The Chinese immigrants What do you think about when you hear Chinese Immigrants, when I think about them I think about them having moved to the United States while racism was going on around that time. Many of the chinese immigrants went to America where money was everywhere, at least that is what they thought. A lot of that stuff happened, and the outcomes for them did not turn out as well as you would think it would. An interesting question of how this all started. What was pushing the Chinese to leave China and come to America? Some of the main things that pushed them out of China was that their families did not have enough money to feed and buy clothing for their children. In an article, the Leo Luo states that, “They arrived in America
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The outcomes for the Chinese were not so good. What made the whole situation worse was the racism, which had a large effect on the Chinese. Golden Venture, an article that covered information on the racism “With the completion of the railroad and end of the gold strikes, Chinese immigrants became targets of a decade-long wave of violence and discrimination in western cities such as Los Angeles.”. This proves that when the gold rush was over the chinese were big targets of racism, because there were a lot of them spreading throughout America. Kate Hooper,and Jeanne Batalova also explained that, “Chinese immigrants are now the third-largest foreign-born group in the United States after Mexicans and Indians, numbering more than 2 million and comprising 5 percent of the overall immigrant population in 2013”. This obviously shows that the chinese were growing in population and they were becoming an easier target for racism.Those were the outcomes for them when they reached the United States for the gold rush and after the goldrush.
To conclude, there were many steps throughout the process the Chinese took in wanting to come to America. The Chinese chose to come to America in order for them to pursuit a better life for themselves. They also wanted a better opportunity to make money for their poor families that were still in China. Although some of the Chinese got to take
The outcomes for the Chinese were not so good. What made the whole situation worse was the racism, which had a large effect on the Chinese. Golden Venture, an article that covered information on the racism “With the completion of the railroad and end of the gold strikes, Chinese immigrants became targets of a decade-long wave of violence and discrimination in western cities such as Los Angeles.”. This proves that when the gold rush was over the chinese were big targets of racism, because there were a lot of them spreading throughout America. Kate Hooper,and Jeanne Batalova also explained that, “Chinese immigrants are now the third-largest foreign-born group in the United States after Mexicans and Indians, numbering more than 2 million and comprising 5 percent of the overall immigrant population in 2013”. This obviously shows that the chinese were growing in population and they were becoming an easier target for racism.Those were the outcomes for them when they reached the United States for the gold rush and after the goldrush.
To conclude, there were many steps throughout the process the Chinese took in wanting to come to America. The Chinese chose to come to America in order for them to pursuit a better life for themselves. They also wanted a better opportunity to make money for their poor families that were still in China. Although some of the Chinese got to take