Essay On Chinese Immigration

The Chinese, Jews, and Irish immigrant were different by their culture and their physical features. The immigrants culture was frowned upon and looked exotic to Americans. All of them were discriminated for following a different religion, playing different gambling games, speaking a different language, wearing different clothes and styles, eating different foods, celebrating different holidays, etc.. One example from the Chinese immigrants that was unacceptable to the Americans and part of the Chinese culture was the queue, long hair worn in one braid down the back, worn by Chinese men. The hairstyle was considered a symbol of Chinese submission to the dynasty. If a Chinese man cut his hair it was considered a capital crime which was punishable by beheading. Because most Chinese immigrants expected to return home to China, it was important to keep the hair style. Americans saw the hairstyle as unhygienic, unmanly, and uncivilized. They all looked different from the Americans they didn’t have the same skin tone, facial structure or features, and clothing as them. All of these differences between the different cultures and …show more content…
The Chinese Exclusion Act was set in 1882 and provided a 10 year temporary prohibition on Chinese labor immigration. This stopped Chinese immigrants from coming in and was a hard problem to overcome to get over to America. Another restriction was the Literacy Test in 1917 which made it harder for them to get in because the test was made for them to fail. The Immigration Act of 1917, which limited the amount of immigrants that could come from any country to 2% of each nationality that can come. This made it a lot harder because not as many immigrants could come from one country only 2% of their nationality could come. All of these led way to segregation and discrimination by making all of these acts specifically for the immigrants and putting unfair restrictions on