What was the impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act? | The Chinese Exclusion Act

Chinese Exclusion Act was unlike any law enacted since the founding of the republic.
Singling out as never before a specific race and nationality for exclusion - it made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America - and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become citizens of the United States.
Fueled by deep-seated tensions over race and class and national identity that had been festering since the founding of the republic, it was the first in a long line of acts targeting the Chinese for exclusion - and it would remain in force for more than sixty years.
It continues to shape the debate about what it means to be an American to this day.
Learn more about THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT, including where to watch the documentary: www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexpe...
Examine the origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens. The first in a long line of acts targeting the Chinese for exclusion, it remained in force for more than 60 years.

[@AmericanExperiencePBS]

Learn more about THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT, including where to watch the documentary: www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/chinese-exclusion-act/

[@kathleankeesler1639]

AmericanExperiencePBS Thank you PBS, from Santa Cruz California, COVID 19, stay at home, wear a mask, save a LIFE.

[@rtang2165]

Yes, but this video left out the fact that the California legislature was dominated by Democrats who overwhelmingly voted for the racist policy of excluding Chinese. The 1917 racist act against Chinese was passed by the Democrats in charge of US Congress under the racist KKK champion Democratic President Woodrow Wilson. I T was Wilson who re-segregated the US Army in 1917 in spite of the fact Republican President U. S. Simpson Grant who integrated the US Army 35 years earlier. Such historical facts are well known to Chinese-American and the educated blacks and minorities citizens in the USA just fifty years ago. It was Republican President Eisenhower who spearheaded the abolition of such racism. He also opened up the US Military Academy to admit blacks into the ranks. It is the deliberate policy of the Democrats controlled Teachers Unions and regional School Boards to stop teaching historical facts to under-educate the population in the last 60 years.

[@ultragamer4960]

My great great great grandparents came to California before this act was passed in 1882, they came to find a “better life.” I feel sorry for them that they might have suffered a lot but I’m glad that im one of their descendants.

[@T0SANK]

I feel sad ;-;

[@T0SANK]

My great grandmother was living in World war 2

[@MsMoons123]

your grandparents are lucky that they came to america and stayed at an internment camp instead of going to Japan and staying in a labor camp where men were worked to death and used for experimentation.

[@1223steffen]

Even when this was passed in certain people figured out ways to get in.

[@michaelchin3550]

On 12/18/2021 me and my son picked up the Congressional Gold Medal for my father's service in WW2. The Chinese were singled out and were excluded to becoming citizens of the United States. Over 40% of the Chinese men and women still fought in WW2 to defend the people and ideals of the American way. My father was the model "American citizen" that was without the recognition that he deserved. I hope he can see from heaven how proud his family and country is of him.

[@2masterdingdong]

you ve gotta long way to go but I think you are too late... read above....

[@xdani_thethinkingneko]

I'm glad your father finally got the recognition he deserved.

[@johannaperez340]

During the late 19th century, a recession was going on. Workers were either losing their jobs or losing part of their wages. They were going on strike and companies started to hire Chinese immigrants because they worked longer and for cheaper wages. This was at the end of Manifest Destiny which in essence was a white nationalist movement. So instead of blaming the wealthy business owners of taking their jobs, they turned to the unfamiliar face of the Chinese and took it out on them. This is a story that gets repeated every time there’s a lack of jobs. We find an unfamiliar face(immigrant) to blame instead of those who hold all the capital.

[@nehcooahnait7827]

Johanna Bojorge white ‘nationalists’. I think a better word for it is ‘racists’.

[@comprendersi1444]

Nehco Oahnait nationalism breeds racism. It’s not simply out of race it’s about economy

[@AKHorton907]

Damn this is seriously a seamless take on a piece of history. Profound comment.

[@harshitmadan6449]

Wealthy businesses owners weren't stealing those jobs. It has to do with supply and demand. If demand slows down, you gotta lay off a lot of workers otherwise the whole factory goes bankrupt and everyone loses.

[@mothaybabonnam5632]

Dey terk er jerbs

[@mohmeegaik6686]

Yes history must told this truth about Chinese in US.

[@songolin4544]

@Austin Hanson Things could've changed and the amount of details covered might vary from school to school, region to region. I remember being taught this as part of everything else that happened in the time period. It might have been a sub-section in a chapter that mentioned it.

[@jeromebaker2925]

America no more wants to teach about this history as well as the history of slavery.

[@twenlil]

Just remember the "rule of law" argument from the Canadian government who not only had their own version of the Chinese Exclusion Act but also a head tax on all Chinese coming to Canada.

[@spikebaltar5071]

Chinese are always hardworkers since the beginning of time. As a woodworker, I know what's like going through hard labor. Shout out to those who survived the railroad job and return back to China to live a peaceful life. R.i.p to those who were massacred 😔🎩

[@jasonreviews]

they got kicked to mexico bro. lols.

