The repercussion of Orientalism brought a series of influences in America. It made racial discrimination against Asian people and this racism resulted in creating biased laws for white people. The interesting part is American people defined races by themselves so that they could make or revise Asian Exclusion Act as they please according to their own interpretation of race. In this way, they tried to keep Asian people from coming to America or take advantage of them as a measure of meeting their own interests. Thus, I think the features of these laws are explicitly showing the wrong spirit and attitudes of American people.
Plantation employees tried to make occupational structure to satisfy their labor needs. In this regard, Hawaiian sugar planters’ association(HSPA) adopted an unfair resolution stating that all skills positions should be filled by “American citizens, or those eligible for citizenship” (Siren, 1983, p. 76). This resolution does not specify racial groups, but it definitely serves the improper purpose of excluding Asian immigrants from skilled and semiskilled position. Since Asian workers were not regarded as “white”, they never could be American citizen and this idea technically gave a valid …show more content…
California Foreign Miners Tax is the good example of this kind of law. This act requires “Non-natives who worked in the mines to pay monthly fees of 20 $” (California Foreign Miners Tax, 1850, p. 93). This unfair law was made to keep Mexican workers at first, then Chinese people, from participating in economic activities as job competitors. Later, The Exclusion Acts aimed at Japanese, Korean, and other races were also passed and enacted all over the nation. It is really ironic for me that American people tried to expel other racial groups even though they brought those groups of workers in America with their own for
Plantation employees tried to make occupational structure to satisfy their labor needs. In this regard, Hawaiian sugar planters’ association(HSPA) adopted an unfair resolution stating that all skills positions should be filled by “American citizens, or those eligible for citizenship” (Siren, 1983, p. 76). This resolution does not specify racial groups, but it definitely serves the improper purpose of excluding Asian immigrants from skilled and semiskilled position. Since Asian workers were not regarded as “white”, they never could be American citizen and this idea technically gave a valid …show more content…
California Foreign Miners Tax is the good example of this kind of law. This act requires “Non-natives who worked in the mines to pay monthly fees of 20 $” (California Foreign Miners Tax, 1850, p. 93). This unfair law was made to keep Mexican workers at first, then Chinese people, from participating in economic activities as job competitors. Later, The Exclusion Acts aimed at Japanese, Korean, and other races were also passed and enacted all over the nation. It is really ironic for me that American people tried to expel other racial groups even though they brought those groups of workers in America with their own for