Many were turned down at an immigration station: Angel Island, while others were pushed out of finding gold and forced to work degrading jobs. They were looked at as an unwanted completion by native-born Americans, in1882 the Chinese Execution Act was passed banning Chinese labors to immigrate. Approximately 5 million Germans, as well as 1 million Irish immigrants made the journey to the United States in the 19th century. Majority of the Irish immigrants went to New York or Massachusetts, most German immigrants spread around the Midwest for farming. Unlike the Irish the Germans had more money to take them further in America.
Ethics within the Apparel Industry Sweatshops are found worldwide, they are factories in the apparel industry that operate illegally, forcing workers to work long hours in horrible working conditions at a low salary. Often these workers are obligated to work under such condition not by choice, but rather they are obligated. These workers are often immigrants that are threatened with legal action, accused of committing crimes or ordinary people that are abducted and forced to work for free, frequently threatened with death. These workers are restricted from ethical rights. Sweatshops have always been an issue within the Apparel Industry; companies seek out cheap alternatives to having mass production of clothing for cheaper rates.
Today, hundreds of thousands of less qualified citizens are hired for jobs over other citizens, who are more than qualified for that position, all because of race (www.adversity.net). This is ridiculous and puts limitations on us as Americans. The more qualified, suited individual should be hired; race should not even be a factor. Is it not commonly acknowledged that we are all the same? This seems to be the case because employers are still discriminating against citizens and meeting “racial quotas”.
Immigrants and low class citizens have been treated poorly by the upper class American. In the film “Bread and Roses,” we see the exploitation and the low wages of the immigrants in their jobs, the rights to freedom of speech, and the respect to people’s job. Maya and the other janitors work very hard, harder than most high paid Americans, and get paid little to nothing. “The lucky sewing company workers got so angry when the boss’s daughter called the police on us because we wanted our back pay. They are the ones that owed us money, but they still used the police to kick us out!” (Ching Yoon Louie 50).
African American men were fighting in Vietnam alongside of white Americans, yet returning to a nation that was still treating them as second class citizens. When black men returned home, they were unable to find employment and when they did, those jobs came at a much lower salary than their white counterparts. On average, non-whites earned between thirty two and thirty-eight percent less than whites regardless of education or accomplishments. This enraged black men, as they felt that their services would give them more respect once they returned from serving their country. Even when it came to more accomplished African diplomats, they too were mistreated simply due to the color of their skin.
The Japanese Interment During WWII, there was a lot of racial prejudice against the Japanese-Americans; first and second generation. The paranoia of the Japanese-Americans loyalty to the US was big. The Japanese Interment was the relocation of the Japanese-Americans and the Japanese by the United States during the 1940’s. The US placed the Japanese/-American residents in War Relocation Camps. What could have caused these events to occur during WWII?
Racism, Discrimination and Segregated America During the New Immigration period between 1880 and 1920 many migrated to what was known as the new nation, the United States. They migrated from all over in search of a new beginning and better opportunity. The two ethnic groups I will be discussing will be the Polish and the Chinese. The Poles and the Chinese were told by family and friends that America offered great opportunity, better wages, and brighter futures. When they first arrived they were greeted and accepted, but as the population of migrators grew, fear began to surface and the Americans started to show racism, discrimination and segregation.
Many have become slaves while others only leave their cells for 4 hours a day. For minor misbehaviour prisoners are sent to the punishment block or the ‘hole’ with no running water and many are left there for days. Carandiru Penitentiary in Brazil has everything from massacres, HIV prisoners to legalised torture. The 7500 inmates there, the majority have HIV but never entered being positive and most of the time when there is a surgery they forget the anaesthetics. Tadmor military prison in Syria still use the medieval methods of torture on the guilty and innocent, being dragged by a rope till dead or beaten to death by pipes.
Migrants from China, Japan, Indian, Korea, and the Philippines faced discrimination during the late 19th and early 20th century. They came for better paying jobs and more job opportunities to save money for their family. As a result, they faced resentment from white worker. The resentment led to laws prohibited them from entering the country and owning land. “Most of the migrants in each group came as sojourners.
It was much harder for blacks to get a job, and there employment position could be described as ‘the last to be hired, the first to be fired’. African Americans faced discrimination almost in every job, and they earned less, often due to the poor educational opportunities. The voting rights were different in the North from the South. In the North, almost all African Americans could vote. In the South however, the blacks were disfranchised, since the state governments introduced literacy tests, tests on the knowledge of constitution and Poll taxes, which African Americans had trouble with, because of poor education and financial problems.