[@xdani_thethinkingneko]

The fact that they don't teach us about stuff like this in US history is HORRIFYING.

[@blaisetelfer8499]

I guess it differs by school district or state; I learned about the Chinese Exclusion Act in junior or senior year history of high school.

[@rfcgong1]

The rich agricultural lands of the Monterey, Salinas, and Watsonville area would not have happened without the Chinese laborers. Those rich soils were at one time mosquito infested swamplands. Some one enticed Individual Chinese laborers to drain the swamp lands by giving them 5 acre plots to drain and farm for 5 years. It generally toke the Chinese 2-3 years to drain. After draining the Chinese would farm the productive land until the 5 years was up and leave. I do not know if the Chinese were ever paid, other than to use the land for themselved for farming

[@hfchow007]

Unfortunately, Mexico did that too but people nowadays just ignore it.

[@politicalbigboss611]

they excluded chinese people too?

[@BifronsCandle]

This is an American channel, though.

[@MsMoons123]

@@politicalbigboss611 Yes, at first Mexico welcomed the chinese but that soon changed and they actually rounded up all of the Chinese and put them on boats and FORCED them back into the sea. Would you prefer to be in an american internment camp or put on a boat and thrown into the sea??? But lets keep pretending that only america has a bad past.

[@David-hk3ly]

Mexicans massacred 300 plus Chinese in Torreon in 1911. Don't forget the history!

[@xiaolushi5887]

I am wondering why there were no German or Italian interment camps but the Japanese Internment camp during the WWII. There has always been an Eurocentric concept of the US and the perception of Asian Americans as the perpetual foreigners.

[@alexliu5806]

I think in part it may have also had something to do with Japan attacking US soil directly.

[@juanshaftpatel7488]

ask Prescott Bush

[@Trollbane96]

Eurocentric? Well yeah. That is pretty obvious considering the US was 85%-90% white during that time period. It would have been far easier to intern the much smaller Japanese population than it would say the Germans considering most Americans are of German ancestry...

[@larspardo4309]

not altogether true - there were german, italian & japanese internment camps but granted europeans were treated less harsh (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans) What strikes me as stunning is that americans continue to plead for God's blessing when their country was founded on genocide, theft & slavery. God bless america indeed!!

[@Sovereign_Citizen_LEO]

There were German and Italian internment camps. But to my recollection less than 6% and around 3% respectively of those populations were interned, and they were limited to current 1st generation, undocumented aliens, potential suspects of espionage, criminal suspects, or those believed to have loyalties to the Nazi or Mussolini regimes. Though 600,000 Italian resident aliens (legal non-citizens) were declared enemy aliens. Whereas 98% of Japanese Americans were interned (about 60%+ of whom were U.S. citizens). But it wasn't only an issue of racism or discrimination, as the Germans and Italians had a long generational history of integration into the country for more than a century. Furthermore, neither Germany or Italy had attacked us, but Japan did. But then again, it was in part discrimination against people who looked different (I believe). Whereas not all Italians and Germans were interned, there were different regulations and requirements for a much larger percentage of Germans and Italians. Those 600,000 Italians on house arrest the war had a curfew (daylight hours), areas they could and could not go, things/activities they couldn't do, and having to carry and present picture ID/papers upon request of LEOs or government agents/military officials). There is a lot of information on this, but also a lot of history lost. One of the biggest camps that held Germans and Italians (which held thousands of people), was the Crystal City, TX camp (there are documentaries on this camp). bit.ly/2SclQk3

[@wallylee8470]

The same happened in Canada. Sad.

[@daphnelin3116]

sadly, even Canada had one, they had a head tax for the chinese- all this is just so sad

[@toastaboasta9039]

If the Chinese got there way, they may have taken over the world by now

[@jeromebaker2925]

I agree with you, it is sad. Many Chinese people are probably unaware of this part of America's history.

[@cmejia4401]

Anyone watch "Warrior" on Cinemax? Written by Bruce Lee and based on 1878 chinese immigration.

[@dezheathen]

Came here because of the show. So it was actually passed.

[@thedieseldiet]

Yes the show takes place on 1878 which is 4 years before the chinese exclusion act.

[@catalina9844]

I took AP US and AP European history in high school in Oregon and none of this was covered. I learned about Japanese internment from reading Snow Falling on Cedars. Disappointed in my education

[@HenryPPMN]

I’m an SF native and spent a couple months of covid quarantine living with my girlfriend 20 minutes south of Portland. Obviously San Francisco has a flawed racial history, and I’m not trying to compare the two cities, but I was pretty shocked to learn about Oregon‘s super racist history. I never learned much about SF’s (or California’s) mistreatment of immigrants until after graduating from the public school system, and it’s frustrating that it’s not taught in most schools

[@veronicamitchell9378]

As am I. If a more inclusive approach to history was taken I would have liked the subject. He who writes the text books attempts to rewrite history

[@flappypancake85]

I took AP US and this was covered. Idk why you didn't learn about it because it certainly was part of the curriculum.

