The Necessity of Chinese Exclusion Act Yu Li Mr. Diamond AP US History May.24.2012 U.S government passed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, which was the first law to ban immigration based on a certain race. The anti-Chinese sentiment was spread out in California in late 1870s as job competition became more severe, people constantly give government pressure by forming anti-Chinese organizations and violence riot. The purpose of passing the Chinese Exclusion Act is to solve the problems on job competition and give more job opportunities to other group of labors. However, people have been constantly debating about the necessity of Chinese Exclusion Act for decades. For discussing this topic, it is necessary to consider the economic and industrial effect that Chinese Immigrants had brought to the country around the time, weather the law actually solve the problems on job competition, the long-term effect this law had brought to the future Chinese Immigrants and the basic American value on human rights.
What institutions did the Immigration Committee seem most concerned about? The committee was obviously most worried about the factory and mining industry, they stated repeatedly how the Chinese would work too cheap compared to what the “white men” could live on. They were worried about the Chinese being unclean and working in our food services and also contaminating the cities. Why does the report mention the “vegetable” diets of the Chinese? They state this to try to show how the Chinese refuse to assimilate.
Even when some where free, spanish enslaved indians around the Americas in order to create a faster way to profit themselves. In addition, slave indian migrations took place soon after the decline of some natives population around the andean region. To make matter worst, Portugal who first introduce african slave migrations in New Espanola expanded slavery trade around the globe into brazil who needed worker in their sugar fields. The introduction of slavery reduced the other labor forces; nevertheless, it didn't really work in all the Americas. For example, Mexico and Peru who had incorporated slaves as primary agricultural labor force had a less common slavery rate than Portugal/Spain did in Cuba and Portugal in Brazil.
Many of them were illiterate with wives back in China. The Chinese weren’t settlers, but Sojourners. They planned to make enough money in the United States and return back to their homeland to start a business or buy land to farm. Japan was closed off from the West until the end of the 19th century because Shogun controlled the lesser feudal lords via hostage system, while the only outsiders that were permitted into Japan were Koreans and Chinese merchants. Before the Tokugawa Era, Portuguese missionaries were able to recruit up to 300,000 converts by the end of the 16th century.
Also, increased corruption and nepotism, as well as strict regulations on newspapers and other publications particularly angered the students. Thus, the students argued that the Communist Party was not focusing enough on political and economic reforms. The students demanded democracy while carrying signs that read, "Oppose privileges" and "Media must tell the truth". The way Chinese Government reacted Firstly, the Chinese government general secretary of the CPC Zhao Ziyang try to use a peaceful stance of reconciliation towards the protesting students and Chinese people but it prove abortive. Following the resilience from the protesters, the then Chinese paramount leader Deng Xiaoping and other party elders resolved in using force against the protesters.
Iyondustrial sugar production started slowly in Hawaii. The first sugar mill was created on the island of Lanai in 1802 by an unidentified Chinese man who returned to China in 1803. The first sugar plantation, known as the Old Sugar Mill of Koloa, was established in 1835 by Ladd & Co. and in 1836 the first 8,000 pounds (3,600 kg) of sugar and molasses was shipped to the United States. By the 1840s, sugar plantations gained a foothold in Hawaiian agriculture. Steamships provided rapid and reliable transportation to the islands, and demand increased during the California Gold Rush.
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
Cotemporary sociologists, cultural critics and race relations activists such Stuart Hall, Mary Douglas, and Erving Goffman argue that body celebrations can be also empowering. They can, they suggest, keep the celebrated identity intact by rendering it part and a parcel of popular culture. However, this communication argues that what is important is not the celebration of the body itself but rather for what reasons it is celebrated. I think that the celebration of Body-Identity in Britain is constructive if seen as a means to an end not an end in itself. The article attempts to study some celebrating rituals of ethnicized Body-Identity by South Asian communities in Britain.
This injustice took place in 1866; after a decade of injustice behaviors that the Chinese Americans received in all places such as being banned from certain jobs and the Anti – Chinese law in the state constitution of 1877, which took place after this case. In the preamble it says “we the people” and if they meant it then anyone should be able to testify in court. Also it states that “we the people,” “will secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves.” This that we promote justice; if that was true then it wouldn’t matter what culture we were because we are all Americans and justice would have been served to the criminal in the case. In the world of the Chinese Americans’ no rules apply, they are treated in a way that is not acceptable to the American lifestyle. They were not treated equally by the federal government or society and all three of these cases have shown the injustices and trials that the Chinese Americans have suffered.
As sailors and navigators on board Spanish galleons, Filipinos -- also known as "Manila men" or Spanish-speaking Filipinos -- jumped ship to escape the brutality of their Spanish masters. They built houses on stilts along the gulf ports of New Orleans and were the first in the United States to introduce the sun-drying process of shrimp. Living in the United States, Filipino immigrants experienced racial discrimination from others, as well as themselves. Many Filipino immigrants who immigrated to the United States in the first wave discriminated against new waves of Filipino immigrants. They had also had to find out how they fit in to American society, and keep their own cultural identity.