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    elsewhere in United State and from other countries. These immigrants have different race and ethnicity like Irish, Germs, Chinese, and Latinos. Chinese and Mexican were hard and cheap workers that employers liked that they work for them. Nevertheless many white immigrants look for Chinese and Mexicans like a threat in economics and racism aspect. Whites immigrants demanding that Chinese and Mexicans need to pay a special taxes to be able to work at miners; California responding with “Foreign…

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    Pun-Chi complains about the treatment of Chinese immigrants in California. He tells us many ways in which the Chinese were not treated right. His criticism is valid, the Chinese were treated very badly, they should have all been treated the same, they are all human and people did not have any right to treat them differently just because they were Chinese. They were never welcomed the right way in other countries, they could not defend themselves because they did not speak the language and even…

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    In the book, “The Norton Mix: American History”, there are two articles regarding the Chinese exclusion act. The first article is about a democratic senate from Oregon, James Harvey Slater, who voiced his proposal in 1882 at the senate house. Slater is in favor of the Chinese exclusion and believes in white American protestant religion. Slater’s opponent is a Republican named, Robert G. Ingersoll. Ingersoll voiced his proposal eleven years later on July 1893 in the same room when Slater voiced…

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    the intentions of the Chinese that immigrated to the U.S. during the late 19th century. June was Suyunn’s daughter in the novel, and Suyunn immigrated to the U.S. hoping to give her daughter, June an opportunistic life .Some of the characters in Amy Tan’s novel can be compared to the some of the reasons why the Chinese immigrated to the United States. The locations that the characters from the novel settled in are similar to the locations where the Chinese immigrated to. Chinese immigration…

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    Korean Chinese Case Study

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    postcolonial studies on the case of Korean Chinese who are doubly dislocated and otherized, as I argue. It examines the identity of Korean Chinese as Korean ethnic minority in China and also ethnic return migrants in South Korea expressed in the literature. It explores the factors that trigger the identity crisis of Korean Chinese and constantly causing them to search for a new home. In doing so, two works written by a second-generation of Korean Chinese novelist named Hŏ Ryŏn-sun (1955-),…

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    New China Case Study

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    Service Theater Framework for New China Express Introduction New China Express is a Chinese food restaurant located across to the University of Nebraska in Kearney, Nebraska. New China Express is a chain restaurant with over 10 years of history. The restaurant provides dine-out, take away and delivery service. It is open from 11a.m. to 10 p.m. from Monday to Sunday. The customers may order randomly on the menu or may have buffet in the noon. The rating of New China Express on Zomato is 3.6 out…

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    Anti Chinese Immigration

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    immigrated to the United States in two very distinct waves, the Chinese immigrants and the Irish immigrants. Both immigrant groups suffered hardships when they first arrived in America and were exploited for their labor. There were anti-Chinese movements and anti-Irish movements which created negative stereotypes for these people and increased American resentment towards these immigrants. The majority…

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    The Geary Act

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    Very few Chinese people, however were able to do so because “skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining” were considered excludable in the 1882 act (www.ourdocuments.gov). This act also affected the Chinese who were already legal citizens of the United States, forcing them to get recertified by the Chinese government. This act was short lived and expired in the same year it was passed. Congress, however, reinstated the act and renamed it the Geary Act in 1902. If a Chinese…

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    Feng Chongyi, a chinese born professor at Australian University. One weekend Mr. Feng was barred from leaving China, and questioned by security officers as a possible threat to national security. Raising concerns about the Chinese legal system once again. Some Chinese people in Australia said that if China can do that to Mr. Feng, who has a family in Australia, could all the other chinese dissidents be a subject to extradition demands on national security…

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    sentiment roots towards the hatred for the Chinese people’s menial job takeover, which began during the Gold Rush. Americans were afraid that the Chinese, and eventually the Japanese, would steal all the jobs. This created a lot of hostility among working class Americans and even caused a major riot. Denis Kearney, an anti-asian riot leader, rampaged through parts of Chinatown, a community the Chinese made for themselves after being isolated. Eventually, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed due…

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