[@darkenergy.]

That's called CRT, it's being banned from school..

[@bigman7856]

My fathers family came to America after being enslaved by Nazi germany at a work camp due to their Ukrainian ethnicity. When they arrived in America, they were put down and excluded from most jobs until many decades later. Even though they were let in, they were considered sub-human and referred to as “rats” and other derogatory names.

[@user-uh8fu3mb9l]

The voice in Chinese dialect from 2:47 to 3:05 was reading the first four lines of the poem shown on screen, probably in Cantonese: 夜靜微聞風嘯聲 je6 zing6 mei4 man4 fung1 siu3 sing1 形影傷情見景詠 jing4 jing2 soeng1 cing4 gin3 ging2 wing6 雲霧潺潺也晴天 wan4 mou6 saan4 saan4 jaa5 cing4 tin1 蟲聞唧唧月微明 cung4 man4 zik1 zik1 jyut6 mei4 ming4

[@user-uh8fu3mb9l]

All these began when bosses found themselves able to hire Chinese workers with lower wages. The robber barons attempted to discourage solidarity among workers from different ethnicities, and the AFL labor aristorcacy feared that Chinese labor could be used as strikebreakers against them in times of economic depression. The outcome? The wrath of unionized workers were safely directed elsewhere, away from their true exploiters; Chinese workers became more precarious, and when recession was over, had to accept even lower wages; the only winners are the bosses. In recent decades, the same pattern has been repeating all around the world, in ever larger scales. The only effective way to fight against this tide is for the more well-off workers to actively reach out to their class comrades. Workers of the world, UNITE! It is not only our common goal, but also our mutual duty.

[@genepon2578]

The history of Chinese immigrants should be taught in schools, history of Native Americans and Africans included, maybe somewhere somehow in time America will learn not to discriminate because of color or race.

[@admiralshadowofasunderedst3068]

But this is taught in us schools

[@yaseenwilson1797]

i really dont think anyone can stop people from discriminating because of color or race, its sad but its almost impossible.

[@conarykao9732]

@@admiralshadowofasunderedst3068 Maybe in some, but a lot of people I've asked haven't heard of this.

[@jtf267]

It’s sad that many newer Chinese immigrants have no knowledge, interest, or understanding of what hardships those that came before endured to allow them the freedoms they enjoy now.

[@dunny2210]

This should be part of US history class. Only when we learn from our mistakes, it is when we can move forward as a nation.

[@leonardotrent1553]

We can learn this act in history class as an overwhelmingly positive act for this nation then we can move forward from there

[@christianc559]

It is. At the high school level and higher. Maybe not with a lot of print, a paragraph or column but it's definitely there. I remember.

[@rafaelcapuano8280]

American conservatives dont function without beliving america is perfect.

[@maxlu8235]

White Guy:We had it tough back then, Mexican Guy:Really Man Black Guy:Hold my beer Chinese Guy:(enters the chat) Native American Indian guy:Children please settle down

[@xiongnu6373]

You forgot to say the part after that they all jumped the white guy and lynch him. Happy ending history.

[@ayysavy892]

Irish guy: Please stfu

[@npcimknot958]

Loool

[@DarkShadow-lb2gb]

@@xiongnu6373 Lol.

[@DarkShadow-lb2gb]

@@ayysavy892 Irish people are white.

[@mdtalhaansari1096]

Has there been any year in the existance of america when a large chunk of the american population has not hated a group of people numbering in the millions?

[@jasmineamos5386]

Good question

[@josecarranza7555]

Yes

[@MsMoons123]

Oh please. Every country has its bad history even india. India was under the control of mughal empire for a thousand years were non muslims were forced to convert and if they did not they were killed or made to pay a tax. NExt, Japan invaded korea, china, and the philippines killiing hundreds of thousands of people. In 1940, Japan had over 100,000 prisoners in slave camps in okinawa japan. The slaves were filipino. british, american. indian, australian. and chinese. The japanese tortured their prisoners and performed brutal experiments on them. Next, Mexico rounded up all of the chinese people and put them into makeshift boats and threw them into the sea. Today, Mexico refuses to recognize AfroMexicans as citizens on the Mexican census. Next, China is killing, castrating, and locking up uighur muslims.....Should I continue? Stop acting like america is the only country with a bad past. EVERY country has a bad past.

[@sc9881]

What country are you from? How many immigrants do they accept?

[@mdtalhaansari1096]

@@sc9881 Has there been any year in the existance of america when a large chunk of the american population has not hated a group of people numbering in the millions?

