become the person they turn out to be because of experiences and the culture and society they grew up in. Nations are affected in the same sense because the people living in a nation affect how the nation is influenced and builds its character.

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,

Chinese Exclusion Act was a law that passed by Congress on May 6 of 1882, that halted the immigration of the Chinese laborers for a span of 10 years and denied neutralization to the existing Chinese in the United States. Following an economic crisis in the late 19th century that left many without jobs and slowed down the expansion of the Western States, many Chinese immigrants laborers were blamed for the falling of wages and lack of employment opportunities. The Chinese laborer faced violence, social isolation, and discriminatory laws that was included in the passage of the exclusion act. Although the act had little effect on the U.S’s economy beyond the Chinese community, it set a lasting effect for immigration policy, it was the first U.S law the refusal to admit members of a specific ethnic group or nationality. Since Chinese immigration was helping the U.S’s economy bloom. Why the sudden stop of only one ethnic group coming to the U.S? What social, economic, and political caused the Chinese Exclusion Act?

In the 1800’s, immigrants from different areas of the world began coming more frequently to the United States. With these immigrants, came the Chinese. After some time, an Exclusion Act was passed by the United States to keep the Chinese from immigrating. This happened in 1882 and was even extended in 1892. This act was supported in being passed because the Chinese were taking many jobs from the Americans, and also because the Chinese brought conflicting cultural elements to America.

The largest cities in China are over populated and polluted due to globalization. Peoples health is poor because of the air pollution from all the factories. People die quicker and not many babies are born to replenish the population. Most people around in the cities can be seen wearing masks.

Immigrant discrimination is simply put the discrimination by natives against immigrants from other countries. In this article I am also going to go into some depth on discrimination on transplants from other areas (people who have relocated to another area of the country.) Immigrant discrimination is a major issue in the United States. There is a reason the United States is considered the melting pot of the world. There are people from all walks of life in our country. There are approximately forty six million immigrants in the United States.

In 1882 the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress. This act exiled Chinese laborers from arriving in the United States. This was the first time ever that a specific ethnicity was banned from immigrating to the U.S.A. Racism against the Chinese was strong, so the ban remained for ten years, but was eventually made “permanent”. However, China soon became a war ally in World War II, so the ban was repealed in 1943.

For decades, Chinese people in America have faced discrimination and hostility. The Chinese was initially brought over by the cheap labor of building railroads and the Gold Rush in California. But in the 1870s, the competition for jobs and depression led to racism and hatred for them. Almost every Chinese person have been segregated in Chinatowns. Eventually, the Chinese Exclusion Act ended Chinese immigration. However, it all changed during World War II when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The United States and China became allies and declared war on Japan. So the Chinese in America got an opportunity to expand their economic and social influence. Furthermore, Americans changed their point of view about the Chinese Americans due to the alliance

The Asian American has profound history in America. They came to here searching better life like every immigrant people who came to here. Most Asian people settled California, San Francisco and Hawaii. Asian people encountered discrimination against their race. History shows that Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which was intended to limit the entry laborers for ten years also banning integration such as intermarriage. Asian Americans were denied the right of citizenship because they were not white. Congress passed that in 1790. In 1850 Californai imposed a foreign miners. The California Supreme court ruled that Chinese could not testify in court a white person. These were laws against Asian people at that time and government was

In the United States today discrimination is still an issue in society. As a society progress has definitely been made, but it has never fully gone away. Some of the most discriminatory action takes place in the American justice system. Young minority males between the ages of 25-29 are subject to being treated the most unfairly while whites of the same age are still being treated better than any race in this country. African American and Hispanic males are being incarcerated at higher rates than white males in America. Not only are minorities being incarcerated more, but also they are subject to harsher sentencing terms, fall victim to police racial profiling, and have disparities in the war on drugs. Also whites are still the dominant

The hardship along the way when first made contact was going to be a challenge that they had to face. Majority could not speak English as they were mainly just used as body to work and follow command. As they continue to work, they slowly began to pick up and learn English to be able to communicate. The Chinese immigrant just wanted to work and send money back home to their families, which is a simple mission. But there was tension for the white workers, as they thought the Chinese were coming to take their jobs and their livelihood. This caused violence between the two and discrimination quickly rose (Waxman, Sarah.). So the Chinese people moved from the west to the east were they had more opportunity for works as well as blend into a diverse

The Chinese men became an important role of the work force which laid the economic foundation of the American West. They were working in agriculture, mining, industry, and wherever work was available. However, the Anglo workers saw them as an economic competitor and racial inferior. The Chinese were faced with prejudice and discrimination that were manifested in violence.

One of the most shocking points of the Chinese Exclusion Act was the section that stated that “hereafter no State court or court of the United States shall admit Chinese to citizenship” (Chinese) and while this was in effect, “this act shall not apply to diplomatic and other officers of the Chinese Government” (Chinese). This was shocking due to the fact that the US government was harsh and racist toward the average Chinese citizen, yet those who actually mattered, in this case those within the Chinese government, were not bound by the unfair laws that were enacted at this time. In the speeches presented by those talking about the Act, the speech of Mr. Elliot C. Cowdin presented the most persuasive and most logic perspective of the two. Cowdin

Chinese immigrants had a harder time to assimilate into the United States because of the history of racial discrimination. In my research, I used both primary data such as comic and labor announcement, and secondary data such as journal article, to prove my argument.

In a world as overwhelming with differences, individuals are molded by many factors, and culture is one that follows up on each person. Diverse societies instruct different values, and what may be well mannered in the U.S. could exceptionally offend in China. As people from different cultural groups, individuals can misjudge each other; therefore, the U.S. and China can learn to collaborate across cultural lines as individuals and as a society. Becoming aware of cultural differences can enable both countries to deal with each other more