Anti Chinese sentiment in America (late 1800s, early 1900s)

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@Razor Forgive me for shamelessly copying your thread but I felt this deserved its own. There was a lot of anti Chinese sentiment leading to the signing of the Chinese Exclusion Act.


The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The act followed the Angell Treaty of 1880, a set of revisions to the US–China Burlingame Treaty of 1868 that allowed the US to suspend Chinese immigration. The act was initially intended to last for 10 years, but was renewed in 1892 with the Geary Act and made permanent in 1902. The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first law implemented to prevent a specific ethnic group from immigrating to the United States. It was repealed by the Magnuson Act on December 17, 1943.


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An Irishman and a Chinese man devour Uncle Sam. Then the Chinese man eats the Irishman and steals his hat.

 

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An Oregon man stands on a cliff shooting at Chinese immigrants as a torn "Treaty with China" lies on the ground.

 

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Laborers -- including an Irishman, an African American, a Civil War veteran, an Italian, a Frenchman, and a Jew -- build a wall against the Chinese.
 

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A judge says to Miss Columbia, “You allowed that boy to come into your school, it would be inhuman to throw him out now — it will be sufficient in the future to keep his brothers out.” Note the ironing board and opium pipe carried by the Chinese. An Irish American holds up a slate with the slogan “Kick the Heathen Out; He’s Got No Vote.”

 

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So,yanks have pathological hatred for chinks..................

But why???Back in 1800's there existed qing dynasty and their is absolutely no mention of them.
 
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So,yanks have pathological hatred for chinks..................

But why???Back in 1800's there existed qing dynasty and their is absolutely no mention of them.
Chinese migration started after the decline of the Qing dynasty and they were resented for depression of wages.The same way as Mexicans are now. Also, they were not likely to fight back so soft targets.
 

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So,yanks have pathological hatred for chinks..................

But why???Back in 1800's there existed qing dynasty and their is absolutely no mention of them.
There was an influx of chinese laborers during that time esp. to the Western US.
These laborers were treated like slaves.

This is what Mark Twain had to say:

A disorderly Chinaman is rare, and a lazy one does not exist. So long as a Chinaman has strength to use his hands he needs no support from anybody; white men often complain of want of work, but a Chinaman offers no such complaint; he always manages to find something to do.
Mark Twain, Roughing It (1872), by M. Twain, p. 169

I never saw a Chinaman righted in a court of justice for wrongs thus done to him.
Mark Twain, as quoted in Mark Twain and the Three Rs: Race, Religion, Revolution and Related Matters (1973), by Maxwell Geismar, Indianapolis: Bobs-Merrill, p. 98.

I have seen Chinamen abused and maltreated in all the mean, cowardly ways possible to the invention of a degraded nature.
Mark Twain, as quoted in Mark Twain and the Three Rs: Race, Religion, Revolution and Related Matters (1973), by Maxwell Geismar, Indianapolis: Bobs-Merrill, p. 98.
 

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Chinese migration started after the decline of the Qing dynasty and they were resented for depression of wages.The same way as Mexicans are now. Also, they were not likely to fight back so soft targets.
Great thread.
Looks like they hated the chinese the most.

Very difficult for people to integrate into white societies.
 

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