[@potatobraus9098]

I never knew about this as a Puertorican and this explains why there are a few chinese people in Puerto Rico and not a lot (chinese families are huge) ... if they (US) never passed this act that means more chinese families would be able to settle in Puerto Rico. Aah is so sad that their families were separated like that :(

[@paulinaruiz928]

When will Chapter 2 of this documentary be posted?

[@AmericanExperiencePBS]

Hi Paulina! You can find where to view the full film on our website: to.pbs.org/2yqEdIZ

[@ceciliatan5706]

Nothing has fundamentally changed. We Chinese living in the West, not only in the US, suffer discrimination, persecution and hostilities in our daily life. As a British Chinese, I am not safe at home or anywhere in the UK.

[@sidefx9092]

Stop acting like nothing has changed because it has, you wouldn’t live a day in the shoes of a Chinese Americans in the 1800s. It’s a long process but be happy how far we have gone

[@newvideosystem8592]

Then why don't you leave

[@2masterdingdong]

You are not a British but a u,k citizen by law. You said you are not safe at home or anywhere else in the UK. So how can you call yourself British? IF.... it is your land and you are British, then you are not safe in your country... Does that make any sense? or maybe someone needs to remind you who you are ?

[@ceciliatan5706]

@@2masterdingdong It makes no sense why we British Chinese, the hard working and law abiding model citizens get oppressed and persecuted in Britain. But truth hurts and that is why it is very concerning. I guess that you are a local white. I would like to remind you not to be judgmental and to learn to respect others.

[@ceciliatan5706]

@@newvideosystem8592 You have proved my point. Why are you so ignorant and spiteful?

[@kaitang1700]

Now we have to score higher to enter Ivy League schools for our higher intellect.

[@hritanshurath4353]

I mean... you get all A's and a decent SAT or ACT score and you're practically in. Depending on the school, it's either easy or really hard to get A's. Then there are extracurriculars that also factor in. So it's primarily the SAT scores that have increased in average to enter ivy leagues

[@lechsiz1642]

keep fighting to make that illegal - if you are a citizen. I hear it is the same for Jews.

[@user-cr3pn7rk2v]

higher intellect? you mean working harder

[@mazzystan548]

Holy hell that's terrible, to bring a stereotype into something like that is horrific

[@ricochetsixtyten]

@@user-cr3pn7rk2v why are you using a Japanese Empire flag as your pfp?

[@charlesmoore7917]

All chinese should be able to ride any trains for free! They built the continental rail road.

[@joezerchagas5273]

Hello Charles

[@maggiechan33]

Thank you, Mr. Moore.

[@Student0Toucher]

Not the new Chinese immigrants

[@ponyconvert505]

@@Student0Toucher not the new immigrated Mexicans either

[@Student0Toucher]

@@ponyconvert505 Mexicans work in construction at higher rates than any group lol

[@Sam-bi4ze]

1:44-2:05: What question did Saum Sung bo ask? Why does he mention "other nationalities"? 2:14~: What is a Chinese person denied? 3:30~: Why was the Chinese Exclusion Act unlike any law signed by the nation? 5:57~: Why is this Law singular or different from any previous kind of law in the United States? 6:40~: What do some historians believe the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act's purpose was? ~What makes the United States unique though? What can the United States learn from this history?

[@Sam-bi4ze]

Are the chinese allowed to enjoy liberty free?

[@missmintyblue9836]

My great great grandma was brought from Asia with not much of a choice to Mexico and she was a very tiny single mom working her ass off to provide for her son and many years later my great grandpa met my great grandma who was indigenous and left her tequila farm to her little sisters for a better life

[@erikabarragan7564]

Oh my goodness I am so sorry I didn't even know please accept my apology if I ever offended you for not knowing this you've offered the world so much and I appreciate you for that this is very eye-opening. I'm absolutely grateful for everything that you have given to humanity.

[@Rose-di8qx]

Answer these questions. Write in full sentences 1. What was unusual about the Chinese Exclusion Act? 2. Why had Chinese workers come to the USA in the first place? 3. What is unique about this law? 4. Name three reasons Jean Pfaelzer gives for why it was passed 
 B. Why was the Chinese Exclusion Act significant in US history? Write two paragraphs using precise detail from the video and your own thoughts.

[@Mystic-Dust]

It is the first anti-immigration law that bans a specific group of people. This ban would later be extended to other Asians. This would also lead to a series of anti-immigration laws later on, because this is pretty much one of the first anti-immigration law in American history. Chinese workers came to America due to European colonialism, China had to give ports and concessions to European powers like Britain, France, Russia, and even America is in on it. This also kind of ruined the Chinese economy due to numerous unequal treaties. Thus, Chinese workers leave China, anywhere is better than China back then. Common reasons for this law being passed would be racism (Chinese are not whites), xenophobia (people just hating foreigners and immigrants in general), Chinese taking lower wages and working longer hours and outcompeting whites in America for jobs, the labor unions and interest groups that lobby for Congress to pass these types of laws because they are Nativist and very anti-immigrant, etc.

