Racial Diversity In America

The United States has had tension with Asian immigrants since the first wave of migration in the 1840’s, and in 1882 the United States declared a Chinese Exclusion which was to keep all Chinese from migrating into the United States. For the Chinese already in the U.S this created worry and tension. With the Chinese people no longer being welcome the freedom for the Chinese inside which was already not much was even more condensed. The little equality that they had was taken away and they were excluded, and looked down upon everywhere they went. They had trouble living and socially because of the prejudice they were facing. An example of the Chinese struggle before the exclusion act would be the Chinese Lynching that took place in 1871. In Los Angeles a mob captured men and in this case a 12 year old boy and hung them all at a Spanish hacienda because of the citizens strong discrimination against

In 1848, California struck gold at Sutter's Mill, California. Chinese immigrants now had yet another incentive to go west in search of their fortune. For the most part, these immigrants were young male peasants who came in

The Chinese Exclusion act banned all Chinese people moving to America. Chinese people emigrated to California in 1848 during the California Gold Rush. Massive amounts of Chinese people moved to the west Coast to make money and return home to the Qing Empire. They were mainly drawn to the west coast as a way to prosper economically. Many were discriminated against and given low wages, and had poor

The economic crash of the 1870’s eventually led to the xenophobia against the Chinese that populated approximately one-tenth of California’s population. 1849 saw the arrival of the Chinese, when mining was at its peak. Following the transcontinental railroad led to the rise of xenophobia when the aforementioned economic

The Chinese immigrant is one of the largest group in the United States. Looking back the history of U.S., most people believe that the first Chinese immigrants came to California during the Gold Rush period. Also, the Chinese community is one of the largest and oldest ethnic group of Asian Americans. Some researchers consider the history of ethnic Chinese in Southern California relates to three periods. In my opinion, I would like to say that there are four major waves which the first wave begins in the 19th century, the second wave occurs in the 1940s to 1980s, the third wave happens during the 1980s, and the last wave arises in a recent decade year.

After the first wave of Chinese immigrants arrived in the United States in the early 1840s during the California Gold Rush, many Chinese people continued to travel across the Pacific, escaping poor conditions in China with hopes and ambitions for a better life in America. Many more Chinese immigrants began arriving into the 1860s on the Pacific coast for work in other areas such as the railroad industry. The immigrants noticed an increasing demand for their labor because of their readiness to work for low wages. Many of those who arrived did not plan to stay long, and therefore there was no push for their naturalization. The immigrants left a country with thousands of years of a “decaying feudal system,” corruption, a growing

 The United States was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, but during an immigration boom in the late 1890s and early 1900s, Asians and Europeans faced discrimination and violence because of their difference in language, appearance, and religion. People came to America from all over the world to experience the wealth and prosperity that was associated with this great country, but certain ethnicities were excluded from the hope and freedom they were promised by the forefathers. When coming through California, Asians faced with hardships and trials that caused them to return to their country and sometimes to end

In the 1850’s, Chinese immigrants began entering California in search of gold and the California dream. They had heard that California was the new frontier, a frontier that would provide them with the opportunity for economic riches. Young and ambitious, many of these Chinese immigrants quickly married in their homeland and set out for the gold rush, promising to return (with wealth). Likewise, in the 1880s, when the state of California was undergoing rapid economic transformation, Japanese immigrants — just as young and ambitious as their Chinese counterparts — set out for America where they had heard the streets were “paved with gold.” But little did these Chinese and Japanese immigrants know that what they would discover in California

There is a model minority group called “Combating the stereotype,” which is based on ethnicity, race, or religion whose members are to achieve a higher degree on socioeconomic success than the population average. There is a myth that other races should not counted for and the Asian Americans are successful in life. Asian Americans are usually denied assistance if they need help in some ways. When Asian Americans are discriminated their society and their achievements are undstandable and ignored. Asian Americans are percepted of high income level and

