No Hope: The Pedagogy of becoming Chinese American The United States has a very rich and diverse history, ranging from its sites and many different types of people. One particular race of people, the Chinese, has been a great contribution to U.S economy and cultures. Although today they are well accepted, it wasn’t always this way. In the 19th century, the Chinese faced many difficulties when immigrating into the U.S. Many Chinese Americans or “Chinamen” were unjustly harassed, prosecuted and even killed for reasons that were unprecedented.
The substantial increase in population due to immigration that occurs during this time goes on to affect the nation in positive and negative ways. Some of the adverse affects of such a rapid growth in population were overcrowding in cities, lack of jobs, and occasional food shortages. But the hard working spirit and work ethic that the immigrants brought, along with a determined will to succeed, were an overarching positive were crucial to the country becoming what it is today. In the late 1800s, people in many parts of the world decided to leave their homes and emigrate to the United States. Immigrants entered into the United States through several
This was the beginning of a new future for America. The Industrial Revolution had begun, the slave trade was coming to an end, and America was pushing Westward. Word of the Gold Rush began spreading around the world drawing more and more immigrants from both Asia and Europe. Besides from Irish and German immigrants, Chinese immigrants had also begun coming to America in the 1850s arriving through San Francisco. While the economy was strong immigrants were welcomed into America with open arms even more so since during the Civil War, both the Union and Confederate armies relied on their strengths.
In Lithuania, its custom that guests at a wedding-feast leave money to cover the cost, but since they were in America, many of the guest leave the feast without leaving any money since money was being budgeted amongst each person due to the lack of jobs available. Jurgis, who has great faith in the American Dream, vowed that he will simply work harder to make more money so that they may pay off the debt and continue living in America without struggling. Jobs in Packingtown involve back-breaking labor, however, conducted in unsafe conditions with little regard for individual workers. Therefore, Jurgis quickly finds work since he is young and eager to work. The family signed an agreement to buy a house, but the house was poorly maintained so it was full of repairs which evidently would cost money that they didn’t have.
Railroad expansion was relatively new during the gilded age. The railroad industry had a harsh start due to the fact that no profit was made and therefore made it highly risky to finish the railroad project. This caused many dilemmas because this made it hard to gather many investors and so the railroad companies request assistance from the government to help them complete the railroad system. (Doc H) The government saw that the railroads could help them establish the postal service, transport troops, and keep the westerners from being disconnected from the east and seceding. (Doc K) They
Canada had a very high lack of employment in which the Chinese had good opportunities to get jobs to be able to buy land, grow their own crops to feed their families. In 1858 gold was discovered along the Fraser River in British Columbia. There was a high demand for minors so that encouraged even more Chinese immigrants to come to Canada. To conclude the loyalists had a harder immigration than the Chinese because of the war and the complications of them being exiled from their own
They needed to build ditches and trenches due to water levels from the hydraulic systems and they needed different tools and techniques for mining. Mining was becoming very expensive for not a lot of profit in the end. By the end of the 1850s many miners wanted to go back home and other went in to obtain occupations to protect themselves against changes in mining. You would think that the miners were homesick, but in reality it was due to “reduced opportunity or simply in order to avoid the hard physical labor of mining in favor of something less arduous” (Rohrbough 188) One instance was that of Joseph Wood, who arrived in the mines August of 1849, his company worked throughout the rain and the harsh conditions of the winter, yet they were unsuccessful. “To sum up the whole matter of our winter’s labor so far, we have made nothing” (Rohrbough 189).
The reason why they travelled to west California was because of the gold rush, in 1848 gold was unintentionally discovered in west of California: this quickly reached the eastern people and then after the rest of the world. Many men left ports in America and Europe bound for California, many of this men weren’t miners they simply wanted to get rich quickly. By the end of 1848 about 10,000 men were digging for gold in California. The discovery of gold in California led a lot of people to move west also the gold rush that was discovered in Idaho (1860), Montana (1862), and Arizona (1863) and later in Dakota (1874). The accidental discovery of gold in California was one of the reasons Americans moved west during 19th century because it ensured that railroads was built across America in the 1860s.
Outsourcing of jobs from the United States to other countries has been a growing matter over the past few decades. With the economy at a low, many industries and CEOs are wanting to expand their markets and factories overseas to developing countries that thirst for any job they can get their hands on. These workers are paid a substantial amount less to do the same work that normal Americans would do for a lot more. This is where the issue has many unemployed Americans buzzing. Most minimum wage workers that have lost their jobs to outsourcing absolutely cannot stand the idea whatsoever.
Article 25 says that “The state promotes family planning so that population growth may fit the plans for economic and social development”, and Article 49 states that “Both husband and wife have the duty to practice family planning”. In fact, the constitution cannot enforce jurisdiction directly in China, so the government has published many treaties, rules and ordinances to execute this policy, and finally in 2001, there was a law for family planning. However, as there is a serious decline of newborns and the population growth was slow down, China has lost benefits because of the large population. This means that the labor cost is gradually becoming higher, and the productivity of the whole country is a slowing down. Also, the aging society has become a big problem in China, which is only a developing country.