[@Weeping-Angel]

Was this a homework assignment?

[@mei7133]

This documentary is supposed to tell Asian American history. Why does it ignore the first Asians in the U.S., the Filipinos? They arrived in the 1500s and had settlements by the 1700s.

[@oblivion539]

my only guess to that is that filipinos arriving in America and colonizing was more of Spanish history before the U.S was even created and asian american history isn't really documented until after the U.S became a country.

[@Weeping-Angel]

Didn’t America only become established in 1784?

[@maggiechan33]

@@Weeping-Angel It was 1776.

[@maggiechan33]

The title is "The Chinese Exclusion Act", not the first Asians in the the US.

[@yanchan9711]

there's only one home for me Great China

[@lechsiz1642]

@GreaterGood510 20% of the world population is of Chinese descent. Almost every country in the world has at least one Chinatown or Chinese area

[@politicalbigboss611]

Correct.

[@lechsiz1642]

@Daisy Wong idk.... both tend to do okay. The Chinese traditions of keeping women down and of having so many kids (sons) was a huge part of their problem until the last 50 or so years. You mention RACE....I've heard racist or borderline racist comments from Chinese, too. My neighbors next door are Chinese and they refuse to wave hello, say good morning, or speak to me. I found lingzhi (reishi mushroom) growing on the property line we shared, so showed the Chinese woman when I saw her and she acted like I was trying to stab here or kidnap her. This is common with Chinese immigrants in America. Many treat Americans like we are all evil or scary. But, keep feeling sorry for yourself. I am sure that will solve things.

[@user-cw2py6wh8l]

Freedom is an illusion.

[@hfredydl]

History, she doth repeat herself

[@bryan032003]

super documentaire

[@yuema2078]

Who knows if Chinese Exclusion Act will be revived again. News headlines in 2023: South Carolina, Florida, Texas banning Chinese to buy Real Estate. History often repeats itself.

[@angieb1755]

Look at Canada's problem. There's ur explanation.

[@kevinlv5947]

@@angieb1755Spell the canadian problem out

[@william2532]

0:15 thats a big toe

[@christianc559]

If there's an expert here, I like to hear their commentary. My sense had been that the particularly extreme racial/cultural prejudice was actually part of a rationalization given a deeper fear. The fear caused by the Chinese being a relatively culturally tight community that was so large and powerful in the American west that it threatened the American picture of manifest destiny...the fear was that would not be small enough minority to simply be "absorbed" as a part of that narrative, but that the Chinese represented a distinct movement that was a threat to that "destiny"--it was an if they viewed the movement from the Asia as a colonial rival. So my conjecture is that Chinese exclusion and the fomenting of extreme Chinese racism would not have happened if they were a smaller or more diffuse group of immigrants. This does not make it much better, but that was my sense of it. Comments? Sound right? No? Why not?

[@cheng9465]

There weren't that many relatively speaking. They were about 1/10 of the population by the 1880s. You also have to realise that everyone else was relatively new to California as well. There was still an active genocide to get rid of the Natives. A lot of the agitation was carried out by immigrants to USA from Europe. So they weren't even American. But they were white. Sometimes they tried to rope both the African Americans and native americans to oppose the Chinese as well. So they were specifically concerned with cultural and racial difference. Chinese were seen as Un western unlike black people and indians. There was also the beginnings of the idea that Asia was culturally inferior to the West being created at the time. This is why we see emphasis on characterizing chinese as eating strange food, wearing strange clothes and speaking strangely. They believed Chinese were a race incapable of adopting Western culture and "modernising". This only got worse as Social Darwinism became a thing. Social Darwinists thought asians were a stagnant moribund race. Even up until after WWII, people speculated that Japanese couldn't be forced to accept Western style government because of their race. Chinese were a tight knit community because they had to be. They were being attacked and murdered all through out the West. Criminals saw them as easy targets and police wouldn't defend them. The law system didn't allow them to testify in court. If it makes you feel better, the californian white immigrants also chased out immigrants from south america who came during the gold rush.

[@christianc559]

@@cheng9465 Thanks for the detailed answer. Nah, it does not make me feel better : ).

[@VortexVolt]

Who Else Needed to do this for school

[@bridgetdevine6736]

This is so sad why do I have to watch this for school if it is so sad :_(

[@Wiretalker]

#Opression #Religion #History #museum #Treasure #mistakes #repeated

[@sim33009]

We have not ben too welcoming as a nation in the past right up to today. It is shameful.