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

Chinese started immigrating to California in 1850, in the hope to find gold, become rich, and to find better opportunities. Most of the time, the men left their families and came to America themselves in hope to return to their mainland with money to help their families. The types of jobs they received when they arrived were working on railroads, intensive farming, and domestic work that whites wanted nothing apart of. As more Chinese kept coming over, the people of the United States realized how many Chinese were in the U.S. and decided to try to keep them out. They did this by violent attacks, discriminatory laws, newspaper articles, and the Chinese Exclusion Act which stopped immigration of Chinese for 10 years. The Chinese responded to all this violence and tried moving east or settled into the ghettos of American cities which are referred to as “Chinatowns.” Chinatowns were depressing areas and they consisted of lonely men who got involved in prostitution, gambling, and

Many whites tried to make their lives as miserable as possible by discrimination and segregation, hoping that they could scare the immigrants out of the country. When that didn't satisfy them, discriminatory legislation including the Chinese Exclusion Acts among many others were designed to ban immigration. The installation of the Foreign Miner’s License Tax and other tariffs were placed on foreign immigrants who were not citizens. This was unjust because it wasn’t that the immigrants didn’t want to obtain citizenship, but that they were prohibited or financially unable to do so. There were also state ordinances which allowed cities to discriminate against the Chinese. In the case of Yick Wo v. Hopkins, a Chinese laundry owner goes to the Supreme Court to fight his case on fundamental rights. As a businessman in the Chinese dominated laundry industry, his experience was common to almost all Chinese immigrants, discrimination that violated the 14th Amendment rights of equal protection and treatment. The laundry licenses which required mandatory permits contained no explanation on the how one was determined to receive it, which was a very clear attempt to target Chinese businesses. Even though in this case, the Supreme Court judged that this was an obvious violation of the equal protection of noncitizens in the 14th Amendment, other discriminated victims in many other cases were not as lucky

The 1848 Gold Rush fueled American prosperity in California, causing the impoverished Chinese to seek employment opportunities in the United States. Americans, however, did not welcome them. During the Panic of 1873, after the Gold Rush ended, competition for jobs became fierce. The jobs were mostly given to Americans. Out of desperation, the Chinese workers agreed to work for less salary than their American counterparts. Consequently, union workers rose up for their rightful jobs. With pressure from unions and anti-Chinese organizations, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which banned Chinese immigrants from entering the country for decades. The Act stated that any Chinese immigrant “found unlawfully” in the country

In early 1848, cries of gold findings flooded the West. White settlers flooded the area like a hurricane in search of riches never seen before to the common man. It was the single greatest migration of people in a shortest amount of time. The gold rush was a very dark period in American history and it shouldn’t be celebrated; the Native American’s were slaughtered in American thirst for gold Explosions of violence from both natives and settlers were common in this environment of prejudice and greed. Between 1850 and 1890 eighty percent of the total number of Native Americans in California died due to murder and massacre, disease, starvation, and forced migration from their native lands. The destruction of the culture and lives of the people native to California and the Black Hills of South Dakota. Greed changed the morals and values of the miners and Americans alike in the Gold Rush. The gold rush brought riches and highlighted racism of white Americans, while systematically destroying Native Americans in that region.

Signed by President Chester A. Arthur on 6 May 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was the very first law passed by Congress that targeted a specific ethnic group. It was specifically implemented in order to restrict the immigration of the Chinese into the US as well as interdicting them from becoming a US citizen. “Until the expiration of ten years next after the passage of this act, the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States be, and the same is hereby, suspended; and during such suspension, it shall not be lawful for any Chinese laborer to come or to remain within the United States.” (Act Sec.1)[1] Evidently, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was an event of great misjudgment and blind racism as shown by its racial discrimination, unjust actions, and laws/prerequisites regarding immigration to the US. Already facing racial and financial hardships, this particular ban is clearly inequitable as the Chinese were only immigrating to earn money in order to support their families.