[@sim33009]

The US was an open country on and off just read the Statue of Liberty's base. We have been a welcoming nation in the past. At this time government has taken a very negative view of anyone who does not plese teh president. I am proud to be an American but not proud of the current administration. The two are not mutualy exclusive.

[@Trollbane96]

Why isn't China a more welcoming nation? Why aren't they having mass non Chinese immigration into their country? That sounds racist to me.

[@jwduded1758]

I proud of the Current Administration. This country needs to back off on immigration. For 7yrs.

[@Trollbane96]

@jwduded I would say longer than that tbh. Post 1965 immigration has brought this country to its knees. After a long moratorium we need to reinstate something like the National Origin's Quota. Immigration from Africa should be completely blocked as well as most Asian immigration. European based immigration should make up 80% or more of all immigration again.

[@Trollbane96]

Only white people aren't allowed to have their own nations. Only White European people are shamed if they don't take in uncontrollable amounts of non-European peoples. We are told constantly that every white country from North America to Europe are *"Nations of Immigrants!"* This double standard is ridiculous and stupid.

[@prestonphelps1649]

I live now in Thailand. Its almost imposible for a forigner to become a citizen here.

[@wileyjohnson5681]

At 6:02? 🙄

[@dawdasdwadsadas6440]

sad that this is happening again

[@Capybaraism]

Lady Liberty has hammertoes.

[@intention_as]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@michelleburkholder2547]

Can I please get the actual histrionical events? This video really didn't explain anything

[@femiogunjobi4900]

Here's my question and I'll appreciate someone helping me: now, what happened to the children of Chinese that were born here? Were they, too denied US citizenship?

[@missdana296]

I support racial unity, ethnic equality, and multiculturalism, because spiritually I think so many people, are beautiful. I am also disabled, and still feel llike a slave to the system, so I admire Jewish and black people, although I am neither. Yeshua/Jesus said to judge not according to appearance, but judge with righteous, judgement, in John 7:24. To Chinese people: Let's talk. About anything!

[@1223steffen]

I’m certain people found ways to get around exclusions.

[@txexmxiii9561]

HearT ♥️

[@michaelwoo4123]

Deja vu all over again!

[@gaylecheung3087]

With my grandparents had to sacrifice and pay for to make life easier for the next generations into North America I will never see the Whiteman the same

[@npcimknot958]

Gayle Cheung well, that was ages ago.... you can’t hold grudges .....to Improv society is remember history and learn from it. Don’t burden younger generation’s with hate

[@lechsiz1642]

that's great to know, Gayle. I wonder if the Chinese-American men (who I sometimes date) feel the same way. Perhaps I should steer clear of other races if so many are so anti-white.

[@michaelmiles3723]

vary sad, I am sorry for this being white. my aunt is Chinese American. and highly regarded archeologist. This show made me cry and want to throw up at the same time. I am sorry for this

[@wctoronto]

I’m touched that you are able to empathize and apologize on behalf of the European side of your forefathers. I’m saddened that others don’t feel there is a need to apologize. It’s an extremely ugly past that many of the younger generations no longer knows about or knows very little about (including many current Chinese immigrants who are oblivious to this dark past). I’m full Chinese and my paternal grandfather immigrated from China in the early 1920s to Montreal, Canada and was forced to pay the Chinese Head Tax. Aside from enduring discrimination, the Head Tax was a heavy financial burden to many back in the day, especially when most of the early Chinese were either poor or just struggling to get by. They were often paid unfair wages compared to Europeans/whites. Since then, generations of Chinese have fought for an apology and re-dress. The Chinese Head Tax was removed in 1923, however, it wasn’t until June 22, 2006 that the Canadian government offered an apology and $20,000 compensation (which was still below the original amount paid in today’s value) to surviving Chinese or their surviving spouse who paid the Head Tax. Sadly, most have passed away and only a few hundred were still alive. That’s 83 years later after the end of the Head Tax and 121 years after the first Head Tax was enforced. Sadly, my grandfather died in 1969 and my step-grandmother (his last wife) died before they got to witness the apology and re-dress. It’s a part of our difficult past that is engrained into our family history. I assume those who think an apology is not necessary, likely are those who don’t come from such a dark past, may be too young to understand the hardships of the past, nor does not have empathy for injustices towards minority groups who have been excluded or enslaved. Just because something terrible occurred in the distant past, it doesn’t mean it’s not worthy of an apology/empathy. Especially, if the past never received proper closure. I sense though, you understand the difference between direct apologies of those who are directly guilty of exclusion versus apologizing out of empathy for the past sins of forefathers. It shows you have respect and compassion for those who have suffered.

[@wctoronto]

Gints Klimanis It sounds like you’re taking what I’m saying out of context. Apologizing is a form of EMPATHY, empathizing is a choice, but not an expectation. Empathizing has nothing to do with feeling guilty. It shows that a person has compassion and is trying to put themselves in others’ shoes. It’s not a literal apology. I never said it is ‘required’ by those who were not directly involved to apologize. I think it should be required by governments who impose these racist bylaws and acts of exclusion to apologize and provide redress for the families afflicted. Yes, in the same way, any acts of exclusion from the Chinese, for example against Tibetans, I would do the same and express empathy towards them, if I do come across any Tibetans (so far, I haven’t). I have however, protested at the Chinese Embassy in Toronto right after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and spoken out against injustices China or some Chinese have caused, even though I was not born nor raised in China nor caused any of these acts of murder/exclusion/repression. Protest is another form of empathy. BTW, Mongolia, Cambodia, Japan, Korea etc are different ethnic groups/countries...they never collaborated together to commit a particular act of exclusion/injustice together. Canada and the U.S. back in the day mostly comprised of some (not all) European whites back in the day. I do in fact empathize with the aboriginals in the former Formosa...same with aboriginals like the Ainu people and others who were mistreated in Japan, etc. What happened to them was not just. My point goes back to empathy. Ethnicity nor race matters when it comes to empathy. That’s the beauty of it, ANYONE can empathize, there are no ‘restrictions’. I totally disagree with your last statement. As mentioned, exclusion is not right ANYWHERE in the world...that includes Asia and other countries known to be more closed off to the world. How could exclusion be just? Abuse from one’s home country and further abuse from one’s new country...where’s the humanity and justice in that? It’s the number one reason why there are wars, discrimination, hatred, misunderstandings, etc. Let’s not be selfish and only think of ourselves. Enough with entitlement! Instead, think of others, be empathetic, and aim for peace and inclusion, not hate/war and exclusion. History has proven that those who empathize are usually the peace-makers.

[@fortyeu789]

If you don't want your whiteness, I will gladly take it lol.

[@user-zo8hs4yh2h]

Its okay man.

[@weiyang88]

MIchael Miles, you should never apologize for being a certain race. Just do good in you life.

[@cheng9465]

David Lei is incorrect. China and Japan have never had rules excluding people from citizenship by ethnicity. Obtaining citizenship is no longer easy in those countries as it would have been in the 1800s before border restrictions were put in place. You need to fact check these people before they get put on film.

[@jacksonloy924]

US would re-enact this act in the near future.

[@yanchan9711]

we will see

[@bigkidd2147]

That definitely wouldn’t happen because that would be illegal and repealed

[@susanhall2347]

Of course I appreciate this video, as there is so much to learn in it; as well as wonderfully educated caring qualified voices speaking and pictures presented. However I critique everything & the one thing I would say about this is the idea that the US has an excuse to promote White Supremacy or go about working to have North America ethnically cleansed because almost every other country would not accept other races is not acceptable. If you are to compare countries, it should only be right to compare Native American territories to countries and continents to continents. The Native Americans would and did at times accept other races to trade with and a limited number to live by; but not to have them completely take over every Nation, that would not be acceptable in any nation; though I believe the US with the English, Spanish and Portuguese has tried and done it on every continent; as they bombed China in order the force them to be open to trad and include what they didn’t want opium into their country, the English took over India, the Spanish Philippines which the US took, & the US kidnapped the Hawaiian Queen and on and on. I love everything about this movie, but I would say many of the supposed ideas of evolution of the superior race was convent for the greedy and the concept that might makes right rather than learning to care for one another in order to have a higher level of civilization.

[@joezerchagas5273]

Hello Susan

[@oscarsong4018]

so many words but so little insight. clubhouse should be your platform.

[@suckby]

其實在中國，似乎也很少提到這段艱難的歷史

[@forrestlee6435]

因为共产党不想让你知道

[@suckby]

@@forrestlee6435如果普衆教育更詳細地教了這段，不是更方便進行對外仇視嗎

[@california199_7]

They came from China to work in US to make money but that doesn’t mean that they’re all Chinese men. There are different tribes.

[@MrL21]

If Ah Sahm was there

[@manuelmoraleda9684]

Where does the Chinese Exclusion Act fit in the discussion of Critical Race Theory ?

[@wileyjohnson5681]

U$ Supreme Court Decision of 1857.

[@theboatman360]

Now they have buffets. All is right.

[@lloydliveryservices]

That's why all Asian must to Unite into 1 groups for the sake of survival, don't let them to divide us then make us fighting each other for their own benefit.

[@robertolds6178]

Too much single issue analysis.

[@jsh4492]

积极推进排华法案的主要是爱尔兰人，因为他们和中国人一样是劳工，但是中国人要求的薪水低，能吃苦，(修建了穿越落基山脉的铁路)，爱尔兰人认为中国人抢了他们的饭碗，“大米和肉，中国人吃大米就能活，而我们要吃肉”。为了赶走中国人，编造各种理由，比如说中国人有各种恶习等等。

[@aalxsethes9467]

yes，What you said is very reasonable. I like China very much, and I am shocked by the Chinese people's ability to endure hardships

[@joeytan5297]

i was hoping for a history on why this happened and what the political and public sentiments on the social matters that lead up to this were. instead, its just a slide show and of chinese people sitting around being butt hurt about it.

[@lechsiz1642]

part of the reason was that many coming over had opium problems and they had opium dens where people lounged around smoking it. To make matters worse, some white women smoked with them (the equivalent of a coke whore, I guess) and that stirred up resentment.

[@kallejahrollins4668]

Oh I can beleive it. Shameful smh

[@sherrilong7829]

❓❓❓❓❓❓❓❓

[@udz5480]

what about black workers of that country who were paid the minimal if at all without any rights, why no such documentaries for them like this?

[@vootamu1]

It is because they still like to use us for something that benefits them so we are the perpetual underclass that can be used to blame all of society's ills on.

[@mr.smiths220]

He says “all nationalities” when he should be saying “only white men”.

[@keridawn3118]

And you got liberty didnt you .... You can have as many children as you want ... You can leave behind old traditions and become american..... Love your children thats what liberty was made for ! Stand up to your own simplify life.

[@2masterdingdong]

There is no such thing as asian american because Asians are the first natives of the north American continent, In other words, the first Native Americans were Asians from Central Asia, primarily Tuvan Turkic Tengrist and shamanists who were named as American Indians by the European colonizers. Thus, Native Americans are composed of Mongoloid Asians who entered the North American continent more than 30,000 years ago. The others were colonists from Europe, who colonized the natives of Asian race and origin who are the actual Americans. so while Asians are the actual natives of American continent why are they treated as foreigners? The answer is the citizenship. The mighty u.s citizenship. As far as U.S. citizenship is concerned,Europeans mainly british Anglo -Saxons constructed and created U.S. citizenship, not Asians who are the first natives of North America and other parts. Just as they did not give first native Americans of Asian origin the same right to U, S citizenship as Africans and others, they later accepted them using the Immigration and Nationality Act and its modifications. so that is how they can separate the Asians using the citizenship excuse and make them called as asian - americans or asian immigrants who are in fact the real natives of American continent.

[@heidiw3615]

Honestly, if this is the opposite, Chinese people would certainly do the same thing to Americans. I blame humanity.

[@gabrielprins2733]

:)

[@bernardfong1019]

Don't want to ride Amtrak at 100 miles an hour while the magrev in China now at 3.5 times the apeed and at one third of the cost.

[@Happy_HIbiscus]

the chinese😊😊😊😊

[@user-nk6ec3zz5y]

good

[@Mrwang-uo8yw]

现在的中国，今非昔比！

[@eillenhernandez3016]

With Respect does the People in Hong Kong who protest against President Xi read this American History? I don't think so. "WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL" Really? With respect it makes you think American politics is just hearsay.

[@mrfats6200]

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@kettlycharles4312]

They forgot how they were treated! They would be the last person to treat black some types of way

[@npcimknot958]

cha xiong no that just is petty.

[@stephanieangeles2126]

What is this about ? I ended up falling asleep during the video ? 😅😅

[@lechsiz1642]

tsumaranai, desu, neh?

[@Kevin_40]

history does not matter. what matters is the present time and what is happening. those living now should not have any burdens because of the past. why should whites now be shamed for the past? I am 38 year old white man. My dad was white man, carpenter building houses, not making good money. so many white people now are completely innocent and poor and not involved at all in any past racisms against non whites from 50, 100, 150 years ago ETC that goes for "womens sufferage" too.... women have actually had it better than men for many decades now. most american families if they have boy and girl, its the girl who is chosen over the boy for things like college and its been this way for decades now.

[@momopenguins7335]

theres so much wrong with this that itd take way more time than its worth to fully hit every single thing that would contradict this type of statement and rhetoric and even then I still feel as though nothing in your mind would change

[@vootamu1]

You might want to inform all the white people that still participate in civil war reenactments in 2023 that "history does not matter."

[@dickiewongtk]

Any Chinese could be a potential CCP agent. Let that sink in.

[@orangen2311]

But like you said, everyone could not be

[@maggiechan33]

@Wong Tik Ki SHAME on you. Presently, when Asian-Americans + Pacific Islanders are being unjustly attacked for Covid, it is downright EVIL of you to post that. Also, it is paranoid CCP haters like you, whom probably supported tRUMP, and facilitated his ugly, racist rhetoric. If you did support that loser, "let it sink in", that you aided, in the thousands of hate crimes, perpetrated on the AAPI Community.

[@Myfavorite77]

shut up

[@kenrik2105]

Any American politician, businessman or institution could be recipient of CCP money in exchange for favors.